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LAV-25 completed, and KV-1 under construction!

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:21 PM
I tried this technique with a small-scale SU-85 first, and it worked very well.

I painted the more inaccessible areas (suspension, wheels, hull underside) in green
first, as I assume that these areas would not be whitewashed (as the whitewash was
applied fairly hastily in the field, rather than in the factory, as far as I know).

Never thought of the chalk idea - the reason I painted the white first, then drybrushed with green, is that this way,
the green ends up on the edges and raised areas of the model, in the same places that the whitewash would wear off first.

Anyway, the KV-1 now looks really good - all it needs is some rust on the tracks and it'll be done!
It's certainly the most weathered vehicle in my collection so far..

About the LAV-25 scheme - again, does anyone have any ideas of the date/location for its colour scheme?
I'm guessing it's one based in the US, rather than in a particular conflict, but I'm not sure. LAV-25s
were used in Desert Storm AFAIK but I think they were painted in overall Desert Sand colour.
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    July 2003
  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:27 PM
Very nice build. Definitely an interesting scale.
Good progress on the KV-1 Smile [:)]
Interesting that you would base the model white, then show wear and tear. I'm curious to see what you end up with. I saw a similar KV-1 project a little while ago, but the modeler base-coated it green, then used chalk powder to create a wash, then applied it overall, and when dry, brushed off colour off certain areas to show wear.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:51 AM
The Kitech and Zhengdefu kits (same moulds I think) are odd scales as they are all built to fit a standard
chassis (which is intended to be motorised). Though they are all labeled as "1/48" the models are actually anything
from 1/39 to 1/55 in scale, depending on the size of the real vehicle.
This also means that the suspension/wheels are inaccurate (apart from the hub pattern usually being wrong, all of the
tracked vehicles have 6 main wheels, when many of the types, e.g the Abrams, should actually have 7) but this problem is not nearly as bad with the wheeled vehicles.
They also do a BTR-80 (which I have, unbuilt so far), a BTR-70, and the "Hammerhead" TOW variant of the LAV-25; I haven't
seen any other wheeled vehicles in this series, but I think there may be more.

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    December 2003
  • From: Montreal
Posted by buff on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:24 PM
There is a little magazine shop near me that sells Kitech kits. I've seen that LAV there, though I never noticed the scale. They looked cheap to me. I'd love to do a Canadian version of the LAV 25 someday.

On the bench: 1/32 Spit IXc

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    December 2002
  • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
Posted by djmodels1999 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:11 PM
Yeah, pretty odd scale..! Never heard of that company either! I really like your KV.
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    July 2004
  • From: Texas
Posted by wbill76 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:49 PM
Nice work on the LAV! 1/39 is a pretty odd scale...makes you wonder why they chose that instead of one of the more conventional scales...

The KV looks like it's coming along nicely as well, keep us posted on your progress as you have access to the camera!
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    November 2005
LAV-25 completed, and KV-1 under construction!
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:17 PM
Since I've photographed all my recent models a few days ago, expect to see a few posts around now showing my latest builds!

This is the other AFV model I've completed recently, which is an USMC LAV-25.


It's the Kitech kit, which is certainly not the best LAV-25 out there (apart from being in the very odd scale of 1/39,
there is no interior and the suspension/axle detail is very inaccurate) but it was very cheap and was fun to build. Apart
from the aerials it is box-stock.
One question, what theatre/location does this vehicle's colour scheme represent? There was no information on this in the instruction leaflet. The Italeri LAV-25 also seems to have this colour scheme, based on the box art I've seen.

The model I'm working on at the minute is a KV-1 1942 version (Eastern Express kit), which I'm painting in a winter colour scheme. These photos show it with the base "whitewash" coat applied.



Since I took these pics, I've fitted the tracks, commander's MG and external fuel tanks, and applied some of the weathering - heavily drybrushed with green-brown on exposed areas and edges to represent the base coat showing through the whitewash after much wear and tear. I'm currently working on adding mud, rust and exhaust stains.
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