Keepers of the Peace GB 2013-14

Terry: My fellow adopted countrymen would be proud of your build - it's magnifique!

I've added it to the 1st page.

Stik: the KIFV looks great and closer to finish....can't wait to see it completed.

I've managed to finish the squadron markings using a template & Sharpie (ultra-fine) and need to finish the tracks, followed by the final weathering.

Greg, your 113 is coming along real good there! All ready for tracks now. I did a coouple final bits of work today: Machine guns primed with Flat Black; engine deck grill screens primed with Tamiya White Liquid Surface Primer; and the seams where the laminate side armor meets the rear were puttied and sanded smooth once dry. Tomorrow, White paint, Tamiya Flat White base coat followed by a Tamiya Gloss White top coat.

It's looking very cool Stik, I've never built this one but I'm sure it'll be on my shelf soon after seeing yours. I think with the ramp down showing that awesome interior and all the outside detail, this KIFV will show real nice. Almost there. BTW nice sharpie work, I thought you custom printed off some decals or picked something from another kit…Can't have a shaky hand there.

Thanks for the compliment on the AUF1, it's a very detailed and complex piece of AFV/Artillery and my intentions was to do it in the original French 3 color camo, but I couldn't pass up the chance to get it in here. Thanks again for letting me in at such a late date I hope I did it proud.

Terry

Hey jibber, I presume that you meant the complement regarding the sharpie work was for Pyr and not me. No sharpies were harmed in the making of this build... so far... ;-)

And thank you to you and PM for the kind words on my project. I have an idea for a display base forming in my head, but that is outside the scope of this GB for now. And I have to do some research to see what area of the country it was where the Malays operated.

Thats funny, I have a shelf full of projects, want some?

i think i will get one of these too, maybe not the korean one but one of the dutch ones. i like adding the mounting brackets. i will do that too usually using angle iron styrene and my chopper. sometimes i have this vision of a tanker truck filled with cya pulling up next to a tank so the crew can attach all the spare gear. i may have to do another UN build, maybe 1 of 3 versions of PLA ZSL-92 6x6.

After I got all the parts on this one, I took it to my shelves and compared it side by side to my Dutch YPR. There are some noticeable differences between the two types.... this UN stuff is kinda cool...

Well, on Sunday I began the final painting. An overall coat of Tamiya Flat White, followed by a coat of Gloss White. The Gloss White did not turn out quite as well as I had hoped on the vertical surfaces, so I will need to use some Future there before the decals are applied. But here is how she looked overall Sunday midday before it was time for me to go to work.

on Monday I begain detail painting with enamels- I came across a few nice shots of Malay K-200s in Bosnia, and they did indeed show the ramp inner face was still green, and the surrounding area, when the ramp is closed stayed that color too. I used Dark Green 34079. I also used flat black on the rubber portion of the cover for the commo wire hook up box the the right of the ramp

then it was time for top deck details. Humbrol Gun Metal for the tripod & tankers bar, Humbrol Dark Green 34079 on the pioneer tools, Testors Gun metal on the antenna base spring, and Humbrol Flat Black on the rubber stops for the TC, Gunner, and Cargo hatches.

I also painted the rubber bore covers for the smoke grenade launchers in Humbrol Flat Black

Then it was time for me to go to work and no more time to get to my work bench until I had a few minutes before work on Wednesday. On that session I painted the spare track shoes in Humbrol Satin Black, which is how they look when new when the protective coating is still on those things

and I painted the tow cable Humbrol Gun Metal with the end portions in Dark Green 34079, again based off of the photos that I found

and that is where it stands now as I am about to go aout and do the final bits of detail painting in a bit here...

I am done with today's work now. The finish line is just ahead.
Today's detail painting, based upon some photos that I came across:
Tow hooks in Dark Green 34079

headlights & driver's persicopes base painted. After the final top flat coat, I will add a coat of Tamiya Clear Green on the persicopes

right side troop compartment periscopes- same thing for them on the Clear Green top coat

left side troop compartment periscopes and spare track shoe attachment bolts

TC & drivers hatch periscopes

troop compartment rear periscopes

right side tail lights. After the flat coat, I will paint the lenses with Smoke/Neutral

left side tail light assembly- lower light will get Smoke lens, top will get Clear Red.

and then it was time for the decals... the nice "low vis" UN markings (yes I am being facetious). Academy did not provide the "UN" decals for the ramp or the cargo hatch, so I took those from an AFV Club Scimitar in my stash. They also did not provide decals for the Malay Army vehicle serial number, only the UNPROFOR bumper number. So I created those using some extra British Army AFV decals from my spares bin by cutting apart several to make the two, since the Brit ones are of the same style. The number itself is fictitious, but the letter prefix is correct.

and the parts that I have left to add tomorrow...

and that's all my updates of work for today/tonite....

Stik: excellent work.....looking forward to seeing it completed.

cool. this looks really different.

i have a scorpion in my stash.

i still have not gotten my vision block colors the way i want them. usually i paint them silver and then clear green and then smoke to tone down the green. what did you paint the weapons. i have given up on gun metal. i now do metallic gray with medium black oil wash.

Thanks Pyr, I am looking forward to seeing it done as well! I am looking forward to your finished 113

Wayne, this is an outwardly different build for me as well. I am used to vehicles in warpaint. But this white stuff is growing on me. I would like to get a Scorpion one day for my Brit AFV collection, and build it up in Falklands War colors & markings. I am trying something new on the periscopes, as I usually just paint the clear green over the vehicle base color. But on the white here that would be too light. This blue still may be too light as well... we shall see. For the weapons I started off by base coating them in airbrushed Tamiya Flat Black. On the .50 I then gave a heavy drybrushed coat of Humbrol Gun Metal followed by a very light dry brushing of Testors Flat Steel in the high wear areas. On the 60s I dry brushed Testors Gun Metal (a darker and bluer shade compared to the Humbrol shade) on the barrel & receiver, followed by drybrushed Humbrol Gun Metal on the bipod legs and handguard vent. Next I drybrushed Humbrol Matt Aluminum on the high wear areas of the feed tray cover, and finally I hit all the rubber portions of the handguard, butt, and feed tray cover with Humbrol Satin Black. The photo does not really show it to good effect. I will see if I can take some better ones tomorrow.

This is the stuff I used for the wash. The local Hobby Lobby started stocking them recently and this is my second use of the product. A pre make wash by Testors (or stain as it is labled), in this case, Gray, but it is really really dark in the bottle. They make both enamel and acrylic versions of the stuff, but since I prefer to work with enamels for my washes I am going with that here. Especially over my Acrylic base colors.

So here is the K-200 with the wash applied, but not yet cleaned up

and with the wash cleaned up, hatches popped open, and machine guns installed...

I will get it completd tomorrow. We have company coming over this evening and I still need to do the flat coat, final touch up painting and final weathering...

Looks interesting, Stik.  I was at HL yesterday morning, but did not see this.....I did see Tamiya's weathering powders and Vallejo's weathering stuff.  However, I did pick up a can of Purple-Licious.

The stuff is easily missed at HL if youre not looking for it. I stumbled across it last visit accidentally. The local HL carries in in a two tier rack on the bottom shelf down the aisle from the Testors paint rack.

My next couple of updates will be in stages here.
Yesterday on my trip to Hobby Lobby I also picked up this wire for use in making the antenna


Now modern real FM vehicle antennas are tapered from a thick botten that screws on to the antenna base to a narrow tip. The long whips are also sectional, in two pieces. (yeah the commo sergeant in me is coming out here) To replicate that I stretched some tube styrene, and cut a couple lengths to fit over the wire core. Then I added some super glue which I would later sand flush once it was dry to give the appropriate taper. Here it is while the superglue is drying.

Not perfect, but it looks the part.

Before I started the antenna I applied a final coat of Humbrol Matt Clear. I love that stuff!!! Dead flat finish every time!

After that it was final detail painting and weathering...

After the Matt Coat dried and I made the antenna I did the final detail painting: Tamiya Clear Green on the periscopes, Tamiya Clear Red on the stop lamp lens, Humbrol Flat Black on the Cargo Hatch pull chain cover, .50 cal. ammo links, & Drivers Hatch seal ring, Humbrol Dark Green 34079 on the upper deck hatch rims, and Testors Steel dry brushing in a few appropriate high wear spots. Then a bit of Testors Clear Parts glue for lenses on the headlights & taillights. Finally I mixed up a batch of Humbrol Hemp & Matt Clear for a dusting on the suspension and airbrushed that on. Afterwards some Tamiya weathering soot in the exhast pipe, and then the antenna was glued in place and finito! I present my completed K-200 in Malay Army/UN service in Bosnia

Thanks for looking. Comments and critiques are welcome.

Stik: An excellent build!  The last pic with the patch seems fitting, so I've added it to the front page. So glad you got it finished.

I'm calling this one finished....I failed to notice that I'm out of MV lenses, so I have to order more. I also have to find a replacement shovel - it fell off the desk and got stepped on!

and here's one of the reference pics I've been using for the build The unit is 3 Trp, B Sqd, 3-4 Cavalry Regt when it was in Rwanda.

Thank you to all for participating!

Thank you sir. I thought that you might like the patch with the vehicle shot. I have an idea for a vignette of this somewhere down the line incorporating the patch. I am very glad to have partaken in this GB. It was kind of surreal for me at times as at some points I was using my music play (a Sony mini disc player) that I had there during my time in country, listening to the same music that I did there...

That turned out really nice. These un GBs are fun as equipment looks different in weathered white. Did you repaint the vision blocks green?

The build subjects sure do look different in white rater thn green or tan. Not quite so "warlike". And yes, I did do a final topcoat of clear green on the periscop lenses.

stikpusher

The build subjects sure do look different in white rater thn green or tan. Not quite so "warlike". And yes, I did do a final topcoat of clear green on the periscop lenses.

my first UN vehicle was the TRUMPETER CANADIAN LAV-III which got me hooked on canadian warwheels, and i did the vision blocks in blue. just didn't like it as well as the green. and ,whhoo, got the missing parts from revell for my 1/24 UNIMOG THW 4x4.

I have tried blue for vision blocks and persicopes on AFVs a couple times. I always end up repainting them with clear green to better replicate that coke bottle glass look that I remember on all the tracks that I rode on. But this year has been a year of modeling firsts for me. My first UN, my first "what if?", and I am now bitten by both bugs to do more of the same genres in the future.

stikpusher

I have tried blue for vision blocks and persicopes on AFVs a couple times. I always end up repainting them with clear green to better replicate that coke bottle glass look that I remember on all the tracks that I rode on. But this year has been a year of modeling firsts for me. My first UN, my first "what if?", and I am now bitten by both bugs to do more of the same genres in the future.

firsts for me too. started first 1/24 truck, sci-fi, artist oil washes and filters, some 1/72 vehicles, and hosting my first (2) group builds. and it's only 5 months into the year.

Guys, the Peacekeeper GB bage has been added to the front page.