More MUTTs

I  have now not only built and painted the Academy MUTT I was building back here: link, and the Tamiya TOW mount link, but even found the time to photograph them in the garden.  This particular battlefield was a hole, no make that crater dug by the dog.

Paintwork is my usual simplified attempt at MERDC  camo.

Another MUTT

Having built the Tamiya MUTT to the point where it needs spray painting, I started on another.  This one is an Academy kit which includes a mortar with crew.

The sprue looks pretty familiar - hardly surprising as it is a copy of the Tamiya 107mm mortar kit I built a while back - see the earlier post.

So on with the build.  And don't some of those parts look familiar?

Turns out the whole damn kit is a copy of the Tamiya version!

Star Fighter? F-104G - part 2

Behold the completed Starfighter!  I used the markings straight from the kit, making this a naval aircraft.  Here it is en route to the coast.

Star Fighter? F-104G - part 1

I have never previously owned a 1/72 Starfighter so when I was wondering what else to build as air support for my Little Cold Wars West Germans this was an obvious candidate.

The parts for this Academy kit emerged from the box looking crisp and so it was with a sense of great optimism that I embarked on the build.

So far so good......

But here is the trouble spot.  The main undercart doors consist of four pieces which basically only have each other to cling to.  I just couldn't make it work and so gave up and stuck a single piece of plastic card in the gap.  Only enemy AA gunners will ever notice and they'll be too busy.  And it's a 'working ' wargames model anyway.