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mustang1989 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:50 pm This is a good lookin' track. I'm going to be watching in on this one Carlos!

Thanks Mike. That turret sure busies up the look of a basic 113.

jeaton01 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:00 pm You ever think of a low risk occupation before you retired, Carlos?

LOL! Yeah... but I found that inside desk jobs and me did not go together well....

Great stuff Carlos!

Over the past year, I’ve done a little bit of work on this here and there, but no major progress until today.

Recently I had completed the hammerhead turret by using the flexible portion of a bendable straw for the cover on the optical duct



Then during the past few session when I had been working on this I had been working on the tracks, which I finally completed today…





So now this is ready for final assembly then painting… my big decision will be to have the trim vane down as a cargo shelf or have it retracted like normal. Plus I need to improvise some antenna base guards…

Very cool Stik!

Thanks Mike. It’s starting to take final shape now.

Stikpusher wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:19 pm Over the past year, I’ve done a little bit of work on this here and there, but no major progress until today.

Recently I had completed the hammerhead turret by using the flexible portion of a bendable straw for the cover on the optical duct

That's truly a smart solution using a piece of straw, will look perfect when some paint on!

- Kari

Thanks Kari. I did the same thing with straws on my M901 ITV and LAV-AT builds. They use a nearly identical turret. But in those cases, I built the vehicles with the hammerheads in the firing position, rather than stowed like this one.

Some very impressive work going on in this thread Carlos. WOW!!

Thanks Joe. I’m just at something of a pause point over the antennas and some appropriate crew figures…

Great to see this back on the bench.