Builds 1/35th scale Panhard AML 90 Armoured car by Tiger Model

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In case you are looking for AML pictures, this book has been published last month in France. Mostly focuses on AML in French service but there are also picture of it in foreign hands.

I'm conflicted.

 

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been waiting for a airbrush opportunity, now it's de-clogged and cleaned up, made a start at the tri-Colour scheme, OG, Dark grey and Terracotta brown.

head on. A small unit with a massive punch. Now for a wash and some weathering.

 

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See it like that and it's unsurprising they had to open the doors when using the main gun.

 

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Platform rock must be immense

 

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little by little adding well thinned washes.

 

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back on the table and ready to be finished off, diorama base with the long long gun muzzle grounded into rising ground, in an "oh F.. Dear me* moment.

 

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I mean, a 90mm on a car not much bigger than a Ferret. What did they expect.
here's the parts still to be fitted.

 

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the kit box has long gone , but the instructions are still here. the sand shield goes on the nose.

the viewing periscopes still need to go in.

instructions for that step

 

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thinking through my Diorama Idea, with a long gun on a short vehicle, undulating terrain could prove to be a problem, with the angle of the vehicle precipitating the muzzle into rising ground, is that a fair Diorama?

 

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thinking through my Diorama Idea, with a long gun on a short vehicle, undulating terrain could prove to be a problem, with the angle of the vehicle precipitating the muzzle into rising ground, is that a fair Diorama?
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Knock out a few more Panhards and display them parked up outside the Globe (Port Stanley 1982) surround by the discarded Argie kit ). (Parts various being nicked by the Para's).

 

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thinking through my Diorama Idea, with a long gun on a short vehicle, undulating terrain could prove to be a problem, with the angle of the vehicle precipitating the muzzle into rising ground, is that a fair Diorama?
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Ground appreciation, the crew would elevate the gun or traverse it over the side or back decks at the obstacle.

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Chieftain advancing through a forest, the commander may traverse the gun through the desired gap in the trees before the tank started to turn.
(some trees may have been harmed during this)

Or in a village or junction the turret would turn before the tank to avoid taking out the oncoming traffic or someone's Laura Ashley's curtains.

 

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finally got some glass made for this, a sandy base and a jerrycan completes the model. Here it is trial fitted into its case.