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Hello! Currently I'm havin' fun with the front suspension. I've assembled most of it: The axle is my 3D design, reworked kit springs and scratchbuilt shock absorbers. I still have to cut off the wires that mount the shocks to the body and install the portion of the drive shaft. I've...

Hello Buck! Thanks a lot for the explanation. This photo tricked me, the part under the spring looks mighty "wedgy" here: And this is the way I have to model it on my model, otherwise the axle would be canted, because of the way the front springs are made. Thanks again for your great help and...

Hello Buck! Thanks a lot for the references, they are a big help! The drawing doesn't really show it, but on the photos the parts 13 and 22 look like a wedge - this is how I'm going to model it. And I have the rear suspension done: The resin wheels are from a company called MMK, the...

Rory, Buck - thanks a lot for your comments and for the great pictures you posted. There are not so many photos on the 'net showing this - because normally you have to climb on a ladder or something like that to photograph it! Now this won't be easy... As the kit doesn't show the insides of the...

Hello Rory! Thanks a lot for your comment! Somehow I didn't quite look at this detail yet - I'm focusing on the underside, but can you tell me what needs reworking there? I also have the last (fixed) fire extinguisher done - it's just a little hard to photograph... Thanks in advance for your...

Hello! @Buck Wampum - like Rory said, I have the jump seats there: And I have everything nice and smooth now: As you can see I added some lugs on the rear - where the fuel can holder and pioneer tool rack would bolt to, but USAF didn't seem to use them - I guess on the airbase they...

Hello everybody! I have closed up the hull. Wanted to show you how much of the interior will be visible: I have cut off a piece of hull because it prevented me from installing the radios. Now I have to glue it back and smooth out everything, I also want to add some missing welds. I also have...

Buck - thanks a lot for your comment! You're right, I'm building my model as the E2/USAF version, mostly because I've found a Vietnam veteran who operated one back then and is kind enough to help me with my research, wasting such opportunity would feel really bad! Maybe, if this project goes...

Hello everybody! I’ve had a vacation break, but now that it’s over I’m moving on with this build. I’ve finally equipped the upper hull - there was mainly the AN/VIC-1 interkom, a first aid kit, a flashlight and some more minor details there. Here’s how it looks like now: Now I will close up...

Hello Rory! Thanks a lot for the interesting info! Now I've hot the commo wiring sorted out, I'm working on rendering that in scale. I've seen that mysterious knob on some photos before, but I kinda forgot about it. After what you wrote me in your last post I have to have them on my model...

Hello Rory! Thanks a lot, that's an interesting detail that would otherwise be hard or very hard to find on the net. Could I ask you one more thing? How did you route the cables to the intercom boxes in front, next to the driver and "shotgun"? I would like to do some cabling there, but I have...

Hello Rory! Thanks a lot for your comment! Yes, I planned to add the third fire extinguisher, but I wasn't aware of the cable and the handle - now I also want to add those. Pity that the handle almost surely won't be visible after I close up the hull. Thanks also for the close-up on the...

Thanks a lot Rory, it really means a lot to me! And I have another update on the interior. I have finished the radio: Here's how it looks like from the rear: And after adding some seatbelts, the lower part of the interior is kinda done :-) So I started working on the upper...

Hello! A small update just to let you know I'm still working on it: Thanks for looking and have a nice day Paweł

Hello! Thanks a lot for your comments! I don't know about now, but back then in 2001 Kaiserslautern was as close to an American town as possible under German government - you could see Amreican Police cruisers on the streets (crewed by MPs in BDUs), there were American housing districts, on my...

Like I wrote I was studying there. I was an exchange student for one term, from April to August 2001, on the local university.

Hello everybody! OK, here are some more: For starters some nice MERDEC Vans: A trailer and lots of tanker bodies: The next photos are from Eselsfürth -...

Thanks a lot for your comments! Tomorrow I'll try to post more! @Guyfang - of course it's hard to tell exactly after all these years, but I tried to illustrate the shot on the map below: I rememeber standing on the Von Miller Strasse while shooting the photo, I was biking along that street...

Hello! Thanks a lot for your comments! I'm glad you like'em and I’ll gladly post some more: @Guyfang - since you mentioned Rhine Ordnance Barracks (near the Opel factory) - these were there: They also had an M578 cherry picker on display, but they would't let me in to...

Hello! Looong time ago - in 2001 I’ve been studying in Kaiserslautern, Germany and as a modeller from Poland I was fascinated by the presence of US troops and equipment literally everywhere around town. Back then I took some photos, I’m posting some of them and if anybody has some use for them...