M1126 Stryker ICV Vignette

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March 29, 2023
Establishing the overall layout of the vehicle and base. As the vehicle is stopping, two of the infantrymen are casually sitting on some stowage atop the troop compartment
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March 29, 2023
For the base, I cut a piece of wood giving me a solid base to work upon. The terrain features are supported by some cheap styrofoam and everything will be framed by some thin styrene sheet for a clean modern look.
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April 16, 2023
Further along now... I did not use al the PE, as much of it would require major surgery and will be covered by stowage items. Also, the kit details are rather nice in places
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April 16, 2023
A more "subtle" piece of soft stowage
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May 7, 2023
Some paint done... I primed everything and will focus on the vehicle first before quickly painting up the base
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May 7, 2023
The permanently attached stowage will be brushpainted. Also, there are going to be some extra highlights on small features like bolts and handles
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May 15, 2023
Wheels were painted using the airbrush and some of the really nice details were highlighted by slightly drybrushing a grey colour.
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May 15, 2023
I have lightened up the overall paintbox by adding more yellow-green to the Tamiya NATO green for a roughly 50:50 mix and concentrated this around individual panels. In addition to this step, acrylic paints were mixed to an even lighter green shade for highlighting bolts, handles, rivets etc. using a fine paintbrush
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May 15, 2023
Shown here are the basic colours on the base. Some stones will be painted individually with acrylics later on and there will of course be the vegetation element to be added.
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June 1, 2023
So far so good... most of the work is done here, though I may add some different vegetation elements as well as some markings on the road
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Finished project 👍

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1 November 2024, 14:34 -

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Building Academy´s 1/72 M1126 Stryker ICV with quite a bit of extra "bling" in form of PE and resin detail sets including stowaage and wheels. Some figures from Mig Production´s 1/72 US Modern Crew set will give some life to the vehicle. As for the base, I will go with a somewhat beaten up small country road and some low vegetation.

M1126 Stryker ICV

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1:72 M1126 ICV Stryker Wheel Set Early Pattern (MR Modellbau MR-72141)

1:72 M 1126 STRYKER Iraq war accessories set (Black Dog T72002)

1:72 M1126 Stryker wheels (Armory AC7318)

1:72 U.S. Modern Crew (MIG Productions MP72-411)

M1126 Stryker ICV

US Army (1784-now)
E Co., 2 Sqn., 2 Stryker Cav. Reg. (SFC Fercusson/PVT Sleeth)
Germany

Overall field green

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