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Tamiya light recon

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Hi guys

Im Rocket, big brother to Crispy who I understand is a regular villain on here. We are currently building up to our own Tamiya recon force. My Humvees been around for a few years now, Crispy has another humvee and a Lightstrike in build and I managed to pick up a battered original XR311 back end of last year.

The Humvee

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The XR311

Out of the box

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And under heavy Plasticard attack.

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Now the final version wont look anythinh like the original tamiya XR311. Ive been digging around in the picture archives and looked at so many test pictures of the beastie I see it in my sleep. Im heading for what i think it would have looked like if it had been accepted into service by the US special forces

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Thats it for now. More when I get some time.

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Nice projects! Wish I had some modeling skills to match yours. That Hummer looks awesome with all the extra details!

Welcome to the nuthouse (It is OK, we're all Tamiya junkies here anyway). ;)

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When i saw the first XR311 photo I thought (hope he can get that back to nice original condition), but I see it will actually be something much better

Welcome to the madhouse / wallet emptying club / Tamiya homage / fill in as you like ...

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Love it. I only have an FAV as far as military vehicles go (if it can be counted as such!) and have much admiration for the Hummers. You don't see many of the JSDF Ground Defence vehicles either - maybe a future model in the pipeline for you and your brothers little 'fleet'!?!

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Awesome work on the XR311 :D

Out of interest, how did you bend the tube around the windscreen? I've been trying to make roll cages from plastic tube for a while but my bends never look right.

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Neat trick Rocket - I might give that a try!

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Love it. I only have an FAV as far as military vehicles go (if it can be counted as such!) and have much admiration for the Hummers. You don't see many of the JSDF Ground Defence vehicles either - maybe a future model in the pipeline for you and your brothers little 'fleet'!?!

 

Been there already but in 1/6 scale!

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Wow really nice skills you have there, I'm loving the scale look down to the rack's, packs and crew :) looking forward to the XR311 updates ^_^

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