The kit is pretty basic - I did not count the pieces, but I managed to put it all together in an hour or hour and a half.
The most complicated part is the undercarriage, but considering how fiddly it could be, the result is awesome. This is the highlight of this kit, everything goes very well together and holds where it should be. I really enjoyed this part of the build.
After this, the rest of the model is pretty simple - just a bunch of various details that you glue on top and sides of the vehicle. The crane is probably the weakest part - even without looking at any reference photos, you can tell it's pretty basic. But given the intended use of this vehicle and the fact I'm pretty clumsy on the tabletop battlefields, I decided to just build it as it is.
Both halves of the vehicle go well together, you than close it with a rear panel and you're done!
Really, this has been an awesome kit - pure joy of a tiny vehicle coming together very quickly with no issues at all.
Next up is painting, although I will have to fill in two tiny holes on the crane first - Mr Surfacer will suffice here. Then it's primer time, probably a bit of pre-shading and then onto my first randez vous with NATO 3-tone scheme.
It's a shame Trumpeter has closed down its small scale armor line, as this is a kit I would like to build again in future (multiple LAV's out there), but due to it being out of production it's not as easy to get your hands on it.
Can't remember I had so much fun with a kit.
Dude, post more 1 72 scale kit reviews. Your post motivated me to but this particular kit on eBay.
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