Dear friends,
This work I saw 2 pic from Internet. AA7A1 with Main Plow[:-^] . I,m used from Mini Hobby Model and Trumpeter some part.
enjoy my work,
narupol [:D].
It looks GREAT. I didn’t know AAV7’s could use mine plows. I like the dusty weathering
That is one mean looking track! I love the combination. Good job. Would love to hear the specifics of the build. What parts came from where. Really good job!
It looks pretty good… however, the type of plow you have on it is not normally used with the AAVP7A1. You have an M1 Mineplow on it as used on the M1 Abrams and M60A1 tanks. If you have the pics of it, they would be interesting to see. Maybe it was a prototype or something.
The plow for an AAVP7A1 looks like this:
[%-)][%-)]Of course I can’t find a pic of it now, but it looks similar to the one on the prototype armored Combat Breaching Vehicle below. It isn’t as big though.
Is that add-on armor available separately or is it part of a kit (and which kit)? I would like to redo my AA7A1, and that would look very nice. I’m inspired.[bow]
The EAAK is part of the Trumpeter/Mini Hobby kit. It is so , so. The rest of the kit is pretty bad though with an incorrectly shaped hull due to motorization and simplified parts. Here is a review of it by Pavel. As Pavel says in his review, the EAAK is usable if you take it and put it on the Tamiya AAVP7A1 kit. Other than that, it is bad.
Hobby Fan does a resin EAAK set, but it is way over-priced, about $100+, for me. I’ll stick with correcting and detailing the Trumpeter EAAK on the Tamiya kit for me.
Wow, what an interesting monster. I know nothing about that vehicle but it does look cool. And you seem to have done a pretty good job.
Many thanks [:D] for comment. I send 1 pic you to see.
AA7A1 with plow.
many thanks.
narupol [:D].
thats----a really big nose.but very nice build.noticed your torsion bars up front dont show the weight its carrying,as the photo of an original does.funny how the big ugly strange looking ones always make an armor nut go,wooowho i gatta get me one!
Yup, as I thought, that was a test vehicle with the early style test armor and mine plow. Neither configuration was accepted. If you notice, the armor on the one in the pic looks nothing like the EAAK armor on your kit, which is the actual armor configuration that was fielded. Still looks like a cool build, just not historically accurate.
Some shots I dug out of my photo album. There were a couple versions experimented with, but none worked out very well. The final one was shelved in around mid 1996, before fielding of the RAM/RS (suspension/engine) upgrade.
As a side note, the armor in the bottom pic was pre-EAAK version. Once the EAAK was fielded the old armor was relegated to drain ditch covers, and grills on the units homemade bar-b-que pits, some are actually still around and in use.
what a beast.
I was a combat engineer in the Marine Corps for 8 years. I spent most of my time attached to Amtrac units as the minefield breaching force. We never had any type of plow on our amtracs. It makes sense when you think about it. You can’t float an Amtrac in from ship with a plow on it. Our SOP, when we approached a minefield, was to pull right behind a Abrams that had a plow and shoot a line charge over our Amtrac and the Abrams into the minefield. After we blew the charge, the Abrams would drive through and we, the engineers, would get out and mark the lane. If an Abrams wasn’t available, we would breach just using the Amtrac. It was a little bit more risky, but, hey, we’re Marines…
Jesse