I just finished my LVT 4 water buffalo. it’s the italeri 1/35 kit made straight from the box with minor modifications. i painted it tamiya olive drab. comments and questions are appreciated.
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i dont think the second one works, try this:
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looking good
Nice to see something different. How did you like the build of the kit. Someday I’d like to build one, but it is Italeri and it could be hit and miss. LOL Good job, thanks for sharing.
it got a bit hairy. some of the parts did not fit together correctly and the tracks are a little stiff and fit tightly against the hull. overall its not bad, though. trust me, ive done much worse. any experienced modler could handle it.
First time Ive seen one of those and it was a good first impression, hard to beat. I also think Italeri can be good or bad, of the kits Ive built of theirs its been good or bad, none in the middle.
Nice build!
I was leary on the first and third pics cuz they were blurry, but once they came into focus, I could see that you did a very good job on an unusual subject. Thanks for sharing.
Ted
Nice job. thanks for sharing. Semper Fi, mike
Murderdogg,you did a nice job on the buffalo and hope one day to get one for myself.Great work keep it up.Digger
A very interesting vehicle and from what I can see, very well done too!
Nice work one your Buffalo, i just bought the airfix 1/72 buffalo, shudder[V], ie lots of scratchbuilding, modifications, putty required, oh heck i know i love it.
Nice job Murderdog, try to weathering the tracks, the LVT floor and the external sides. For the antenna wire use guitar string (the 1st MI), in my LVT 4 I use guitar strings in the back cover too…
Good look…
Cheers
FAbio M. Moretti
Nicely done. I’ve been reading through a few back issues of MMIR, and they had a couple of specials in modifying the Italeri kit with some update sets, so seeing yours made me want to attempt my own soon [:)]
Thanks for sharing!
looks very good to me.
joe
looks great! nice weathering on the tracks.
[:D]nice work on the buffalo,looks good to me,[:D]
ps i just ordred that kit a week ago for the pacific build[:D]
Great job on the buffalo! I found a real one sitting along side of a highway near the Indiana Dunes State Parks, looks like the DNR were using it at one time. its painted yellow for some reason ,maybe to stand out when it was was in the water. don’t know any of the history yet,but will try and find out.
Semper FI,
Marines 1966