The A & B putty cushions look perfect! But hard seats will work too… cant have the grunts in back getting too comfy 
Gine, your builds are always interesting, good reads and great details.
Thanks gents. Nope, don’t want the grunts getting soft.
I have the construction complete. Paint is next. I used the AFV Club PE set for the side baskets. The kit comes with some net and says to “cut to fit” the frames. The PE looks and works much better.
I also scratched the wire cutters from sheet styrene and a couple bolt heads to hold them on.
Here it is so far.
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Cushioned seats? That’s for the soft-a**ed officers! [:D]
Looking good!
Gary
Thanks Gary. I hear ya.
She’s coming along great, I love the wire cutters!
Thanks Gamera. I hope to get some paint on it this weekend.
I have laid down the base coat of NATO green on the YPR. I am debating what colors/camo/markings to put on it. Here it is so far.
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Here are a few options.
I am leaning to the white stripes. I just like the look.
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Opinions?
Hello Gino!
I would like to vote for Kraken or the one in digital camo (and this one would probably fit your painting style better). Any way you tackle it I believe it’s going to be all right! Good luck with that paint job and have a nice day
Paweł
Hi Pawel. I like “Kraken” as well. I think that is the one I will go with. I just ordered the Star Decal sheet for it.
I decided to paint the stripes today and was ruminating on how I wanted to do it. I decided to start with masking them off with tape and airbrushing them. I did this on the front half and the lower side stripes. It came out OK, but I did have some bleeding under the tape and I had to clean it up with green paint and a brush.
Then I was trying to tape the rear half and was breaking stuff off. I decided to hand paint the rest of the stripes. So the top stripe behind the cupola and down the rear ramp and the upper side stripes inside the screens are all hand painted. They also came out OK, but also needed some green touchup to get them looking good.
Here they are. I am pretty happy with them.
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Looks good! I would have hand-painted the stripes from the get-go. Probably more realistic. [:)]
Gary
Thanks Gary. I thought that afterwards too.
Hello!
Your stripes are lookin’ good! Although If I was to paint something like that, I would start with off-white (I don’t know if pure white wouldn’t be too “in your face” here), mask the stripes and then put green on top of it. This way masking neat stripes would be much easier (constant width tape portions) but most of all you would use a lot less paint to cover and then the problem of bleeding under would be much smaller.
Good luck with the rest of the paint job and have a nice day!
Paweł
Thanks Pawel. The white will be toned down with weathering.
Looks good to me. After the weathering as you say the stripes should tone down nicely.
Thanks Gamera.
I should have the Star Decals sheet tomorrow.
I’m still not sure which striped one I will do. It may be similar to those on the sheet, not an exact copy version. We shall see. Should have some more progress this weekend.
The decals took a couple more days than expected to arrive. I decided to use part of them and do my own version. I didn’t like the big “KPAKEN” on the side after all. I went with the numbers and a couple Ukrainian flags with the trident symbols on them and a couple tridents by themselves. I also added a couple bags, a bedroll, a jerry can, and a Brit ration box as stowage.
Here it is so far.
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Next up is to finish it off with a layer of dullcoat and some weathering.
All right Gino! Looks great and you’re on the home stretch.