Heres a pair of images of my 1/72nd Phil. Army V-150. Its a prototype kit me and a colleague of mine at IPMS BAC are trying to develop. Its mostly made of resin but some parts are in plastic or copper wire. Tell me what you think.

hi buck what do you mean a prototype kit? u made everything out of scratch??

well looks nice! #:-)

Damn! That is very nice. Is this Wanze's work?

Resin... so you two made molds and cast resin parts - the hull is one solid block of resin then? Also, the grills in front of the lights - wire?

Very nice. I really like it. Months ago whilst building an SA-9 Mod-A, I thought "Hey, the BRDM can act as a base kit for a modification into a SIMBA." Now, if I had enough material - pictures and sheet styrene - I might try a conversion. May I ask for some plans/line drawings/pictures of the Simba for future reference?

Edited on account of my stupidity

Hi Buck!

Nice prototype! Is it almost finished? If you still need help, I am a willing slave

Yes, if anyone has Simba references, please share. I want to start modeling AFP AFVs in 1/72.

Looks good for a prototype Buck. Very impressive, I really like your work.

Buck,
The angle of the searchlight is a bit too high; the frames for the main headlights are too thick; the color scheme is for correction ( gawin mong PMC mas marami akong references), but am I complaining-NO! Constructive criticism lang yun;
As for the Simba, sorry folks, no plans are available YET as of now; but then again, ask HOMER.... ( Buck hinahanap ko pa yung 1 side drawing ng Simba, but standard vehicle lang yun).
Jepot

Flex,
Thanks! Yep, everything made from scratch.

GI,
Thanks, pañero. Youre right, the headlight guards are made of wire. Liebgott has done all the castings. And hes improving. Been wanting to do a Simba for the longest time. Hopefully, Jepot could scrounge up some line drawings.

Bistro,
Work is on-going, my friend. Any help is certainly most welcome.

Cardinal,
Thanks for the kind words. There are still some kinks to be ironed out. Hopefully we'll be able to come up with a better sample.

Jepot,
Thanks for the heads-up. I take it you dont like Army camo? Hehehe! I painted this using a brew I made years ago. Apparently, current Army camo has turned into a different shade. Hirap talaga pag walang Federal Standard. The Marines on the other hand have more or less maintained their hues. Weve already made a hull master for a 72nd V-300. If the V-150 project works we'll be building that next. But the Simba --- drooool!

I smell some "where-did/do-you-get-your-resin" questions. Hehehe.

Now, did I read that right, everything from scratch? Oh my, scratch-masters. I am not worthy.

Wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute... Goodness how stupid I am. It's a V-150, not a Simba! I got confused (and so easily, tsk tsk tsk, must be the lacquer thinner in me room #:-) ).

Hehehe mixed me AFVs up! Here I was, looking at a V-150 and what I had in mind was Simba.

Nonetheless, it's still is a great scratchbuilt project. I also like the camo - for such a small subject, you guys made some very fine looking camo stripes there. Speaking of paint - what is the "proper" shade anyway? Should the paint on this V-150 be a bit darker or lighter?

On the headlight guards - is this brass? Alambre? Soldered?

Flex,
Well, actually the wheel master came from the spares box. Its a spare rim mated with a spare tire. Am not really personally involved in the casting process. But you could ask Liebgott. Hes the one that made this test shot.

GI,
As far as I know the Phil. Army does not have a "standard" paint scheme. The paint is mixed in batches bu the exact formula/color is not strictly followed. And worse, the vehicles are painted with gloss paint! Have you seen a PA mini-cruiser or M-151 on the road lately? I think they applied a diamond coat on them vehicles.

#:-)

Maybe they're onto something. The effectivity of laser weapons decreases by a fraction if the surface to be hit is shiny, thereby reflecting the particle beams. That, plus ablative armor, would keep hull integrity high with no increase in weight to the vehicle. The diamond screen (which is .0517 microns thick) is strong enough to withstand hits from 7.62x34mm assault rifle rounds, whilst 5.56x23mm rounds would bounce off without molesting the armor. As for RPG protection, an additional layer of diamond screen (this one being .104 microns thick) would stop RPG-23 rounds completely, along with 125mm APFSDS-T and HEAT. That's some armor we got. #:-)

Thats fine so long as the 140mm gun is not yet in service. The rounds to be used on the new gun, being developed jointly by Rheinmetall and Royal Ordnance, has a diamond-cutter tip that effectively "shatters' the diamond coating into minute 0.2 karat gems ready for mounting into rings and earrings. The ensuing urge to pick up the stones will also mean that the mechanized infantry will dismount and thus be exposed to suppressing fire.

The new gun will likewise incorporate a groove on the dorsal side that will allow a miniaturized Badger 150 to be mounted --- riding piggy-back, if you will --- on a flechette round. At the exact moment of impact the Badger 150 will activate spraying a swath 85mm in diameter of Gunze flat clear. If the flechette round does not stop the vehicle completely, its armor/diamond protection shall have been seriously compromised, leaving it vulnerable to laser weapons.

Whew!

That is, assuming, the target vehicle is equipped only with the Class B armor components. If Class A... ah... we're talking protection which - in conjunction with the Arena-3 Active Defense System that has, other than the explosive cartridges that sprays metal fragments at a 15-degrees of arc light to intercept the incoming round, a THEL that can destroy all known ordinance developed - is unrivaled. The Class A package has a thicker diamond coating (this being 1 full micron thick) plus a secondary protection package underneath the ablative armor (which is spaced from said secondary protection package by, oh, 2 inches IIRC). That secondary protection package, AFAIK, is a new type of reactive armor called Liquid Metal. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that a 140mm round with a Badger 150 riding on the flechette, penetrates the first, second, and third levels of protection, the Liquid Metal will simply swallow up the round and make said round part of the armor. However, recent tests have shown that this gives the vehicle carrying the Class A package a weight penalty directly proportional to the square of Adam's equation along with Fermi's Paradox mixed into the equation as more rounds are swallowed. Hence, a Simba with such a package can, theoretically, increase its weight up to 70 tons as it swallows round-after-round of 140mm. Currently, the R&D department is working feverishly to find a way to remove the excess weight by dissolving it and turning it into rounds for the Metal Storm gun mounted on an unmanned pod on the vehicle's roof. If they are successful, then the electric-fired gun can, theoretically, fire an unlimited number of rounds, assuming the vehicle with Class A is fired upon over-and-over again.

Phew! #:-)

Well I hate to burst your bubble, but the Phil Army chose the Class C option.

Hehehehe!! Great game, GI.

Sorry to butt in. But am I in a wrong thread? Buck, GI ? Just appreciating the V-150 and you guys can go on to whatever your playing

Hey, welcome back, Blitz. No, youre in the right thread. GI and I just love playing these games. Hehehe!