Us marine/CIA task force

chrisonord · June 18, 2009, 07:43:12 AM

All these vehicles are part of my US Marine/CIA anti cartel task force deployed to Honduras. The vehicles are all 1/72nd scale and some have been modified into different versions. The Strykers belong to the CIA, as they are in charge of coordinating the operation. The other vehicles that are there are part of the support unit for the Navy and Marine aircraft involved in the operation.

Most of the stuff here has not seen daylight fornearly2 years as it has been stuck on a shelf in my shed, hence some of the vehicles are missing a few bits.
Cheers,
Chris.

JayBee · June 18, 2009, 07:57:31 AM

Ye Gods Chris, are you planning for them to take over the entire country?

They look good.

JimB

Mossie · June 18, 2009, 08:37:24 AM

Nice little army you've got there! By the way, do you get royalties from Chorley council???

Sauragnmon · June 18, 2009, 08:55:21 AM

They look real good, Chris, nicely done collection on the theme.

chrisonord · June 18, 2009, 08:55:39 AM

Quote from: Mossie on June 18, 2009, 08:37:24 AM
Nice little army you've got there! By the way, do you get royalties from Chorley council???

I wish I did!! It would be the only thing good from them put it that way

I still have an M1, an M3, a stryker, 4 Humvees of different types an 8x8 Hemit 8x8 oshkosh and a 6x6 truck waiting to be built for the task force also.
Just wait until I photograph all my cartel armour again

The honduran's are pretty thin on the ground with vehicles spare so the Marines had to make up the numbers here....and I am sticking to that excuse

Chris.

Taiidantomcat · June 18, 2009, 01:51:06 PM

Nice collection of tanks and AFVs

Great work!

Geoff · June 18, 2009, 02:21:13 PM

Nice idea - What make of model is the M-113 with the turret and extra armour? They look like Danish army ones?

chrisonord · June 18, 2009, 03:04:10 PM

Quote from: Geoff on June 18, 2009, 02:21:13 PM
Nice idea - What make of model is the M-113 with the turret and extra armour? They look like Danish army ones?

Hya Geof,
The kits are the trumpeter ones, with some evergreen angled strip made into the appliqué armour, and the turrets are optional ones that come with the Dragon AAVP's.The gun barrels are home made.
Cheers,
Chris.

ChernayaAkula · June 18, 2009, 03:24:02 PM

That's quite the Task Force!

Nice work! I particularly like the LAV in the "oddball" paint scheme.

Who makes the air defence LAV and the towed guns?

Geoff · June 18, 2009, 03:49:22 PM

Quote from: chrisonord on June 18, 2009, 03:04:10 PM
Quote from: Geoff on June 18, 2009, 02:21:13 PM
Nice idea - What make of model is the M-113 with the turret and extra armour? They look like Danish army ones?
Hya Geof,
The kits are the trumpeter ones, with some evergreen angled strip made into the appliqué armour, and the turrets are optional ones that come with the Dragon AAVP's.The gun barrels are home made.
Cheers,
Chris.

Thanks, GeoffP

chrisonord · June 18, 2009, 03:58:55 PM

Quote from: ChernayaAkula on June 18, 2009, 03:24:02 PM
That's quite the Task Force! Nice work! I particularly like the LAV in the "oddball" paint scheme.

Who makes the air defence LAV and the towed guns?

The air defence LAV is a resin kit from Jader in Poland, I have an oshkosh of theirs a BMP1 and a us 6x6 truck.The instructions are not for the faint hearted though

The towed guns are a bit of a cheat really, as they are JB models 1/76 scale ones, but they do don't you think.
The air defence bit of the Hummer avenger is scratch built.

noxioux · June 18, 2009, 07:42:25 PM

Cripes! That's a lot of hardware!

However, I think you should have a couple of 13-passenger white Ford vans in there somewhere. I did a little bit of a "local" drug interdiction op later in '92 with 3/7, and that's what we used. . .

This is going to be pretty breathtaking, I can tell. . .

ChernayaAkula · June 19, 2009, 04:12:41 PM

Quote from: chrisonord on June 18, 2009, 03:58:55 PM
The air defence LAV is a resin kit from Jader in Poland,<...>

Ah, I see. With some luck, Trumpeter will scale-down all their 1/35 LAVs to 1/72.

The Hummer Avenger turned out great!

chrisonord · June 19, 2009, 05:46:40 PM

Quote from: ChernayaAkula on June 19, 2009, 04:12:41 PM
Quote from: chrisonord on June 18, 2009, 03:58:55 PM
The air defence LAV is a resin kit from Jader in Poland,<...>

Ah, I see. With some luck, Trumpeter will scale-down all their 1/35 LAVs to 1/72.

The Hummer Avenger turned out great!

Yes I got sick of waiting for Dragon to release their version so I made my own, I have another waiting to be finished also.
I am also waiting for Academy to bring their Oshkosh 8x8 out as I want to do a patriot missile launching version.
Cheers,
Chris.

Eddie M. · June 19, 2009, 05:53:43 PM

Very nice collection you've got going there. I'm curious about the P-16. Was that one of the mods you made was to add that tank to the rear? When I was a P-16 driver, that's where the other two crash crewmen rode.