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30. Sep 2016
Durable? Well, the real M88A1 is, but this is a plastic kit...
3 von 3 finden das hilfreich OK. Since it's been a few years since I was last in an M88A1, we're working off my memory here. But the kit is pretty well molded, not enough flash to matter, and the proportions seem right. This purchase was to round out my model collection of "armored vehicles I've commanded, crewed, ridden around in, or just crawled through."
As such, let's start. The AFV kit is a credible reproduction of the M88A1 as I remember it. Parts are crisp, kit was complete, instructions are adequate. Find photos online for the configuration you want to build. There are reviews and videos on line that describe the kit, and enough information is out there to build it up as either a straight M88 or the M88A1. They do a better job than I can here. You could either buy a different kit for the M88A2, or if you were industrious enough, scratchbuild the parts to modify the M88A1 kit into a reasonable M88A2. An interior kit is available, but if I get that serious about it, I'll probably settle for scratchbuilding the major assemblies you could see through the open doors in the sides. I'll print my own decals to letter it for the vehicle in my old unit.
Do I recommend the kit? Yes, since it looks pretty good and should build up pretty nice.
Entertaining? Well, the most entertaining story about an M88 I've got is from when I was just a PFC, and was riding in an M88 while it was towing my broken M48A1 at Fort Drum in '72. Zipping along the tank trail at about ten MPH, and the steering wheel separated from the shaft inside the M88 and the shaft dropped down into the lower hull, leaving the driver with the steering wheel in his hands and a pretty panicked expression on his face. We managed to coast to a stop, but the M88 decided where that was going to be. The kit? Well, how can it compare to that?