Jonathon Herring
Will be watching closely. The Tamiya kit is in my stash and it will be diorama-ed with some other bits. Just gotta program some arduino to get it to target anyone who come to evaluate it🤣

Jakko ‌ Autor
My advice: Sell the Tamiya kit and buy this one to replace it 😉

The Tamiya turret isn't too bad, but they didn't even try to get the hull right. Instead of a completely different back end with a revised engine deck, they just stuck a kind of ramp on top of the M48A5 engine deck and left it at that. And, of course, all of that goes for the Academy clone too.

Jennifer Franklin
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Jakko ‌ Autor
Cool, I hope it won't disappoint 🙂

Eddy Marshall
Looking good mate... Keen to see this one come together...

David Taylor
Following.

Jakko ‌ Autor
Nice to have you along 🙂

Rui
This is coming along nice, 😎

Jakko ‌ Autor
Nearly there … 🙂

Tom B.
This seems like an intriguing concept 👍 Really looking forward to see more! Although part of me always wants to see some Merkava-based SPAA for some reson...

Jakko ‌ Autor
I had had that thought too, but for years I've wanted an M247 🙂 I might eventually build one like that, but probably only after I buy an other M247 for its hull, to put a PRTL turret onto — though even that won't be in the foreseeable future.

David Taylor
Coming along nicely.

Jakko ‌ Autor
Shouldn't be that much longer now … I hope 😉

Danny Ray
Love all the scratch building stuff you do Jakko. I don't know if it's a trick of the eye and photo but those track pin holes look huge compared to those of the Border Crusader III. Though fiddly enough!! If you were funding it difficult, no wonder I've been struggling!
This M247 is a beast. You've done an absolute first rate job with it. I bow to your skills and knowledge (people don't like crawlers, I'm told so I'll stop there!) 😅😅😁😂

Danny Ray
Oh. This is your own concoction? A hybrid?

Jakko ‌ Autor
The M247 is a real vehicle, it's just that the Israelis never used it — the only real-world user was the US Army, and even they only used it for about a year. As for size, those track links are about 16 or 17 mm wide, so much bigger than on a Crusader, yes.

Jakko ‌ Autor
Thanks 🙂

Danny Ray
What would you do with those tiny Border Crusader links? Would you just glue them?

Jakko ‌ Autor
As I haven't built that kit I can't really say, but if the pins fit poorly like here, I'd probably do it as I did on this one: a drop of gel superglue on top, after the pin is in place.

Danny Ray
👍🏻

Jennifer Franklin
A nice one. Love the figure.

Jakko ‌ Autor
Thanks. I'm not the world's greatest figure painter by a long shot, but I'm not unhappy with how he came out 🙂