Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

[Jamie Tainton]

This model has been sitting on the shelf for quite some time now, since I bought it probably more that a decade ago, and since I'm doing early armoured cars as I gear up to model the development of the armoured forces of the different nations I may as well do this one.
It is a Dragon rebox (#9003) of the older generation Alan kit and is very basic when compared to the finesse and detail seen in kits of today.

[Jamie Tainton]

here is the instruction sheets and a pdf version you can keep for your files.
http://tinyurl.com/2ubsemz

[Dario Risso]

I like those russian cars (with balkenkreuze, of course )
The only review I know is this: http://www.track-link.net/reviews/k192

Darío

[Jamie Tainton]

[David Madsen]

Looking forward to your progress. I really like Russian armour and plan to focus my future projects with that nation.

[Jamie Tainton]

Okay I was looking at this one today as I was cleaning up and organizing and I really liked what I saw, it is good to look at work in progress that you haven't seen for awhile, it's like fresh eyes. So I managed to finish it off. There were a few things that were difficult to get in the mood for but I managed to be in the right mind set to take on this one today.
Added the tow hooks and the headlights. Both side doors were glued in place after some careful clean up.
I added the supports to the front for the aerial first once that had set up I glued the one piece plastic antennae part to them and then once that was dry-ish I added the side supports to the side of the armour and the antennae -because I replaced the angled rear bulkhead with some plastic card I sanded the fittings of of it and them used them on the white plastic.
I few things like a few rivets a back vision port and the wire from the antennae to the front hood.










The chassis is now glued to the body for good. The turret got three vision port flaps and the two boxes on the running board.

[Tim Coulson]

Looking good Jamie.

[Dan Reed]

Now that it has a pointed nose, it looks like it will go real fast!
Dan

[Jamie Tainton]

[Roy Schlicht]

Man that turned out well. I started this kit way back in the day but consigned it to the junk box which I then sold at a model contest. I have the START kit which has the correct rear end. Your solution turned out real nice. Now lets see some paint on that car.

Roy