Wednesday, July 1, 2020

P-300 MARS (Mobile Armored Repair Station)

Another cool Modelcollect kit collection with room for improvement.  The P-300 has various optional armament, plus the fact that other kits fit the same options so mix and match.There are also opportunities to improvise.


Since this was meant for war gaming, the top would be removable allowing access to the 4 one man walkers being stored inside.  Well, I had other plans. I managed to detail out the interior as a repair shop. I made benches, work tables etc. This includes wench with tow cables and chains, welding tanks, fuel station, various spare parts and ammo. I used various Preiser figures, etc.



Of course it needed to be lit to see all of these interior details. The Mobile Station includes a one man walker to protect the vehicle while loading and unloading from the bay.


I did have fun with the overall paint scheme and performed a kind of Tie Die effect masking to create random dot patterns. As if it needed to be camouflaged as it rips down trees. I did the same on the King Tiger and the BLM-100 Walker.

I chose to have the vehicle crushing its way through the forest to retrieve the King Tiger. The tracks are individual link snap together... well mostly. There were sufficient amount of defects to use as spare tracks to mount on the front.

Vince B.  7-1-20

1 comment:

Werner said...

Another fine job! This is a very nice piece and is above the norm.