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Building and weathering a 1/35 scale Tamiya Humvee

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While surfing the Internet, I found a series of great shots of an engineer Humvee. The vehicle was based at Camp Warhorse in Iraq and was hit by a rocketpropelled grenade that failed to explode. The Hummer in those photos was just begging to be modeled, so I set out to duplicate it in miniature. It wasn’t fancy – just an
open-topped pickup version of the M998. The weathering, though, made the vehicle.

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