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mattheww
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Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 05:53 PM UTC
As the first step in making a Vietnam river diorama im mastering an LSSC engine bay to suite the Dragon 1/35 kit.
Here is my progress so far on the Ford 427 engine.

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Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 06:59 PM UTC
Wow, I'm going to follow this one... I know your magic from your previous projects and I can't wait to see what you are up to with LSSC.

Mario
mattheww
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Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:12 PM UTC
Pattern updates. Onto the insides of the engine bay now.











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Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 11:50 PM UTC
Impressive !

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Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 12:24 AM UTC
Stunning work Matthew! Is that cylindrical thing the radar unit? I've never seen what's under the cover of one of those before. Excellent!
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Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 03:44 AM UTC

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Pattern updates. Onto the insides of the engine bay now.



Where did you ever find references for the engine bay bulkheads? Way back when I was looking and even bought some Naval Institute Press titles, but never found anything.
Are you using an old Tamiya M113 gas engine as a base to work from?

I've already built one, but have a spare in the stash. This might bring it out of storage.
Mike
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mattheww
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Posted: Friday, November 06, 2015 - 07:12 AM UTC
Been a while since my last post but the LSSC parts are now complete. Painting it all up now.







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Posted: Friday, November 06, 2015 - 06:52 PM UTC
Sometimes time will get the better of us!! Nice to see this get to the booth!! Fantastic job btw!! Love the detail you pulled out of it!!
mattheww
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2016 - 05:38 PM UTC
Hi all, I've recently been posting updates to this build on the Armorama Dioramas forum. Check it out it's coming together nicely.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/244895#2066871

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