Building and improving the M706 Commando Armored Car (V-100) Hobby Boss #82418 1/35 scale English

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Building and improving the M706 Commando Armored Car (V-100) Hobby Boss #82418 - 1/35 scale

by Eduardo Andreoli © Modeler Site

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There are manufacturers that get better with every kit they introduce in the market, and each one is better than its predecessor in quality, detail, fit, etc. Of course, there are exceptions and sometimes a new kit can be worse than the previous one. In my personal thinking, this is what happened with the M706 Commando Armored Car from Hobby Boss (also known as V-100). Though it was released after the M4 Truck, its overall quality was lower. Something that we have to admit is that this company use to surprise us with different models and at reasonable prices.

The kit

The kit comprises 6 sprues with parts plus the upper and lower hulls in light grey plastic besides it includes a small fret of parts in clear plastic featuring the lights, visors…and the winch hook!! I would like to know why the made it in clear plastic.

A short length of chain, 4 tires, 2 etched parts along with decals for the two North American Vietnam versions.
The instructions are clear and come together with a full color sheet where you can see where the decals have to be applied.

The kit supplies just a few parts to detail the interiors, extremely poor and to get a decent result this would have needed much scratch. As that was not my intention, I decided not to pay attention to the interiors and left aside those parts which were put in my spare box.