ICM W.O.T.6

[FullArmor]

Finished. Fun build. All kinds of feedback are welcome🙂

[DocRob]

I love the result FA, and like always your signature weathering approach. I don´t think that your finished builds look too dark. If you want, you can always lighten them up a tiny bit wit a matt varnish sprayed on wit a bit of sand or light grey color mixed in, but judging from the pics, I wouldn´t do so.
The load under the oily? tarp, well, I´m with PW here, but at least, this kind of load should be secured with ropes. I wouldn´t like to have the heavy crate slipping onto the equally unsecured mines.

Cheers Rob 

[FullArmor]

1 hour ago, DocRob said:

I love the result FA, and like always your signature weathering approach. I don´t think that your finished builds look too dark. If you want, you can always lighten them up a tiny bit wit a matt varnish sprayed on wit a bit of sand or light grey color mixed in, but judging from the pics, I wouldn´t do so.
The load under the oily? tarp, well, I´m with PW here, but at least, this kind of load should be secured with ropes. I wouldn´t like to have the heavy crate slipping onto the equally unsecured mines.

Cheers Rob 

Thanks for the feedback Rob.

I'm trying to figure out if I can somehow incorporate ropes into the build. It would have been easier to add hooks before painting. Now it's harder to add them. 

[FullArmor]

On 8/25/2025 at 1:27 PM, DocRob said:

I love the result FA, and like always your signature weathering approach. I don´t think that your finished builds look too dark. If you want, you can always lighten them up a tiny bit wit a matt varnish sprayed on wit a bit of sand or light grey color mixed in, but judging from the pics, I wouldn´t do so.
The load under the oily? tarp, well, I´m with PW here, but at least, this kind of load should be secured with ropes. I wouldn´t like to have the heavy crate slipping onto the equally unsecured mines.

Cheers Rob 

Any better?

[DocRob]

17 hours ago, FullArmor said:

Any better?

 

Well, to be honest, not so much. How would these ropes hinder the load to move while going up- or downhill. I may have tried to use U-formed brass wire buckles on the loading platform, with the tips of the U drilled into the plastic and would have made belt like straps from Kabuki tape, but I can see, it´s difficult to apply now.

[FullArmor]

52 minutes ago, DocRob said:

Well, to be honest, not so much. How would these ropes hinder the load to move while going up- or downhill. I may have tried to use U-formed brass wire buckles on the loading platform, with the tips of the U drilled into the plastic and would have made belt like straps from Kabuki tape, but I can see, it´s difficult to apply now.

Yes. It may be that the real vehicle does not have these. Or they have been implemented in a different way. So you can choose whether you want historical accuracy or how the end result looks on the outside. The choice is always a compromise.

[FullArmor]

1 hour ago, DocRob said:

Well, to be honest, not so much. How would these ropes hinder the load to move while going up- or downhill. I may have tried to use U-formed brass wire buckles on the loading platform, with the tips of the U drilled into the plastic and would have made belt like straps from Kabuki tape, but I can see, it´s difficult to apply now.

I'll try to make hook mounts on the inside if possible. I agree. The current ones don't look very realistic.

[FullArmor]

I changed back to the brown tarp. I added hooks on the inside. Maybe not the best solution, but reasonable for this situation. It's hard to make modifications like this at the end of the build.