Meng Cougar MRAP.

[outrunner]

You’d be surprised how much you can see if you leave all the hatches open. Light coming from the other side (like through cab windows or an open front hatch) will allow you to see a lot more than through just a single hatch.

I will see what it's like before finally fixing the doors, the armoured windows have a blue tint to them so will cut down the light. I do intend to have the top gunners hatch open so that should help, if only it was easy to make the doors open and close.

Andy.

[Steve Jones]

Nice work on the seats Andy. I look forward to seeing the eight crew men all painted up and sat in their different poses

[outrunner]

Nice work on the seats Andy. I look forward to seeing the eight crew men all painted up and sat in their different poses

If only, no, that's not true as I would hate to start painting figures.

Andy.

[scottie3158]

Andy,
lovely work mate. i have never built a Meng kit but it looks good.

[Steve Brodie]

Great kit of the cougar. Remember when it and the panda version came out, meng one came slightly on top, to eide was the main criticism, but dont think anyone is going to stand there going its 1mm to wide. Keep up the cracking work.

[outrunner]

Just a test fit to make sure it will all go together as I am fitting as many parts as I can before painting.


Really enjoying this kit as there are lots of parts to it and they need very little in the way of clean up and they just fit.

Andy

[outrunner]

I wondered if I could have doors that opened and closed on this model as the internals will be very hard to see when built so I had a go to see what I could do. Please bear with me as I am new to this kind of thing.
The parts indicated need to be removed.
Leaving something like this.

The door then needs to be moifield from this.

To this.

I drilled holes in the body and tied the door with very thin wire to hold it.

Once the model is painted you will not notice the wire (I hope)
Eh voila, a door that opens and closes.

The rear doors however will be a nightmare to do so I will perhaps just leave it at that. I know some of you experts out there will have some better ideas, but this was the best I could come up with at the moment.

Andy.

[Fernando N]

Nice work Andy and a neat hinge system for keeping the door movable :thumb2: .

I have built this one too and can say that with all doors open the interior is very visible.

[Guest]

Nice way to get them to hinge. Not entirely accurate, but few people are going to notice, are they? To be honest I thought you were going to glue a bit of tube on the hull sides whee you cut away the plastic and make a pin to go through that for the doors.

[outrunner]

Nice way to get them to hinge. Not entirely accurate, but few people are going to notice, are they? To be honest I thought you were going to glue a bit of tube on the hull sides whee you cut away the plastic and make a pin to go through that for the doors.

Not really enough material to work with for that method and I am not that worried about accuracy.

Andy.

[outrunner]

I think it is time for some paint before I start assembly.

It has been an interesting kit to build and my first Meng kit but it will not be my last. The quality and finish of parts is really good, only complaint so far is that there are 2 missing internal door handles. I have checked the sprues and the numbers do not add up so this must be a production mistake, no matter as no one will see anyway.

Andy.

[outrunner]

Well, that will learn me to look at an instruction sheet properly. I assumed the internal rear door handles were the same as the outers but having had another look they are not. To be fair, the instruction pictures could be clearer, but I will own up to my mistake and not blame the kit maker.

Andy.

[outrunner]

Today I have mostly been......................fixing a stupid mistake I made. There are 2 options with this vehicle and I decided to build option 2 with the spare wheels in place. Obviously when building the top and bottom halves separately I got it wrong, this was only spotted when I stuck the two parts together.If you look at this picture you will see what I mean.

Some clown built and fitted the large tanks leaving no space for the spare wheel. A lot of time was spent removing the tanks without damaging anything else so lesson learned.............pay attention to what you are doing, I am off now to stand in the corner for an hour as punishment for my sins.

Andy.

[Allen Dewire]

Top work so far Andy!!! We all miss things in the destructions because it is our lot in life with this hobby. Trust me, an hour in the corner helps for about 10 minutes Sir!!! Then you turn the page and start on the next assembly. Oops, there comes the next one...…………...Have fun!!!

Prost
Allen

[scottie3158]

Andy,
Nice work all coming together nicely.