Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Jamie Tainton » Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:53 pm

This model has been sitting on the shelf for quite some time now, since I bought it probably more that a decade ago, and since I'm doing early armoured cars as I gear up to model the development of the armoured forces of the different nations I may as well do this one.
It is a Dragon rebox (#9003) of the older generation Alan kit and is very basic when compared to the finesse and detail seen in kits of today.
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Jamie Tainton » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:32 pm

here is the instruction sheets and a pdf version you can keep for your files.
http://tinyurl.com/2ubsemz

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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Dario Risso » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:45 pm

I like those russian cars (with balkenkreuze, of course :D )
The only review I know is this: http://www.track-link.net/reviews/k192

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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Jamie Tainton » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:06 pm

Dario Risso wrote:I like those russian cars (with balkenkreuze, of course :D )
The only review I know is this: http://www.track-link.net/reviews/k192

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Nope Dario I think I prefer to do it in the Russian colours. ;-)
I've seen a couple builds of this online and they are not flattering!
I am building mine straight out of the box, and I have to agree some of the parts just don't seem to line up. I approached the fit issues by gluing the side bulkhead parts first to the one piece lower chassis part with the fenders ,an then lined up everything from there. Opps I guess I made some scratch build changes as apparently the back end is not a factual portrayal present by the kit. It would have two pieces of armour that meet at a point -but according to sources it should have a curved back one piece armour plate. I made mine from some Evergreen. And the front armour plate that is in front of the engine just didn't line up so I made some scratch solutions there as well.

Here are a few pics showing the quality of the parts on the sprues, pretty 1990's on technique!
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So this is good ol' fashioned modelling with a lot of test fitting and filling with CA glue and sanding. Here is the basic idea.
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Here is the part leaning up against the scratch built replacement
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby David Madsen » Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:04 pm

Looking forward to your progress. I really like Russian armour and plan to focus my future projects with that nation.
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Jamie Tainton » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:50 pm

Okay I was looking at this one today as I was cleaning up and organizing and I really liked what I saw, it is good to look at work in progress that you haven't seen for awhile, it's like fresh eyes. So I managed to finish it off. There were a few things that were difficult to get in the mood for but I managed to be in the right mind set to take on this one today.
Added the tow hooks and the headlights. Both side doors were glued in place after some careful clean up.
I added the supports to the front for the aerial first once that had set up I glued the one piece plastic antennae part to them and then once that was dry-ish I added the side supports to the side of the armour and the antennae -because I replaced the angled rear bulkhead with some plastic card I sanded the fittings of of it and them used them on the white plastic.
I few things like a few rivets a back vision port and the wire from the antennae to the front hood.
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The chassis is now glued to the body for good. The turret got three vision port flaps and the two boxes on the running board.
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Tim Coulson » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:39 am

Looking good Jamie. thumb6
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Dan Reed » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:58 am

Now that it has a pointed nose, it looks like it will go real fast! :D
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Jamie Tainton » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:22 pm

Dan Reed wrote:Now that it has a pointed nose, it looks like it will go real fast! :D
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Yes this is a very sweet looking design for an armoured car. The reason I used some white Evergreen instead of the kit parts. They just would not fit. I used the hinges from the kit part, carefully sanding from the back of the part till I was on the same plane as the hinges and then just separated from the molecular thin plastic that surrounded the parts, which was thinner than flash. This was done for the rear antenna supports as well/ The doors needed some sanding and dry fitting as well.
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Re: Russian Armoured Car BA-20 ~ Dragon/Alan

Postby Roy Schlicht » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:19 pm

Man that turned out well. I started this kit way back in the day but consigned it to the junk box which I then sold at a model contest. I have the START kit which has the correct rear end. Your solution turned out real nice. Now lets see some paint on that car.

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