UNIMOG

I went to the hobby store today to get some spray paints for my current model I'm working on, a "Spapanzer" 234/4. It's basically an eight wheel drive, eight wheel steering armored car from Germany during WWII, being produced in 1944. It's an interesting model because it has an open fighting compartment, like many other tank hunters or self-propelled artillery pieces from Germany in that era. That means a lot of interior detail.

Anyhow, I was getting some primer red for the interior and some dark yellow for the camo-base exterior and I saw a Revell model kit of a UNIMOG U1300 L. This is a very cool vehicle built by Mercedes for the modern German Federal Army. This particular model is from 1978. I just had to buy it. It looks like this:


It's a neat vehicle and I'd love to have one some day for... um... well, I'm sure it would be useful for something (aside from being fun to drive). There's this company in Germany that turns them into all-terrain motor homes and they are simply amazing! Here's a great example, although it's a U1550, a slightly different, newer model:


Since a custom all-terrain motor home is a bit out of my budget and I basically have no need for one, I think I'm going to scratch build this model into a miniature motor home. I might even take a sort of post-apocalyptic twist on it and go a little nuts. More to come....