Cobra Armored Troop Transport

Here's the custom Cobra Armored Troop Transport vehicle that goes with yesterday's post for the custom driver figure. This custom vehicle started out as a tan colored L.A.V. from the BBI line of toys and after I completely stripped it appart and repainted it and added some stickers, this is what it now looks like in the above pics.

Before any paint was applied, I cut out the driver's hatch so the custom driver figure could sit or stand in there and cut the base of th eturret gunners slot out so a 25th Anniversary figure could actually stand in there right. I used flat black spray paint for the entire vehicle and added some flat blue on the ammo boxes, gloss black on the vents, mirrors, ammo boxes and stowage, flat red for the taillights, brown for the stowage and silver for details on stowage, mirrors, etc. The hardest part about getting this vehicle back together after the paint had dried was getting the rubber tires back on over the wheels! That part was not very fun at all but I managed without breaking anything or ruining the new paint job. After everything was put back together, stickers from cobrastickers.com were added for the finishing touch.

Custom Cobra Armored Troop Transport "recipe"

Entire vehicle - USMC L.A.V. (Light Armored Vehicle) (Elite Force 1:18 scale by BBI)

Paints used:

Flat Black Spray Paint

Tamiya X-1 (Gloss Black)

Tamiya XF-1 (Flat Black)

Tamiya XF-7 (Flat Red)

Tamiya X-11 (Chrome Silver)

Tamiya XF-8 (Flat Blue)

Tamiya XF-10 (Flat Brown)