UAT front featured remote-control phaser cannon turret, its guns from 1.48th Monogram Me-262 German Jet kit, periscope details from 1.35th Tamiya M1 Tank Accessories kit. Bottom cable wrapped around tow hooks made from model ship rope. With no interior details to showcase, driver windshield painted black.

Inset 1 : Top UAT view, weapons turret 360-degree rotation, added ballistic deflection fins, armor search light and Hoffmann device (smoke dischargers) clamped to right cannon. Muffler pipes on rood center from 1.35 Tamiya Horch command car.

APC 4-wheel design is effective for hard-surface or level terrain, but not conducive for rugged off-road navigation. Wheel traction tends to slip when vehicle gets hung up in mid-section. Schwerer Panzerspähwagen - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Panzerspähwagen

In 1930s, various nations designed multi-rad armor cars. WW2 German introduced SdKfz 232 6-rad armor car, but vehicle traction and hung-ups continued. Panzerspähwagen (6-Rad) SdKfz 231 - www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/armored-cars/sdkfz231-6-rad.asp

They upgraded to Sdkfz 232 8-rad armor car, which improved off-road navigation. By late WW2 stage, larger SdKfz 234 8-rad armor car was introduced. German used their armor cars for advance battlefield recon (some 50 to 70 miles ahead of main column). Schwere Panzerspähwagen (SdKfz 231) 8 rad - www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/armored-cars/sdkfz231-8-rad.asp

But combat experience in Ostfront (Eastern Front against the Soviets) where main highways were nothing more than dirt roads (which became mud morass in Autumn raining season and Spring thaw periods) convinced Germans to seek alternatives. By 1944, Germans replaced SdKfz 234 8-rad armor car with fully track Panzer II Luchs light tank to fully transverse all terrain. Nevertheless, postwar Germans continued their tradition of 8-rad armor cars via production of Spahpanzer 2 Luchs deployed to 1990s Balkan peace-keeping duties and early-2000 NATO mission in Afghanistan. It's also depicted in online FPS game Battlefield 2 as part of Middle-East Coalition (MEC) force. Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf L, Luchs ("Lynx") - www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/tanks-light/pzkpfw-ii-luchs.asp

• Spähpanzer 2 Prototype Walk Around - http://www.primeportal.net/apc/ulrich_wrede/spahpanzer_2_prototype/

Rollover : Front UAT view showing rotated turret mounts and large grooved boggie wheels for smooth cross-country navigation. Concept of using large boggie wheels derived from 1930s Italian armor car design, such as Autoblinda AB40, AB41, AB43 series, along with Camionetta 42 Sahariana AS 42 and Autoblinda Lince. At that time, Italians possessed extensive colonial possessions in North Africa and Ethiopia, its flat desert terrain highly influenced Italian design. BTW, Italian word "Autoblinda" means "Auto Armor" or "Auto Blinder". In American English, "blinder" usually refers to window blinders, but word was derived from old European vocabulary which meant a protective cover or layering, hence retained its meaning as armor. Italian Armor Cars - mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Italy/ItalianArmoredCars.html

Inset 2 : Metal washers used as level rotation base for both turret gun mounts, weapons stations could be readily removed for model packaging and transport.