When I first heard that Tamiya were doing a 1:35 Gama Goat, I have to admit, I said "what?" This speaks more to my ignorance of the subject than anything else, but it also highlights that Tamiya was about to give us a model that had yet to be done with modern tooling and engineering. In the early 1960s, the US started the process (Project Agile) of finding a replacement to their trucks that were currently in service. What came out of that was dubbed the M561 Gama Goat. The Goat was a two-module design with an articulation joint which provided a unique level of flexibility but because power was also provided to the rear end through that joint, the truck became six-wheel drive. The first and only real action the Goat saw was in 1983 during the invasion of Grenada. With the development of the HMMWV, the Goat was phased out by the early 1990s. On to the kit. When you open the box, you are presented with a total of only live sprues of plastic and one of them is clear. I was amazed that what appeared to me as a somewhat complex subject, Tamiya have captured in only four major sprues. The instructions are typical Tamiya, clear and easy to follow.
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