This thread reminds me of a visit I made to the Australian Army's Maintenance Engineering Agency in the early 1990s, when the new ASLAV was being introduced into service. I arranged for a photo shoot to illustrate the article I was writing, and my contact said to come back later in the week after he'd had a chance to put some bogus 'bumps' and aerials on the vehicle.
His comment was that modelling magazines were a low grade source of intelligence, so he was going to drive some foreign int officer mad trying to work out what the Australian Army were installing in their ASLAVs!!
Must take an assortment of nuts, bolts and clevis pins to the next MVPA convention ....
Mike C