The M548A1 Cargo Carrier was designed for the US Army in the 60's using the basic components of the M113 tracked armoured personal carrier. M548's engine and crew compartment are at the front of the vehicle and the cab roof around the body can be removed for air transport. If required, an M66 ring mount for an anti-aircraft machine gun could be mounted over the top of the cab.

The M548A1 is still in service in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom and the United States, amongst others.

Just like any other AFV Club kit, this one is a very nice injection moulded plastic kit and, one thing is for sure, is the only 1/35th scale M548A1 kit in the market.

AFV normally offers "good quality-medium price" kits, and this is no exception. You can build it straigth-from-the-box and it still look very nice. The pieces fit just fine and all you need to do is to follow the simple but correct instruction's sheet that include some pictures of the model for an ease understanding.

The only "weak" point is if you want to build it without the canvas tops, you will have to scratchbuild all the support structures on the driver's cab and cargo box.

The clear plastic windows are a little bit too thick and you should replace them with acetate clear film.

The link-by-link plastic tracks are very nice, but they sure give a lot of work...

Lots of 155mm and 203mm ammunition are provided so you can build a nice diorama with the model.

The decal sheet comes with markings for vehicles representing U.S. Army, British Army, German Army and Australian Army. Painting instructions for this vehicles are also provided in the instruction's sheet.

So, this AFV kit is not for novices, but it is not so complex that only advanced modellers will enjoy it.
And if the advanced modeller wish to detail the model, there is a lot to do...