It begins with the driving module and is divided into 48 steps in all. The module is made of five main parts: two sides, the floor, the front plate and the vertical wall. The assembly is easy. Steps 3 and 4 are dedicated to the driver compartment.

The bulk of the job comes with step 5 and the suspension. You need to clean the molding lines which are sometimes large as on the spring absorbers. From step 10, be careful of the part numbers as Revell made a number of mistakes in the instructions. At steps 10 and 11, reverse parts B8 and B9. At steps 12 and 15, reverse parts C17 and C18. At steps 13 and 16, reverse parts B6 and B7.

At step 18, paint the headlights before gluing the protection glass. Revell molded the headlights falt whereas they should be semi-spherical. They could be replaced by some SKP lenses.

At step 20, the exhaust rubber flaps are issued as a thick vinyl part. They could be redone in thinner plastic card.
Likewise the rear mud flaps are the same too thick vinyl. Revell proposes to fold them  (as on the actual vehicle) but this only would give a non realistic thickness.
If you don't intend to use the towing hooks, you need to drill out the towing eyes at steps 24 and 25.

Step 36 is the last concerning the driving module and is dedicated to the wheels assembly and the various mirrors supports. Personally, I decided to use Djiti wheels which are finer but to keep them until the weathering is done. Concerning the mirrors, I only used the rear view mirrors as seen on many Afghanistan pictures. They are glued only after the painting is complete.

The mission module assembly starts with the RWS. It is extremely simplified detail wise and is not accurate. I replaced it by the Live Resin reference (see the review here). Revell gives the two possible weapons, 40 mm AGL and 0.50 HMG.
At step 43, build the module with the floor, the both sides and the front and rear walls. The roof is to be glued at the following step. Before this, you need to redo and add some details. I started with the vision blocks whose glasses are raised. They are cut away with a fine saw and the glasses are removed and replaced by plastic cards rectangles. The brackets for the towing cables are removed and replaced by the PE parts of the Eureka set. The base of the FLW 200 is removed as well. A conduit for a jammer antenna is added. Before, you have to sand away the antislip patches under the conduit. The hatches hinges are detailed with a handle and two small plastic card rectangles. The vehicle commander hatch is the only one molded separately and thus it can be shown open. The rear view camera is detailed with two slices of 2 mm tube depicting the lenses.

At step 45, the towing bar box is detailed with the latches on its top and the hinge plates on the rear side. At step 46, you need to carve the lid lines of the left bin. It also applies to the right bin at step 47. Then you have to add the antislip patches on the top of the bins that Revell omitted. The antennas will be added only when the painting is complete. The radio antenna base is replaced by a Djiti resin base.

Djiti wheels require some cleaning on the tread. Some of the mounting holes are filled with resin flash. A mill is used to clean the holes. Djiti designed the wheels with different locations for the Michelin markings. To reinforce the unique look of each wheel, the hub covers are glued in different positions.

The painting

Revell proposes two German camouflage schemes (a NATO three tone one and a Afghanistan three tone one) and decals for 4 vehicles. Unfortunately options 49 and 50 are only good for a Boxer A0. The 38 MLC disc is not correct for a Boxer A1 and should sport 42.
The good point is that Revell gives blank plates and generic numbers which allows to make your own plates.

The chosen scheme is the desert three tone one for a vehicle deployed in Afghanistan in 2011. The unit is not given by Revell but at this time only the 292 Jägerbatallion were equipped with the Boxer. The paints used come fro mthe Vallejo Umtarnfarben German ISAF color set. First you have to convert the Revell denomination into the RAL references. Thanks to the Tankograd volume dedicated to the Boxer, I managed the find the right combination. The base shade (Afrikabraun L for Revell) is RAL 8031 Sandbraun. The Revell shades Beige (M) and Khakibraun+Hellgrau (N) are in fact RAL 1040 Graubeige and RAL 7050 Tarngrau.

The base shade is airbrushed then the two other shades are brush painted because of a dilution issue. A AK wash is applied in the recesses then some dust is created by spraying some Mig pigments (Gulf war sand) diluted with alcohol. The running gear and the lower hull get some mud made of various pigments sprinkled over some mat varnish.
The air recognition panel decal is applied over a bit of tin foil to give more thickness.

Conclusion

As often Revell is the only manufacturer to produce modern German vehicles. Unfortunately, they are sometimes simplified and this Boxer is not exempt from this rule. With some efforts and a couple of aftermarket references, it still is possible to get a model  which reflects the actual vehicle.

I would like to thank Hans-Hermann Bülhing for his help during this project.

Reference :
Tankograd Militärfahrzeug Spezial n°5039