Ola People

With the Market garden campaign starting next year I thought I would do good and do some study about the Arnhem region. Bought a book and on one of teh first pages there were two pics of an Airborne Jeep towing a german 37 mm Cannon and three germans walking around it. I liked the scene and thought what the heck I`m going to built it.
Now as base for the Airborne Jeep I bought the Tamyia Jeep Quite a decent kit with nice detail. For the Extra detail I bought the Eduard PE set and the rest of the Jeep would be Scratchbuilt.

Here is the Progress so far:

First of all things I looked at the internet what the differences were. And actually a lot of things are changed on it to let it better and easier fit in te horsa glider.
One of the things were the footboards on both driver and passenger sides wich were removed for better fit in the Horsa.




Other thing that was cut off were the two ring like thingies at the back


And the Front bumper was narrowed on the Airborne jeep



Radiator Back with eduard PE

Radiator Front With eduard PE


On the Airborne Jeeps the smaller lights that are normally found under the main lights are replaced and stand on the fenders I cut them off.............

and added them on the fenders


The airborne jeep also had a detachable steering wheel so loading them into the gliders went more easy too.. because of this mod there was no room for the Carhorn so this got placed at the dashboard next to the blackout switch (will have pics of that later.)
here is a view of the detachable part of the steering wheel scratchbuilt with several pieces of Stretched sprue


Picture of the motor with the Eduard photoetch


As the Airborne Jeeps often had to drive for a long time without ressuplying they usually had more jerrycans of gazoline with them usually three wich were stired inside the jeep (not on the outside again for loading them easier in the horsa) The Jerrycans were located two behind the driver and one in between. Sadly enough there came only one jerrycan holder in the Eduard set so I had to scratchbuilt two and I used the Eduard one as master. The Copies were made of aluminum Meat tray


Now this was the first progress so far let me know what you think of it More will follow soon

Aww man. I was all excited about an airborne jeep. Looks pretty good, though, even if it doesn't fly.

excellent work Faust
I 'll see forward the next post
regards

Looking good Robert !!

You sure throw in a fast start...... did you start building on your way home from the event

Just kiddin'

Keep us posted.

Robert very nice job so far. The only one thing is about the fuel tanks "supports" that I think are made from aluminium foil and, due to the material you used, they do not look great as the rest of the mods you've done. Did you consider to use copper foil instead? In my view you can achieve much more consistent results with it...
Ciao

Rob. Looks real good. If you want a couple more PE Jerry can holders PM me with your snail mail and I will send them to you.

Faust,

This is a very interesting subject and the work so far looks very good. Please keep us updated with the 'storyboard' as the kit develops. Very nice indeed!

Lee

Looking very good so far. I am utterly impressed with your ability to discuss a project one day and have the first progress pics up 24 hours later. The really frustrating bit is still to come if you want to put the fold-up storage rack (or pannier carrier) on the back. I am still trying to figure out away of building the wickerwork pannier. Unless of course someone does one in resin....Jim

Ola People

first of all I like to thank everybody for their comments and it is a real encouragement to go on with this project.

Fabio
Indeed the copied jerrycan holders are not as good as the master but that will be solved soon I hope

Cliff
Thanks for the offer and I already send you a PM

Jim
The scene I am doing shows an airborne Jeep towing a 37 mm Pak. Strangely enough the Jeep is stripped as an Airborne Jeep but it shows no sign of the Rack on the back nor on the Hood of the vehicle. Therefor I will not built them. Also the whole back of the vehicle is empty and no signs of a sparewheel holder. Only the lights and some small tie downs are added. The jeep carries 3 spare wheels in the back an there is some sort of a big jerrycan or oiltank visible.

Jim, Resicast does a conversion for the pannier jeep intended for the Tamiya kit. It's listed as #35157 on their site. They may also do the panniers as a seperate item.

Looks SUPERB so far. I can't wait to see the finished project!

Geoff, thanks for the mention of the Resicast kit. I had already looked at them but then when I realised the price....30+euros plus postage, I decided to do a bit of research and consider the viability of scratchbuilding. They also do the airborne trailer which is equally expensive. Thanks to Robert's work, I got two superb links onto the airborne jeep (after an abortive cry for help here on Armorama). Thanks anyway....Jim

hi looking good , a few other items needed are shovel gs tied to front bumper and spare wheel tied to front of radiator and sitting in what is left of bumper , , rifle clips on top of the area where the windscreen was removed , black out light cover and bridging disc over passenger head light , . they left front hoops on the side of the passenger area for the tilt frame on , but removed the tilt and canvas . , all details taken from iwm photo h 37694 cheers iann

Ian

Thanks for the reply

First of all I like to show you the pics of the scene I`m building.
#1

As shown on the pic here is a Jeep towing a 37 mm gun.
1. As you already pointed out they left the tilt hoop is still visible on the side
2. On the place where the driver sits there is some sort of clips visible. These can be either for a tool (shovel/pickaxe though this wasn`t used much (read that on the internet)
Indeed as you say this would be more a clip for holding a gun meaning that on the Side where normally the windscreen would be attached to the vehicle must be a clip too.
3. Shows a hint of a rack on the hood of the car. or maybe it is even a windscreen but it`s not too good visible.

#2

As you can see on this pic the whole rear of the vehicle is empty... No spare wheel holder, no jerrycan holder, no round thingies on the back bumper and no Rack on the back. Instead of that it carries 3 sparewheels (pressumably all jeep wheels looking at the profile) and some sort of big oil can.

Another question I have is how did they attach the Sparewheel on the front. Did they simply put it between the Bumper and the grill or did they really tied it down to the grill too?? I know how they did attach the Tools on the front bumper just curious how they did it on the sparewheel.
The Black out cover for the drivers lamp will be cut off the normal blackoutlamp wich is not on the Airborne jeep

These are my questions so far again thanks for all the kind words and this is really a big boost for me to go on in this project

Hi guys been reading this one with interest may try it myself.I was rummaging through some old copies of Military Modelling March 2002 Steve Zaloga has a air borne conversion article some very good photo's.Robert that is a rack on the hood its flat, on the model he has extra stowage so you can only see the outer frame, those windshield clips, he has a .303 on one side and a Bren on the other, the spare wheel looks like its attatched the same way as they attatch them on the glasis of the sherman but instead of a bolt head its a flat plate. Hope this helps. :-)

Easy co

Thanks for your reply

If that`s a rack on teh hood then I have to scratch build some more but hey that`s what this project was all about for me. I will not add weapons as they are also not visible in the Pics.
And thanks for Pointing out how the Spare wheel is attached. Though i like the looks of a spare wheel on the front of the vehicle I`m still unsure If I going to put one there.. It`s not in the pics so I have a little artistic license there and while there are three laying in the back of the vehicle it seems a bit overdone by me.

But sure thanks for your help