Hi all,

just finished this one, another Accurate Armour kit, took me the best part of four days this time, despite this one having the 'old' white metal chassis. Painted with Vallejo and Tamiya, and very lightly weathered with Mig 'Iraq Sand' powder.
The decals are very good, and went on without any help of softeners etc.













Cheers
Henk

Good work Henk, the British DPM is not the easiest to replicate in miniture and the vehicle looks well finished. I can see why the missiles took so long now.

Very nice looking build , nicely weathered What is it ? A Land Rover with teeth? You really did a nice job , thanks for sharing Bob

Very attractive! The desert color's painting is quite difficult, the only shortcoming is the apron a little distorts, thanks for sharing

Looking good Henk

you are a serious sucker for these ain't you

cheers

Keith

Hi Henk
Very nice looking landy indeed. My only concern is the yellow fuel cap. I would have thought that this would have been painted as well as the desert colour would have been applied to pretty much the whole vehicle that was accessible and not removed, plus bright yellow may be slightly conspicuous.
However, please don't let this detract from the landy as as I said it does look awesome, and..... you built it in four days!!!!, very impressive considering it was the old metal chassis!! (It took me atleast double that time to build their newer 'Op Telic' landy with a resin chassis!!!!) Thanks for showing this great model. Nick

That's a cracking build Henk. Superb job on the Milan and the DPM cam.

Hi Nick,

The reason for the yellow fuel cap (at least in my day) was to differentiate between Petrol and Diesel. IIRC it was yellow for Diesel and red for Petrol, fuel cans were painted the same… Or it might have been the other way round…

It WAS a long time ago.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments. I'm glad you like it.



:D these kits are not without their little 'challenges', but they are ever so nice. And they are something different, and unique. Typically British, the chassis is 51 years old, and still in production today... why change it etc etc...

Nick, Murdo,
The fuel caps are indeed coloured to differentiate between Petrol and Diesel. Red is for petrol, and Yellow for diesel. On jerry cans the filler caps are coloured accordingly. Funny thing is that when you build a model for a (non model building) Military vehicle enthusiast, they would not know about seam lines or knock out marks, but they immediately pick up on details like the filler cap... .
It's true that when they paint these vehicles, that the filler cap probably gets painted too, but there are plenty of pics of both coloured, and of painted filler caps. After all, after a few times being opened and closed the paint will start to rub off, a replacement capmay not have been painted etc..
It also adds a little bit of colour and definition to what can be a very monotone scheme.
Glad you like the DPM, I'm getting the hang of it now, with the next build (yep, there's another three in the pipe... ) I'll do a Blog, and I'll include a bit on how I do the DPM camo.

Thats a very good build Henk .

To turn the landrover out in 4 days is very impressive .

Well done and a good effort.

My bad!





Fair point!! Yeh the DPM is actually great.
Nick

I like it a lot - thanks for posting it, this really is one of my favorite LR variants.

One thing which doesn't seem to be included in the AA kit, are the 'No-Smoking' decals which all vehicles are now carrying - I saw them on a Royal Marine LR with W.M.I.K. last summer. Bizarre, but true

The last few days i've been looking at a lot of images of the Jackal with WMIK - i'd imagine AA will be seriously considering one of these.

Really great work!

Great build Henk looks the part.
Nice base to boot.
Must tell how and what you used on that.
So did you ever finish that Tamiya one?

There's a (brief) walkround of the LandRover XD Wolf (TUM) with WMIK here:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/396

I'm hoping to expand on it this summer...

Thanks Michael, Jeff,

The base is simplicity itself. My local hardware store sells these little 'novelty' chopping/cheese boards. They are the perfect size for a small vehicle... Add a thin layer of suitable sand (chinchilla sand from the pet shop is good, but in this instance I used some senic sand from Games Workshop I had left over... ) over PVA glue. And Robert is your mothers' brother...



Jim, I'll be PM'ing you regarding that later today.

This looks great, and in 4 days!

Now I just wish I could convert some of my landrovers at work to this spec!

James

Very nice! Would like to do a LR myself too... The weathering is beautiful.