Erhan: Great to see you on board!

Thank you Jeremy, pleasure for me . Everyone is doing very good work.

A little progress after I have finished cleaning all( read- most of) the flash off.









Had a few minor issuses mainly with the kit's instructions they are almost as bad a the amount od flash present! This mainly concerns placement of the bench in the rear, finaly worked it out late last night after pretty much looking at every picture on the box. Still I had to fabricate a new radiator cap as my cat lost it while he was trying to 'help' me work yesterday.

Paul

Gadzooks and Hot Marimba! It appears there was one of these from the early RNAS series (before Nov. 1914) that had a 40mm Vickers Pompom gun without a covered turret. It just had the gun shield surrounding the machine gun barrel jacket.

Hello everyone,

completed on Sunday. Only 23 pieces

Paul: Keep it up!

Stephen: Wow, the things we don't do for fun! What are you going to do?

Erhan: That went together fast, the tracks went together really nice!

Ok, I will need to scratch build a Vickers MG to resemble a 40mm Pompom. . .To equal the size I need a regular Vickers pattern in 1:16 to look like a 40mm in 1:35 . . .Arrgghhhh!

Maybe for the next project. . .

Wow, I think this face is appropriate!

Nice work guys, still watching all the builds with interest.

Having issues posting to the gallery, but will get those sorted soon.

Si

Shots of the nearly finished chassis




The bonnet and crew compartment

These proof shots are for the 1920 pattern armoured car but I used it in this build too.


This was my first atttempt on the 1920 version.



Rear compartment


Turret and top plate.

Almost done. Next, lenses for the headlights / lamps and markings.

Hi Stephen,

Excellent work, coming along a treat.

Al

That's really starting to look good Stephen.

I'll third that sentiment, that's going to be a joy to weather!

Everyone is having trouble posting to the Kitmaker Gallery. This would be a good time to look into other photo sites like Photobucket, Flikr, or Picasa.

Ok, the RNAS Insigne start with toolers aluminum (Railroad hobby store)is thicker than aluminum foil.

I will call this build done. I still may put this into a diorama in the near future.








Here is my 1920 pattern Rolls Royce armoured car next to the 1914 pattern Rolls Royce armoured car I just did.

Great Build Stephen, now I am enspired to add one of those to my stash.

Si

Congrats on finishing Stephen! I wondered if you were going to leave the tires in natural rubber, and the flag looks outstanding! Those decals on the rear of the bed layed down really nicely as well! I'm not worried about it for the campaign, but make sure you touch up those rear tires before you place it on display

Hi All
It's been a while. Waiting for the Kitmaker Gallery to get sorted out. I finally finished my model of Captain Claud H. Williams' Model T Ford Light Patrol Car, and here are a few pix. As with my earlier model of the Australian Light Patrol Car, the model is posed atop a Model T Ford spark coil, except in the last photo.

Right front quarter view showing the condenser for the radiator and ignition wiring.

Left side view. I thought Captain Williams needed more than his Webley service revolver out in the desert so I added an SMLE and scabbard. The rifle is from a sprue with accessories for an Airfix WWII support group and I modified it to more closely resemble the WWI pattern. The scabbard was formed from wet paper stiffened with diluted white glue. Photos of Ralph Bagnold's expeditions into the Libyan desert show rifle scabbards mounted similarly on his vehicles.
The radiator hose on the left side of the engine was formed from solder.
The Captain's pipe was the biggest challenge of the whole build. Drilling that half millimeter hole under his mustache was really tricky. The pipe is a bent piece of copper wire dipped repeatedly in CA glue until the drop was the proper size for a pipe bowl, then dipped in paint. The first one I made was better, but fell out and vanished into the black hole which hovers two inches above my work table.

Right side view showing the side tank and spare tire mount. The cable hanging down under the chassis runs from the speedometer drive sprocket on the right front wheel to the speedometer on the dashboard.
I followed Jeremy's suggestion and tried to make the tank look like aluminum. The leather straps holding the tank and the spare tire were cut from foil from the neck of a wine bottle. Ah, the sacrifices one must make to obtain materials with which to work!

View from above. I put a few items in the back I thought Captain Williams would find useful during his desert forays: a 2 gallon "flimsy," a tow rope, and a shovel. The .303 round was added for scale.
Comments and Criticism are welcome.
Cheers,
Dick

Great Dick! You did a nice job on that conversion, especially finding an appropriate figure to use as a driver for that scale. The display base is a completes it

Don't worry about the gallery, just post your final images here as you did. This goes for everyone

I was thinking about a diorama and then the tires will get a real going over dirt & maybe a generous dollop of mud. Doing a bit more research on that at the moment.

Stephen: your Rolls looks great, just needs a little dust and/or mud.

Jeremy: Thanks for the kind words. The driver's figure is a man of many parts, assembled from five different figures. The lower half came from an Italeri GI jeep driver after grinding off the leggings and filling out with putty. The torso is from a MiniArt British jeep crew, as is the head and officer's cap (from a different figure of the same crew. One arm is from the Italeri figure who contributed the legs, the other from a Heller jeep driver. The hard part was squeezing Captain Willims in behind the wheel without breaking it off.
Cheers

Dick

Great work on the Model T Dick, love the character in the figure, pipe and all. Impressive.

Si