Paul,kit is looking good,i see your helper my wife wants to
vacum my room all the time and i tell her noway.

fortunatly for me she's normally at work when I'm not so I am able to find rouge bies before she has a chance to loose them forever!! Which last night was a point in case I found the stupid lug!! not bad I spotted the sub 2mm piece from 6 foot just after sun down by an old 60w light bulb. Not bad as I am short sighted and since I got MS my vision is at best terrible.


Paul

So there will not be much work today as am off to see the olympic torch!! Managed to drop one of the the lugs, but was clever enough ot be over the box lid at the time so did not loose it again! Managed to fit them all with little trouble despite the increadbly tiny size. Have checked the hole I filled yesterday and that seems to be fine now I rubbed it down, but that is all until saturday.

Paul

I feel your pain bud i just raided a second kit to get the rear lights that disappeared in the carpet. believe me these are tiny.

It's nice to know its not just me!!

Paul

Hi all,

the bits of work from the weekend and today.





After a little research I have found that a lot of landys have the front wheelwells and the tunnel that goes over the transmission is painted black, although some it's just the piece over the transmission. I am going to make a little compromise as I am rapidly running out of time! I'll just do the area over transmission!



Front seats undercoated. I did a liitle more research(looked at some pics of interiors on Withams tenders!) and it seems that the rear and front seat colours vary, although it looks like it's probably black that fades to varying shades of grey over the years. So I think I'll pain them a darkish grey shade, possibly with the rears seats getting darker the nearer the front they get.



More bits, the gear sticks, etc and the fuel filler cap all now painted in black.



The third attempt at finishing the rear cage
it's a very hard item to get a real handle on the proper adhesion on it!

To Do:

finish undercoat/basecoat
sort out the mountings for the blue lights
fix in the engine
attach the body to the chasis
clean up the tyres
finish the base
weather


Just a little bit still to do!!

Paul

To update your plan for the seats colours,
On the wolf the front seats are a dark grey and the back seats are satin black or dark grey and mixed sometimes, with the frame work around the seats gloss black. the older 110 landys were satin black flat square seats but changed to the same as fitted to the wolf on the up-grade to Tithonus land rovers.

The black in the front foot ares is a rubber mat in three pieces two in the foot wells and one over the gearbox tunnel under them is still green, I have given a link to Withams sales for info on tithonus.

http://www.mod-sales.com/vehicle/search/35402/Land_Rover_.htm

Hi Frank,

Thanks very much that is what I thought nice to have it confirmed by somebody who actually knows!! And in that case I won't bother to re paint the tunnel over the gearbox and leave it green.

Cherers for the info though.

Paul

A very brief update as I am awaiting a few bits at the moment. I decided to do a little work on the base.



The start of my large flower box. I knocked it together by canibalising a set of tamiya brick walls and some thick ish plasticard strip I had in my collection.



I just need to work out how to fake some soil and then add flowers!!


All for today,

Paul

Just a little update as I am in the boring bit of painting all the sub-assemblies.



The first of the wheels (front sides painted) just got one more front to paint and then the backs. Saying that the castoff wheels were rubbish was wrong once painted they look alright!!



First of the pics showing the base as it stands at the moment. The pavement section is from Great North Roads and has been shortened a little to fit! The flower bed may or may not be used I am still unsure if it's going to fit.



A side view. the wheels are dry fitted as I am still painting them, starting to run out of time as I just ran out of Nato Green until next week.

If anybody is intrested the tyres are hand painted in a custom mix of vajellio black, citadel chaos black and charandon granite. I think it looks about right.





Paul

I did try faking up some soil by using some ready mix filler, adding russian earth pigment, drying it out and the crushing it but the effect was a little less than I wanted so I am going to add a small mound into the flower bed using the same method but with out trying to break it up and just randomly drybrush it in lighter shades. Following that up with using some frederickus rex flowers (red) a great product that I will think will look good once I sort it out.


Paul

Looking good mate.

Well as the land rover campaign begins to draw to a close I am trying to get it finished.



Not a huge amount left to do but as alsways in this country iut seems that the weather may be an issue. Most of the body and other items are base coated and I am just awaiting another break in tyhe weather to get a base coat of Future Klear down for the decals.



Thats all for now but I will post more later if I get a chance.

Paul

Paul your lr looks great,i noticed that the mufferl and tail pipe
are a bit low no your build,is that the way it should be?
anyway a great build.

Thanks to be honest it's not glued in yet as I still am undecided as to whether to fit the engine as tou really can't see it and I am having a few fit issues.

Paul

Paul,all kits have a few fit prblems,i still say your build looks great.

Roy thanks for the encouragement!!

Paul

As I hads a little spare time (yeah right LOL) today I went ahead and bashed through some of the base sectiuon.









All for today.

Paul

can't wait tomorrow !!!

the base you built is real nie ,great work.

Cheers Roy, the base is almost correct for a british road junction had to round up and down a little but I think it looks good. Just a shame I could not seem to get the single yellow line (painted out twice) to adhere so I gave up on it.

Paul

YESTERDAY.....
THE DAY OF DISASTER!!!


It was not a good day. First I tried out the new version of Klear and I, well lets just say it looked terible so I had to soak it overnight in surgical spirit to remove it from the windows.

Then a minor shelf fall took out half my nearly finished work.





A heavy box re-opened the cage which took me more attempts to glue in the fisrt place than I care to remember. But the worst thing was it snapped off both the strobe mounts. I could re-glue with cyanoacrylate but I could just remove the post completely. Not sure right now I think I will attempt to re-glue and see what it looks like.

As I say not a good day, in fact the whole thing nearly ended up in the bin around 9pm lastnight as I had had enough. In the cold light of day I decided that I could save it somehow!! So back on with the work.

Paul

Work yesterday has managed to pull it back from the brink. It's not going to be perfect but hey.

All the decals that I managed to to get wrong yesterday are now on. I just need to finish putting it together then put a dot filter on and hey-presto I'll call it done.

Paul

the start of the new beacon mount, nothing too grand just a bit of suitable tube used to make the base.



Painted up.



front with number plate and other



More later!!

Paul