Hi:
Here's my SAS Pink Panther model. I've bult it as a vehicle 'possibly' used in Yemen during the uprising which led to the British eventually leaving the protectorate. I'm not 100% sur if this is historically accurate, but I spent some time in Aden working with a Canadian oil company in 1993 and I swore I saw an old, beatup pinkie in a scrap yard behind the airport. Anyway, I added some scratchbuilt details and some Tamiya stuff from their sdetail sets. Let me know what you think.....

Bob

I cannot comment on the accuracy but I can on the workmanship.

This is a supurb model mate. I love the stowage and the way you have done the finishing and weathering. The latter being very subtle and not overdone.

Good work
Cliff

Very Nice! esp the tires and gear... a good clean build.

beautiful looking model you've got there weathering is well done!
-shain!

Hi There,

Just surfing the site I usually post in figures but I must say I like that model.

Cheers

Ray

Nice job. I like it.

What did you do on the seat covers? Tissue paper cover?

They're the kit seats. I painted them a red-brown base for the leather color and then a dark gray and a darker brown wash. I then brushed thinned black into the creases (I carved a few new ones myself with needle files) and around the edges to deepen the shadow effect. The last touch was drybrushing with tamiya buff and brushing on tan pastel chalk powder (white and brown chalks mixed) and pink pastel chalk powder. I love that stuff, it's great for highlighting and weathering. All my dust effects on all my models are done with pastel chalk powder.

This is one beautiful machine. Congrats.
I like everything about it.
Keep it up.

DIrk

That looks great!! I have one I would like to do as well but the color has always intimidated me. What is the proper mix or, better yet, is there a color "out of the bottle" that would work?

I mixed my own from Tamiya paints. I found various images on the web ranging from artist's drawings to paint swatch examples (your computer monitor may vary these a lot) to photos of restored pinkies with various shades ranging from a pinkish tan to a dusty rose color to a bright pink. The LRDG website (I'll find the address later) had a desert pink swatch that looked to me to be more acceptable. I mixed white with a bit of red and some buff to get the shade I wanted. I can't remeber the exact ratios but it was mostly white with a half-dozen drops of the other colors. I just came up with something I thought looked right for the base color and brushed it on. I used small patches of lighter or darker shades for spots where the troop may have touched up the paint.

The finish is excellent. I really like the cargo. The tarps and canvas bags look very realistic. The overall finish is top notch. You have a winner on your hand.

Very, very nice. The tarps, seats and bergens are superbly painted and weathered. The tyres and even the shovel are great too.

Where are the headlamps from?

Nice clean build.....Bob...
looking really nice.

The headlamps are the kit supplied ones. I worked a patch of ultra-bright bare metal foil into the inside of the headlamp. If you're careful and work slowly with a cotton bud, you can get the foil to conform to the shape. Trim the excess away with a very sharp blade and attach the clear lens with a couple of dots of white glue. The effect is very realistic and the effect varies when viewed from different angles 'cause the foil catches the light just like the real reflectors would. This is the first kit on which I've tried this technique and it worked!. I usually just paint the inside silver 'cause I don't have a local source for MV lenses or anything of the like. I use this method on all my headlamps now. It works vey well. Next time I'm going to try and add a little piece of clear sprue inside as well to try and simulate the bulb.
Thanks:
Bob

Nice, Nice!!!
what are those pink/black things in the front and in the back???

Thanks, KOMET

I think the "pink-black thingies" are the smoke canisters.
Now,
Good looking model!
I can't find fault through my eyes, nice!
Is this an OOB ? I have this model in my stash, and wonder if this is a (VERY) good example of what I have downstairs.

Cuhail

Hi;
The kit's basically OOB - sort of..... The platform at the back needed work. I scrapped the kit piece and made an evergreen angle-iron frame, glued on some cedar strips from the inside of an old a cigar box, added some scale chains and stuck the stowage on. The water cans are modified jerry cans, the wooden box is made from wood strips (the nail holes are a fine felt tip pen that give the impression of nail heads). The rest of the stowage is a mix of stuff from the kit and items from Tamiya details sets. I scratchbuilt an extra radio set and put it between the seats with the kit radio, added some knobs and a handset with a coiled sprue cable and added stretch sprue antennas. I scratchbuilt a Carl Gustav rocket launcher and set it behind the front passenger seat next to the kit supplied fire bottle. I added a short length of wire to the sun compass for the sun-dial thingy. There's two tarps made from rolled up tissue paper and white glue...one on the hood closest to the windshield and the other one painted pink attached to the tailgate. The other tarps and bags are from the detail sets.

The small 'beer cans' on the bront and rear are indeed smoke grenade launchers. They should have very fine chains attaching the rubber lids (the black cap ends) to each barrel but I haven't found something for those yet. Except for the 'Charlie G" launcher, the rest of the weapons are stock from the kit including the butts of the FN SLR's wrapped up in the metal and canvas gaiters on the front fenders.
Thanks:
Bob

On the rear right corner of the hood, where the windscreen post would sit, there is a square, solid post sticking up. What is that?

Cuhail

As the builder I should know the answer, but I have to admit....I don't. My guess is that it's a stand or support for a telescope, spotting scope or somthing like that. If the vehicle isn't running and there's no vibration from the engine, I t would make a good observation station for a trooper to stand up in the vehicle (it seems to be the right height) and rest a pair of binoculars or a sniper rifle or a scope of some kind on it. From that height, one could see a fair distance further than simply standing on the groung. Just a guess...... anybody?

Maybe, and this is just a guess, it was a wire stopper/cutter to protect the driver from decapitation.

Very clean and crisp build Bob,well done.Brings back a flood of memories when I did one.

How very odd, I would of thought that a blade shaped object would work better for wire protection, not solid square stock.
It's a noodle scratcher for sure. :-)

Cuhail

Murphy, I got to looking at my directions of that same model, and to what it looks like is for the mirror to slide up on, you noticed how the mirror is attached to it, and that is the only piece that is attached to it.

It is #85 on sprue C, of course it doesn't slide, but I imagine that is what they intended, why I have no idea. Also there is plenty of room in between the post and the mirror to lay the barrel of a rifle down on. Who knows?

Wouldn't it be nice if these model companies told you what the name of the pieces were, that you were putting on. Just think how educational it would be then, but I guess we are just lucky to get the right parts, at the right size, but we can always wish.

Cause how can get get the part names right, when I seen them get the name of the tank wrong.

I have this one unbuilded in the box for so long . I couldnt think that it could come out so nice!!!!
U have done an excellent job there, with attention to detail and the making and painting of it ,i like it very very very much

Bravo

in respose to the question about the square post on the right in front of the driver there is what looks like a lense with a toggle switch with on/off underneath i believe its a small periscope probably just right for looking over the crest of a sand dune without being seen.check out this site and you'll see what i mean www.militaryrover.co.uk