G'day guys
well heres Italeri's 1/35 Willy's jeep, not done yet, i still have to do a few paint toutch ups, put the markings on, and give it a little bit of weathering (dont wanna make it to filthy)
All feedback is more than welcome, be it praise or constructive critisism.









Cheers

that is looking very good David. I look forward to seeing photos of it finished

Dave
Great job on that old kit You may want to replace the kit antennae with strched sprue Kit version looks a bit thick

David,
Very good built for this old Willys MB.
I am looking forward to the next pictures.

Very nice David!

This was the very first "armour" kit I ever did and was what got me hooked.

I plan to do another very soon.

Thanks for sharing.

BTW

I just picked up the new Airfix 1/72nd scale Jeep kit. Excellent kit but talk about tiny!!

Cheers.

Thanks guys
Chad, yeah wasnt sure about the antenae, about it's thickness, was hoping someone would tell me if it was wrong, so i will fix that.
Jeff, yeah this is a real nice little kit, im going to have to do another oneday.
Cheers

Dave, Great job. I am doing a willys myself and i hope mine turns out to be as good as yours is looking..Can't wait to see more progress pics.
Mary

That looks great David, I have built this kit 3 times and enjoyed all 3 times. Looking forward to seeing it finished

hi there,..one thing i've noticed..the front grille is way off the hood. the top of the grille should be alittle under the hood line. very nice and neat. looking forward the finished version.

Hej David
nice Jeep and the colour is spot on.
Just 3 small thing, you are missing the straps at the "door" so the driver/passenger dont fall out.
and two "locks"(dont know the english word) to lock the hood down to the fenders, they are the same as the ones to the windshield.
and the last thing, your gear shift is in 1. gear, thats right but the two shift's for 4.wheel drive and the high/low are a bit to close to the engin, a bit more back and they are right, but keep there position, they are in 2.wheel drive and in high gear.
I have one in 1:1 so thats why i am looking at that.
keep up the good work.

Michael

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Liberator...to late to fix that the hood wouldnt toutch the fenders in the first place so i was forced to hack it down so it could, this meant taking some off the front, but oh well, maybe i will have better luck with those parts next time.

Thunderbolt...With these door belt's, i am familiar as to what they are and look like, but did all Willy's have them?
Regarding the "hood locks" have you got a pic that shows me these, i cant find them on the kit, or any photos i have.
As for the gear sticks, i just glued them into the holes they were meant to go into :-) i dont think i will worry to much about what gear the thing is in.

Cheers guys

david, dont you find the rear bumpers are kinda thick?
I filed mine down in thickness and thought it made them look more like the real thing...your is looking great...

Kevin
not sure mate, i didnt find they to thick or to thin as i have no idea as to the proportions of the real thing.
This truly was an OOB kit for me, no previous knowledge on the real thing, i just went ahead and built it :-) ( which is unusual for myself)
well they now have decals on em, so i cant file them down, i will remember it for next time though!
cheers

Looks good, just got a couple of the old Testors kits in the mail via eBay.

One of you wheel smart guys needs to start a Jeep group build once Heavy Haulers is over. You could include HMMWVs, Land Rovers, Kubelwagens, Schwimmwagens, M151A1/A2, etc.

I had a bunch of those Italeri Jeeps in my collection until a guest accidentally crushed them. I had to try to recylce the parts from 3 jeeps to make into one. The remaining bodies i will have to see if there is at least some possibility of making them wrecked or destroyed ina small dio.

hej David
When a Jeep is born, it will have the belt's,
of course you can take them of, like a sas jeep.

pic of the "locks" arrhg i can not upload photo's right now, but look in the gallery.

Michael

okay...here's some pictures that i took early this year from clark air base (philippines)..the jeeps are restored from it's original glory and details are authentic. hope this will help.

G'day guys
just remembered i made this thread, thats a bit slack of me :-)

Rob, thanks mate, im hoping another Move It! will come around!

Michael, Liberator, thanks for the help, Liberator those pics are great, i see the hood locks now, too bad i didnt know about em before it got painted, i couldve removed them and corrected them.
Oh well, another note for next time.
Cheers

Looks great, but I have a question. I might be wrong (I'm no jeep expert), but isn't the rifle holder on the back of the windshield upside down?

Jesse

Errrr, Dave... someone's nicked the steeringwheel... :-) :-)

Looking good, any more recent pictures?

Jesse, i put the rifle holder on the way the instructions said, if its the wrong way blame italeri! :-)

Rudi, steering wheel was attatched later.
i will have new pics soon guys, cheers

the rifle holder is in the correct way. When the windscreen is lowered the weapon is accessable.

Hej David



You dont have to remove them, just make a ekstra set.
the two top ones is for the windscreen (like the blue and white jeep) and the last two for the hood.

Ok what the hell i might as well add that extra lot
Cheers