here is a little bit of progress on the ambulance. The rear body has been done and is about 70% finished. I will not be doing the interior of this one as it is indentical to the CMP Ambulance I have already done.

Base kit is the Tamiya LRDG Chev kit and the first part of the build can be found here.

http://armorama.com/forums/52683&page=1

The body has been built using Evergreen plastic sheet. The roof curves were made using House hold water pipe from the plumbing supply store. This is hard to work and requires CA (super) glue to fix.

As normal any comments or questions are welcome.








this is the start of the cab work.

More pics can be found here - http://photos.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/14677

Cheers
Cliff

looking good Cliif,
It surprises me how clean your builds always look. minimal glue smudges (unlike me ) Looking forward to seeing the cab done.

Looking good so far......

Man your convertions are so neat and clean that look really like the parts are from the kit. Another greatie coming out of the new room !!!!!!

Waiting for more

Looks pretty outstanding, I can not wait to see the finished work you always produce some awsome work.

Happy Modeling
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Thanks for the comments Guys. At this time I have the cab finished apart from the spare wheel mount and only the rear awning and drivesharft left to do before covering the rear body with cloth to simulate canvas as these bodies were canvas over a wooden frame and the doped and painted like WW1 aircraft.

Cheers
Cliff

Roo, I love how you convert those LRDGs into hardtops. That windscreen is a fine piece of work (as is the rest, of course).
I'm not going to say "keep up the good work" because I don't think you could do otherwise.



Cuhail

'Roo:

You say you what "carved" the windscreen from water pipe? You mean the PVC stuff -- I thought CA wouldn't work on that, or do you have diff stuff down under.

Anyway, (A) why did you choose to go that route over say building up from evergreen (or similar) and carving and (B) could you go into the details of the process a bit more ? I mean you've got some compound curves there & I'm just not seeing how you did it ....(as usual) ...

Thx,
John

John it was not the windscreen I made from water pipe but the curves in the roof of the rear ambulance body. The water pipe was 25mm dia PVC hot/cold water pipe.

This was cut using a hacksaw and then scribed down it's length with a scoring blade. It was cut into quarters. This proved to be the correct curve for the ambulance roof. It is hard to work but you can do it with a grinding bit in a dremel or similar or with a file and course sandpaper. I knew model glue would not work and tryed Zap CA and it worked. Once painted you would never know the difference.

The cowl/windscreen unit is originally an Italeri GMC part which I widened to suit the Tamiya LRDG Chev kit and then copied by making a mould and doing them in resin. I use these for a variety of vehicles by just adding filler to alter the shape a bit to suit. The Aussie Ford semi I made had one of these in it as well.

Cheers
Cliff

Cliff, you have another very interesting build here. I have to say you are an incredible scratch builder and always look forward to your trucks. Looking forward to seeing those canvas progress shots. Kevin

'Roo:
Thanks for the info.
I obviously misread your original post & thought the windscreen was the "roof top" you refered to ...
Sorry for confusion.
John

Lovely stuff Cliff,thanks for posting those clairifying pics,you make it look so easy,say if you want to go ahead and publish a book or CD on scratching softskins be my guest,I`ll be first in line to pick up a copy!

Cliff, What can i say that has not already been said. The build so far looks great and i am in awe of your scratch skills. I look forward to seeing more of this one.
Mary (++)

I envy your scratch building skills. This looks great so far. I look forward to the finished project.

Looking great Roo, as usual. Its really coming into shape now. Im always amazed how you manage to use items like water pipe to get the right corner. A good tip for finishing up areas like this is Mr. Surfacer. Just paint it on and lightly sand again. Ive been using it a lot recently and have had great results. Great base for painting as well, when all these different materials have the same base to spray on. Keep us updated!