Hi all;
I thought that the 1st of March would be a good date for my first posting in this campaign.

Happy Birthday Major Ivan Hirst


A bit of a background on the Major and his involvement with VW can be found [urlhttp://www.worldcarfans.com/classics.cfm/classicid/5060306.001/country/vw/volkswagen/the-british-major-who-saved-volkswagen]HERE[/url]

Now on with the campaign.
The kit is Italeri No 6426 Volkswagen Typ 87

I intend to make it up as one used by British Forces in Germany 1945/47.
Inside the box there are 4 light grey sprues, one clear and the body shell. Two of the sprues are the old Italeri Afrika Korps set.


Assembly is straight forward and shouldn't pose any problems
Stage 1 - Suspension


and already it's starting to look like a good old VW


More to follow
Cheers
David

Hi David,

A really great way to begin

This little bug looks very nice. Can't wait for more pics.

I've one little question. I see there are three sets of wheels with the kit... Are these from the box graphic a special desert type? If so, were there any desert 87s with regular tyres? Just curious.

Cheers!
Mikolaj

Looks good so far.

The wheels on the box are the balloon type tires. They could better cope with the extreme temperature difference in the desert. Freezing at night and above 50 celcius in the day. Though on an inflated rubber tire The kubelwagens also used this type of tires.

However, I do not think there are any problems with building the kit with the "normal" tires. Not all cars had the tires changed.

Looking forward to see more.

The next instalment. This model is a nice simple quick build , almost falling together. Well not quite, the interior side panels are a bit vague in their location. I got it wrong and had to remove and re-glue them.

That's them, under the clamps.

Just about ready for a primer coat



Test fit of the wheels and the body.




Until next time
Cheers
David

Looking great David,
Keep up the good work and you'll have a fantastic model soon.

Great progress so far. Have you decided to use the normal tires? Or the desert balloon tires?

Hi all,
many thanks for the comments. Hopefully things will go well for the rest of the build, but may be a bit slow as :-)8(SWMBO) has decided that this weekend we move house and Telecom (the National provider of phone services ) can't move the phone line (including internet connection) for another 10 days .

Jesper
I will use normal tyres as the vehicle will be one used by the CCG (Control Commission German {aka Charlie Chaplin's Guards}) between 1945 - 47.

cheers
David

Hi all,
work commitments over the last two months has curtailed modelling time. But I have, a last, managed to finally finish Major Hirst's little car, my entry in the Best of British campaign.








It was built OOTB, painted with a 50/50 mix of Humbrol 75 Bronze Green and 159 Khaki Drab. Normal weathering, wash and dry brush and a light dusting with Tamiya Buff.

Cheers
David