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Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - 06:52 PM UTC
A new Bedford MW late "closed cab" from Resicast
The Bedford MW was a 15 cwt (760 kg) 4x2 truck, early models were open cabbed with a folding windscreen and a collapsible canvas tilt, but from 1943 an enclosed cab with doors and perspex side screens was added, retaining the canvas top.

This resin kit also includes photoetch details.
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Number of mistakes on this kit. The most obvious is that the sidescreens are back to front. The overlap of the bottom of the sidescreens onto the top of rear cab panel and door is also way too pronounced. The small triangular fold up section in the window should be at the back edge and not the front. The panel behind the doors will also need some reworking with reference to pictures. The round circular bonnet badge is wrong for the later closed cab MW. It should be a small rectangular badge. Might be worth checking your references around the back end as well. MWDs had bump stops for the tailgate on both sides below the body not just the nearside. The sprung protectors screwed onto the tailgate to prevent damage when the tailgate hits the bumpstops are also missing. Tilt frames for the load bed and drivers cab are also not visible fitting into the body sockets. The sidelights are the early type, incorrect for this vehicle. Should be smaller Butler WD-S sidelights. The front wings are also a bit mis-shaped, particularly where they meet the top of the front bumper. This is more mid production. Late production vehicles had a hip ring in the cab roof, requiring a different tilt frame, and slinging discs attached to the front and rear wheel hubs. Sk
AUG 01, 2018 - 06:51 AM
A BIG THUMBS UP for general appearance! Quite a few injection molding pattern makers could learn a thing or two from how well the canvas was handled in this kit. Cheers!
AUG 01, 2018 - 06:54 AM
And here I was just impressed with the kit itself, oblivious to the errors identified. Still, the canvas is nicely done and I hope that a fix for any potential errors is in the making.
AUG 01, 2018 - 09:16 AM
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