Hi all, continuing my interest in converting military vehicles into recovery trucks and wreckers, (Matador BRS recovery and Diamond T wrecker in 1/35th scale), I looked at the Airfix refueller and thought it would make a nice early post war recovery truck. The model is as per the kit for the cab and chassis, with a plastic card body. The Harvey Frost type crane was also scratch built using evergreen products, and was to date the most difficult I have made due to the scale. The decals are home made and white horse is hand painted with a fine brush and mapping pen, using white drawing ink. The white horse itself is the one on the Berkshire downs at Uffington, near Wantage. There was a white horse garage locally but they did not have a recovery truck. The floor of the base is cork, and the wall is a thin piece of plywood, sandwiched between sheets of brick pattern plastic card. The clutter by the wall is typical garage, somewhere to junk the exhaust pipes and other bits. I have also made a Bedford light recovery from the Airfix kit
Thanks for looking.