Colin Maclachlan Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Built this straight from the box with a few deletions and additions. The vehicle represents a Land Rover 110 Defender from 250 Medical Squadron Territorial Army based at Westward Ho Barracks Grimsby. My brother learned to drive in this vehicle before his deployment to Kosovo during the Balkan crisis in 2000. The model is a 50th Birthday present to him from me. Hope you like my first attempt at military vehicles the driver and the soldier stood are both from the Tamiya 1/35 Land Rover Ambulance kit, the tarpaulin back is made from some cloth used for curtains I bought it from a local shop up here in Lincolnshire called Boyes £1.50 /meter square great value. Sprayed it Valeo NATO Green and let it dry thoroughly then wet it with water to soften it up and draped it over the roll bar frame using 560 canopy glue to fasten it in place. the edging is 3M Durapore surgical tape to finish off the reinforcing strip. Registration Number and Red Cross markings are home made decals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xw302 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) As the owner of ex MoD 110 soft top, I must say I like it a lot, nice job well done. Regards Dave Edited December 31, 2013 by xw302 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 nice work looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Super work, very realistic and good attention to detail, the colours look spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natter Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Great Landy, and a great back-story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Very nice. I'm sure that your brother will be chuffed with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 A nit pick I Know, but your Squaddie is wearing 58 patern webbing with no pouches. The front of the yoke on 58 pattern attatches to the belt via the ammo pouches and won't hold together otherwise. It should also be OD. By 2000 the 95 pattern webbing was general issue, in both OG and DPM. Nice Landie though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Maclachlan Posted January 1, 2014 Author Share Posted January 1, 2014 Thanks a lot for all the comments My brother was as you all said well chuffed. John W yes I did notice that the stood soldier had the 58 webbing yolk fitted as it has come from the earlier Tamiya Series 3 Landy kit, I left off the pouches deliberately to help "Camouflage" the fact he was from an earlier era. To much bother to try and remove the Yolk without damaging the rest of the figure so painted straight over it, hoped it would not show to much but us Anoraks know better, As an ex RAF Policeman I wore CS 95 a lot so I did know the difference. As a side note I built this kit whilst convalescing from major Stomach and Bowel surgery to remove a Cancer Tumour back in October and early December. Thankfully now on the road to recovery. Happy New Year to you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Like that, nice simple little dio too. I've built a couple of the Hobby Boss WMIKs with a couple more to go, nice little kits. Glad you're mending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkkeeper Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 nice 110, loks just right, hope your brother likes his land rover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango 1 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Superb build and a great gift - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dads203 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Nice build, the bloke stood pointing looks like our very own super mod Greg, remarkable likeness. Great stuff Regards Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Colin First things first.. Hope you're feeling OK and recovery is going well. The 'Rover looks very good, well done and thanks for showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I like this a lot. Nice Landy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybookcase Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Lovely. Having tried to paint 1/35 figures I know how difficult it is and I must say that camouflage is pretty damned good. BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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