Fruit Delivery Van Typ 170V Lieferwagen - 1:35 MiniArt

[Viking]

Fruit Delivery Van Typ 170V Lieferwagen

1:35 MiniArt

 

 

Oops, I finished this before Christmas last year and only just realised that I hadn't posted it here. I could have sworn I had, but memory and age must be catching up with me!

Anyhow, I like doing the occasional vehicle model, and this one really caught my eye. Mike reviewed it here.

 

It is typical MiniArt, being very well detailed with a lot of fine mouldings, and superb fit of parts. It was real pleasure to build, but was so fine that it needed a lot of care to to break things as construction went on!  

 

The only thing I would have liked would have been some decals for the red circles on the wheel hubs. The wheel painting sequence was: Dark grey tyres, then whitewalls, then green for the hubs, then silver, then red, and finally silver again.  A sequence of six colours with a lot of freehand & masking to paint on each one. Decals for those red bits would have really helped!  (I've just noticed on the photos I should have pressed the bonnet/hood down a touch, it does fit nice and snugly. Oh well!)

 

A fun build, but I'm a bit done with painting all that fruit!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fruit and more fruit!

 

During contrsuction, the engine & chassis are quite detailed.

 

Its quite small, for comparison with my Airfix Katy ambulance:

 

Thanks for looking,

 

John

 

 

[2Step]

Great build and very natural looking fruits!

[Pete in Lincs]

Nothing short of excellent. Both the van and the fruit. Really impressive painting.

[keefr22]

That's different - and really very nicely done! Lovely finish on the van, looks spot on for the era, and the fruit is brilliant!

 

Cracking build John!

 

Keith

[Mike]

Lovely job John.  I've added a link to the review now, so people can see how well it builds

[Toryu]

On 29/03/2024 at 18:34, Viking said:

I'm a bit done with painting all that fruit!

 

Just imagine you had to eat it all! What a sweet model!

[Toftdale]

Absolutely stunning, thanks for sharing - Andy 

[JeroenS]

Nice work! Man, you've done a great job on painting the fruit there as well!

[Mpfiend]

What a lovely model. It looks very effective.

Best regards 

Keith.

[Rob Sutto]

You should be very proud of the fruits of your labour  That's a lovely little model, excellent finish. It also reminds me that I need to revisit my stalled build of the MiniArt beer van.

 

When it comes to spraying wheels and hubs different colours, I find one of these comes in handy:

 

 

[Spiny]

I think based on this one you need to build more civilian vehicles Great work throughout, both on the van and on the fruit.

 

Not sure I could have stood driving that though, all that fruit, including cut fruit, sitting on the roof makes me think there must have been a cloud of wasps following very close behind!

[stringbag]

What a lovely result John.  Can't beat a nice Merc.

I have a question however.  Are those Großmutter Schmidt apples by any chance?  🍏

 

Chris.

PS.  I'd nip and see the doctor if I were you.  Your plumbs are a funny colour.