Andy King's Model Blog

The canvas tilt was glued together yesterday evening and the cargo bed glued to the chassis;

As I said in an earlier post I did want to have the rear of the tilt open but due to the design of it I had to close it up. Also I reduced the thickness of the sides;

Not perfect but it looks better. To me the tilt was the biggest disappointment of ...

I was thinking of having the rear of the tarpaulin open but looking at the inside, there is a slot moulded into it for the closed option;

I had already glued the tie-downs to the tail gate (part NB5) and fixed it to the cargo bed so ended up taking the tail gate off, removing the tie-downs and gluing them to part NB7 instead;

It’s a bit disappo...

Although I was going to make a start on the cargo bed, I’m actually still working on the cab and yesterday I glued the bonnet and bonnet sides to the cab;

Doing this makes painting a lot easier, especially as the version I’m doing has red mudguards although the instructions show that one headlight is covered with a yellow plate and the other still has a blackout...

I’ve been assembling the cab this afternoon and another area that is well detailed (and why it took me all afternoon);

I left out the two rifles from the cab as the option I’m doing is from 1948 so I reckon any weapons wouldn’t be in the vehicle.

I glued the cab together but didn’t fix it to the cab floor as it would have made painting...

The wheels were assembled and the chassis can now sit on them;

In the instructions the rear tyres are marked ‘K’ on the central sprue and ‘I’ on the front, however in my kit all the tyres are marked ‘I’ but be aware of the differences in the actual wheels. Also the rear wheel hubs (parts EC3) have some sinkage that is quite visible so I may punch out some discs ...