RAF Landrover 1/35 Scale

[MikeC]

Make the most of this, I don't often do a vehicle!

 

Something that can be found almost anywhere the RAF (other British Services are available) has a presence is the ubiquitous Landrover.  It has/had many RAF uses and guises, from swift-response fire truck to general service vehicle.

 

Until the early 1970s airfield vehicles were painted yellow: then came the NATO "tone-down" where everything in sight was painted green.

 

So here's an Italeri Landrover LWB Series 3 soft-top, dated anytime from 1974 onwards, built from the Italeri kit.  It does not represent any specific vehicle, simply a generic "Landy", which allowed me to use one of the two sets of numberplates in the kit.  I freely admit I don't know the registration system, so it may well be an Army number as that's what the kit option was.  The "Royal Air Force" legend came from a spare aircraft decal sheet.  What's it used for?  Perhaps a general station "hack" vehicle.

 

Unfortunately, right at the last minute, I lost the passenger-side door mirror, so decided that the driver had "wiped it off", and has perhaps yet to confess his sins to SNCO i/c MT.

 

I will also confess to one more heresy: I may well stand it next to an appropriate 1/32 LSP in due course!  Anyway, here 'tis.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

Edited March 15 by MikeC

[Panzerwomble]

The old Italeri kit is great, I've built quite few over the years , and owned numerous 1:1 versions 

 

Nice job there Mike, for me the roof is always a bit tricksy but you've pulled it off. 

 

If you ever research MOD plates this website will give you in-service records. 

 

https://merlinarchive.uk

 

[Derek B]

Very nice Mike (been in/driven a few of them in my time!).

 

 

Derek

[thierry laurent]

Good idea. Unless you use it in a BAOR setting, there may be another heresy! As far as I'm remembering correctly the Italeri kit was a left hand drive vehicle. And for whatever strange reason Italeri put six bolts on the wheels whereas Landies only used 5! Nonetheless the kit looks like a good seventies Series III model. 

[MikeC]

40 minutes ago, thierry laurent said:

Good idea. Unless you use it in a BAOR setting, there may be another heresy! As far as I'm remembering correctly the Italeri kit was a left hand drive vehicle. And for whatever strange reason Italeri put six bolts on the wheels whereas Landies only used 5! Nonetheless the kit looks like a good seventies Series III model. 

Thanks Thierry.  This one was definitely right-hand drive, although a quick check on Scalemates shows me that the original issue was indeed a LHD version. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-321-landrover--171311

 

@Derek B Thank you, and me too.

 

@Panzerwomble  Thanks, and that's useful info.