Does this Land Cruiser exist in kit form?

[Furiousgeorge]

I'm looking to replicate my work truck (an industrial Land Cruiser), though I know next to nothing about Toyotas. Is there a kit that I can modify to work? They're tough trucks, mine has survived many years of hard, HARD abuse in a Potash mine, and mine is in better shape then most.

[Brizio]

As kit I think the esci one is the old model (round headlight) in 1/24, maybe in other scale you can find diecast models.

[ranma]

Maybe you could modify a IH scout kit into one with some body work and such?

[martinfan5]

These are your current options right now

http://www.hlj.com/product/TAM24107/Aut

http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ03800/Aut

Edited June 18, 2015 by martinfan5

[unclescott58]

Awe.... I hoping this was going to be about Studebaker Land Cruisers. If it was, make mine a '51.

Scott

Edited June 19, 2015 by unclescott58

[Aaronw]

Not that I am aware of, I'm guessing that is a modified late model FJ70. We didn't get those in the US so it is a Landcruiser I know little about.

It has was the replacement for the FJ40 so shares some features, but you will have a lot of work to convert it. The FJ40 always had round headlights so the later style headlights will be an issue. The FJ80 (the 2 Tamiya kits linked to) is a completely different vehicle, so not much use for a conversion.

[jbwelda]

yes I was thinking that was an fj70 (or bj70, the diesel model) under there somewhere but heavily heavily modified. as aaron mentions, those fj80 kits aren't really gonna be much help aside from giving you a decent platform. the closest those 70s got to the USA was Canada I think, probably Mexico too, and they were amongst the koolest of the latter day land cruisers IMO. I would give some teeth to have that clean new rig you pictured there, I would find some use for all the exo-skeleton and body mods.

we need an fj60 too, though, like bad.

jb

Edited June 19, 2015 by jbwelda

[Furiousgeorge]

Thanks for the replies! We do have a few of the older models with the round headlights, just not my ride. I ended up calling to the Toyota dealer that supplies these for us, they said it's an HZJ model. I googled it, and it's the one. No luck on diecast a or kits. I'll look closely into the options above, and see if my scratch building is up to the task!

[kruleworld]

closest model i've seen is Shoey's Landcruiser, but he made his from sheet styrene

http://ozautobuilders.forum-motion.com/t1242p105-toyota-landcruiser-trayback

[BrianC]

I think I saw a couple of closed cab pickups of that model done by Meng in military scale - with what looked like anti-aircraft guns mounted in the bed

check with your favourite plastic pusher in the 1/35 scale section.

cheers Brian