Revell Land Rover 109" Station wagon

[GeeBee]

A little more primer done today, bodyshell and body parts sanded and ready for a wash before the top coats get applied, half the parts for it got primed, hopefully I'll get the other lot done tomorrow. 

[slusher]

Coming along nicely Geoff!

[GeeBee]

First time using basecoat paints, turned out ok, still feels strange airbrushing and not trying to get a shine, can't wait to get some clear coat on, then the polishing can commence.

[mrmike]

The color looks great Geoff!

[NOBLNG]

Yes, looking really nice.

[GeeBee]

A little more work done on the Land Rover

 

[GeeBee]

No airbrushing today, but I did get all the parts for the Land Rover organised into groups so I can get all the parts painted much quicker

 

[mrmike]

Great job at organization!

[slusher]

On 4/11/2020 at 11:42 AM, GeeBee said:

No airbrushing today, but I did get all the parts for the Land Rover organised into groups so I can get all the parts painted much quicker

 

I like your system of painting parts!

[GeeBee]

10 hours ago, slusher said:

I like your system of painting parts!

Makes it a lot easier and quicker, as you can all the parts that need to be painted the same colour in one go.

[GeeBee]

Satin black parts all airbrushed, those Land Rover seats oozes 1970's black vinyl

 

[Tom Geiger]

Cool. I mount everything on toothpicks to paint too. 

[GeeBee]

57 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

Cool. I mount everything on toothpicks to paint too. 

I use allsorts Tom, wooden cocktail sticks, small crocodile clips on bamboo sticks, wooden ice lolly sticks, 2 inch spring clamps, infact anything i can hold parts with while i do the airbrushing, always placed on the part that won't be seen once the parts have been fitted. 

[kelson]

Excellent thread to follow!,i just picked this kit up today at my local hobbyshop.

[GeeBee]

2 hours ago, kelson said:

Excellent thread to follow!,i just picked this kit up today at my local hobbyshop.

Something I don't have the luxury of, sadly the bricks and mortar stores have pretty much closed down, there's still a few good one's, but sadly not around where I live, didn't even find any down in London.

[GeeBee]

A little more airbrushes done over the last few days, gloss black on the chassis and other parts, Alclad semi gloss aluminium used for the aluminium parts and Testors enamel used for the steel coloured parts.

[GeeBee]

More airbrushing done on the Land Rover,interior body colour parts clearcoated so it can be masked up to paint the rubber matting, engine painted using Testors intermediate blue enamel, and front grille painted using Tamiya silver leaf.

 

[slusher]

loolking great Geoff...

Edited April 26, 2020 by slusher

[GeeBee]

Got the interior masked up to airbrush the rubber matting, for this i used Tamiya TS-82,Rubber black decanted from the aerosol, pretty happy with the results. 

 

[GeeBee]

Getting a little further with this build, getting the chassis built up, everything fitted without any problems, also getting the engine built up, i can almost hear this 2.6 overhead inlet, side exhaust wheezing into life....

[GeeBee]

Engine all finished 

 

[GeeBee]

Chassis all finished, engine and gearbox fitted, the gearbox was a pita to fit, there's a notch in the engine that is supposed to line up with a peg on the gearbox, but do it that way and the transfer box sticks up so the floor can't be fitted and it doesn't line up with the mounting on the chassis, so trim them off and line it up by eye, the exhaust isn't fitted to the manifold yet, as it needs to go through the inner wing before being glued onto the manifold.

[thatz4u]

3 minutes ago, GeeBee said:

Chassis all finished, engine and gearbox fitted, the gearbox was a pita to fit, there's a notch in the engine that is supposed to line up with a peg on the gearbox, but do it that way and the transfer box sticks up so the floor can't be fitted and it doesn't line up with the mounting on the chassis, so trim them off and line it up by eye, the exhaust isn't fitted to the manifold yet, as it needs to go through the inner wing before being glued onto the manifold.

really looks good so far...

[GeeBee]

Floorpan fitted to the chassis and held in place with spring clamps while the glue dries up overnight, not the easiest job lining the exhaust and manifold up, but it's doable, in fairness to Revell, there are 3 mounting pins on the exhaust, the front one is marked "Do not glue" which of course i only noticed after, you'd guessed it, glued it to the chassis.....

 

[slusher]

Really nice progress and work!