What year is it?

[Classicgas]

What year Land Rover does the new Revell LWB kit represent?

[mrmike]

I think the year can be determined by you.  The Land Rover Series III was produced from 1971 to 1985, so what year you decide on will be right.

[Classicgas]

No exterior or interior changes during the run? Or engine changes?

[Mark]

Nope, any significant change would have made it a new/different series.  Most foreign manufacturers didn't use model years as is done here.  They just produced a series until either a new model was introduced, or a significant change was made.

[mrmike]

The only changes were small improvements to the vehicle to improve reliablity or structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_series#Series_III

  

Edited August 25, 2020 by mrmike

[Classicgas]

Ok. That makes it simple.  Pick a year and see what paint colors were offered that year lol.

[martinfan5]

5 hours ago, Classicgas said:

Ok. That makes it simple.  Pick a year and see what paint colors were offered that year lol.

Can't do that either, the same colors were used for all the years, the only difference is if it had a V8 or not.

[GeeBee]

14 hours ago, Classicgas said:

No exterior or interior changes during the run? Or engine changes?

A few detail improvements, but nothing that you'd notice,  the 6 cylinder engine didn't change, the engine was a detuned version as used on the Rover P4 110, so paint it in either of the 6 colours available for the Land Rover,  Sand was only used on Left hand drive (Export models) Roof panels and wheels were always painted in Limestone, interior was always black vinyl. 

I'd love Revell to re-release this later as the County model, the only difference being cloth interior and body stripes and a few different colours 

 

[Classicgas]

Well this keeps getting easier lol.

[GeeBee]

On 8/26/2020 at 6:24 AM, martinfan5 said:

Can't do that either, the same colors were used for all the years, the only difference is if it had a V8 or not.

One colour missing from that colour chart is Russet Brown, which was only available on the County models, the V8 was a different animal to the standard 109" version  and getting pretty rare these days, you can't build the Revell kit as a V8 Stage One without a lot of work. 

 

[martinfan5]

10 hours ago, GeeBee said:

One colour missing from that colour chart is Russet Brown, which was only available on the County models, the V8 was a different animal to the standard 109" version  and getting pretty rare these days, you can't build the Revell kit as a V8 Stage One without a lot of work. 

 

Right, I just mentioned the V8 because the color( colour for you) chart was attached too it, I like that color too.

[Classicgas]

Will be doing mine in Limestone. 

[Tom Geiger]

29 minutes ago, Classicgas said:

Will be doing mine in Limestone. 

Carving one out of limestone? I’d just use the kit body! ?

[Classicgas]

Lol. No, the color is Limestone. 

[Tom Geiger]

A question - were these available as special order fleet colors?  In the USA trucks usually could be ordered by businesses in any color they chose.

[Classicgas]

[GeeBee]

2 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

A question - were these available as special order fleet colors?  In the USA trucks usually could be ordered by businesses in any color they chose.

Yes, white was available for Police vehicles, not Limestone, which is more cream than white.

Other fleet colours were available for MOD, coastguard etc, other countries that built Land Rovers from CKD kits had a few colours that the Solihull factory didn't offer, Australian and New Zealand had a few interesting colours that were available on the Range Rover in the UK 

[Tom Geiger]

Thanks Geoff!  In the USA companies can special order vehicles in their special color or even lettered.  For instance the Sears appliance fleet of vans was a teal color,  Bell Telephone an army green etc. 

When we see vans later in their lives, we can often see where they originated, with paint still in door jambs and interiors. For instance my A100 van model, the original was originally a Bell van, so I painted interior panels accordingly.

[GeeBee]

3 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Thanks Geoff!  In the USA companies can special order vehicles in their special color or even lettered.  For instance the Sears appliance fleet of vans was a teal color,  Bell Telephone an army green etc. 

When we see vans later in their lives, we can often see where they originated, with paint still in door jambs and interiors. For instance my A100 van model, the original was originally a Bell van, so I painted interior panels accordingly.

The GPO, (General Post Office) was our national telephone company used Land Rovers that would have been painted GPO green at the factory,  they became British Telecom and painted yellow, before being privatised, all the armed forces used them, and again would have been painted by Land Rover,  to have Land Rover to paint a different colour, you'd have to put in a good fleet order, but most smaller orders would have been painted and signwritten by an outside company, these days all company vans are just wrapped or vinyl graphics. 

Artic white could only be ordered as part of a fleet order, for police etc, 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by GeeBee