It's All Greek To Me A Land Rover

[oldcarfan]

In our house, my wife has a revolving list of movies we watch when she's bored. Mamma Mia is one of them. Back when Hobby Lobby was doing one of their close-outs, I got four Revell 1/24 Landies for $8.94 each. I planned on doing a total off road, beat up one, and a mall crawler version some day. That's still in the some day category. Eventually, after the thousand-teenth watching of Mamma Mia, I decided one would be converted to Donna's SWB from the movie. Yesterday I brought one of the kits out of storage, but then I found this in a shoe  box.

 

It's the old Monogram SWB from the 80s. I got it in a junk shop mostly complete and painted it back around 2000(?) to make a fun weekend build. Then the windshield and one of the side window surrounds broke off and wouldn't re-glue so I put it back in the box. As Donna's version doesn't even have a windshield, this should work in my favor. The color is an unknown sage green and should work well when weathered and sun bleached. I'll Ineed to find a good match for some unpainted pieces, but we'll see. It'll probably be a simple curbside and will be a part time project, but Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again!

Edited February 22 by oldcarfan
I pressed save before proofreading again!

[Chuckyg1]

This one looks interesting and maybe I'll learn some weather techniques. I'll join you on this journey.

[oldcarfan]

3 hours ago, Chuckyg1 said:

This one looks interesting and maybe I'll learn some weather techniques.

Me too! Weathering is something I'm just starting to explore, so I'll be doing a lot of fussing and cussing probably!

[stavanzer]

Fun Build!

I wish I had a chance to pick up a few of those $8.49 Landy's!

[oldcarfan]

42 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

Fun Build!

I wish I had a chance to pick up a few of those $8.49 Landy's!

I usually don't that kind of luck, but I had gone the day before to get one. The lady working that aisle told me if I waited they'd be marked down the next day. They had 8 so I bought 4. I wanted to make a SWB, but never got around to it.

Now I'm thinking of ordering one of C1s Land Rover Spectre conversions to use on one of them.

[Bugatti Fan]

Nice project.

Wonder if Revell might repop this one to go with their own kit ?

[oldcarfan]

5 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said:

Nice project.

Wonder if Revell might repop this one to go with their own kit ?

There was a discussion of this a year ago or so. Apparently the original issue didn't sell well and they may have scrapped the tool. Now with the modern four door version they probably wouldn't go to the trouble.

[Bugatti Fan]

Could be right Gary.   If the tooling has not been scrapped there might be a chance of Atlantis getting it. Who knows?