Scratchbuilding a1/72 Land Rover...

[Brizio]

I had this kit from quite a while, I received it so without instructions, and after searching a little bit I think it came out from a old Airfix "Bristol Bloodhound", the kit has also a missile on a trailer, but I have only the Land Rover.

I like only Jeep, so I will not build this as land Rover, but I will build the Spanish made one, called Santana Ligero 88. That was made in Spain from Santana Motors.

Here the kit...

Edited January 16, 2013 by Brizio

[wagoneer]

That's a neat little kit. You're right it did come with a Bloodhound missile and trailer. It also came with a Hercules 130C kit that I remember my dad making in the mid 70's. He even painted the number plates by hand, but those were the days when he could see stuff that small!

[Brizio]

Thanks for the information, I though it came only with the missile. WOW painting the plates, that's require very good eyes!

[Brizio]

I start to cut the right side.

[Brizio]

Here the comparison from the "old" body side and the new.



And here the chassis, it is long almost 2 inches.

[Brizio]

I did a little progress too... The tires had some molding issue, so when I sand paper them, they were slick, not the kind of tire you want put on a 4x4... ;D My eyes are not happy with my decision to cut the tread on them... ;D
Her the result, the left is with tread and the right is stock (after sand paper.


And here one tire done, 4 more to go...

[cobraman]

Nice work. Cool little project.

[Brizio]

Nice work. Cool little project.

Thank you!

[Brizio]

The body...

[Brizio]

The diesel engine. For dimension reference it is small than a lady bug...

[Brizio]

Here the chassis almost done.

[Brizio]

The radiator...

[Brizio]

Here a test fit between body and chassis, and I reshaped the front grille, adding the grille.

[Brizio]

I was thinking... Instead make the stock Santana, like the one in the picture above, that it is pretty ugly, to make the one in the picture below, with a 106 mm rifle...

[Brizio]

Here I glued the tires, and front bumper.

[Brizio]

Here a picture from the back, with some interior work done, gas, brake and clutch pedals, hand brake lever, gear stick, 4wd lever and block lever.

[Brizio]

Little progress. The interior is almost done now, add seats, steering wheel, and the side rails on the back.

[Brizio]

Here a picture of the steering wheel and column and snorkel...


Next the exhaust so it can go in the water like this one... ;D

[Brizio]

Here the long exhaust...