Thanks Lee!
Hmmmm. Short Wheelbase,
I want one of those. Who makes it?
I’d guess that is the new Revell kit. It’s coming along nicely.
Monogram made the short wheelbase Land Rover years ago and they are fetching very high prices for them since they were never reissued.
Thanks lewbud! I should pick up the pace on this one…and the Ford F100 Ranger…and the Ferrari 308…and the Boss 302… [whstl][:$]
Mr. Mike nice to see you and McNally over here. Nice work so far. Can’t wait for next installment.
Thanks Bronco Billy!
The Story
McNally met Angus Burrows while he was in the US Army. Angus was an instructor at the base teaching Covert Surveillance Applications and McNally was one of his pupils. The class was a tough one for McNally, so he studied this class more than the others and asked more questions and he did rather well with it. When McNally graduated, he became friends with Angus until he retired a couple of years later and he returned to England. He has worked on his farm ever since.
The Build
Adding the driveshafts had created a problem…the engine was cockeyed! I ended up removing the engine and shortening the housing for the front driveshaft. This put the engine back into the motor mounts like it should instead of sitting on the edge of the engine mount. Now, everything sits straight!
McNally will return…
The Story
McNally returns to the farm to continue working the fields until mid afternoon and he decides to have a lunch break. He returns to the diner in town and orders his lunch and he overhears 2 other men talking about Albert McCann and he was stabbed a dozen times in the front and the back and he had no money, but he did have a large gold coin that he always carried with him as he thought it brought him good luck. It was mentioned that the Police didn’t know about the coin.
The Build
I sprayed the entire Land Rover body and hood today with Model Master Wimbledon White Lacquer in preparation for the Model Master Acryl Pale Green that I will paint later.
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Nice paint work. Must be the lighting, as it looks very ivory.
Wimbledon White is a subdued white with some brown added to it. It is not a very bright white to begin with. I used it since it is close to the white or Limestone Land Rover used on these vehicles.
Yeah. I went with the ivory color they offered. I think our builds will be quite similar. I custom mixed to match a photo of a real one.
Looks really good Lee! Looks close to Land Rover’s Limestone.
Thanks. I’d swear we used the same paint.
It does look pretty darn close to me!
I have been having a little trouble with my photohosting site, uploading photos as individual items and not as an album. I fixed that issue and after restoring three other websites of that FUBAR, I have fixed this website and all pictures are as they should be. Sorry about that, Chief!
The Story
McNally stops at the Police Station to talk with PC Dunbarton and he sees Agent Barchans talking to him. Barchans sees McNally walk into the Station and immediately questions why he is there and accuses him of interference in his case. McNally claims that he is only there to say hi and chat with the PC, but Barchans says no and for him to leave. McNally stands his ground and Barchans gets pissed at him while PC Dunbarton says that McNally will stay. Barchans is told to leave so Dunbarton can get some work done.
The Build
The Land Rover got a coat of Model Master Acryl Pale Green this morning. The first coat was mixed with some Acryl Thinner. The second coat was mixed with a little cheap Lacquer Thinner since I thought I was done with the color.
More Land Rover to come…
The Story
The following day finds McNally checking the fields to make sure that the harvest has been picked and he sees a man walking through the eastern field. He calls out to the man and the man takes off running and McNally follows him in the Land Rover Series III LWB to the end of the road and the edge of the property. The man jumps the fence and he runs away into the forest. McNally tried to follow him and he lost the man in the forest. He returns to the SUV and he turns the Land Rover around and he starts to drive back to the main road of the fields and a glint caught his eye and he stops and backs up to the glint.
The glint turns out to be a knife with a nearby scabbard and the knife has blood around the hilt of the handle and it was in the area of where the man was walking. He pulls out his cellphone and he calls PC Dunbarton to come out and look at his discovery. The PC picks up the knife and scabbard with gloved hands and he carefully places them in evidence bags and he will get them dusted for fingerprints and blood type.
The Build
I cleacoated the Land Rover with two coats of Testors Semi Gloss Clear. I wanted a Semi Gloss instead of a full gloss on the body. I have spent part of the morning masking the various parts of the Land Rover for Tamiya TS-29 Semi Gloss Black. I still have other parts to paint which is a little frustating to me since I like to paint all of my parts with one color and move on to the next color. Many of these parts have multiple colors on them.
More Land Rover to come…
I’m working on mine as well Mike. There are a lot of painting actions - relatively complex build give all the options. How did that finicky looking top cover go?
The Series trucks have a lot of galvanized bits including the windscreen frame, the vertical corner trim on the rear of the tub and the capping that runs along the beltline where the top sides meet the lower body. The joint at the rooftop to the sides is also galvanized but this is hard to see. The hood hinges are often galvanized but the door hinges are usually painted body color. The boxtop painting shows these bits painted body color but they should be galvanized. These bits were painted body color of the following coil sprung Defender type trucks. The front bumper is typically painted black or is galvanized, and there is no rear bumper as the rear chassis crossmember serves that purpose. Bob
John, the top didn’t give me any sort of trouble. It basically just snapped in. Bob, thanks for the tips!
The Story
The knife found by McNally was tested and found to be the McCann murder weapon. It is late at night and McNally goes up to bed and he hears the sound of breaking glass downstairs. He pulls out of the closet a Remington double barrel shotgun, loads it and he goes downstairs very quietly and at the bottom of the stairs he flicks on the living room lights. A man rushes over to him and he attacks McNally and he runs off through the kitchen and out the back door. McNally gets up from the floor and he rushes outside and he fires both barrels of the shotgun at the attacker and he runs out towards the barn and it is dark out beyond the barn itself and he couldn’t see the attacker.
He calls PC Dunbarton who drives out to the Burrows Farm and he looks around with a flashlight and he finds blood on the ground. McNally had hit his target, but how bad was the hit? He tells McNally to stop at the Station in the morning and he will issue him a Glock G19 9mm pistol and he will deputize him to help find the killer and attacker. McNally is perfectly fine with that.
The Build
I have been painting and assembling the Landy. I assembled the interior floor, seats and shift levers. I painted and decaled the grille and mirrors and I assembled the front panel with the brake booster and air intake hose.
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The Story
McNally stops at the Police Station and PC Dunbarton issues him a Glock G19 9mm handgun with two clips, a box of bullets and a right hand draw holster. He checks out the pistol, loads a magazine and and he loads the gun. After informing him that the results of the blood samples haven’t come back yet McNally thanks the Constable for the gun and he returns to the farm to continue working. Around 1:30 in the afternoon, he takes a break and drives into town to the diner for lunch. Agent Barchans, full of fury walks in and he goes to the Boston PI and demands the gun.
McNally refuses to turn the gun over to Barchans citing why he needs the gun and he asks why Barchans is not investigating the murder of McCann. Barchans again demands the gun and McNally tells him that the only way he’ll get the gun is to pry it from his cold, dead fingers. Barchans snorts at McNally and he leaves the diner in a rage. An old patron of the diner goes over to McNally and tells him about Barchans visiting the township every year and throwing his weight around. He also tells McNally about a gold coin that McCann carried around with him and how it was supposed to bring him good luck.
The Build
I started detailing the Landy today by adding the grille and windows, painting the trim on the body sides and the rear. The interior is almost complete except for the dash which is still in the paintbooth.
McNally will return…