Hello to you all.
Hope you dont mind but I’ve popped over from the aircraft side to do something different. I’ve just finished my Special Air Service Jeep and I’m pretty pleased with it considering I don’t normally do much else than aircraft. Please pass comments. All will be greatfully accepted.
Take care
Lenny
The Tamiya SAS Jeep is a nice kit, isn’t it, especially when you consider that it’s been around since the 1970s? However, isn’t your model a bit clean? A spot of weathering and dust would not go amiss. Also, if their CSM sees them before they leave camp, he’s going to tear each of your guys a whole new a**hole. None of their stowage appears to be tied down (I know some of the jerry cans have straps on them, but the straps don’t appear to be fixed to anything), and will fall off on the first bit of rough road they come to…
Cheers,
Chris.
Nice work on this ancient chestnut.
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Tamiya continues to do purchasers of this kit a great disservice by not upgrading the jerry cans. There were never any jerry cans with only two handles as depicted by Tamiya. Italeri was producing correct cans with three handles at the same time Tamiya was being sloppy and lazy. There’s also no excuse for them to keep this in production without making the corrections.
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Anyway, back to your kit: nice out of box build.
Nice attention to detail on the vehicle and figs.The base and background look excellant as well.
Welcome to the dark side! As Chris mentioned it looks a little on the clean side (in an Alice-in-Wonderland type scenario what is “dirty” in the aircraft world is “clean” in the armor world…[;)]) but otherwise you’ve done well with this older offering. Thanks for sharing with us and hope you continue on your path of doing something “different”. [tup]
That’s why God made sprue…
And aftermarket parts. My point is, it’s almost 2009. Tamiya has been using that same mold for some 30 years. (I first saw that kit in a diorama in the spring on 1980.) They’ve gotten their money out of it. The builder should not HAVE the rebuild/replace all jerry cans which are a focal pointof the jeep. All they’d have to do is put in a sprue of correct jerry cans and some lead foil and an errata sheet telling the builder to use the strapping on the old parts as a guide.
Thanks for posting that, it brings back some great memories from my teenage years. It was one of those kits I always wanted as a kid but there was no Tamiya stockists in Ireland at the time. so I was about 15 bbefore I got one.
By the way nice work.
Terry.
Well, you know me… AM isn’t my bag (‘Cept maybe the Tamiya Jerrycan set, lol), and if Tamiya did a new sprue they’d raise the price of it 10-15 bucks and call it “new”… Sprue’s free and I’m perpetually stuck in 1978 or so anyway, lol… That many jerrycans on one kit though, I see your point… ME, I’d be doing two or three sprue-jobs and “tarp” or “net” the rest… That’s the nice part about the armor genre… There’s always a reason for a poncho or blanket to be layin’ around…
Besides, if they give ya everything, it’s just assembling, not modeling. But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…
Nice job on that SAS Jeep![tup] Only thing it needs is a little bit more weathering, which was mentioned before, other then that it looks pretty good. Hope to see you build more armor, bodie37.
Yeh the wheathering side of it does need alot of attention and I thank you all for pointing it out. Its something I do have a problem with. Over doing rather than not enough. I’l get some ref photos and see where I go from there. Its alot easyer I think doing it on aircraft.
Thanks again for all your comments
Take care
Lenny
If I remember correctly, teh instruction sheet had some suggestions on how to dress up this kit somemore regarding the canhandles, straps for stowage, etc. And a couple good reference pics to boot! In any case, your figures look great, the overall build is very nice! Just do as everyone else says and dirty it up… or buy a second one, modify the weapons somewhat (Academy makes a gorgeous preforated barrel .50 that would go great on the right side) and have fun! Gotta love those SAS Jeeps!
I wanted to mention that PSP “sand-mat” on the jeep. It’s in WAY too gooda shape, lol… Needs to be bent, battered, and chipped/scraped to hell & back…
Nice…I always thought these figgies were some of the coolest Tamiya ever put out…bearded bad-asses in their turbans…too cool. There are some resin AM figgies that are better than these 30 yr old ones but the poses on these can’t be beat…they are saying something like, “Come get ya some…”.
This kit is on sale right now on Squadron for about $11…hmmmm…wonder if I can update these figs???