Tintin Project - the Vehicles

[strobez]

It's no amazing full-action with lights and sound moving bridge... but I get by. 

[strobez]

So, after about a 2.5 month delay while real life got in the way of whif life...

I finally got the top of my Tintin Landrover in place.  I also added the necessary side features, including the hinges and the recessed door handles. 


Despite knocking out most of the windows in the process while taping them, I managed to get some green paint on the rover.  I'm glad I left the vents at the top open for now... they came in really handy for getting the windows back in place.  The paint (as usual) really ties the whole thing together...  I'm really loving how the recessed door handles look now.


And from the other side.  The wheels are green on the bub caps and metalic grey on the back side, so a quick bit of masking with circles and a shot of black rubber paint should do wonders.  Not much left other than that and some detailing on the front grill.  I'm thinking about giving it a coat of Future before I attempt that since I might need some dry brushing do-overs...


Did I mention how much I like the recessed door handles?  Isn't it grand when what you plan actually works out as well or better than you envisioned it?   

[PR19_Kit]

The door handles really are wonderful, yes, but HOW DID YOU DO THEM?

[strobez]

Heh... well, since you asked... 

It was actually quite simple.  I just used a likely-looking drill bit (about 3mm) to drill partway into the door, then I dropped a tiny bit (coincidentally about 3mm) of 0.3mm styrene tube into the cavity.  I made sure the angle was roughly appropriate and voila!

On the land rover the handles are a bit more squared on one end, but I decided to count the chickens I had and call it even.

[Old Wombat]

... but I decided to count the chickens I had and call it even.

Always a good idea!

Great to see you back at this, even if it is in "the other scale".

[PR19_Kit]

It was actually quite simple.  I just used a likely-looking drill bit (about 3mm) to drill partway into the door, then I dropped a tiny bit (coincidentally about 3mm) of 0.3mm styrene tube into the cavity.  I made sure the angle was roughly appropriate and voila!

On the land rover the handles are a bit more squared on one end, but I decided to count the chickens I had and call it even.

Thanks, it worked very well and certainly looks the part. 

[zenrat]

I had to remind myself this is 1/72.

Barstard

[NARSES2]

Terrific work

[strobez]

Thanks for the support gents! It's almost done now. I painred the bumpers and wheels and glued them in place.  Once the coat of Future is dry, I'll give that front grill a go.  Then it's just a bit of finishing on the base and we'll call it done. 





Between the glue marks, the scratches from re-installing the windows that fell out, and the Future spray fogging, I kinda wonder why I bothered to build the interior at all... but I know it's there!

[PR19_Kit]

That looks terrific, and brings back memories. 

We had one exactly like that at my first job, used as a mobile laboratory with all sorts of instrumentation in the back. Later we added a big Honda generator on the roof at the back, and a 27 core sprung cable reel in the middle of the roof to connect up to the test vehicles.

It was the first ever Land Rover with a V8 as the pour old 4 cylinder engine couldn't haul all that lot along. 

[zenrat]

Last 1/72 Land Rover I built I found a photo of a grille, scaled it, printed it and stuck it on.  It looked pretty good.

[strobez]

Now why didn't I think of that!?

Oh well, it's done now (except for the license plate, which I will print and apply later).  If it's good enough to get Kit to wax nostalgic about bumping around in the back of one of these, then I call it job well done enough!

[PR19_Kit]

'Bumping' is right, none of that vintage Land Rovers were noted for their ride. 

[zenrat]

Very good job.   

I was once drinking in a pub in the West of England with a group of mates and caused an outbreak of laughter from the locals when we asked about getting a taxi back to where we were staying on the other side of the "mountain".
One of the locals then offered to drive us in his landrover for 5 pounds each.
It was a short wheelbase series 1.
As he was more drunk than we were it was an interesting ride.  Especially for those sitting in the back.
There were enough of us for him to have to make two trips so he prolly paid for all his drinks.
When someone asked if he wasn't worried about getting stopped by the police he said "not really, he's in the other bar".

[Rheged]

'Bumping' is right, none of that vintage Land Rovers were noted for their ride. 

The ride is appalling, but it will get you there WHEREVER there happens to be and whatever else is in the way.