Judean People's Front Gun Car. Finished pics pg4.

[zenrat]

I was going to sit this one out but couldn't resist.
I shall be arming a Hino Contessa 1300 Coupe.
It's a 1/32 kit which was a prize at a Ballarat show.  Body detail's not bad but it's lacking on the inside and like a lot ofJapanese car kits is engineered for batteries and a motor.
Contessas were assembled in Israel from '63 to '68 so that gives me some ideas for a back story.
Kit will now tells his connection with Hino cars...

66 Contessa 1300 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

66 Hino Contessa 1300 02 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

Kit will now tells his connection with Hino cars...

I will? 

I'm not sure I've ever SEEN a Hino car, a few of their trucks, yes, but no cars.

That one looks like a smaller Tatra, presumably it's rear engined, is it?

[Rheged]

Is it just me, or is there a faint trace of VW Karman Ghia in the Contessa's ancestry?

[Joe C-P]

Does it come with the bride and groom figures?   

[zenrat]

Is it just me, or is there a faint trace of VW Karman Ghia in the Contessa's ancestry?

Renault.  Hino built Renault stuff under licence. The Contessa powertrain was developed from the 4CV.
There is a wikipedia page here.

I have posted this same answer previously but it disappeared.  Cheques in the post Chris...

Does it come with the bride and groom figures?   

Unfortunately not.

[zenrat]

A small amount of progress.

66 Hino Contessa WIP 26-11-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

A rearward facing front passenger seat?

That brings back loads of memories, but I expect your passenger will have some socking great gun to look after rather than loads of instruments strapped onto the back seat. 

[NARSES2]

Every time I see the title of this thread I start humming some spurious mid 60's children's tv puppet show theme tune 

[zenrat]

A rearward facing front passenger seat?

That brings back loads of memories, but I expect your passenger will have some socking great gun to look after rather than loads of instruments strapped onto the back seat. 

I figured a rearward facing seat would make it easier for the passenger to standup through the hole in the roof and operate the machine-gun.
Here scale reference riot squad officer demonstrates the principle.
Hino Contessa WIP 27-11-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[zenrat]

Mrs z went out on the piss thisarvo (book club) so I got in some solid modelling time.

I used it to start armouring the Gun Car.

Hino Contessa WIP 28-11-2021 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Hino Contessa WIP 28-11-2021 02 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

The armour plate is of a suitable thickness so as to stop small-arms rounds.  The car bodywork has been lined with concrete to provide a similar level of protection.

While building this I was pondering a user.
I was going to make it Hezbollah.  But then I heard on the radio that IRL they are better equipped than the Lebanese armed forces so I dropped that idea.
I am now thinking either the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea.

[NARSES2]

I am now thinking either the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea.

Or the Popular Front for the Freedom of the Judean People ? 

[Rheged]

There's the Union of Samarian  Soviet   Socialists   to consider...................

[crudebuteffective]

Mrs z went out on the piss thisarvo (book club) so I got in some solid modelling time.

I used it to start armouring the Gun Car.

Hino Contessa WIP 28-11-2021 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Hino Contessa WIP 28-11-2021 02 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

The armour plate is of a suitable thickness so as to stop small-arms rounds.  The car bodywork has been lined with concrete to provide a similar level of protection.

While building this I was pondering a user.
I was going to make it Hezbollah.  But then I heard on the radio that IRL they are better equipped than the Lebanese armed forces so I dropped that idea.
I am now thinking either the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea.

Judean People's Front.... splitters!

[scooter]

Paint it black and give it to the Delta Tau Chi chapter from Faber?

[loupgarou]

 I am curious abot the "broccoli" tapes... Any special properties?