Land Rover Series 3 88"

[Devilfish]

I built this a while ago, but never posted it on here.  When I was in the RAF, on my first posting at RAF West Raynham, we had a section Landy that was a SWB S3.  I thought I'd give it a go at recreating it.  Unfortunately, other than the rare and expensive Monogram 1/25 kit, I don't believe there are any injection moulded SWB kits available, so I started with the Italeri 109" 1/25 kit

Landy by Paul Carter, on Flickr

I chose this version because it had the right hardtop for what I was building.

A lot of research later, I marked up the body and started cutting...

20210417_225307 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210417_230444 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-04-18_07-56-19 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210418_084051 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
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20210418_170555 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
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And the same for the roof, which thankfully wasn't as complicated...

20210418_175821 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210419_211634 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210419_211657 by Paul Carter, on Flickr


The chassis was obviously also shortened...

20210417_220407 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-04-18_12-56-03 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

Rear seats made from Milliput, and the rear suitably "worn"

20210502_185755 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

Bumpers militarised

20210423_223905 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210503_123112 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-05-03_07-18-04 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

And the finished article

20210504_221724 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210504_221730 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210504_221736 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20210504_221751 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
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[Pellson]

Absolutely brilliant! (And the opposite way around from when LR built the 109" back in the the 1950's..) 

[PR19_Kit]

What a super job you've made of that! 

Keeping all those cuts parallel is a work of genius, well done.

[Wardukw]

Bloody nice cutting and shutting Paul 
Surprised ya didn't go for the italeri 35th 109 landie but ill admit it is easier in 25th .
Yup a very nice bit of work ..funnily enough I'm going the opposite direction with a 35th landie very soon 

[Old Wombat]

Excellent build!    

Gives me hope for reducing a couple of Toyota Landcruisers I have (Italeri 1/24 BJ44 & AK Interactive 1/35 FJ43) into hardtop FJ40s like the one I owned.



Mine was similar to this but with a white grill cover & a bull-bar.

[Devilfish]

Bloody nice cutting and shutting Paul 
Surprised ya didn't go for the italeri 35th 109 landie but ill admit it is easier in 25th .
Yup a very nice bit of work ..funnily enough I'm going the opposite direction with a 35th landie very soon 

The 1/35 one doesn't have a hardtop.

I looked at the Revell 1/25 kit too, but being a 4 door, I thought it would be too much work. 

[Devilfish]

Excellent build!    

Gives me hope for reducing a couple of Toyota Landcruisers I have (Italeri 1/24 BJ44 & AK Interactive 1/35 FJ43) into hardtop FJ40s like the one I owned.



Mine was similar to this but with a white grill cover & a bull-bar.

I had to go on dozens of websites to find photos and diagrams of the bodywork and chassis, so I could figure out the differences.  I found a technical drawing of both chassis' with measurements, which I based a lot of the conversion on.
As you own the car you want to build, you can go out and have a look, which will save a lot of time.  All I can suggest is the old maxim "measure twice, cut once!" slowly and carefully

[Old Wombat]

No, I owned it almost 40 years ago, so research is ongoing to assist me when the time comes to cut plastic.

[zenrat]

Excellent work.  Well done.   

Only today I was thinking about doing similar to an Italeri 1/35.  No research though, just cut 21 scale inches from where it'll be easiest to hide the join.

[NARSES2]

That's a tremendous piece of workmanship   

[Joe C-P]

That is dedication.
 

[Rheged]

This is a very nice piece of work.

[63cpe]

Excellent work! Absolutely believe able build.

I got, while doing military service, my driving license on a swb Landrover (diesel) in winter time. It had a soft top over the rear seats and plastic windows which fogged up very soon. Couldn't see anything in the rear view mirror. Comfort: it had none. Speed: it maxed out at 78 kilometers an hour. Quirks: the turn signal was on the dashboard and worked reciprocal. Other quirks: it was very well know in the Dutch army to snap off inner axles once the drive forgot to switch off 4wd once it was on normal roads.
 If I remember correct the engines in the Dutch army Laro's ( as they were affectionately known) were petrol engines converted to diesel as it was cheaper to run.

David aka 63CPE

[McColm]

Well done,  it brings back memories from my days in the T.A. Royal Engineers Searchlight Unit back in 1984.

[Rick Lowe]

Nice work!

Um, as to the hard top in 1/35, I'm pretty sure Italeri have done one recently... academic now, but the info is there FWIW.

There were a couple of articles in the 1970s Military Modelling where they took the Tamiya Ambulance and SAS kits, cross-kitted and scratched and ended up with a regular LWB (or SWB) and a Shorland Armoured Car.
My first 1/35 conversions, and the SWB may yet get finished sometime soon...