Tamiya Pink Panther Landrover box art howler

[Weaver]

Okay, here is the box art for the Tamiya 1/35th SAS "Pink Panther" Land Rover. There's a number of things arguably wrong with the kit, but there's a straight-up howler in the instructions which the box art faithfully reproduces. Can you spot what it is?

First one to spot it might win a full-sized pink Land Rover, but probably won't...

[buzzbomb]

For my eye, it is the front lights. Normally on a Landrover (that I have seen/driven) you would have an indicator and parking light. The box top appears to have a brake and indicator.
That could be just me though

[scooter]

For my eye, it is the front lights. Normally on a Landrover (that I have seen/driven) you would have an indicator and parking light. The box top appears to have a brake and indicator.
That could be just me though

Ya know, I didn't even catch that.

[Weaver]

For my eye, it is the front lights. Normally on a Landrover (that I have seen/driven) you would have an indicator and parking light. The box top appears to have a brake and indicator.
That could be just me though

Yep, well done. 

For my eye, it is the front lights. Normally on a Landrover (that I have seen/driven) you would have an indicator and parking light. The box top appears to have a brake and indicator.
That could be just me though

Yep, that's it - well done.

The Tamiya Landy has rear lights on the front, as per the written painting instructions  .  It should be orange (indicator) over white (sidelight) at the front, and red (stop/tail) over orange (indicator) at the back. It's completely illegal to show a steady red light to the front of a vehicle in the UK. You can have a flashing one, but then only if it's part of the authorised "blues and twos" light bar on a Police or Emergency vehicle.

[frank2056]

At least the Tamiya kit has the correct wheel bolt pattern (five bolts and not six like Italeri)

[Weaver]

At least the Tamiya kit has the correct wheel bolt pattern (five bolts and not six like Italeri)

There's another thing that Tamiya got right that Italeri got wrong: the commander's seat (front passenger seat) is supposed to be raised up on a box with a folding backrest. Italeri have it at the same level as the driver's seat.

On the other side of the balance sheet, Italeri modelled the tailgate rack correctly, although they didn't provide the trunk-shaped canvas bag that goes on it. Tamiya, on the other hand, modelled carrier and bag as an all-in-one triangular thing with an open bottom. Hard to say what they were thinking: my best guess is that they saw a pic of one with the bag empty and half-collapsed, and assumed that must be it's proper shape. That still doesn't explain their canvas going over the rack though. I can't find a single pic of any such arrangement.

[Rick Lowe]

Early SAS Landie Wiff? 

[Wardukw]

One day I'll figure out something to do with my one sitting in the stash 🤔

[Weaver]

Early SAS Landie Wiff? 

To be honest, I have a hankering to do this one real-world and super-detail it.

[zenrat]

There is a huge amount of resin and etch available for this kit.

[Weaver]

There is a huge amount of resin and etch available for this kit.

There's a fair amount. You have to be careful: some of the stuff is for the Italeri kit and doesn't apply to the Tamiya one because of their different flaws/omissions, and vice-versa. The Black Dog set, for instance is only for the Italeri and won't fix the Tamiya's rear carrier problem. The best to me seems to be the Legend (resin+etch) set. There's one on Ebay that looks like it's the same set, but I'm suspicious that it's a Chinese knock-off.