Wednesday 15 March 2017

Re-purposed Airfix trucks

Supply element for my desert Brits.

Both Airfix plastic kits acquired as part of a job lot of bits, broken models and stuff a few yrs back.

Bedford QL tanker 
Was from the RAF refueling set - now can be a standard fuel tanker or water truck
I removed the long pipe arms and repainted from its pretty RAF blue livery




Austin K3 (I think?) 
Based on an article I read as a boy in a modelling book, was the K6 fire truck from the RAF emergency set painted in a brilliant red :)

Cut down the chassis, added a rough plastic card body and a canopy pinched off a Opel blitz. and then repainted to suit.



Both together


4 comments:

  1. Great use of the Airfield set from Airfix. The QL and the K3 models were the basis for lots of interesting types. Well done. Smashing pictures by the way.

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  2. Very kind :)

    I took your advice and turned off the flash but then used a table lamp to improve the lighting on the model itself - seemed to work :)

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  3. Terrific - I like the Austin in particular

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