Militia Armoured Truck No1 (a bit more modeling info added)

Militia Armoured Truck No1

I`ve been planning and designing several of these for quite a while now, this is the first completed one.

 An "Armoured" truck for my SCW militia, based losely on various photos with ideas borrowed from all over the place including other peoples models. 

This represents something cobbled together in a garage or factory to serve as a semi-armoured transport.  The mattresses tied to the sides might appear useless, but many countries were still using lead bullets (until they knew better) so amazingly a simple mattress could stop a bullet!! This particular truck also has had sturdy wooden beams nailed to the sides before the mattresses were added. 

It has heavy overhead cover to the truck bed provided by boiler plate and thinner mild steel plate added to the cab doors, a plate over the windscreen and protecting the radiator and wheels/tires.

Some photos of the WIP, started off as a cheap plastic toy truck I found in a "Chino" shop in San Vicente for 2 Euro. 

The wooden "armour" is cut up coffee stirrers, the roof a piece of left over mild steel angle strip I bought to repair some drawers in the kitchen

The armoured plates are made either out of cut up beer cans or blister pack plastic, the mattresses are Plasterscene

Completed model with union colours and (badly) hand drawn slogans, the rope is just cotton thread.

Another action shot with militia