Fenlander's Hummer IDF Ambulance

[papa 695]

Nice start Graham mine's on hold at the moment awaiting some figures

[Guest]

Graham the chasis is looking sharp,glad to see you building again!

[Guest]

Cheers guys

I did say that I needed to take a step back and see just how much I could build before painting started. I have fallen foul of the issue of building a model that has interior detailing to the point where I could not effectively paint the insides. Patience is not one of my strong points. This model is a classic of how easy it would be to go a step too far as it has some 'interesting' construction concepts that I will detail here.

First of all, because this kit is an adaption of a basic hummer to make it an ambulance, the body, well the rear body, has had the most new parts added. This includes a false (additional) roof and floor for the back. So, up to the stage pictured below, it is a standard Hummer



To make it into the ambulance, the outer body parts are added to give it this shape



The next image shows that without the roof, the over cab extension has the two panels that in the real vehicle gave headspace for crew moving from the rear to the cab. However, as it stands, these two sloping panels will never see the light of day once the roof is on.



The rear body has a inner roof as can be seen in the rear of the picture, in the foreground is the outer roof and rear panel



This next shot shows the additional floor that goes in and the bulkhead separating the cab from the ambulance body. In fact there are two more side panels to go in which actually cover a fair amount of the bulkhead details. In the centre of the bulkhead is the crew access door.



For additional interest and to utilise those over cab roof panels, I decided to pull it apart and cut out the crew access door to position it as open. It looks messy where I pulled the floor panel off but it is not in its final position here, just roughly placed so that will clean up OK. The two lines on the floor sides just behind the thin vertical bars are the location points for the two additional panels mentioned above which will cover a lot of the bulkhead when viewed through the rear doors



So, before I can go much further, I have to paint and detail the inside of the Ambulance body before I can put the false roof on. I also have to paint the cab interior and fit the glazing before I can mount the rear bodywork. Only then can I add the rear panel and outer roof before painting the exterior. All in all, a bit of a puzzle to build and it does mean building a fair bit after a lot of finish painting has been done.

Well worth taking a break and forming a strategy before just slapping glue on and getting stuck.

[spanner570]

Looks good Graham. Nice detail......Posty has yet to deliver my contribution...Might be difficult for him, as I've yet to find anything suitable and a bit different from the norm for this SIG build.....

Ron

[papa 695]

Very interesting Graham it's a little like having two kits in one, having to build paint and weather/wear the interior, then build the exterior around it. I'm sure you will crack it and do a great job of it

[Guest]

some decent progress going on here Graham, like you say it looks like there's a fair amount of interior painting to do before it's all buttoned up ... it'll be worth it though.

[Guest]

Cheers guys, next step is a bit of primer so I will know more from that how trick/easy it will be to spray in the confined areas. It is indeed like having two kits not helped by the fact that the inner rear 'floats' a bit in that it does not always actually attach to the outer where I would like it to. Gluing the rear body to the chassis is going to be great fun lol.

Ron, I am sure no matter what you do it will become your own and I know your base will set it off. I saw your question re ground detail, I am sure I read in one of the posts that this was OK, I had a plan to do some anyway but will await the definitive answer before I plan that to far, good point.

[Guest]

I saw your question re ground detail, I am sure I read in one of the posts that this was OK, I had a plan to do some anyway but will await the definitive answer before I plan that to far, good point.

Ditto, i thought i'd read similar about a small bit of detailing being ok.

[Guest]

Right, braved the cold and went out into the shed to do some priming. A quick blast over the bits I ned to work on next using my favourite Vallejo Polyurethane Acrylic Primer this time I used Nato Green primer for two reasons. One, I was intending to leave the cab interior in Nato Green but have since changed my mind as it would have most likely been re sprayed in IDF colours, two, I had not used it before and wanted to see what t looked like as my 1:24 Humber Pig will be in Nato Green and it looks spot on.

This needs to fully cure now before I start spraying the interior of the rear body and doing a bit of detailing. Not much as little will be visible.







This shows the replacement 'Bull Bar' and mounting bracket for the IDF version. Also, you can see the replacement resin wheels that are loosely in place.

[Ian M]

Looking very good. Its quite a detailed kit by the look of it.

Ian M

[Guest]

great job graham

[Guest]

Looking a great work Graham!!

Have fun!

[Guest]

Coming along nicely Graham. Cant wait ti see you do your stuff on this one.

Andy

[Guest]

Was hoping to spray interior today but, when I plucked up the courage to go out into shed, I could not find the pot of paint. I was sure I had one and my stock spreadsheet tells me I have one but be blowed if I can find it. So, poor stock control stops play today

[Guest]

Graham thats really looking great,shame a misplaced jar of paint slowed ya up! Looking forward to seeing more done when you get that missing paint issue resolved! cheers Trey