Tim’s Airfix 1/35 Austin K2/Y Ambulance .

[Tim Marlow]

Great update and even better work being done on this Tim!!! I'm still hanging in there and loving it...


Before or after you did the job Mr. Smiff???...

Thanks Allen, too kind! As to Andy, that would probably be “during” rather than before or after LOL…..

[The Smythe Meister]

Thanks Allen, too kind! As to Andy, that would probably be “during” rather than before or after LOL…..

How very dare you Sir....
... It'd be mostly ,"After"...
...... mainly because I'd have almost had enough after all of the "Before" and "During" tipples

[Tim Marlow]

Well, after a weeks hiatus while I fought off a minor infection with a reduced immune system, I have got a bit more done…..



Body assembled and main colour painted and faded. Pin wash and dust applications will be done after it’s completed and decalled…..some minor filling needed, but mostly due to my ham fisted and impatient assembly.



Chassis painted and pin washed. Note the horrible Austin engine colour……used up until the early seventies (my old 1972 Austin 1300 engine was this colour). Dust will tone it down a bit….

Next job is to assemble the body onto the chassis so I can complete the bonnet area build and add the minor parts and some extra detail.

Getting there now. Once the body and chassis are United it’s all downhill…..

Cheers all

[Neil Merryweather]

great job, Tim.
Sorry to hear about the infection, but glad to see you back in the saddle.
I bet the instructions didn't tell you about the engine colour (which I love)?

[Tim Marlow]

great job, Tim.
Sorry to hear about the infection, but glad to see you back in the saddle.
I bet the instructions didn't tell you about the engine colour (which I love)?

Hi Neil. Cheers for the support. Nope, the engine colour was not in the instructions. Never is to be honest. According to kit makers they are either body coloured or black…..
As to the infection, par for the course these days. My wife got over it in two days, and it’s taken me just over a week now……

[Guest]

Morning Tim.
Glad to see your better than before. Not nice when you have a reduced tolerance.

The build is looking neat and clean. As a side I remember from bitter experience that the artillery had black webbing. Bitter because every damn year they had to scrub it clean and do a normal blanco for the yearly inspection. Even us in the LAD has to follow suit. Cant think of any one who could afford to have a second set ready . Madness or what.

[Tim Marlow]

Morning Tim.
Glad to see your better than before. Not nice when you have a reduced tolerance.

The build is looking neat and clean. As a side I remember from bitter experience that the artillery had black webbing. Bitter because every damn year they had to scrub it clean and do a normal blanco for the yearly inspection. Even us in the LAD has to follow suit. Cant think of any one who could afford to have a second set ready . Madness or what.

Hi John. No, it isn’t great. Don’t notice it until it’s needed though……

As to the blanco, that’s just ridiculous. Why on earth did they have one colour for use and another colour for the annual inspection? Sometimes Military Intelligence really is a contradiction in terms…..

[scottie3158]

Tim,
This is really looking nice.

[Mickc1440]

That's really looking nice Tim, lovely paint job

[Airborne01]

Hi John. No, it isn’t great. Don’t notice it until it’s needed though……

As to the blanco, that’s just ridiculous. Why on earth did they have one colour for use and another colour for the annual inspection? Sometimes Military Intelligence really is a contradiction in terms…..

'They' did the same with us with plimsolls during various periods of 'retraining' - sometimes black, sometimes white! As I puff my chest out nowadays I can say "It made me the man I am today!" (Not really, it never worked ...)
Steve (The much older, more cynical, and none the wiser version)

[The Smythe Meister]

'They' did the same with us with plimsolls during various periods of 'retraining' - sometimes black, sometimes white! As I puff my chest out nowadays I can say "It made me the man I am today!" (Not really, it never worked ...)
Steve (The much older, more cynical, and none the wiser version)

Bet you remember painting grass green,and "enhancing" the white lines on the road into camp eh mate?!
Remember several times doing that,it seemed at the time that making the Airfield more "acceptable" to a Zob,who was visiting,was more important than actually servicing the Aircraft!!

[Guest]

Hi John. No, it isn’t great. Don’t notice it until it’s needed though……

As to the blanco, that’s just ridiculous. Why on earth did they have one colour for use and another colour for the annual inspection? Sometimes Military Intelligence really is a contradiction in terms…..

Well the were called " Planks " by us, does that answer you question

[Airborne01]

Bet you remember painting grass green,and "enhancing" the white lines on the road into camp eh mate?!
Remember several times doing that,it seemed at the time that making the Airfield more "acceptable" to a Zob,who was visiting,was more important than actually servicing the Aircraft!!

Stop it mate! -- we were preparing for a Royal visit in Aldershot some time in the early 70's - a Guards RSM (who else could be that anal?) made us paint out the evidence of a generator creating black marks on 'his' grass - and - lined up the tent pegs (fore and aft) with the aid of a cord and two pegs ... you couldn't make it up could you? Thanks for re-igniting those dark memories (that's what Kate has just said because I've this moment re-aligned the front garden flower pots) - I won't sleep easily tonight now ... :anguished:
Steve

[Airborne01]

Well the were called " Planks " by us, does that answer you question

OOOH, vicious!

[The Smythe Meister]

Stop it mate! -- we were preparing for a Royal visit in Aldershot some time in the early 70's - a Guards RSM (who else could be that anal?) made us paint out the evidence of a generator creating black marks on 'his' grass - and - lined up the tent pegs (fore and aft) with the aid of a cord and two pegs ... you couldn't make it up could you? Thanks for re-igniting those dark memories (that's what Kate has just said because I've this moment re-aligned the front garden flower pots) - I won't sleep easily tonight now ... :anguished:
Steve

No need to thank me mate..
... My pleasure!!