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

[Tim Marlow]

Tim,
This is really looking nice.

Cheers Scottie. Still got time to cock it up

[Tim Marlow]

That's really looking nice Tim, lovely paint job

Cheers Mick, glad you like it…..

[Tim Marlow]

'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)

May well have made you the man you are today…..it’s just that the man they made wasn’t the one they intended…….

[Mark1]

Progressing nicely Tim

[Tim Marlow]

Progressing nicely Tim

Cheers Mark

[Airborne01]

May well have made you the man you are today…..it’s just that the man they made wasn’t the one they intended…….

Now let's stop this conversation sweet cheeks - this is purportedly a civilised, geriatric, fun-loving, non-judgemental , plastic (et al) bashing forum ... yeah right!
Steve

[adt70hk]

Good to see you back at the bench Tim. That's coming on very nicely.....in spite of the putrid green engine!!! any idea why that colour?

ATB.

Andrew

[Ian M]

Good to see you are back on the case.

The build is looking, as I believe they say in your part of the nation "lovely".

[The Smythe Meister]

Sorry Tim,in all of the interesting conversation earlier I actually forgot to comment on your Katey in my post!!.....
.... Ian is correct...
... It IS looking "lovely"

[Tim Marlow]

Good to see you back at the bench Tim. That's coming on very nicely.....in spite of the putrid green engine!!! any idea why that colour?

ATB.

Andrew

Cheers Andrew. The engine is that colour because that’s the colour Austin painted ‘em…..it’s actually a turquoise colour that the pin wash and oil staining has turned green…..Morris engines were more grass green I seem to remember. Other manufacturers used different colours. No idea why, unless it helps when looking for oil leaks……
As an aside, BMC reconditioned engines (gold seal) were sprayed with a thick gold paint in the seventies and eighties. Made them look even worse than this turquoise when dirty……I seem to recall a Silver seal range as well but I never saw any of them.

[The Smythe Meister]

Cheers Andrew. The engine is that colour because that’s the colour Austin painted ‘em…..it’s actually a turquoise colour that the pin wash and oil staining has turned green…..Morris engines were more grass green I seem to remember. Other manufacturers used different colours. No idea why, unless it helps when looking for oil leaks……
As an aside, BMC reconditioned engines (gold seal) were sprayed with a thick gold paint in the seventies and eighties. Made them look even worse than this turquoise when dirty……I seem to recall a Silver seal range as well but I never saw any of them.

I actually like the lump that colour ... adds a bit of character/contrast imo

[Tim Marlow]

Good to see you are back on the case.

The build is looking, as I believe they say in your part of the nation "lovely".

Cheers Ian.

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry Tim,in all of the interesting conversation earlier I actually forgot to comment on your Katey in my post!!.....
.... Ian is correct...
... It IS looking "lovely"

Don’t expect anything different from you mate…..so easily sidetracked he is…….so what was i saying??

[Tim Marlow]

I actually like the lump that colour :smiling3: ... adds a bit of character/contrast imo

I don’t know for certain they were that colour, but it’s the colour the preservation guys paint theirs. I know my 1974 Austin engine was that colour. The various marque designations were something BMC kept going for a while after the Nationalisation mergers. It all started disappearing in that decade of soulless profiteering called “the eighties”.

[Tim Marlow]

Slowly plodding on….front assembly finished……just needs the rest of the body parts painted then those big decals and dusting up.

Struggling a bit with it to be honest, worsening RA has sapped my energy and buggered up my fine motor skills. I fully intended to add the wiring for the lights, but am going to go without so I can at least finish her…..

Never mind, infusions start Friday, six hours with a drip in my arm with a follow up dose two weeks later. Hopefully this will finally bring it under control…..best thing is this treatment is supposed to last at least six months, so I may finally get some normality for a while.