discussion Roden 1/35 1920 Rolls Royce Armoured Car

[Bigfoot57]

So as the title says this is a Rolls-Royce 1920 Armoured Car by Roden
Never built anything from this company yet so this could be good or awful one or the other so first off we’ll give you some box art , sprues and the first page of the instructions
Looking at it this one would be better to be painted whilst still on the sprue as there is lots of intricate pieces all in different colours

 

[pjgtech]

Nice, think I saw a 1:72 version of this once, but not seen that scale, looks interesting....

 

[Neil]

Nice. Does it have a little bulldog too? That would be

 

[Bigfoot57]

Roden 1/35 1920 Rolls Royce Armoured Car Part 1​

 

[Bigfoot57]

So we begin with the construction of the engine as you can see I pre-painted most of the parts Looks fairly straight forward unfortunately it wasn’t. I had numerous fit problems along with slightly misaligned holes and pins but I got there in the wnd with a presentable engine


Next I built the wheels and started adding items to the Right hand side of frame that will form the chassis of the vehicle


And finally joining the two frames together which was an absolute nightmare I was trying to force the other side onto these other pieces. Some of them started snapping off again so I had to stop re-glue them and leave them overnight and then try again. Finally I got the two sides together minus one piece that decided it was gonna part company with the rest of the build so I had to rebuild that piece. It’s in the tweezers at the moment setting before I try and fit it again it goes right at the front of the chassis