Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Land Rover 90: “Camel Trophy 1985, Borneo”

This model is a totally rebuild and remodel from the original kit. Based on the italeri’s (1:35) land rover series II (paratroopers-similar like the tamiya’s pink panther), the model was converted into a land rover 90. The 109 inch wheel based model was cutted into 90 inch wheel base model of land rover 90. Because the base model didn’t have a hard top, and it was a series II land rover, it must took a lot of rebuild and remodel from the hard top, front body, front lamp, side skirt, front bumper, rear body, coil sprung (converted from the old series II leaf sprung). And because the model will be build as the land rover 90 that used in the Camel Trophy 1985 then some details are added to bring it life such as roof rack, bull bar, jerry cans holder, roof rack lamp, winch, side mirror, shovel, axe, and many other details. Almost all of the major were scratch build, except the jerry cans and the snorkel which was taken from the italeri ww2 jerry can set and the academy ford utility snorkel (upgrade with upper cup). A lot of plain plate of plastic (for hardtop, side skirts, roof rack, and other body works) and some various size iron wire (for bull bar, and ) were use to make this model possible and close to the details.

The result is the Land Rover 90 of Camel Trophy 1985, Borneo.

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Building on progress...


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almost done...

and finally done...

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heres one of the reference photos that guide me on building this land rover kit...

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-daniel pras

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do you sell this Camel Trophy model? I want to buy it!