You can also see part of the rear bell housing that does not exist on the factory die-cast so I added it as well.

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Stopped at a set of lights one day in an Bedford MK I heard a US tourist ask a copper what unit the army truck was from as it was unmarked - to which the copper replied "oh - thats 21 SAS - none of their stuff is marked.There's an bits of aircraft wreckage on the island of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides that's been exposed to rain and salt spray for 70 years and what's left is corrosion free. I was going to mount 2 on the front and possibly one or two on the sides, the SAS didn’t follow any specific plans and each jeep was different. The spare wheels on the back of the jeep are resin and do not come with accurate mounting instructions so they were attached to where I thought they went. Putting my money where my mouth is, I recently got hold of the Legend set and a pair of Italeri Jeeps to use it on.

British Special Air Service Jeep, Tamiya MM133 (1974)

After some heavy clean-up and removing the large blocks usually found on these kind of resin figures I was ready to begin. To me it appears as though they used an existing M1919 30 cal receiver from another toy and added a M2 50 cal barrel(? A round-headed dressmaker's pin is a better bet than trying to clean up an injection moulded gear lever. Even though I am still in the process of upgrading the gun assembly, you can see the scratch build progress to the gun pedestal. Early Jeeps were fitted with twin Vickers K mounts - which had one small problem no one thought of at the time - the Vickers K was aircraft mounted and relied on airspeed to cool it.

In 1/18th scale this subject really lends itself to having lots of extras added as well as refining many of the model parts. I do not need or desire any lenses on this one but your source information is nice to have for future builds. Then I sprinkled sand onto the base and left to dry, for nowhere near long enough as it turned out ( a thick layer of PVA glue can take days to dry). I painted them randomly using a combination of colours that blended together well, rather than any specific uniforms. The smudges of yellow ochre will be blended in with dust, as my finest brush got into the chubby hands of a 3 year old relative who proceeded to completely destroy it.