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waterbok wrote:

can you move the camera a little bit to the left
cant see what Wallace (it think its him) is doing.

He would appear to be using a rabbit to polish the hubcaps on his van

Either that or he's just toppled over.

Jonny wrote:

Stunning finish, Jonny! I never get this good results

larbut wrote:

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Stunning finish, Jonny! I never get this good results

Ta ... but as anyone can hold a spraycan, I don't think the difference can be in the painting or clearcoating - so it must be in the preparation beforehand. As luck would have it, I'm writing a piece on that very subject for the TB blog, I guess you'll see it before anyone else

More progress ...


The holes not filled by LEDs in the rear lights look very obvious ...





... so I filled them with appropriately coloured 3mm LEDs, they're not wired in but did have a bit of heatshrink put over the conductors so they don't rattle:




All coming together quite nicely ...




Apart from the interior - there's not enough headroom for the drivers' hat. I did think about dremelling the neck down a bit & taking the top off the hat, but it was much easier to just angle the rear of the interior down a bit- TBH you wouldn't notice it unless I told you & you had another re-re Bruiser next to it to compare.

I did a test fit & there was plenty of room, so a poky thing through the hole where it should be screwed through marked where the new hole needed to be:





My hole drilling isn't as bad as this looks - it looks so rough as I had to start the hole at a 90 degree angle then work the bit over to the correct angle:





The kit screws weren't long enough, I would have liked to use Tamiya screws but couldn;t find any, the button/hex head ones I did find look ok ... I don't know why it looks rusty in the photo




Still have to sort the wiring, but it's pretty much done apart from the decals ... I just wanted to appreciate it in its bare blueness for a while - metallic blue trucks do look good without decals (my Super Clod was the same, I ummed & ahhed for quite a while before putting the decals on that).

Finished the wiring:

Nice job , I rather prefer the warm white LED but the blueisch looks good with your paint.
I was thinking of using yellow or orange on the front corner light, you used white right?

waterbok wrote:

Nice job , I rather prefer the warm white LED but the blueisch looks good with your paint.
I was thinking of using yellow or orange on the front corner light, you used white right?

I followed the manual on that point - no paint on the lens, making it a sidelight, so I put a white LED in it, and the lenses in the bumper call for clear orange paint, making them indicators.

To me that makes some sense, but I do wonder if it would have looked better if I'd painted the front corner lights orange (making them indicators) & leave the ones in the bumper clear, making them fog lights. TBH I think it probably would look better that way round /

Looks spamfastic Jonathan! You're gonna have to loose those bumpers though, they're pulling my eye from the realism. I think the High Lift or vintage Hilux ones would look better

New description of splendour - Jonnytastic!

it only looks like a real land cruiser.
The paint is so shiny I AM JEALOUS my f 350 is beuuuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkk.
SNIFFFFFFFFFFF
Are you bodies repairer?