Greetings All,
Since I've recently brought over my RNAS Ambulance project I thought it would be a good time bring over the project done before the Rolls Royce. This project was also intended to be part of a diorama as well. The diorama was to set in the early years of the Great War and to include a SPAD A-2 and possibly a second aircraft as well. The SPAD A-2 was to be scratch built in plastic using a card kit as its basis . The A-2 was actually started and progressed as far as the fuselage when I discovered the shape was completely wrong thanks to finding much better drawings. The second fighter if I had decided to go ahead with it would have been a Dufaux C.2 also based on a card kit.
While neither of the aircraft left the ground so to speak,I did complete the conversion of a 1907 Renault Landaulet into a French Airfield Truck. The Truck conversion was based of the Minicraft repop of the Revell Highway Pioneer's 1907 Renault Landaulet. The kit had the base shape I wanted but very little else in the way of detail. These missing details were scratch built using the Pyro 1906 Renault Towne Car as a guide.
So on with the photos of the conversion. As always any and all comments are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks for taking a look and I hope you'll enjoy and maybe try a project such as this on sometime.
Task #1 Surgery time,cutting up the donor kit. Removed the molded on cab from the frame.
Extended frame and the beginnings of work on the bed.
Another view without the kit radiator sitting in place.
