5.....4.....3.....2.....1......Thunderbirds are GO!

[zak]

I agree with Martin - real modelling.
Should be good.

One can only hope it will be, its all trial and error, it may end up looking nothing like the real thing (can I say that?)- well the original model anyway.

[zak]

After dusting and hoovering, I knocked up the explosives truck/tractor. This is carried along with a Heli jet. The Heli jet on the top and the truck inside the road machine, the front opens to allow it to enter.

[chriswil42]

What are you using for tracked wheels? From the spares box?

[zak]

What are you using for tracked wheels? From the spares box?

Yes, but from the Thunderbirds box, it is from an extra Mole, most of the tracked vehicles used the same chassis. The studio models used a toy Vickers Vigor tractor.
Look here
https://picclick.co.uk/VICTORY-INDUSTRIES-VICKERS-VIGOR-TRACTOR-with-BOX-vintage-395855784770.html

They apparently bought a job lot, they also seemed to have used the Revell 1:32 Kaman Husky for bits of the Heli Jet.

[zak]

The explosives tractor.
Bits of plastic card and rod.
More bits of plastic stuck onto the road constructor.

[cph64]

Wow!! this is looking really great. Keep at it.

[zak]

More bits stuck on.
I now have to cut a heli jet down as this one is too big!

[Bigkev]

Looking great. Some nautical items from the spares box I see.
What is the red disc?

[zak]

Looking great. Some nautical items from the spares box I see.
What is the red disc?

The top of a cocktail stick container.
Yes, some searchlights and fire control towers.

[Bigkev]

Looking great. Some nautical items from the spares box I see.
What is the red disc?

The top of a cocktail stick container.
Yes, some searchlights and fire control towers.

A very enterprising re-use, and inventive.

[zak]

Sloshing some paint around.

[zak]

More sloshing, all brush painted with my not so steady hand.
This is the next generation of road construction vehicle and carries the number 201.
Some tidying up to do, some weathering and a coat of varnish as well.

[MSea]

Well sloshed       

[Bigkev]

Wow, that is really impressive.
A quick and comprehensive build.
You deserve a drink to celebrate completion.
Go and get sloshed!!

[chriswil42]

Excellent Dave and built pretty quickly too.