1/24 scale SAS Pink Panther Land Rover by Kit Form Services

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Stick Legs said:

Surely as SAS in a desert theatre they’ll have their shemags up.

Good call and saves having to master face painting!

[Stick Legs]

Super Sonic said:

Also in all the pics I've seen, the SAS have black rectangular eye protectors.

[Prolex-UK]

These figures are 70s based i think.

Are in shorts with head scarf thing on but with the face free.

One below

https://kitformservices.com/products/sas-pink-pant...

Edited by Prolex-UK on Friday 29th December 07:39

[100SRV]

Prolex-UK said:

Thanks.

According to the research I did the underneath is pink as well.

Article said first batch of landies rejected by SAS as not painted. Apparently not being painted causes a vehicle to be visible from above...

Also tyres were painted pink on side walls. Have dry brushed mine.

I'm intrigued by this, anyone care to explain?

[Murph7355]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Good call and saves having to master face painting!

Look up posts from robmcdonald a while ago.

He posted up a series of figure painting he did...might even have done one with this Land Rover. Step by stepped what he did iirc, and they looked great.

[Prolex-UK]

100SRV said:

Prolex-UK said:

Thanks.

According to the research I did the underneath is pink as well.

Article said first batch of landies rejected by SAS as not painted. Apparently not being painted causes a vehicle to be visible from above...

Also tyres were painted pink on side walls. Have dry brushed mine.

I'm intrigued by this, anyone care to explain?

Here is the article I got the info from

https://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/3...

Don't forget to paint all the tyres around the rim in an untidy fashion like in the pic too. The black donut, being an un-natural perfect circle shape, stands out in the desert so the SAS painted the tyres part way out in a non-uniform pattern to break up the circle shape.


and

I've got a real one and It's been Pink twice. Both times very different tones. You can see it in the paint chip layers on the diff guards.
The Regiment lads used to draw straws to see who would get to do it. The loser crudely masked off the lights/dials, painted it with a yard brush then drove it about to get stuff stuck in the paint, further reducing the refleciveness of the flat panels. We Brits got the idea from the Americans who discovered that pink was effective in the Western Desert WW2. The pink on flat panels reflects the setting desert sun the same colour as the granulated surfave of the sand/rocks.
The paint is basically a tin of grey primer mixed with red oxide primer. The matter it was the better though for a scale model you'd have more interest from a low sheen finish. Don't forget that they were pink all over including underneath. The SAS returned the first back of factory pink vehicals because Marshals (of Cambridge) had not covered the bottle green of the production line. This gave then a huge dark shadow/signature.
The only reference I've ever seen or heard of re a yellow Pinky is the Tamiya one.

[Prolex-UK]

Small amount of progress to report

Passengers side stowage added

Carl Gustav tripod and the vehicle jack.

Drivers side completed just need touching up then weathering

[Prolex-UK]

GPMGs done

Bit of tidying now

They have remote control option as well

[dr_gn]

Nearly there

[Prolex-UK]

dr_gn said:

Nearly there

Extra baggage

Weathering

Figures

Enjoying it which is half the job

[Prolex-UK]

All done.



Will post more pictures in the show me thread

[dudleybloke]

Nice!

[Cotty]

Looks great

[Stick Legs]

Superb.

[generationx]

Excellent.

[dr_gn]

Great job. Very, very nice how you’ve displayed on a base, with figures too.

[Prolex-UK]

dr_gn said:

Great job. Very, very nice how you’ve displayed on a base, with figures too.

Danke

Now trying to do 3d printing.....

[Super Sonic]

Yeah that lokes great. The smoke launchers look a bit phallic though!

[robemcdonald]

Nice build!