Tim’s Airfix 1/35 Austin K2/Y Ambulance .

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Tim
I’m in for your build of the K2. It will be interesting seeing one of these Katys coming together (I have the Gecko early model kit). It is funny how you can wait ages for a certain model to be manufactured and then several come along all at the same time. This seems to happen too frequently for it just to be coincidence. Anyway, good solid start to the kit and I’m looking forward to the progress.
Cheers, P

[BattleshipBob]

Always room Bob……and as it’s a virtual auditorium there is always room at the front. There is virtual beer, lager, scratchings, and anything else you need or desire……

Cheers Tim, meant the back of the ambulance lol

[Tim Marlow]

Sod the virtual stuff Tim...
... I'm in,
..And I expect the REAL THING from your goodself mate :smiling3:
... After all,I wouldn't give you a fake Pasty,(and NO,I don't mean the real fakers.... ie,the Cornish!! . )

I tried to pass on the real thing via the internet but it just made the computer soggy Andy, so virtual it is I’m afraid…..

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Tim
I’m in for your build of the K2. It will be interesting seeing one of these Katys coming together (I have the Gecko early model kit). It is funny how you can wait ages for a certain model to be manufactured and then several come along all at the same time. This seems to happen too frequently for it just to be coincidence. Anyway, good solid start to the kit and I’m looking forward to the progress.
Cheers, P

Cheers Paul. It would be interesting to compare the Gecko with this one. I do wonder if the 3D renders are made by a separate company and sold on to whoever wants to develop a kit, so if more than one manufacturer takes them up more than one kit results. I know Airfix are releasing other variants on this chassis, one is already announced.

[Tim Marlow]

Cheers Tim, meant the back of the ambulance lol

Yes, room there too Bob. You can sit next to me, I nearly wore it out last year….

[Jim R]

This looks as if it's going together very well. I do wholeheartedly agree with the earlier comment about the manufacturers who have a load of tiny parts to provide detail that will never be seen!
Deciding how much to assemble before painting is often a difficult decision.

[Tim Marlow]

This looks as if it's going together very well. I do wholeheartedly agree with the earlier comment about the manufacturers who have a load of tiny parts to provide detail that will never be seen!
Deciding how much to assemble before painting is often a difficult decision.

It is with this one Jim. The stretcher supports complicate matters. If they weren’t there I would just assemble the box and spray the inside then add the roof……I’ll sort it out though. She’s build really well, it’s just those ejection pin marks that mar the kit really.

[JR]

Seat please Tim , well away from the drunks you seem to have drawn in .

[wotan]

I watched Nigel of Nigel's modelling bench build this. Looks like a nice little kit. Great start and have fun with the ejector pins.

John

[Ian M]

Nice work so far.
Can someone tell me: whats the deal with Airfix and Gekko. Both bring out a K2 Ambulance within weeks of each other, Now Airfix have announced the truck version and bugger me is Gekko have just said the same....

[Tim Marlow]

Seat please Tim , well away from the drunks you seem to have drawn in .

You sir can have the royal box, just to your left there…..

[Tim Marlow]

I watched Nigel of Nigel's modelling bench build this. Looks like a nice little kit. Great start and have fun with the ejector pins.

John

Cheers John. Already having fun with them……luckily I have found a good filler. Mr white putty is the best I’ve used since Tamiya (which is unobtainium over here). Sticks well and cleans up smoothly without tearing.

[Tim Marlow]

Nice work so far.
Can someone tell me: whats the deal with Airfix and Gekko. Both bring out a K2 Ambulance within weeks of each other, Now Airfix have announced the truck version and bugger me is Gekko have just said the same....

Cheers Ian. I‘ve wondered about this for a while. Not sure, and I may be miles from the truth , but I wonder if there is a third party company that produces three D files of the original vehicles then touts them to the modelling companies to turn into kits? More than one company takes up the offer and we get more than one kit produced. I know there was a bit of legal argy bargy commented on about this one, but the sprue numbering in mine (A, B, and D) shows that Airfix were alway going to produce another variant. Just for the purists, the Airfix kit is the early version, and the Gecko kit is the late version, though both have early and late schemes in the instructions……
Me, I bought this one because it was the first one I saw

[The Smythe Meister]

Seat please Tim , well away from the drunks you seem to have drawn in .

Yeah,I know what you mean John...
... that rabble of yours "Oi you... pick that popcorn up" ..... sorry about that,as I was saying, that rabble of yours are getting a bit boisterous,you wouldn't catch me pitching up to a build like that .....
.... now then,where did I put that bloody,buggerin',soddin Zider ?! HIC ,

[Tim Marlow]

Pushing on here……lots of bits mounted ready for primer…..should be able to paint and finish the chassis and the cab/ambulance interior then…..

Don’t know where I’d be without blue tack and scraps and offcuts…..