1/35 Israeli CJ-5M (Accurate Armour conversion of Skybow M38A1C)

[Allen Dewire]

Evening Jim,

I'm a little late to the party, but I brought my own beer. No cakes for me as they're not good for the figure, so don't worry about crumbs....

Interesting vehicle here and I know you will do it proud. You have enough piccies to go to town now and bang this puppy out!!!

Prost
Allen

[Jim R]

Hi all
Springs and axles built and the final odds and sods attached to the chassis. Believe it or not the chassis, engine, springs and axles etc consists of 55 pieces!!! Sad I know but I counted them :thinking: Come on Skybow that is taking the wee-wee :angry:




I forgot to photograph the whole thing. Too busy looking through all the great ref piccies Steve sent.

I started on the body panels. Just floor, sides and bulkhead, Somewhere something was slightly out, only a fraction but it meant that fitting body to the chassis had to be done in stages. Rear glued - left 24 hours - front clamped and glued. I'll leave it clamped until tomorrow and hopefully it will be ok.


Jim

[adt70hk]

Looking good!!!

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Looking good mate

[Mark1]

No chance of it escaping in the night lol, looks like some decent progress :thumb2: yep I count axle pieces too:smiling5:

[Jim R]

Hi all
Thanks guys.
Took off the clamps and nothing pinged apart so that was good.




Managed to get the rear plate on. That came from the AA set. The bonnet, front wings and grill were a problem. I think with the running gear made up of so many pieces slight errors on my behalf kinda added up and so a fair bit of fettling was needed.


The Israeli modified jeep has a mesh over the grill.


I fitted a few other little pieces and gave the whole thing a coat of black Stynylrez primer. Hopefully the black will create a shadow effect when the top coat goes on.


The dashboard is next. Again much modified for the IDF. They also fitted a .30 calibre mg on the passenger side.

Jim

[Mark1]

Looking good with some primer on.

[scottie3158]

Looking nice so far mate. That's a good finish with the primer.

[Guest]

That’s coming together very nicely. I built one of these years ago, I think when Skybow was still its own manufacturer, but I don’t remember any specifics so unfortunately I can’t recommend any specific methods or things to pay attention to. But you seem to have it well under control anyway

[Jim R]

Hi all
A bit more progress although I've actually spent more time than expected to get to this stage. Lots of little parts and marrying the kit with the conversion.
A dry fit of the parts so far. Mr Surfacer 500 to texture the seats a bit.






The usual forest of bits for painting.


A very light top coat of Vallejo IDF Sand Grey so that shadows and wear and tear shows through.






I've started detail painting. Neither the kit or the AA conversion had any decals for the instrument panel. So I used some from the spares - I think these actually came from a plane. In the true Ron school of mogglin' they'll do for me, at least better than I could paint. :tongue-out3:


Jim

[JR]

Love it Jim, those dials look spot on, esp the altimeter :smiling3:

[Mark1]

Looking good Jim, yep I've got a few with altimeter speedos :thumb2:

[Steve Jones]

Most of my vehicles have Spitfire dials. Terrific work on the wet stuff Jim. Nice to see

[Allen Dewire]

Looking very nice Jim. The shading came through great too. As to the altimeter........Hey when they fired the stovepipe, I bet this thing jumped up in the air a bit..........

Prost
Allen

[Lee Drennen]

Beautiful build Jim very detailed I like it.