The New Jeep

[playmofire]

Hmmm ... I was asking about modifying the vehicles, Gordon ...

In an unintentionally perverse way I suppose I answered your question!

[Richard]

In an unintentionally perverse way I suppose I answered your question!

Yes, I suppose you did ...

[playmofire]

Just to round things off, here is a photo of the police version of the G-Wagen and a view of the different rear treatments.  The police and ambulance versions are both the same (ambulance on the right) so I've taken the opportunity to show the rear interior common to all.

When I was in the toyshop last week, I noticed a Peterkin BMW Z4 which must be about Playmo scale.  I'm going to look in and take a photo with a klicky alongside it and post it in a new thread.

[Outback]

I like those. Tha Canadian Army uses 4 dr G-wagons of the same type.

[playmofire]

I've just completed a custom general purpose fire brigade tipper on a Peterkin Unimog chassis.  I had a chassis and cab spare from an aborted emergency tender custom and decided to hang on to it with the view to building a custom flatbed truck.  I had actually built the flatbed when I came across a new Peterkin set on the construction theme.  This had in it a Unimog tipper in "kommunal" orange and a G Class also in orange, as well as some figures and signs.  I decided to buy the set, keep the G Class and the Uninmog, passing the rest on to a friend in the village who works for a local playgroup.  The Unimog I then used to supply tipper body for my spare fire engine chassis and here are the results.  The load are 1:35 sacks from Britains farm series but here representing sandbags for flood defences.

The tipper mechanism operates with quite a fancy gear mechanism - see fourth photo

[playmofire]

Now here's the G Wagen in construction livery.  A new version of it has also appeared in revised police livery of silvery with blue and yellow battenburg markings as opposed to the original white and blue and yellow.  This reflects the move over here to a silver base for policd vehicles as silver gives cars a better resale value.