I wasn’t feeling up to doing much today say I quickly put together a jeep and painted it. I will use this as part of the army although not for the up coming competition.
I asked myself whern you are short of time why did you work on something that didn’t need to be completed and all I could come up with was ‘COZ!
Jeeps were real work horses in World War II and they turned up in the most unusual places.
Because it was just about impossible to build roads through New Guinea and Borneo Jeeps were one of the few vehicles that could travel through the jungles marshes and mud flats.
They were used for gun tows, ferrying supplies and ammunition, and ambulances.
Prior to 1940 the term “jeep” had been used as U.S. Army slang for new recruits or vehicles, but the World War II “jeep” that went into production in 1941 specifically tied the name to this light military 4×4, arguably making them the oldest four-wheel drive mass-production vehicles.
Production of the Willys MB, better known as Jeep, began in 1941, shared between Willys, Ford, and American Bantam. 8,598 units were produced that year and 359,851 units before the end of World War II. Willys–Overland ranked 48th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. In total, 653,568 military Jeeps were manufactured.
I put together a second Jeep at the same time and will paint that in the next few days when i get time.
Nice work, the photo with the jungle leaf on it made it look like part of the jeep was missing… then all of a sudden the leaf swam into view.
Phew!
That’s a nice model, Dave! 🙂 I like jeeps with the canopies in place!
Thanks John I do too – makes it easier to paint!
Great looking distraction piece Dave, sometimes we need to just paint something we want to, even it isn’t for the list we need at the time.
Agreed. Cannot wait until I can start something different!
Nice jeep and I know what you mean about working on stuff that you don’t necessarily need for a game! I’ve been trying to be more focused, but it also doesn’t hurt to just paint something else and let creativity take over! 😀
Yep. Agree wholeheartedly. Looking forward to completing this in a few days and painting something else……………………any bloody thing else!
Nice painting – especially the roof tarp – and btw I loved to drive the old jeep.
Thanks. The tarp was just khaki and a brown wash.
Nice gallery. This car is very expensive in my place for collection