Don’t get the hump - The Bedford Dromedary
Bizarrely enough, the cab detail doesn’t even stretch to a steering wheel! Asking me to accept that is about likely as me building a Gundam robot thing. Unfortunately there are no photos of the inside of the cab as I wasn’t intending to do a build report.
Notice the scratch-built steering wheel.
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Note for non Brits: ‘Don’t get the hump means ‘don’t get angry’.
Sometimes it’s good to do an out of the box build. It’s good for your mental well-being.
That’s probably why I’m so screwed-up because my intention to do an out of the box build usually gets….eeerrm, a tad over complicated. I try to add extras to state of the art kits, expecting me to do an out of the box build for kits which date back over fifty years to when dinosaurs wore brown flares and orange tank-tops would be torture. I’d also see it as a waste of a kit which may otherwise have potential to turn into something I can be pleased with, rather than be chucked to the back of the drawer never to be seen again. It’s what I enjoy, it’s what I find challenging and keeps my brain engaged. I know there is a conversion kit for this in 1/76 – where would be the fun in that?
The Dromedary was a cunning plan to make the Bedford QL even more unusable, as the same 72bhp engine was expected to haul about twice the usual weight. The normal version struggled with hills so god help the Dromedary drivers. Bughunter told me that ‘Bedford’ sounds like ‘Bad-ford’, probably not far wrong. 😄
I originally wasn’t in the mood to do a build progress report which is why this starts a bit late in the day.
