Thinned the front wheel arches as scaling it up to full size the thickness would have been 99mm (4”). In fact the kit part is probably not far off the actual thickness of the real Matador wheel arch.
The cab detail is very sparse so I busied it up. It may not be 100% accurate as you probably won’t be able to see much when it’s all buttoned up….and it turns out I forgot to take a photo of the interior painted.
It probably would have been better to chose a four wheel Matador kit rather than the six wheel refueller, but that’s the only Matador kit I have so I shortened the chassis and altered the suspension. The leaf springs are resin copies from the Bedford QL.
And the craney bit. The cable is from a set of old in-ear headphones which had a very slender cable. Wasn’t easy stripping the plastic off but it’s perfect for the job.
From the photos it’s very difficult to see what the back of the vehicle actually looked like.
Alex K Another Gorby-licious small-scale "weird" (we wouldn't want you any other way) creation... Definitely in! 👍
10 August, 15:13
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AEC Matador REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)
Having done the Bedford QL from the 1/76 Airfix refuelling set I was left with an AEC Matador so after a short Googlalisation I saw a photo and the decision was made. 🙂
I found a few other photos of similar vehicles (some post war civvies) although the one thing all the photos had in common is that they are all a bit crap, so some the build will have to be ‘best guess’ AGAIN! The kit is from the dark ages when simple humans thought orange checked flares actually looked cool. As such, the kit is a bit simplified. Fortunately I’ll only be using the cab, chassis and wheels.
I first built the refuelling set only a few years after it was first released (although I wasn’t cool enough for the orange flares 🙁 ) and I suspect I’d have built and painted it on the day it was bought. This time it’s taken me three months. My younger self wouldn’t have been impressed. 😄
Alex K
