Landships II

Can you be more specific? Do you have a picture of the real car you're researching? Ford T were used by a few Allied countries during the war, and depending on that, it may have been repainted from the original (civilian) black paint scheme, or applied some sort of insignia or numerals.
Scout car may have had some different body designs or converted locally. The RPM kit brings a design, and perhaps, if based on Palestine, these might have been some sort of light khaki...
HTH

Maybe these would help?

https://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/b469/JackM47/ModelTFordLtCarPtl0145-1.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/8151205278/sizes/k/in/photostream/

http://www.rarecarrelics.com/data/storage/attachments/9ff67b7467a4cc89170304be91e1f298.JPG

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWford.htm

 

If in Palestine... dust is fine!

D.

 

"As it seems there was only one ever built, and it never left the UK"

Hi Rob, more then a few saw service in the middle east, two units can be seen here:

RAF Light Armed Car Patrol

Australian Light Car Patrol

Cheers

-- Edited by Ironsides on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 10:11:36 PM

Do you mean the British RPM one? As it seems there was only one ever built, and it never left the UK, at least in scout car form, and there only appears to be one photograph it is unlikely to be able to find a definite colour match, however i'd go with the standard colour for British lorries at the time

Service colour. A bit like this:

What color would that be? A dark olive green? 

Ironsides wrote:

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"As it seems there was only one ever built, and it never left the UK"

Hi Rob, more then a few saw service in the middle east, two units can be seen here:

RAF Light Armed Car Patrol

Australian Light Car Patrol

Cheers

-- Edited by Ironsides on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 10:11:36 PM

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That's not the RPM version though, sadly - the RPM has a more home-built body which is copied from a photo of a Ford of I think 16 MMGS taken in England

 

Hi Rob your quite right there are differences in the bodywork or should I say boxwork there, still cant be that difficult to modify...

judging by GWT pic I would say service colour is a dark chocolate brown... um sounds like PC10 to me.... several suggestions in this thread...

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234929247-best-paint-for-pc-10/

Cheers

Careful... PC10 is a doping formula for aircraft coverings. PC10 (Protective Coat #10) was made of Iron Oxide and Carbon black mix on a cellulose carrier. I think that this wouldn't be suitable to use on land vehicles, which most probably was an enamel of more or less similar colour. Which is fortunate, as PC10 was a formula that can vary quite a lot depending on manufacturers, formulation ratios and such.
If the Fords were modified on the field, it's rather acceptable to think that they were also repainted on the field, that is, without strict colour rules, but choosing a paint that would match the enviroment of the theatre of operations. On the middle east, I frankly doubt that painting a vehicle dark green would be such a good idea...

I for one would certainly not tell you that it was wrong.

maxmwill wrote:

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So, in other words, I have to use my best guess, right?

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 In this case: yes.

Probably that's the very reason why the manufacturer chose to avoid stating an exact colour (I assume you didn't found any mention of it while translating the box text, right?).

If trying to depict a field-modded vehicle, I guess that it might be logical that the colour would try to match the enviroment first and perhaps in second instance, military regulations. Khaki, or greenish brown, are good subdued colours that might be fitting for a scout car.

If you are to model that prototype of the 16 MMGS, I'd opt for a greener version. Here are a couple of examples of vehicle colour from MMGS

Of course, Murphy's Law dictates that as soon as the last coat of greenish paint is applied to your model, some reliable source would pop out and say that all WW1 Fords were painted light violet!

I imagine that. I have the similar Ford T ambulance that surely shares some common parts. But given a little bit of work, it ends up looking nice!

BTW, I didn't painted my model like the box top. I just made an educated guess!

Glad to help.
I bored the solid parts and painted the holes with silver enamel. Once dry (very dry!) I added small drops of CA glue to build up a lens. If you add little by little it won't fog up. Add glue until you get a round surface up front. Be patient, it takes several coats.
I painted the "body" dome and lastly I added a drop of Future floor wax to the lens to make it even shinier. A final touch up on the edges with the dome body colour improves the edges of the front lens.

The gun seems to be a fluted-jacket Vickers gun. Some airplanes have them (Sopwiths, Nieuports) The parts from the Roden kits are rather nice, if you need to improve what's on the RPM kit.
The best, however, are these:
http://www.internetmodeler.com/artman/publish/aviation/Mini-World-1-72-Machine-Guns-Part-2.php

(browse down the page to see the Vickers)
Take into account that this one is the aviation pattern, without handles and with the addition of an arming lever to the lock. Some modification is needed for a land-based vehicle.

You can also check this, for inspiration:

http://www.scalemotorcars.com/content.php?r=305-Scratch-Built-Stock-Ford-Model-T-in-1-8-th-Scale

... and these are the headlights.

Not at all. I made mine with a short lenght of bent copper wire. But I had to add to the lower area of the radiator the "U" support that wasn't included in the kit parts.

maxmwill, have you seen this article on Landships: http://www.landships.info/landships/model_articles.html?load=model_articles/RPM_1_72_Ford_T.html

It might help.