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The kit
was purchased from a company in the UK called Toylander,
their comprehensive web site www.toylander.co.uk has
various plans and complete kits available for sale,
I have opted to make this one from scratch and
modify the spec slightly. (I'm already thinking of
how to add a jet engine to it).
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The start of
the manufacture turned out to be a bit of an epic session,
the photo above was taken about 2 hours in to the build
(we started at 18:00), nice and fresh and enthusiastic. |
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All the parts have now been marked
out as per the 1:1 scale plans provided and cut out using
a jigsaw, we were
pretty careful with the measurements, so we worked slowly
but surely. I think it was about 23:30 at this point,
starting to wilt slightly.
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The cutouts were then laid upon
another sheet of 12mm birch ply and drawn out, this sheet
will act as the pattern for Woot's Jeep. |
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The start of the assembly, what
a good feeling it is to get to this stage. 20mm x 20mm
planed timber is used to reinforce and connect the various
panels together, the joints are screwed and glued together
for strength.
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Ooooooooh, its starting to look
like a Jeep, it was getting quite late at this point
and I
had to concentrate even to do the simplest of things. |
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Maybe you can tell from my face
that I was quite tired, but we had reached a good point
in the build to stop. Pretty
glad really as it was approaching 03:00. Time for bed. |
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Another nights work and then there
were two. |
MGF
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