I suppose I'm a lurker here, just watching the cool pictures go by, but I have played at building cars. I built a Dax Rush Quadra before the kids were born, which I still have today 12 years later.
Then when the kids came along money was a bit tighter, but I still wanted to build something. So what better than, build something for the kids. I purchased the plans for a mini sized Landrover series two from real life toys and started gathering together the various bits and pieces required to make it. I wanted to build a Toylander with a bit of a difference. I wanted twin motors, disc brakes and big fat wheels.
So you get two sheets of MR MDF and get cutting.
I purchsed two motors and some mountain bike disc brakes and some chunky quad bike wheels.
Slowly but surely this all turned into a little landy.
I then created a mould for the bonnet out of fibreglass, the plans suggest using aluminium but I prefered GRP, and then made the part from the mould. No pictures of the mould building but this was the finished product.
And then I don't seem to have any pictures of the rest of the build just the finished product. The Landy was painted by hand using a roller and some of Dulux's finest exterior gloss.
And at that point I thought it was finished, but more was to come.
Then when the kids came along money was a bit tighter, but I still wanted to build something. So what better than, build something for the kids. I purchased the plans for a mini sized Landrover series two from real life toys and started gathering together the various bits and pieces required to make it. I wanted to build a Toylander with a bit of a difference. I wanted twin motors, disc brakes and big fat wheels.
So you get two sheets of MR MDF and get cutting.
I purchsed two motors and some mountain bike disc brakes and some chunky quad bike wheels.
Slowly but surely this all turned into a little landy.
I then created a mould for the bonnet out of fibreglass, the plans suggest using aluminium but I prefered GRP, and then made the part from the mould. No pictures of the mould building but this was the finished product.
And then I don't seem to have any pictures of the rest of the build just the finished product. The Landy was painted by hand using a roller and some of Dulux's finest exterior gloss.
And at that point I thought it was finished, but more was to come.
