Camel Trophy Land Rover Discovery I
True to form, this will be another scale build that will get wheeled pretty hard.
This is truly my white whale as i did attempt this build over a year ago and just couldn't pull it together.
It got away...
The basis is a kamtec disco body. Kamtec really liked my D110 pickup and offered to send me my choice of bodies in return for letting them use photos of the 110 on their site. After selling off my partially finished disco body last year, I was in need of another so this offering was fortuitous
This one, like my last attempt will be sprayed with the correct Sand Glow Yellow paint...not the Tamiya Camel Yellow. To get the right color I had to do some digging. Since it wasn't a color used on any production Rovers aside from the CT trucks getting a code from the Disco's and Defenders was a dead end. Lots of folks and resources tell you that the CT rigs were sprayed Sand Glow yellow but to get the right color from a picture was tough. The color photographs differently in different light; sometimes it looks yellow, sometimes beige, sometimes mustard... Thankfully some of my older car manuals held the key.
I'm a car dork and have had over 38 cars since I was given a license 22 years ago. My first was a '73 MGB. Since this was pre-internet I had all the manuals and any scrap of literature I could scavenge on anything MG related. I remembered seeing an odd magazine reference about Sand Glow Yellow in a brit car mag...I began pouring over old MG color charts and there, in 1976, was my color. Thankfully British Leyland owned or had owned at one time, many of the British car companies we love and thankfully the Sandglow Yellew used on the '76 MG was the same code as used on the CT trucks.
The mechanical side is the venerable scx10 dingo kit. It now together and ill be wheeling it and making changes as I work on the body.
Day 2 sporting a few mods from the normal build including chassis mounted steering and an oil pan. I'm trying to devise a basic behind the axle steering system to mimic the 1:1's. The axles may not be super scale to my cause, but i can do what I can.
This is how the body arrives.
There's a good likelihood that this will be a bit bigger than a 1:1 CT Disco as I really don't want to scale back my wheeling spots and trails.
True to form, this will be another scale build that will get wheeled pretty hard.
This is truly my white whale as i did attempt this build over a year ago and just couldn't pull it together.
It got away...
The basis is a kamtec disco body. Kamtec really liked my D110 pickup and offered to send me my choice of bodies in return for letting them use photos of the 110 on their site. After selling off my partially finished disco body last year, I was in need of another so this offering was fortuitous
This one, like my last attempt will be sprayed with the correct Sand Glow Yellow paint...not the Tamiya Camel Yellow. To get the right color I had to do some digging. Since it wasn't a color used on any production Rovers aside from the CT trucks getting a code from the Disco's and Defenders was a dead end. Lots of folks and resources tell you that the CT rigs were sprayed Sand Glow yellow but to get the right color from a picture was tough. The color photographs differently in different light; sometimes it looks yellow, sometimes beige, sometimes mustard... Thankfully some of my older car manuals held the key.
I'm a car dork and have had over 38 cars since I was given a license 22 years ago. My first was a '73 MGB. Since this was pre-internet I had all the manuals and any scrap of literature I could scavenge on anything MG related. I remembered seeing an odd magazine reference about Sand Glow Yellow in a brit car mag...I began pouring over old MG color charts and there, in 1976, was my color. Thankfully British Leyland owned or had owned at one time, many of the British car companies we love and thankfully the Sandglow Yellew used on the '76 MG was the same code as used on the CT trucks.
The mechanical side is the venerable scx10 dingo kit. It now together and ill be wheeling it and making changes as I work on the body.
Day 2 sporting a few mods from the normal build including chassis mounted steering and an oil pan. I'm trying to devise a basic behind the axle steering system to mimic the 1:1's. The axles may not be super scale to my cause, but i can do what I can.
This is how the body arrives.
There's a good likelihood that this will be a bit bigger than a 1:1 CT Disco as I really don't want to scale back my wheeling spots and trails.
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Looking good so far pal!
I think you will like them. Good tires, I just prefer the Mud Pluggers for my D90. Much better look on both your Disco and my D90. Are those the GMADE landie wheels? or the high $ RC4WD ones? Maybe Kamtek will give you more stuff after seeing this one as well 8) . I had a hell of a day after you showed up. DSL provider fail at a clients business and horrible labor day traffic. I shoulda stayed in bed 
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