1/24-1/25 scale Ford Expedition Rescue Vehicle (Reference and WIP Pics)

What were you doing with the masking on the windows?  Is that to do black coloring some vehicles have around the edges of the glass or are you tinting the back windows?

 

 

 

 

Yeah you got it, it's for the black edging that goes around the rear windows. IMO the kit has it molded in too far into the center of the window, but short of Vac-Forming a whole new piece I have no idea how I'd fix it.

The real one is simply tinted however Revell-Monogram decided they would mold it in with a grainy texture, so I'm just going to spray it black. I also masked around molded on details like latches and hinges for the trunk window and the bars on the two bench seat windwos (that separate the static glass from the glass that would roll down)

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks

 I'm looking foreward to seeing how this one progresses.

Thank you, it's a little out of my normal safety zone, I'm a 1/35 armor guy and usually despise the clear parts, one of those things if you mess up painting... that's it.

But I run rescue on this Expedition and I just got my EMT-B certification so I'm really going to put everything I can into it.

I'm going to try and mold little belt buckles and use foil for the belts and so on etc.

What's going to be hard is all the cross bars on the inside (like between the doors and everything) aren't molded in, no part for a rearview mirror... lot of problems with the kit (it's actually older than our rescue vehicle- a 98)

Because it's part of a GB I should finish it a little quicker than my usual builds too! haha

Here's a few minor updates- I'm switching over to the figures for this one at the moment, I'm kind of stuck with how to move forward with the Ford

I was proud of the safety vests I molded in

There's some seat buckles now and the bench seat up front is finished as far as the "seat" part goes- still needs the folding arm-rest/seat-back portion.

The passenger door now has all the protocol  and hazmat flipbooks

This was kind of the idea for the set up of the finished product I'm playing around in my head with.

Thanks for looking

Some more work on the figures- haven't had much time for anything else unfortunitly- but hey- there's my patch

How to on the tattoo

 

Looking great.

Where did you find the figures?

Thanks! They were a mechanic set made by Fujimi Models (good thing you asked online, if I had to say that out loud I think I'd give up).

http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagories/Scale_Figures/FUJ00011003/product.php?s=0&t=5&pg=1&ppp=24&sb=stocknumber&so=a&sc=24,25 

There a few more sets on the same website if you search for 1/24 figures. I had to make a lot of modifications to the shirts and in one instance change the sex of one of the providers.

Thanks for checking it out, it's over on SFH if you haven't seen it there.

Thats what I thought they were.

 Saw it over there, jsut happened to be cruiseing through here when the question popped in my head.

 

Good eye

Quick update, waiting on some sheet styrene. Figured I’d glue in the side panels to the top half to make painting easier...? Not sure if that was the right route or not, main thing I’m worried about is getting the detail for the cross bars and ...hmm thinking more about this I might pop them back out and glue them to the floor, then try and fit in the top after I stick the glass in...  We’ll see- also added in the siren. Had to do some scratch and detail work to it to get it to sit down more realistically, also moved the bars way out to the sides as opposed to the more central locations they were originally designed to go in.



And a close up



Overhead



Inside

FYI- on the front half, opposite the amber lights seen on the back, are two white scene lights similar to the right alley light in the above pictures.

Quick update- got some primer and colors down.

For the one side, it’s going to have an elevator rescue bag, back board and a bunch of other stuff so I didn’t bother with the base colors. Also I messed up the back door on the opposite side, it was supposed to be solid red, I added in the white reflector, however it will be behind the seat so it’s not a big issue.

Here’s a bunch of just primer coats, you can see the rough spots... after some more sanding, primer and paint, I hope it will smooth out somewhat.

Thanks for checking it out

Lookin' good Chris.

Thanks a lot

The detail work isn't as clean as your Viper from what I can tell, but it’s a fun project, I’m enjoying it.