Thanks for this colorful and important contribution, Neil. Builds like this flesh out the overall story and remind us that it is about people and the drama of it all, and not merely machines with their constant technicalities that can consume us. I'm looking forward to this detail, and anyone who works in 1/72 has my admiration!

Well my little (very little) ambulance is now ready for some colour, you will see that I have positioned the rear doors closed even though I spent a fair bit of time on the interior including a sick or injured serviceman, I did this so that if at any stage I choose to put it in a dio that shows the doors open I wont have to worry about the interior ,probably a waste of time but c'est la vie'.

You can see that I added a windscreen and that I had to add a fillet of evergreen strip along the edge of the roof on the drivers side as no matter how I tried to squeeze it all together while the glue was drying the side just kept popping back to create a little step ,it was only 0.5mm but at this scale just looked bad so any easy fix was done.

As I have already mentioned I am trying to add as much interest as I can to this little kit so I am going to imagine that a European theatre K2 was assigned to North Africa and either resprayed en route or on arrival and so I have modelled it with the interior of the cab and the lower parts of the chassis and behind the wheels still showing dark green, this may or may not be accurate and in fact probably isn't but who's going to argue ?.

Sadly my attempt at surgery was a failure , I realised why Airfix moulded the driver figure without legs, it's because with them he would not fit in the cab ! so maybe they did know what they were doing after all.

Next time I post something she will probably be painted up and I will be working on the dio,that's it for today guys.

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Thanks for looking Louis, believe me 1/72 is NOT my chosen scale but when I started this as far as I knew this was the only game in town if you wanted to build a K2, I have since found there is a 1/48 short run kit but it is beyond what I was willing to spend on this project ,glad you like it anyway..
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Additions to the GB come in all genres, nationalities, and sizes, and this one is a colorful gem. Thanks for the progress, Neil, looking good!

Hey Neil. I had this as a kid but it didnt seem so small then of course. Had the refueling set and the aircraft recovery set too. Loads of memories. They built up into solid wee models. I had them for over thirty years but got rid of them in a house move.

Just added the finishing touch to my Austin K2 "Katy" dio ,a rather angry looking Bedouin and his Camel, I found them on Ebay as part of the very old Airfix Arabs set, although I don't remember any Arabs in the movie "Ice cold in Alex" I think they add a bit of colour and another level of interest to the dio.
Anyhow that's it finished, hope you like it.
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Cheers Bernard, I have to admit to a strange fondness for Camels, not in a Yee harr hillbilly kind of way you understand, but I would like one as a pet if it wasn't for the old money/space /time combo getting in the way, I have encountered a few Camels on my travels and they are remarkably gentle and placid creatures,anyhow thanks for looking.
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