Another Unimog

 Along with the dodgy British truck conversion, Tim produced another Unimog command bus for me from his never ending box of 'high quality merchandise' .

A lovely Roco model in this rather fetching paint scheme. While levering it off its old base a spare wheel fell off, but fortunately no other damage was sustained. 

I couldn't for the life of me work out where it had come from, there wasn't an obvious locating lug. In the end I just stuck it back on between the rear wheels and tow bar in the end. Of course what I should have done was find out the location from my other Unimog, but it didn't occur to me at the time. 

I pondered very much what colour to paint it. Grey or sand? I've already got more sandy command vehicles than grey ones, but I've already got a grey Unimog, so sandy it was. I essentially just refreshed the original paintjob, using VJ Dark Ochre as a base with some red/brown disruptive.

The cab tilt I did in mid khaki. I was also very undecided whether to mark it up as an ambulance, but in the end I went with a plain vehicle as my need for command vehicles is greater than my need for ambulances.

If I need more ambulances I'll take a leaf from Graham Evans book and just make up a temporary Red Cross label to to stick on the roof.

Otherwise it just got a drybrush as it has such exquisite detail, a drybrush picks it up well. I didn't bother with an ink wash, but I was pleased that I'd managed to preserve Tims custom made  number plate decals (just visible in this and the preceding photo).