mrmike Posted April 2, 2019 Posted April 2, 2019 This is my Italeri Ford Transit Mk 2 Van painted with Tamiya TS-10 French Blue and decaled as a British Gas Southern service van.
Mike999 Posted April 3, 2019 Posted April 3, 2019 Great job, especially on the two-toning! Some kit history: that Ford Transit was originally an ESCI kit, molded back in the early 1980s. A couple of different versions were released, one being a Hertz Rental Car van molded in bright Hertz Yellow plastic. Another was a Canon rally support vehicle, molded in white. And a sort of "promo" version, still an unassembled kit but with Ford Motor Co. mentioned all over the box. Rumor said that Ford paid ESCI to tool up the kit, and at some point ordered the molds destroyed. The rumor was easy to believe, because the kit was never reissued after the 1980s and brought high prices on eBay for many years. Happily, those rumors were wrong and Italeri reissued the kit just a couple of years ago.
57peppershaker Posted April 4, 2019 Posted April 4, 2019 You nailed that one Michael. I drove several Transits in the 80's & 90's inc 1 pretty much the same as the kit but in bright yellow. Looks like your model is a new van for a service guy, as its still shiny lol.
mrmike Posted April 4, 2019 Author Posted April 4, 2019 Thank you Steve! Yeah, the van looks new, but it is not shiny in a few spots. After helping to prep vans for DirecTV technicians for 6 years, they are only new until the tech drives out from the warehouse for the first time. Then, I consider them junk!
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