Hichliffe - Larrey Light Ambulance - remake. (1 Viewer)

[Obee]

Last year I saw this Hinchliffe French Napoleonic Larrey Light Ambulance and Attendants for sale on Ebay at a very good price, even though it was is a badly broken state.



I could see the possibility of resurrection as most of the parts seemed to be there, so placed the only bid, and won

Early this year I decided that it was time to commence the clean up of the kit, so it was stripped, using paint stripper, which also loosened the glue, and I was then able to extract all of the parts.



Also the horse and drivers needed the same treatment !



I found that a lot of the horses reins and leads were missing as well as chains but they can easily be replaced from my spares box.

Now it is on with the clean up of all parts before assembly ........

More to follow next week ...

John

 

[theBaron]

Nice piece, John! But then, pretty much everything in the Hinchliffe catalog is nice We can see the quality of the sculpting and casting, as you get the paint off. A worthy project, and I look forward to the next update!

Prost!
Brad

 

[BHogan]

Another promising project John. I'm looking forward to seeing the final results!

Brendan

 

[Obee]

Got some work done last week on the assembly and started painting the drivers first ...

coming on nicely now



John

 

[blaster]

Hi John
lucky lucky you…..

Vic.

 

[Grey Heron]

Coming along nicely John.

 

[Obee]

I have now completed the painting and rigging of the horses to be able to move this Ambulance onto the battlefield.



One really great thing with this ambulance is that the doors can open and the steps be lowered,



unlike the John Jenkins version below, which I also have in my collection.


The lead horse and the 2 drivers are resin master that John kindly gave to me and I painted to match his rear horse and ambulance.

I now plan of getting some wounded Frenchmen (3D printed by Speria Miniatures) to add to this vehicle, so keep a lookout for that later this year.

John

 

[Grey Heron]

Nice work John. This is a beautiful model.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[Andanna]

This is a great set. Very well done.

 

[Louis Badolato]

John,

You brought it back from the dead! Tremendous job!:salute::

Regards,

Lou