So since my last post I have spent my time fitting, re-fitting and fettling the mud guards. (
fettling is an old dialect word that means adjusting something until it looks right) It's taken a bit of work but they're done bar painting.
My aim in this project is NOT to make a 100% faithful and painstakingly accurate 1/16th scale model of a Bedford QL. (I'm not that good a model maker, my imaginations write cheques that my ability can't cash) It is, rather, to make a model that I can run and drive and that people will look at and say "Oooh! It's a QL!". So sometimes I have to say "soddit!" and go with the "it looks right" defence.
The mudguards are a good case in point. The pieces off the original 1/35th scale model have a bead detail that runs around the edge of the plate. I did some experiments using thin metal plate (from a Coke Zero can) to try to mould or bend or press it into shape. In the end I went back to styrene sheet and added a partial detail in the form of styrene rods on the back.



I also had to increase the width of the mud guards by 5mm because the original WPL tyres are so much wider than the scale Bedford ones.
And then there was getting them so that they all sat at the right angle, without fouling the tyres when the springs were under load. That's where the fettling came in. I made gauges to measure the angle at which they sit, the length of the brass stays and the placement of the holes in the mudguard and load bed.
They don't look too bad.
The next part is putting the cab together.
There are two issues - glueing the two halves together and securing it to the chassis. This picture shows the solutions to the first issue and part of the second.

The two plates in more detail - super glue works well, but I like to pin it as well.

How the pcb sits in the cab, the battery box will be over the top of it. It will not be easy to get at the connections - which are on the other side, but it is what it is - I don't want to change the wires for longer ones.

The white wire - lower left - is the rc antenna. The pcb will screw to the post through the hole in the board.
Thanks for looking in.