I wanted this to be a reasonably accurate model, well as accurate as you can get in cardboard, and I also wanted it to be drivable and remote controlled because as we all know, I like a challenge.
At this point you might be asking 'why cardboard?' or 'what happens if you get it wet?'
Anyway, the first thing to make is the chassis. I got some original chassis plans drawn by Land Rover, cut out the relevant shapes, transferred them to cardboard and started cutting away. Where there would be a bend in a part, I'd make a score in the surface of the cardboard along the line which would be bent with a ruler and a not particularly sharp knife. That's not the right way to do it, I just don't have a particularly sharp knife.
I would apologise for the vast lack of photos in this post but I'm not going to because it's not my fault. It's the fault of my new phone which seems to like damaging photos taken with it's camera, rendering them useless. Trust me, I took plenty of photos, probably more than I would for a normal project but sadly they don't exist any more. They probably weren't that interesting anyway.
After all the flat nets of the parts were made it was then a simple and pretty quick matter of glue-gunning them together. It was all quite easy really. The hardest part of the chassis was trying to work out how some of the cross members were attached to the chassis rails. Lining the two chassis rails up before joining them with cross members, while fiddly and time consuming, is important and must be done as accurately as possible because if they're not right, nothing else will be.
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| A picture of the chassis, taken the old-fashioned way, not with a phone but with a camera! |
This is probably one of the most satisfying ambitious projects I've done for a while. Honestly, having a completed chassis sitting in front of me after only two days of work makes me as happy as a Frenchman who's just invented a pair of self-removing trousers.
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