N.O.S. Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 There must be a worse one than this - get looking!! :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Love it! Can you imagine rallying one with the stencil like that...:cheesy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 This was an example from an East Anglian USAAF base. Ill try desperately not to replicate this standard later this week (stencils arrived Saturday), but won't be too upset if it all goes Pete Tong :cheesy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G506 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) I'm guessing shes a Slat grill? No jerrican, no towing electrics socket, Sheller steering wheel, etc. Nice pic! Edited July 4, 2011 by G506 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMS Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Love it! Can you imagine rallying one with the stencil like that...:cheesy: QUICK!!! Phone the Jeep police!!! its not perfect:nut: next your be telling me its not 101st Airbourne?!?!?:rotfl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 all jeeps are airborne arent they , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 love it !! ive been saying for years to many vehicles are over restored and not true to life . lets see more of it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I tried to do this on my GMC but they came out too good oh well must try less next time. Great pic though just goes to show as long as you could make out what it was it did not matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 love it !! ive been saying for years to many vehicles are over restored and not true to life . lets see more of it . absolutely agree!..........to be fair I know the factorys (both here and in the US) did a sterling job in the dark days of the war but some of the vehicles have gotta be restored to a far better condition than they could ever have possibly been when delivered back in 'the day'.......???after all... quantity and basic function was the order of the day rather than pristine finish and quality wasn't it???........... whilst I love to see any vehicle beautifully restored and gleaming.... I'd personally love to see more trucks/tanks/jeeps etc displayed in a 'battlefield condition'.....smashed headlights, ripped canvas...mud splattered maybe even a few bullet holes......can't see that happening though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkinov Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 MY Uncle has photos of his time with the Eighth Army and after fighting through Africa they landed in Italy and fought to the end of the War .,,Ther vehicles were repainted mostly by hand and they looked very sad by the end of the war .. I agree that we often over restore the old war machines ......The worn look is good Jenkinov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiler Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 That's possibly my biggest gripe. I ventured to War & Peace last year for the first time and what really set the place off was the dry and dusty conditions. All the vehicles were covered in fine dust and it did wonders for the visual effect. I saw a vehicle I instantly fell in love with there. I had been riding around in the back of a jeep with my cousine who was involved with the judging. We stopped by an old red series 1 Landie fire tender that was to be awarded a runners up prize. Sat next to it was a completely original un-restored and nicely matured 86". It just looked so right. When restoring a vehicle I find it very sad to see all that history being erased. Sadly though, my cousin was explaining to me that there is so much money involved in jeeps these days that to get top money you have to restore to better than new condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I like this thread - no problem with any of my vehicles looking over restored - the rust is all original !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiler Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 :-D Actualy, that could be seen as a tuning mod. Rust is lighter than Carbon Fibre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Drake Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 MY Uncle has photos of his time with the Eighth Army and after fighting through Africa they landed in Italy and fought to the end of the War .,,Ther vehicles were repainted mostly by hand and they looked very sad by the end of the war .. I agree that we often over restore the old war machines ......The worn look is good Jenkinov When I first went to the Somerset Steam Spectacular as public, I parked up, and one of the organisers, a lady, came over and admonished me for not displaying the Land Rover. I said it's not quite ready (meaning all the gubbins and gear that goes with a military vehicle) and she said Don't do anything to it, it looks like a working military vehicle, we get far too many shiny vehicles, which shouldn't be. The Landy is still not "restored", just kept working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 you fella's are going to love my carrier as i've gone for the used look, i've even left the bullet holes and badly repaired wing, no doubt some will critisize me for not having a pristine vehicle but i won't let that bother me as i spent 14 years in the army and i never came across one there either :-) rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Daymond Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 been running the militant as is, doing bits when I get the time, and nobody has ever had a bad word to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) No, I don't think it is the worst, This is how the Army did my Eager Beaver although that is the worst on the E.B. the others aren't too special Certainly shows the recent topic about "how to apply stencils" so you get a crisp edge without paint running under the stencil is showing a concern for the finished item, the army never had! Edited July 6, 2011 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Or how about the figure "2" on this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiler Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 They look to me to have been sponged on through the stencil anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 They look to me to have been sponged on through the stencil anyway. What gets me is how badly lined up the letters and figures in OM 33 are.......and how someone appears to have wiped off (some of the) excess paint around the M with their finger tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 :-D Actualy, that could be seen as a tuning mod. Rust is lighter than Carbon Fibre! Ah you could go one step further and say holes are lighter than that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 There is a picture of the hastily applied inverted V from the 1991 Gulf war, where the chevron has obviously been applied with a hand dipped in a pot of paint. You can see a second line followed by the thumb and a hand shape at the begininnig and end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Sometimes the army can't even be bothered with a stencil, a felt pen oir white ink pen will do! Such a pen can be used for tyre pressures or even Registration plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 love it !! ive been saying for years to many vehicles are over restored and not true to life . lets see more of it . Hear hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 I guess it has to do with what period ones is displaying as a WWII vehicle would not look as pretty as something from a peace time example . What I 'm trying to say is that a WWII vehicle would be correct to have a very rushed and rough finish as time saved was most important as they did not plan the vehicle lasting in service all that long a few weeks or months in a combat area before needing to be sent to the rebuild shops , again it was repair repaint and send it out , I dont think they cared how neat it looked as long as the numbers and details were visible/legible. I ve seen many photo's of vehicles , softskins coming off production lines with ghosting and over spray around stencil's and a few that were tanks being given a quick repaint with all the dirt and crews equipment still in place , being done with a pressure pot and gun behind a building outdoors likely not all that many miles distant from where the action was going on . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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