If You are going all in for Katy from ICiA better find a CMP 4X4 to get the chassis from. The Film used a "custom job" A K2y body planted onto a CMP 4x4 chassis as the 4x2 could not manage the sand as well as they had hoped 'off road'.
Pictures I have seen from the film look to me as they are canvas covers, they just fit well and are very flat. However looking at the detail around the edges and the hole they are a tiny bit wonky and can see the hem.... In one of the shots you can also see the wiper motor on the inside of the window frame.
Cheers Ian. I’m sure you are right
Apparently they used three ambulances, the 4WD cobbled up version was only used in the dune scenes because they weren’t sure the standard truck would cope with the trundling up and down for the repeated takes they would need. In the “wind up the hill” scene the truck was tethered to a Scammel over the ridge and the cable buried in the sand…..
Now you see it….
Now you don’t….
I’ve also read elsewhere now that the screens were paint, used as blackout anti glare measures early in the war…..apparently civilian trucks did the same thing. Like a lot of 2WW stuff it is now going out of folk memory as the original protagonists die off, and as it was so common it hasn’t been recorded.
I didn’t know the outer skins of the sides were canvas either….I thought they were solid. Here’s a unrestored one as proof….
The rest of the restoration can be found here
Looking for pictures from renovation of the rear body. Mainly of the wood skelet, rear doors and the windows. Tanks
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I‘m actually going for a hybrid version, with painted squares. In part because I don’t actually have the
decals for the “Katy” moniker and partly because I’m not sure the unit markings are there either.
Interior paint colour is another minefield……but I think I’ve now got a handle on that. Early ones (like this) were mid stone on the inside and later ones were white. It means this example will be darker on the inside than on the outside outside….almost a tardis!
Shown well here….
The one at the end is an oldy……
…and this one isn’t white either….