As always I've got it into my head to start at the deep end.
So, my current project - or next project, I suppose, since I don't suppose I'll have the budget to start it until at least four or five months down the road - is to fix up a Land Rover weapons carrier (the SAS kind, with three Gimpy mounts) for reenactment, airsoft games and so on.
Any suggestions where to start? Is it better to start with a real weapons carrier, or start with a standard Landy and modify it?
If I decide to mod one, I was planning to start with a 110 (has to be less than ten years old, apparently, for insurance reasons), probably the three-door version. Then I was planning to remove the roof, doors and probably the windscreen (unless I'm likely to be driving it in bug-splat risk areas), repaint the whole thing an appropriate olive-green colour, and install pintle mounts, rifle holders, and other random accessories.
Any suggestions on where to start, where to get a halfway decent Landy fairly cheaply, and so on?
Actually, if anyone's got any good pictures of the later weapons carrier or SAS variants, they'd be highly appreciated.
Cheers!