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Special Ops Landies in Detail
Maki
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 08:53 AM UTC
I''m quite sure many of you have Land Rover models in your stash. This book has the references you need for building accurate and super-detailed Special Ops Landies, from the early SAS Series I built in 1950s, to the modern vehicles currently serving in the Middle East.



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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 09:28 AM UTC
I´ve got this one as well and confirm what Mario´s saying. It´s really a good one. Especially the SAS 110 DPV is covered very well.
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 07:58 PM UTC
Thanks Jiri. You are right on the SAS 110 DPV... I like all the detailed photos as they will really come in handy for building my Accurate Armour's kit.

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Mario
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 08:55 PM UTC
looks like a good book, but as usual, no Australian land rovers there.

will still be getting a copy
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 09:03 PM UTC

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looks like a good book, but as usual, no Australian land rovers there.



Sorry, no Aussie Land Rovers in this one. I would be interested in those, I've seen some cool pics of Aussie Landies in Iraq. I wish someone would da a model of those as well.

Mario
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 06:16 AM UTC
I'm a bit disappointed about the RSOV walkaround. This is the british version. There is just one photo of the US version in the first pages.

Good walkaround of W.M.I.K.
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 06:36 AM UTC

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I'm a bit disappointed about the RSOV walkaround. This is the british version. There is just one photo of the US version in the first pages.



True. Just one photo of RSOV. All the others show Barry Pocock's SOV which is actually vehicle prototype built in 2002. The text explains the owner modified it to UK standards.

Mario
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 09:55 AM UTC
I had looked at this book at a show, I liked it but not enough to buy it. There is a lot of conjecture regarding the Pinkie (Series 2a) and the DPV. Both original vehicles are dedicated versions built by Marshalls of Cambridge.

The Pinkie was closer mechanically to a Series 3 and the DPV is based upon the Pick-up and not a Defender chassis. There are very few surviving DPVs in the wild - Barry Pocock (?) rebuilt his from a crash damaged vehicle there is another in the Dunsfold collection and a further one (possibly two) at the home of the SAS. I have had the opportunity to clamber over a Pinkie and photograph the DPV.

Yes there is the UK Spec RSOV it was the demonstrator used by Land Rover and heavily featured in one of the Land Rover magazines. It was also used as a trials vehicle.

What I would say about this book, if you don't have access to an original vehicle or your own photographs then this is the book for you. I have one caveat - some of the vehicles are dressed up and not originals - remember there are many who claim knowledge about the SAS, very few actually have this information and the SAS will, officially, remain tight lipped about the subject.

Brian
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 10:25 AM UTC
I have to agree with Brian about dressed up vehicles I find it so wrong to produce a book with vehicle that pretend to be something that they are not.
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