My Land Rover Models

In 1948 the first Series 1 Land Rover rolled off the production line and into automotive history, and soon found a place in the British Army as a replacement for the US Jeep which had served the Army well during the war.  The Land Rover went on to serve in Korea, Britain's bush wars and other conflicts around the world during the Cold War and beyond.  All three armed services used the Land Rover in its many guises and in a multitude of roles.  65 years on and the Land Rover is still serving alongside British Service Personnel, at home and at war.

1/35 scale Land Rover kits have only been around since the 1970s as plastic kits, and since the end of the last century as resin and metal kits.  Tamiya were first on the scene with their Series 2 Ambulance and their SAS 'Pink Panther' desert recce vehicle, also a Series 2.  Italeri followed this with a Series 3, although it appeared to be a hybrid of military and civilian features.  It was also left hand drive.  They also produced a Series 2 'Pink Panther', but it was a rather iffy conversion of the Series 3 kit...

Both Italeri kits have since been retooled to better represent their intended subjects, with more accurate detailing and parts.
More recently the Chinese company Hobby Boss have been giving us highly detailed kits of late model Rovers; the TUM or "Wolf".  So far they have released a hard top Wolf, a WMIK armed with heavy machine gun and a WMIK armed with a MILAN anti tank weapon.  In addition they have also released a version used by the US Army, which looks rather unusual, being apparently based on a station-wagon more than a military WOLF... though I could be wrong ^_^'
More recently Black Dog have released a major conversion set to enable the modeller to build a 'snatch' Land Rover. LINK 
Accurate Armour provide complete kits of WOLF variants as well as a few Series 3 models.  They also produce correct wheels for Italeri and Hobby Boss kits, parts which really enhance the look of any Land Rover kit.
Firing Line have the old Dartmoor Military Models Airportable Land Rover as a resin kit, now with more etched parts than you can chuck a stick at.  They also do a hard top and more recently the Forward Control 1-tonner.  These Firing Line kits suffer from rather badly detailed wheels, and are best replaced by the Accurate Armour ones.
There was once a kit of the Series 1, a resin kit by Roadcraft which is extremely rare, and subsequently very expensive.

Most of my models will be plastic kits from the likes of Tamiya, Italeri and Hobby Boss, although resin kits and conversion sets will appear, these being from Accurate Armour and Firing Line.  Having been away from modelling military subjects for a while, I've tried to ease myself back in... by building loads of Landies.  Nothing like giving myself hard work.