Very even cover and colour now, was a bit disapointed with the way the first coat had dried, however following a second coat this evening is looking much better.
Ordered more paint today for roof and brown for the floor, hopefully arrive before the weekend! Got the bug now.....
Well, we bought a Green Goddess.... Why? I hear you ask? Well, I was looking for a rolling project and my previous project ( lashmidget.blogspot.com ) only had two seats, no good for taking the family out - so any addition needed 6 seats. After several car shows, steam rallies and a good chunk of Googling (and some very helpful conversations with friends - you know who you are) a fire engine became the natural choice. Significantly more consultation of online resources followed (Googling!) and i was surprised just how much choice there was! I had always wanted a 4x4 and a 'military' vehicle add to that the fire engine dynamic and the Bedford RHLZ Self Propelled Pump was the perfect choice. Curiously the Goddess is neither a fire engine or a military vehicle rather its a Home Office Auxiliary Fire Service pump designed for relay pumping water over many miles from lakes and rivers into Nuclear Bomb stricken cities during the cold war. Nonetheless it...
The Whittlesey Sports Association hosts a great event called the Big Bash. Its hosted on a sports field with a canal at the back..... We take Tiny along and drop in the suction hose into the canal and raise money for the Firefighters charity. www.firefighterscharity.org.uk We set up a football goal with targets and use the first aid hoses for the kids to have a squirt. Then on the way home we had a proper squirt!
Got out to a show in September and was parked next to a Zil-131 which is a 6x6 fire truck used during the cold war in Soviet states. Famously used in Chernobyl after the nuclear accident to contain the fires. It was mentioned that all we needed between the Zil and the Goddess was an iron curtain. Two sisters in arms from different sides of the cold war.
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