Anyone for a truck show today? I'll start it off.

Aaronw wrote:

Mckay wrote:  east end fire wrote: Mckay. the alf is a trumpeter kit and the othere truck is all resin kit   Thanks I have been thanking about picking up the Trumpter kit. What do you thank of it and is it worth the price? Mckay   The Trumpeter kit is very nice, but it does have some quirks to it. The rumor is the initial design of the kit was to have a ton of detail and lots of loose tools and equipment. However the expected cost was estimated at $200+, so it was simplified a bit to bring the cost down to something under $100. As a result you have very good detail in some places and short cuts elsewhere. For example it has a nicely detailed pump that you will never see, but no motor. Where the motor should be there is just a big square box in the chassis. Since you can't see the motor that is fine but it is odd that they didn't at least makle a decently detailed oil pan and transmission molded into the chassis. It really looks like it was intended to have a motor and at the last minute it was deleted. The seats are designed for removable breathing apparatus, but they didn't include any, again it appears to me they intended to include some breathing apparatus but cut them at the last minute. Overall it is a good kit so probably justifies its $85 price tag, particularly if you consider the AMT ALF pumper has a retail price around $50. Just be aware it will require some fabrication to really get the most out of it. The cab interior is quite visible with those big windows so it can really make detailing worthwhile. It is your only option for a modern fire engine and even built completely out of the box it is an impressive model.

Thanks I have been looking at one but not sure if I will ever build it.

Mckay

east end fire wrote:

how is the LA recovery truck .

The recovery truck looks pretty nice but I thank it will benefit with some added detail work. Haven't started working on it just looked at the parts.

Mckay

Mckay wrote:

east end fire wrote: Mckay. the alf is a trumpeter kit and the othere truck is all resin kit   Thanks I have been thanking about picking up the Trumpter kit. What do you thank of it and is it worth the price? Mckay

The Trumpeter kit is very nice, but it does have some quirks to it. The rumor is the initial design of the kit was to have a ton of detail and lots of loose tools and equipment. However the expected cost was estimated at $200+, so it was simplified a bit to bring the cost down to something under $100.

As a result you have very good detail in some places and short cuts elsewhere. For example it has a nicely detailed pump that you will never see, but no motor. Where the motor should be there is just a big square box in the chassis. Since you can't see the motor that is fine but it is odd that they didn't at least makle a decently detailed oil pan and transmission molded into the chassis. It really looks like it was intended to have a motor and at the last minute it was deleted. The seats are designed for removable breathing apparatus, but they didn't include any, again it appears to me they intended to include some breathing apparatus but cut them at the last minute.

Overall it is a good kit so probably justifies its $85 price tag, particularly if you consider the AMT ALF pumper has a retail price around $50. Just be aware it will require some fabrication to really get the most out of it. The cab interior is quite visible with those big windows so it can really make detailing worthwhile. It is your only option for a modern fire engine and even built completely out of the box it is an impressive model.

I always liked the 454SS, a very understated appearance hiding all that performance. I need to build one of those one of these days.

Your '64 came out very nice as well.

My only pickups that I built 5 years ago when I returned to the hobby.  The Xtreme and 454SS are my two favorite all time factory stock pickups.

east end fire wrote:

well Mckay it is a nice kit .it was fun to do .

Thanks I picked up the LA recovery truck yesterday and am still thanking about the fire truck.

Mvkay

east end fire wrote:

Mckay. the alf is a trumpeter kit and the othere truck is all resin kit

Thanks I have been thanking about picking up the Trumpter kit. What do you thank of it and is it worth the price?

Mckay

east end fire wrote:

i have one to show off .

Great looking Firetrucks. What kid did you use?

Mckay

Coopdad, what kid did you use for that bronco?  It looks awesome.

east and fire, did those come as kits or did you have to scratch build a lot of it?

like AaronW said, I wish there were more construction kits, I've seen a few only been able to land the D8. a John Deere 310 Backhoe Loader, a few dump trucks, and a cement mixer.  Trucks were my last obsession as I dwindled on buying them a month or two ago and I bought just about every truck I could find, a few Italari, but mostly ROG.  I opened one of the re-released Model King trucks (Mack DM 600) to build with this set but erm wow so many peices, didn't feel up to it right now that Peterbuilt was actually pretty easy, while still being pretty nicely detailed. 

When they re-release kits for Model King though they need to fix the instructions and box.  The instructions and box both say "molded in authentic Mack colors", but its only white and chrome.. even the part ID numbers are either WH### or BK### and that makes it just.. annoying when all of its white -_-;

That's some really nice looking models guys. Glad to see some truck models especially with construction equipment.

Mckay

I actually had this idea before I saw Mckay's or AaronW's and I figured now would be a good time to do it.  I ended up getting the D8 and Lowboy off eBay, the Peterbuilt was one of the $20 from hobby lobby, that someone else actually built as well.  

I think I may have ended up with the same D8/Lowboy that AaronW had.. the D8 was an OLD AMT (with a big hole in the instructions which made it harder to build) and the Lowboy was the AMT/ERTL one that comes with the big power company transformers.  The trailer is slightly short for this truck but it still looks good I think.  Very proud of it. Originally had bought all of it to build for my dad because he used to drive Lowboys around town for the construction company he worked for, and then when I decided to organize/clean up my stash I found the D8 and thought hey why not now.  The dirt on the D8 is.. well real dirt.  I took it outside after I had finished and played with it in the mud the it dried nice and hard and looks very realistic (cuz it is real haha)

Mine are HO scale

This model is about 80% to 90% scratch built. The tractor is the AMT Autocar kit that had a dump bed with it. The wheels, tires and brakes on the trailer are from 3 AMT dump trailers. I used parts from 2 AMT D-8 CAT dozer kits and a seat from a Italeri Ford truck kit on the escivator. The rest of the model is constructed using lots of Evergreen Styrene in various shapes (flat,angel, round, H and I beam plus others). There was also stainless steel tubing brass bolts, O'Rings, auto wire insulation and other parts used in the model. I spent the better part of two years on the build.

 Hopes this helps answer your question if not fire away.

Mckay

Mckay wrote:

Heres one I built a few years ago. Mckay

McKay

Where did you get this kit? Ive always wanted to build something like this except with a more modern cab.

Those look great and I really like your D-8 CAT Dozer

Mckay

It's been awhile since I finished one but I have a few.

Im still looking around this section of the forum and this post appealed to me, Heres my entry, Its a circa 1942 18T Famo, in 1/35 by Tamiya.

...Guy

Summit wrote:

Mckay -  Wow that is one real estate hog for the shelf. Is that Truck an Autocar ?  I use to repair excavators like that. What kits were these that you used ?

The truck is a AMT Autocar kit that I worked over by hinging the doors and hood. The Escavator uses the sprockets, idler wheels, engine and radiator from the AMT D-8 Cat kit. The seat is from a Ford truck kit. The rest of the escavator is built from Evergreen Styrene, stanless steel tubing, Detail Master combo. fittings and auto wire insulation. The individual track links were built from 7 pieces of styrene plus a metal pin.. There are 112 links that took two months to build. Here's a few more photos.

Mckay

Heres one I built a few years ago.

Mckay