Trumpeter American LaFrance ( New Pics 4/5 )

Thanks for the kind comments.   There is only one side compartment door that the kit has to open, so I had to cut the rest myself, to include the doors on the the cab. The hose connectors are all either spare parts or scratch built.  The maps, manuals and diagrams are all images I found on the internet and shrunk down to the right size. The air packs are all scratchbuilt.  Some of the tools are after market parts and some are scratchbuilt, like the fan. The hoses in the hose bed are different sizes of shoe laces, and the hose lines that are "in use" are made from small bungee cords. When the model was completed I had it rigged up so that most of the lights actually worked and I had a small speaker inside of the body for a working siren. Unfortunately somehow the lights shorted out about a month after the model was finished, but the siren still works.

The way you have the doors open how did you go about doing that?

 

I tried out elastic on my current build and it works great and looks to scale and the texture is pretty close.

 

 Still working on the weathering of it.