1-87 Zis 5 Tanker for Mr. T.

[Mini Me]

While browsing through some of Simon T's past build threads I landed on his Zis 5 fuel truck project and it struck me that I had coincidentally pulled a couple of Zis 5s out of the stash for my next build. Upon further reflection I realized how sad it is to leave things in a state of incompletion.....so I'm going to build this truck in honor of Mr. T with lots of detail and scratchery in the process. I hope you will follow along and feel free to comment and/or critique as the case may be. Rick H.

[Allen Dewire]

Very fitting Rick,

I'm in for this and I'm sure someone above will have his eyes on your build too.......

Allen

[Tim Marlow]

Don’t forget to use some pewter......great idea by the way....

[Mini Me]

Thanks Allen, with Mr. T watching over this I can't put a foot wrong......if I do I hope he lets me know.
Hi Tim, Pewter.....yes, of course.....wait, I don't have any. It appears that Simon controlled the market on pewter so I'll have to make do with foil. Rick H.

[Mickc1440]

Good luck with this one Rick, I’m sure he will be looking over your shoulder and wanting to help

[Mini Me]

That is Spot on Mick......He always did better at counting the rivets:rolling:

[Jim R]

Hi Rick
It will be a pleasure to follow your journey in Mr T's footsteps.
Jim

[Mini Me]

Thank you Jim.......I shall try not to disappoint you.....:smiling:
Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

Rick. Very nice and don’t forget a lap shot once in awhile

[Mini Me]

As Lee requested here is a lap shot of the Mr. T tanker so far......the remaining two pics are for us "normal" folk what ain't turned on by denim clad knees! :thinking: According to the photos on Simon's thread I was able to determine the scale diameter of the tank at roughly 1/2 inch or .500 as some would say. I punched out a couple of plugs from sheet styrene and capped the ends of the half inch tube with .030 and fabbed up a cross support from evergreen strip. Rick H.

[JR]

Rick ,Simon would approve of that first photo.

I'm in of course, I'll sit at the front .

[Steve Jones]

Great to see you get this blog up and running Rick. Simon would be having a great chuckle at the leg photo . Nice to see you have made a start. Good luck with the rest of the build.

[boatman]

AN i'll be following along as well with thoughts of SI i dint know him well but what i did see of him he was a modeller to try an try again
chris

[Mini Me]

Thanks JR.....glad to have you.

[Mini Me]

Thank you Mr. Jones, I only hope I can be a credit to what Simon had got done on his tanker.
He did take some pretty good photos and fortunately for me, the build got far enough along that I won't have to try and second guess where he was going with it. More to follow.
Rick H.