1/35 coal burning truck

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As my airbrush is 'kaput' I dug into the stash and began building this truck. I'm not even sure what paint scheme I'll go with as yet. I think it's the first time I've not had a plan during a build - I like it! One idea would be a red-cross vehicle but I'll see how it goes...............

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Did one of these myself recently, mine is towing a Tamiya PAK 35/36 . I thought it was a pretty decent kit straight out of the box

It'll be interesting to see what you think of it

[Guest]

Nice truck Alex.

I will be looking this interesting one.

Have fun

Polux

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Thanks Andy and Polux!

I was considering a flak gun in the back but my (empty) wallet won't permit model purchases right now. Just means I'll have to use a bit of imagination, which isn't always a bad thing.......

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Love to see the working trucks, will be watching this, nice one.

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Thanks Sprayman

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Here's a quick update as to where I'm at now. The wheels are held in place with blue-tac for the photo's sake.

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Nice start Ajay watching to see what you do with this one

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When i saw this on a modelshops website i was vaguely interested so did some research, I saw a picture on t'interweb with this very truck in it .... it was loaded with huge logs and was dragging three/four behind it .... something to do with railway lines if memory serves ... i've had a look for the image but i'm buggered if i can find it again.

Maybe this could serve as a basis for your model dio.

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Good progress so far Alex! Look forward to see what scheme you go for, I think the red cross scheme will look good!

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Looking very nice indeed Alex.......great work so far.

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Colin, James and Ray, thanks for your comments. Always good to have feedback

So.....the ideas so far are:a Red Cross vehicle or, a captured truck hastily applied with an allied white star. But anything could happen!

p.s. I tried out the tin foil on the seat tip. Was it Ray that introduced us to it? Anyway, I'll take some pics when I get it looking half-decent

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I like the Red Cross Vehicle idea ... plenty of scope for extra detailing and some scratch built stuff if you feel the need

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Okay, Red Cross vehicle it is then

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Here's a few photos of where I'm at. I read about the tin foil thing on here, and having just finished a delicious bar of chocolate, decided to recycle the wrapper Looking at it now, what I should have done was to sand down the plastic where there driver would sit, and then it would have looked compressed, too. Live and learn









More soon..........

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Looking very nice Alex...a very clean build mate....I like the seats.....must admit I forget the "bum prints" in the seat...if you ever need to sand rubber tyres down then a quick tip, put them in the freezer over night...they sand down like plastic then.