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Years ago I found a toy in the shop and thought that a Swedish truck in 1/72 might be useful someday so I bought it. Now that day are here. I dismantled it and cut off unnecessary parts The chassis was put together again but a bit shorter. A new fuel tank and boxes are built. There I have a start for a DRAGBIL 23T 6X4. The it is time for the trailer, a Stridsvagnstransportpåhängsvagn 795 or STRVTPPHV 795 as it is called. Plasticard has been cut and the basic shape of the trailer is set. It will look something like this when finished (I hope) Lots of holes has been made. I had problems on how to do the anti slip plate. In the end I used plasticcard from Green Stuff World. The loading ramps has ben started. I had some doubts about them while building. But I managed to get this far.

I will follow this build. I started to convert the old 1/20 Itala Pechino Parigi 1907 model from Union. There isn't much that is correct in that kit so there is much scratch building and conversions needed.

Don't forget the air intake in the nose. I have built a 1/48 DC-3 and modified the landing gears to the early D-3 type and have plans to to it again but im 1/72 this time I don't see any advantage using the A-Model Li-2 for this. Sur you have the passenger door on the right side but also a cargo hatch with a door on the left side. The cockpit windows has an extra window behind the normal ones and the landing gear doesn't look like the early type found on the Swedish Fokker made planes. I have only seen it on Soviet planes. The engin cows in the kit doesn't have the flat top in the openings either. Those Flightpath engines is the same that I used on my USAAF C-79 (Ju52). I have plans for two pre war DC-3's in 1/72. One with the passenger door on the right side wit P&W engine and the other with the door on the left side but with Cyclone engines. I will use the Esci kits for these since I need to convert the landing gears and it is almost impossible to do on the Italeri kit as the landing gear isn't moulded full length. Looking at pictures of the sprues of the new Airfix C-47, it look like it has full length to. It is sad that it is impossible to build a pre war DC-3 or Ju52 in 1/72 without lot of modifications (filling and sanding)

I love the look of that car but I ended up converting mine into a 1/32 Mickey Mouse car. Now when I look at your build I wonder if I was wrong doing that. I see a "Benny the cab" from Roger Rabbit hiding in it. Perhaps I should get another kit. While thinking about it I will follow this build.

https://www.rebell.com/sk35c-draken-2-seater-conversion.html?___store=eu&___from_store=default

Perhaps it happened when I was a kid but now I know what I want to build so the box art is of no importance. But I did buy this one a couple of years ago just because of the box art. It is now framed and hanging above my desk.

And you did a good work. It is the gear shift stick that stand out as toy like.

The Fiat must be a model. Details look oversized. I saw a real one pass my work last summer. Unknown car to me before that.

I decided on grey on my build as I did on my Rolls Royce.

I used the Tabu decals on my two Lotus 79 builds and they covered well on the dark colours of the cars: https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/gig/lotus79.html

I have built both and the stabilizers differ on them: https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/whirlwind.html

I have the same problem. Can't see pictures. Did a search for why and found this answer: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/onedrive-images-not-showing-in-forums/0f9c0c4a-8ffe-4fd7-b462-7e71ac1a69c9

Loctite All Plastic. I used it on old Airfix tracks: '

I think it is the old Frog kit from 1961

I think it is the 1/76 Foden 'C' Type Steam Wagon from Keil-Kraft not Emhar. (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/keil-kraft-k303-foden-c-type-steam-wagon--176110) Nice to see one built.