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I've just finished this wonderful little kit today. It is the Highway Miniatures 1/87 scale 1923 Mack Ladder Truck that I have been building for a good friend of mine with a collection of real fire engines himself. It's a great little kit, packed with detail and working features. Not too bad for a (previously to me) unknown manufacturer this side of The Pond. Here's a link to my WIP thread: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235002580-187-1923-mack-aerial-ladder-truck/ Here is the write up of the actual truck quoted from the kit instructions: This 1923 vintage Mack 65ft aerial ladder truck was very popular in New York, Chicago, and other big cities in the 1920s. Actually, they were older horse-drawn ladder wagons, which were updated by converting to a motorized power unit. The ladders were raised by spring power, which was encased in the long tubes mounted in the center of the turntable. The spring power was controlled by a foot brake pedal, which came up between the tubes to the steps. The turntable was rotated manually, by the handwheel standing upright on the left side of the steps. To raise the ladders, the steering wheel was lifted off and hung on the side frame, the seat was rotated out of the way, and the brake released. The extension ladder could then be raised by the handwheels attached to the winch arrangement which had cables running up to the top of the stationary ladder, over pulleys, back down and attached to the bottom of the sliding ladder. Winding the cable on the winch drum, raised the ladder.
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I've been given this little oddball by a friend of mine to build for him. It's a 1/87 (HO scale) 1923 Mack Aerial Ladder Truck by American model railway company Highway Miniatures. It looks like quite a tricky little thing to build so please bear with me, especially as this is one of my first WIPs! The instructions are proper old school, with more of a worded description rather than exploded assembly diagrams. The plastic is a very soft styrene which I am hoping will adhere well enough with liquid poly. Well, enough babbling on, here are the obligatory box and contents pics....... Wish me luck!
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Build 20 Something different for my final build... Price: £2.73 eBay
