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Finally calling it done. Here's a link to the building, http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235001342-2015-peterbilt-tri-axle-wrecker-150/- 25 replies
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Diamond T Model 969 Wrecker. Pics thanks to Steve F
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I'm getting into dioramas finally. I built a 2015 Peterbilt tri axle wrecker for a local company here in Winnipeg called Champion Towing. Here's the link to the finished build and the WIP. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235014127-2015-peterbilt-tri-axle-wrecker-done/ I was asked to display it on something showing it in action. I'm extremely novice for anything beyond a one dimensional surface with turf glued to it. I've been building for years but dios always scared me a bit, have to get over that. I had the wood base cut for me and started looking around online and around the house for what to use. I also had to figure out what to do. I thought a paved "t" country road intersection, then thought of a driveway going onto a roadway. Looking around I saw some rail bridges. I saw some that were retired from rail use and the whole track line became a road. The photo of the actual one shown is not far from me. It's Kirkham bridge between Brandon and Rivers Manitoba. It had the look of someplace a rotator would be called to do a recovery of who knows what. The girder bridge on the print out is upside down. The base is 12"x12" and the bridge will be about half the length of the Kirkhan one. That's ok because these girder bridges were and are still very common, so it could be anywhere. I went to the hobby shop today and found some brown and green static grass and some fine mixed grey bellast. I found a scrap of blue styrofoam and a scrap of the brown board that is smooth on one side and rough on the back(forget what it's called, but hard to cut by hand) I buzzed all the wood with an angle grinder to score the surface for glue. I found out regular white glue is safe for styrofoam. The board will be made flush to the top surface and screwed down to the base. The side girders will be built to it. Think I'm on the right track.
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A new project. This is a commission job for Champion Towing here in Winnipeg. The truck is a 2015 Peterbilt 367 tri axle with a Century rotator wrecker. The model is being much modified from the First Gear 1/50 Kenworth T880 wrecker. Much of the Kenworth donor truck is die cast. To make a Perbuilt I have to scratchbuild the hood, cab and sleeper along with all the small parts. I was luck and found a PDF Pete manual online with profile drawings and when I printed it, it was almost perfectly 1/50, so I had my pattern. You can see here the start of the hood and the cab side. These are cut from 0.060 sheet. I hope to cast the cab and hood so I can do this again (well maybe), have to learn how to cast the shape of a cab, unless I do it in parts. The grill came off the yellow toy Pete in the backround. It's closer to 1/48. I casted it and shaved about 1/2 mm off each side to narrow it, but i left the height. A long way to go yet. Here's the actual truck.
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Hi all I have here the Revell Peterbilt Wrecker kit that I started some years back. Now for some reason it got left until yesterday when I decided to have a go at finishing it. All bar one of the back wheels had snapped off so I glued them back on and then noticed that I had 2 different sorts of wheels. No problem I thought, there's different ones for the lift axle (second back from front). Then when I checked I had 3 of one sort of wheel and 3 of another. The kit instructions show 2 sets of wheels but you make 6 of each. I have no spares in the box so I'm unsure if I've thrown them away or they just weren't there to start with. Does anyone have this kit? and if so could they check the sprues for me please? Pete
