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Fantasy BEER TRUCK Project (Monogram 1-32 Chevy BISON)


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Not a brand-new build, but a favorite never posted here before.

 

Started with this:

 

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Thought the Cracker-Jack markings were boring, so I decided to go for a 'fantasy' scheme celebrating my favorite baseball team---the Chicago Cubs---and the regional beer brand with which the team and the venue was intimately associated, in my youth. (That 'venue' being the 'Friendly Confines' of Chicago's Wrigley Field---the oldest National League park, and the second-oldest of all US baseball venues still in existence. It's been the Cubs' home since 1916.)

 

I created a fictitious advertising campaign that captured the spirit of the long-standing bond between the team and the beer brand, which saturated to a near-molecular level even as a child well short of beer-drinking age. I snagged some colorful online graphics to whip up a 'mural' with period-authentic slogan and lovely images of the frosty brew in question. Decals made up on my PC and printed on my trusty HP inkjet. The tractor's markings are also fictitious---for 'my own' made-up trucking company---but all license and certification markings are carefully matched to a 1983 time period...semi-randomly chosen to fit both the truck model and the advertising of the time.

 

Hope you enjoy!   [And a note to all you 'serious truck people'---which I freely admit I am not. I know the trailer's parking struts are incorrectly extended in the 'hooked up' shots below. Unfortunately my display-space is such that the two parts have to be displayed separately...thus I built the trailer in 'parked' configuration. It's only a hobby! :rolleyes:]

 

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the usual ham-fisted typing!
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5 minutes ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

:yikes::worthy: ... As a fellow Cubs fan i can actually remember trucks like this in early/mid 80’s Chicago. Great idea and build. I can still hear Harry Caray getting all into a game. Thanks 

 

Dennis

Thanks, Dennis!  (Knowing you live in the area, I thought this might strike a familiar chord with you.:D)

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4 hours ago, Jim Wasley said:

One GREAT looking build and paint work(must say the word beer caught my eye) the work on the decals is outstanding the finish is top class,Cheers.

Thank you, Jim!

I have to admit...my appreciation of our fellow-dwellers in these forums is such that I thought that putting the word 'beer' in bold face might merit a few extra views by the membership. (It's never failed to work on me, after all....:drink:)

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We saw two trucks when we docked at Napier in New Zealand in January this year...

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I also If In need an extra decal for some build or other I find the image, copy it onto a Word document, size it up and print it onto either clear or white backed decal paper, hey presto"

OR a Monogram Garbage truck looked a bit plain so I filled in the panels at the back after I'd decalled the surfboards.............

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