KRK4m Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 There's a certain Irish company called Hobby Den - they run a model shop in Dublin and manufacture a wide (>100 items) range of 1/72 resin-cast vehicles. Some of them are strictly military ones like the T-72, Patton and Centurion, but many others are civilian machines - Jeeps, Land Rovers, Toyotas, Mercedes' a.s.o. And there are two truck kits (HD 20 and HD25) I'm unable to identify - a 3-axle tipper and a 4-axle lorry featuring the same forward cab with full-width grille (with some circular emblem in the centre) and quad-headlamps in the front bumper. http://www.thehobbyden.com/product_info.php?cPath=57_61_127&products_id=585 http://www.thehobbyden.com/product_info.php?cPath=57_61_127&products_id=590 Having examined all the post-1965 ranges of AEC, Albion, Bedford, Dennis, Dodge (UK), ERF, Foden, Ford (UK), Guy, Leyland, Scammell and Seddon-Atkinson I became forced to penetrate the Continental truck market too - with no results from Fiat, Iveco, MAN, Mercedes, Pegaso, Renault, Scania, Unic and Volvo. Does anybody here have any idea about the actual prototype of these two kits? Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankerman Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 (edited) I think the clue is in the word "generic" used to describe the kit. It is representative of the type and not of any one particular manufacturer. I can see suggestions of Leyland, ERF, MAN, Fiat and Pegaso in the model, so in other words it is a good generic model. Chris Edited July 19, 2019 by Tankerman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Thank you, Chris... After some deeper studies I have almost sticked to the 80/90s MAN family. But F8 usually has square door glazing (with no bottom kink) and this "thin" bumper, while F90 features a door window kink, but the bumper is usually deeper. And yesterday (SIC!) at the neighbouring construction site I have seen some 32.322 with kinked window and thin bumper Only this circular logo in the middle of the grille is totally misleading, making "generic" really the most suitable term to use for. Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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