1/72 resin trucks by Hobby Den

[KRK4m]

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

[Tankerman]

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

[KRK4m]

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