Markh-75 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Just finished this evening! I've had a ball adding stuff to this but there is only so much detail you can add to a 1/76 vehicle, I'm rather pleased with this.😀 I added a few bits and pieces; the main winch is actually under the back of the cab so there wasnt much I could do with that, but there is a set of three pulleys at the back that come off a larger pulley from the main winch, I added that from a bit of round injection moulding, drilled a hole and then used a needle file to carefully cut a groove around it. I also added a pair of long narrow rollers (just a piece of wire bend 180° and glued on). The tractor unit has a large towing hook on the front and on the rear but both were not moulded correctly; I closed them over by adding a little piece of thin fuse wire from the point of the hook to the shank. The transporter I have fitted out with a couple of pulleys, one in the swan neck and the other outside of the swan neck, these were for rigging the winch to pull a tank onto the trailer. The one outside of the swan neck is actually a spare tail wheel from an aircraft kit! The winch wire could come straight up from the pulley behind the 5th wheel and up into the pulley on the swan neck. I fitted some wood, under the chassis and some blocks of wood in the swan neck area along with a roll of wire that I added a loop on each end and rolled around a pencil, I then put a spot of superglue to keep the wire as a roll. I decided to make mine with the rear ramps up, added a pair of stays from the chassis and used thin fuse wire as the cables that helped raise and lower the ramps. I dressed the trailer bed in metallic paint and Humbrol Matt 29 (I have an old tin that's gone like sludge and is ideal like this as mud!) I added both the metallic and the 'mud' by using the knurled surface of an old craft knife, painted the paint on and then rolled the surface down the track faces of the trailer bed a couple of times, I was very pleased with the effect! The only thing it needs now is a tank to sit on it!😂 Enjoy! This one took me a couple of weeks, with all the additions, I'd been research on it for a while before that. Very pleased with it; I just need to make space for it in the cabinet.😀 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted March 5, 2022 Author Share Posted March 5, 2022 Done quite a line in vehicles now; next build will be back to aircraft!😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Kay Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 You’ve done some wonders with that old kit. Very nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted March 5, 2022 Author Share Posted March 5, 2022 Thank you Heather; I'm very pleased with this! VERY pleased, I've spent alot of time on details; modelling doesnt-half teach patience!😀 I love when they look like this at the end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carius Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Beautiful work Mark Cheers from Brazil Cesar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 Thank you Cesar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 That's very cool. I remember this kit from a long time ago. It's good to see it built so well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 Thank you, and Pip-pip, Bertie! Really enjoyed myself with it, no hurry at all. If a model was made in a hurry, I start to worry, I take my time and it turns out just Fine!😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWD Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 That's a really nice build. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 It might be a vintage kit, but you have done an amazing job on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 On 11/04/2022 at 20:49, MWD said: That's a really nice build. Well done. 11 minutes ago, John_W said: It might be a vintage kit, but you have done an amazing job on it. Thanks chaps! Very much appreciated!👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Congratulations on a fine piece of work, looks great considering its age . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Homer said: Congratulations on a fine piece of work, looks great considering its age . Thank you sir!😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 That is a super job on this old thing. It just needs putting into a Dio now. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 Thanks Steve, I’d like to build a tank to go on it, then I would consider it 😉 I’m not averse to tanks, I just don’t want a great load of them, it will be a great project for the future! thanks for your kind words 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Great work on the old kit. Seems to be your speciality, keep ‘em coming ! Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markh-75 Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, Wulfman said: Great work on the old kit. Seems to be your speciality, keep ‘em coming ! Wulfman Thanks, 👍 I really enjoyed adding all the bits to this! I was delighted when it was complete and looking so good! I just take my time and do the best I can in this scale. its just old kits that have been around for a while and I would probably have liked to make as a boy but didnt get the chance, I just give them my own signature!😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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