Hey Steamhead thanks for your interest. To be honest I'm not too thrilled about this Forum much anymore. Not to many people around lately & most people view but don't reply. My scaled lumber stock is low right now, plenty of Poplar scraps but not had much time to mill it. I did do a little project a couple of weeks ago building a log truck. Since there is no place for vehicles & this will be for the Mill I'll go ahead & post it.
First pic is a Imex truck, these are usually less than $4. I buy them for the cabs mostly & build my own beds.
Here I took the bed off & I'm going to shorten the bed 2 scale feet
I cut this in 3 places in order to reverse the rear axle so it would be viewable from the rear. I also glued a piece of styrene over all this to strengthen it & be a part of the finish bed
Here I stripped the cab in acetone. These bodies are metal so they work out pretty good.
I made a couple of fuel tanks from scrap sprues. I glued a piece of round stock for the double axle. This will not be scene so not to worried about how it looks from undeneath. I added some mud flaps to the rear & mounted them on some angle stock.I made a rear frame plate from a piece of styrene.
I used some tire combo kits from Herpa.
This is the cab after the paint job.
I couldn't find any round stock scaled enough for the log brakets so I cut the panes from a commercial window & used these. I also bent some small round stock for some filler tubes for the fuel tanks.I glued some bumper posts on the corners of the bumper. I cut some logs from some branches I gathered last fall.
In this pic you can see the tail lights I made from cutting a real thin piece of round stock. I will later fill this with a drop of red paint from a tooth pick.
The chains are costume jewelry from Michael's. I spray painted these lightly with red oxide primer & wiggle it between coats to keep the links from sticking together. I also spray them with a light coat of black & gray to give it the old dirty look.
I weathered the tires with acrylic wash coats of grimy black, gray & brown.
Before
After
As always your comments & suggestions are welcomed. I hope you enjoyed this little project.