Did’nt know if you had run across this site yet. they have had this project going for a while now and thought it might give you an idea for a scatchbuild/conversion job. I personally would not mind haveing a 1:1 of this beast but if I did it would make the depat look bad since it would be better than a few of our trucks.
hey cris, yes i have seen that. i saw an add for it in firehouse mag a year or so ago. my wifes aunt was seeing a guy who was a fire fighter, and he would bring the mags to her house and then i would snag onto them. that seems like one hell of a truck thats for sure. i was looking at that site just a few weeks ago and was wondering when they were going to have it done? its going to be bad allright.
p.s. the pics of the ford are in the mail as of monday morning, i swear!!!
It would be nice if they could get some pics if the truck up though. Look forward to seeing the the ford.
yea i would like to see it myself.i wrote some notes on paper for you of each pic. i numberd each pic and have a corrsponding note along with them . hope you like em.
ok I’ll try this again, had to go to another brush fire. I forgot to get some pics of the tanker for you, had the camera at the station and all but about the time I remembered got a tone for a brush fire and had to take the engine to town for a parade after that. Been a busy weekend with a festival they have here. I’ll try to get those before I go out of service again though.
thats coll chris. the pics should be at your house by thursday i would think. what is your tankers chassis, ford, international,chevy?i’d like to give it a try when i get the pics. kind of got my hands full right now with the superbird and daytona, but they can always go to the back burner!
The chasis is a GMC can’t pull the exact model off the top of my head though. It’s the old squared of front end style though. I’d say if a chasis is available it could be a good first time scratch build for me. The tank and dump tank should be easy enough. The only thing that could be a challenge would be the pump on the front. Got any tricks for those?
I got the pics today. pretty sweet rig you’ve done there. be nice if our little ford was that nice.how do you get the roll up doors to look like that? Also how would diamond plate be done? Also you got a pretty nice collection going on, no way I would have all those sitting in cabinets like that though, boys might think they are toys and can’t have that happening. I’ll get that one scanned to when I get a chance to get those others done for you, still working on that.
thanks for the nice review,the trick to the roll up doors is pretty easy, i use evergreen scale models styrene sheet stock,( it’s labeled as .040 spacing.) they make it in all kinds of sizing and looks, they make sheets to look like sidewalks, clapboard siding and boxcar siding for model rr, just to name a few. but anyway, i build my main box with the .040 ,and then simply cut pieces from .010 sheet stock to go around the “doors” and then i fill in with squadren puddy. the trick is to get the doors in the right position. so using the .010 stock, i tend to make several pieces until im happy with the outcome, its really easy once you do it a couple of times.well anyway i’m glad you liked it.
the diamond plate was “made” by cutting up some sheet stock i had of diamond plate then i use bare metal foil over top. pretty simple to use.
hey chris, would the gmc be a “brigadere” or maybe a “kodiac” model? as for the pump, i could suggest snagging the pump unit from the amt american lafrance pumper, and doing some cutting on it to get the look you wanted? that model is still on ebay,and you can find some that have been built(rather bad) and just use it for pieces? i used this method once before on a mack b-61 cab i bought from model truck and fire apparatus, then i mated the cab onto the american lafrance pumper body, it came out ok, but i would like to re-do it as i have gotten better at my scratch building since i done that model.? hope this gives you some good ideas for your tanker. i’m planning on using the international dump truck to do a tanker with? i’ll wait on your pics though to give me some more insight.
I do believe it is before the kodiac models. it is probally mid to late 80’s I’m guessing. I’ll try to get those pics soon, of coarse now the camera has disapeared, can’t even get up pics of the latest build on here right now, just got to find the little ones hidding place and probally hit the jackpot for all sorts of missing things. I’ve never worked with bare metal foil before so that would be yet another thing new. So does the pump on that kit have all the main parts. The one on the tanker is all exposed with the gauges sitting on a panel above it.
hi chris, the pump has the basic parts. the pump panel on the a.l.f. is on one chrome piece, i would cut out the majority of the gauges, then make a simple box to put it on,then mount that on the extended front bumper? a little imagination would play a big part as well i do beleive?
Yea that sounds like it might work. I think I’ll ride over to the station here after while and get some pics and email them to you. Got nothing better to do really so might as well go play around with the trucks.
that will work,i’ve got all kinds of photo books on fire equipment,but nothing with real good close ups though.plus it will inspire me to build something else!
thanks.
got a question, do you guys have any “homemade” rigs in your stable? if you do i’d like to have a photo of it.
well about the only homemade type we would have is our rescue which is an old gas and light service truck and a small chevy utility truck that came from the same place. The rescue is pretty nice and looks kind of cool. Our light and air truck has a f-250 chasis with a box put on the back with a jet ski motor pump. I’ll see if I can’t get some pics of them all and burn a disc and send it to you. Working on posting some of latest build right now, keep an out in the armor forum a little later.
that would be cool chris, i would like to see that rescue. i like to do trucks like that, the homemade stuff is really kind of special i think,something about having the only one makes them kind of cool. if you send me a disc, that means i’m going to go have my cd drive fixed on my computer. its a super junk gateway. i’ve replaced the cd drive twice, wonder if gateway is made by amt/ertl?
hey dave,
i think gateway is made by Lindberg…
I know exactly what you mean about gateway, I have replaced 3 cd drives and countless other things. Had so many problems with my original one they wound up replaceing it with one twice as good. I’l get those pics developed and send them to you.