hi does anyone know where i could find a kit for recent north american 10wheel trucks (international , kenworth , etc)
we build these in 1:1 scale where i work (the back end) and i want to scratch build a model of them to put in the office. does anyone have any suggestion of a good kit i could use , as long as it has the front of the truck and rear axels i should be ok , in real life we use a variety of trucks depending on what the customer wants / can afford so i’m not too picky about any particular model. having access to all the 1:1 cad drawings and tons of reference material should make it prety easy(er) and fun [:D]
for anyone wanting to know what it is, they’re called snubbing units in the oilfield industry and they’re used push/pull pipe in and out of the ground for whatever reason (pipe replacement , well repairs etc)
Revell,AMT, and quite a few other manufactures have models of current “large Cars”.
Check your local hobbyshop, they should have plenty of info. AMT has a Pete 389, Italeri has a Freightshaker. All in 1/25 or 1/24 scale. Look on E-bay under model truck kits. I found a 1/16 scale Peterbilt 359 that I am working on right now.
Plenty out there.
wroper
thanks i’ll look around some more. both hobby shops near me didn’t have anything when i looked last week , just cars ,ships, planes and tanks but almost nothing else , same with the few canadian based web-sites i checked…i’ll try some of the american ones
PantherLehr,
Is the truck in your picture based on a Kenworth T600? It looks really cool! I built a T600A kit for my dad a few years ago. AMT/Ertl kit, I think. Lots of fun!
Mark
It appears to be an International 9300 series.
Wroper
wroper is probably right , it’s been a few years since we built that one so i forgot but 75% of what we build uses international trucks
if anyone is interested in more examples, we just finished this one last week using a 2004 international 5600i 8x6 tri-dem with cat c12 engine i’d realy like to model this one but it was a pain in the butt to find the real thing so my chances of finding a equivalent model are probably nil.
Greetings Max!
Haven’t heard from you since our meeting in Wetaskiwin. Great pictures of what you do by the way. I was in Hobby Wholesale on Calgary Trail last week and I thought I saw some trucks … might be worth a phone call.
Regards,
Bruce
The 5600 in the photo is a fairly new redesign of the front end. Most of the newer truck kits out there are based on mid to late 80’s designs. The truck model kit popularity thing isn’t too high right now. However that AMT Peterbilt daycab is a newer design as is the Italeri Freightshaker. It is based on an FLD 120 with a flat top sleeper. Should be a cinch to cut the frame, extend and add a drop axle. The Italeri kit has aluminum front rims with heavy duty rears (they are not aluminum and don’t match the front.) If you want to model the unit in the pic, you might have to kit-bash a little. The Pete is a day-cab, no sleeper, but from the looks of the photo, scratchbuilding a sleeper should be straight forward.
wroper
wroper11
thanks for the info , now i got a better idea about which manufacturers are making truck kits , should make it a bit easier to find. chances are i’ll have to cut the frame, extend the driveshaft and frame and move the axels to the rear anyway (we have to do it in 1:1)
B. LeCren
humm i was there last week and i don’t remeber seeing them , maybe i looked in the wrong section, i’ll go tomorow and have another look they’re about 5 mins from where i work. as for not seeing me much i have been hiding with the other threadheads in the armor section [:D], started to work on a panther in the group build.