For the past several months I’ve been working on a scrathbuilt model of a Scot chassised Thibault ladder truck. Its finally got to the point were I can go public with some pictures. You will notice that there are still some missing ladders, lights and handrails.
For those not familiar with the brand names, Scot was a truck manufacture owned by the Irving Oil company. Many Canadian fire trucks in the late '70’s and early 80’s were biult on Scot chassis. Thibault built many firetruck bodies during the same period.
I hope you enjoy these shots
Thanks for looking
Carl
Wow!! That’s awesome work. It’s always great to see some not-very-often-modeled Canadian subjects. Congratulations on a job well done and thanks for sharing the pics.
Avery nice build thanks for the pics
Excellent work. Great looking model.
Regards, Rick
Sweet truck, great job man!!!
Did you use shoelace for the hose? looks good, pal!
Looks great and you said you scratch built it too. Can you give us an overview of how you made it and some things you made it from. Also what was the hardest part?
Once again thanks for the kind words. I did take a few pictures during construction of the Scot. I’m posting them here to illustrate how it was built.
First a shot of a 1 to 1 from the Toronto Fire Dept.
This is a shot of the scratch built frame and running gear. The motor is from the ALF kit. Allison tranny is from an AMT Kenworth kit, rear suspention is from a Chevy Titan kit. The fire pump is scratch built from car bell housings and some gearcase and blower drive bits with Evergrteen structural plastic plumbing.
scratch built pump control panel
this is the modified ALF ladder body. I stretched the wheel openings 54" to accomadate the tandem drive, reversed the top deck to give a midship ladder mount then scratched the top cabinets/water tank with Evergreen sheet.
This is a shot of the doghouse and cab interior. The engine cover is made from plastrut "O"scale checkerplate. Its an exact match for the tread patern used by AMT. The Bostrom SCBA seats were scratch bilt using parts of the ALF jumpseats and the airpacks are also scratch built. since they are not easily seen in the finished truck I didn’t add any buckle or regulator details.
The hose bed is filled with seam binding tape. It looks like 4" snakeskin Hi-Vol hose.
A longshot of the finished truck. If I were to do this again I would shorten the chassis by one set of doors . I think it would look better if the truck were shorter with more ladder overhang… The Ladder assembly is basicly built out of the box.
The hardest part about building the truck was finding reference material then converting the pictures into measurements. When I did find a truck to do measurements on I only took about half as many as I should have.
I hope this is of some interest to you folks. I do tend to ramble on when I start talking about models
Thanks
Carl