Working on a 1/25 fire truck, just started on the cab and such. Let me know what you think!
Scale Drawings I made from reference pictures.
Cab with headlights and grill
Front Bumper with side light cutout and bumper hoselay.
Cab bumper location holes and LED lighting holes.
That is awesome
Always inspiring to see scratch-built vehicles!
I’m guessing (by the tiny photos visible on you workboard) that it’s a pumper…any idea as to the manufacturer of the prototype? Also, is it your local FD, or just a design you fancy? [“Details, man, we need details…!”]
Yes its a 2000 Ferrara Custom Pumper, it is for a local FD, i’ll donate it when complete. If you look at some of my other posts i like to build and donate to police and fire departments. I created the scale drawing using reference photos and a proportion using a known dimension.
Hello!
Great project - lots of work ahead of you, too! Just be careful to plan it throughly! Good luck with your build and have a nice day
Paweł
Great Start. This is going to be a “crowd pleaser” for sure
Update
Here is the interior floor pan
The interior “hump” where the engine would be.
Seat frames
The pump section behind the cab
The final rear hose section side panel with one set of cabinet doors. .04 styrene layered on .06 styrene.
The rear section with all cabinet doors
Rear section with detail added near fender, and depth added on top for hard suction.
Finally a fire truck build. I will be following your progress and it’s looking very good so far.
I would just love to model old fire trucks from the 40’s thru the 60’s but nothing is available. The only one out there is the Heller 1/24 Delahaye Type 103 Bonneville ladder truck.
Update
The rear body section framed up.
The whole rig mocked up
If you like the older trucks you can always use a resin or kit cab and scratch build the rear body.
Update
Enhancing the pump panel (middle section behind cab)
Inlets and outlets on the pump panel.
Frame mock up in square brass tubing
Let me know what y’all think!
nice work there. it looks like it’s taking shape
Update.
Masking cab stripe
With color coat
Un-masking the stripe
Center pump with primer coat
rear with color
Un-masking the rear
Masking Off.
Painting the rear fender metallic
Paining the rear of the truck metallic
Unreal! This is awesome!
Great bit of scratchbuilding. Looks awsome.
Jim [cptn]
my name is Damion if you could email me I’m going to try and build 1.25 supten pumper that my dept received if you could help damionscales@hotmail.com