I’m told this was originally a Revell kit. I found mine in a Hobby Lobby. I thought I would knock it out on two weeks but it was closer to two months. It needed some filler on seams and I added a few interior details. I made it as a gift for Dr. Mike Walter, my O scale friend, and the video is of his 2 rail scale layout. 
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That scenery around the tavern is 1st rate! JohnA
Hi Griff,
Nice job !!!!
I’ve been wanting to get one of these for some time. Any Cab-over trucks are tough to find.
I see green spray on the countertop. So what is the plastic original color. Did it need an base undercoat spray ?
Cheers 😉
Should read 1/48, not 1948. Looks like she’s already lost the left rear view mirror. These are quite fragile.
I appreciated the obvious smoothness of the track work.
Nice build Griff!
These re-issues by Atlantis are super fun to build and bash. I combined the fuel trailer with the Kenworth tractor from a different vintage Revell kit. I made some custom decals for a fuel dealer on my friends layout.
It would be awesome if Atlantis managed to acquire the Kenworth tractor dies and re-issue it also! Revell originally issued the Kenworth with a box trailer as a moving van. Rumor is the mold for the trailer was damaged. The tractor was re-issued at some point with a cut down version of the trailer to represent a flatbed trailer.
After I repurposed the fuel trailer, I decided to do something with the White cab-over tractor. I swiped another rear axle from a second kit and modified the frame to be a tandem axle truck. A scratch built styrene dump body will make this a neat coal hauler for the layout. I need to finish it!
I shot the model with plain old Testors gloss green enamel thinned with lacquer thinner. I needed at least two coats to get coverage on the plastic as well as putty work.
There are some Tamiya military trucks in 1/48 particularly Soviet types that are probably copycats of US stuff anyway that may be useful. AMT made a ‘40 Ford about 40 years ago and Tamiya has a Citroen sedan.
Love those tankers. I bought one at HobLob, but it's still in the box. So far.
Below is one of the originals I picked up at a show before the new one came along - it had been assembled but was beaten up. I replaced the lost mirrors with some simpler and more durable ones. Re-painted it. Never lettered it.
Reminds me a bit of the tanker from Duel.
I’d like to add that Mike has a very large O scale layout plus a Lionel layout in the center. His O scale track is all hand laid with all ballasted individual ties; every tie has two tie plates and every tie plate has two spikes. Minimum radius is I think 130” and curves are carefully super elevated. In the center he has O 3rail Gargraves and Ross turnouts. All turnouts are powered by Turtle machines. All of the wiring looks like NASA did it. The scenery is beautiful he’s making an impressive start on it.
Another physician named Mike, Mike Ross, models the Virginian and his layout is I think largely complete. Similar top tier modeling and flawless operation. AFAIK both layouts will be on show for the Southwest O scale meeting this fall. All I have is two loops of Fastrak on my living room floor!
Incidentally Menards has just released the WW-2 deuce and a half in 1/48. I ordered four of them; $4.99 ea. they are well detailed composite kits mostly plastic but with a die cast cab. Did check the scale and it’s right on. I’ll post some photos. The tailgate even has the metal straps you could use to lower the thing and they also were what your boot went into to climb in once it was down. You ex-Gis will surely remember that!
Nice work on the tanker Griff. I bought the stake body kit a couple years ago. Still sitting in the box tho....
There's a You-Tube video I saw sometime back with a guy doing a step-by-step video of his build of this Atlantic Sinclair fuel truck. Very helpful to watch.
Very nicely done! I have the kits for the tank truck and the stake body truck. So far, I haven't done anything with them. Maybe I should take the hint and work on one of them.
The deuce and a half by Menards reflects the Pontiac built one. It features screwdriver assembly underneath and it is probably possible to take the cab off to put in a driver, though I haven’t tried yet. The troop benches in the bed are nice but the back rests/ rails are not included so if you want an open bed one you’ll have to get out your plastruct and fabricate them. Don’t forget a safety strap that went from one corner post to the other in back. The finish is a little shiny and could use a flat (matte) clear overcoat. It’s marked with a simple white star; I’m not an AFV/soft skin expert but I think most in the WW2 era would have had a white circle. This is actually good in the way that you could get away with using these trucks as long as the early 60’s. Our mess sergeant at Fort Sill in 1970 had one of these without doors, just the elliptical cut out openings! There’s no telling how long some older vehicles may havre been used. The canvas cover is ok but the light khaki color is all wrong fit back then, I’d repaint it a faded olive drab. It could use shading and highlights in the folds. Most of my “O gauge” military vehicles I’ve collected are 1/43 cause that’s what’s been available… but they are usually ten times the price! These are a really good deal. We can wish for more! On my Christmas carpet Empire I proudly put out my childhood Dinky Toy Brit Daimler ambulance which is effectively weathered with actual rust. I always do a convoy stopped in town.
Another WW2 era pvignette I hope to “someday ” create is a working party of German POWs supervised by MPs. There were a lot of those often in their original uniforms marked PW; although some were issued US khakis or the pre war blue Jean type fatigues stenciled PW on the back of the shirts. PW was often repeated in small letters on the back pants pockets.
FWIW, I built and weathered the stake body truck from the original Revell kit and it is a royal PITA to build, even for the experienced modeler.
It looks great and not to discourage anyone, but nothing fits together correctly, so there's lots of filing, cutting, filling, molding and sanding to make it look good. Not sure if the Atlantis kit is any better.
Gas truck required filler (lacquer based auto body putty) on the tank to underframe seam and in most of the seams on the cab. Transparencies fit poorly. There were LOTS of sink marks on the tires which I filled to the point that they look ok but not to full IPMS contest winner standards!
The Stake Truck looks great and nice figures as well!
Since we touched on military eqpt......................Dont forget Atlantis has some really cool 1/48 vehicles that look good on flats. The pull behind Howitzers are really nice. You can build 6 of them in a few hours then weather to your liking, They look good on flats. Then there is the Howitzer tank that takes longer. Dont expect high quality from Atlantis but still perfect for o scal flat cars. Weather to your liking
Heres a few pics of my Atlantis stake bed trucks. I am a Penn Central fan so I had to do them in PC Green. Since the kits are not really high quality, I decided to weather the trucks to hide some of the mold issues in these kits, and also because Penn Central eqpt. usually was not in the best of shape. These kits were a PITA (as stated by someone else earlier in this thread). I have one of the tankers but am not looking forward to building it. Hobby Express in Cranberry Pa has all model kits for 15% off retail. Best hobby shop ever. I am going to build 2 more to fit on my PC autorack from MTH.
Beautiful work by all!
I picked up both Atlantis White tanker and Chevy stake truck models at Hobby Lobby earlier this year during a sale, 40% off I believe. I opened the the stake truck thinking it would be a fairly quick build. Looking at the kit it looked like more work than I had anticipated, a lot more. That, combined with a was thread here on the Forum, about the stake truck and how much work it took to get the pieces to fit properly had me put those models in the closet with some others waiting to be built. I've got too many other projects that need to get done before I can dedicate weeks to building a scenery accessory. One day I hope I to have the time necessary to build these two models.
If you go to youtube and search hpiguysworkshop you can see the Atlantis builds
Anyone notice that the photo on the box is not the same model of Chevy truck that is the actual kit. The box shows a "short-nosed" model. The kit actually builds a "standard-nose" model. Someone who is an expert on those old trucks could tell us what the different models were, but, I am not that knowledgeable. I just know the two are different models of Chevy trucks.
Jeff
if you have one of the old revell kits, either the Mobil tanker or the Chevy stake truck, Atlantis models sells just the windshield, for each one! I have both of these still in the box and wondered how to make the windshield since they aren’t included in the original kits. I just found this out last night on another group and ordered one of each. Check their website and type in “windshield.”
https://atlantis-models.com/
@jini5 posted:If you go to youtube and search hpiguysworkshop you can see the Atlantis builds
Thank you for the tip. I watched both the gasoline truck and stake body truck on hpiguysworkshop. He gave a lot of good tips. I haven’t built a vehicle kit since I was in my 20s (70s to early ‘80s) when I didn’t have room for a train layout.
jini5, thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to give the a watch.
totomac, thanks for the reminder. That had come up on the stake truck thread I mentioned previously.
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