Lee I love that B81 Mack. Growing up I use to see many a dump truck and concrete mixer on the chassis. I’m looking to get a Revell White 3000 cab/chassis and turn it into an old fire truck my old fire department had way back when.
Dave thanks
the White 3000 open top should easy top is already off hope to see it soon please post it here when you start working on it
Moved add some vehicles today
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I set some of mine up in categories..farm trucks serving the sugar beet industry, tank and other trucks serving petroleum industry, and beer and other trucks serving the brewery. Also commercial town vehicles and civilian cars as separate groups. Won't get to post photos until after the holiday.
colorado hirailer posted:I set some of mine up in categories..farm trucks serving the sugar beet industry, tank and other trucks serving petroleum industry, and beer and other trucks serving the brewery. Also commercial town vehicles and civilian cars as separate groups. Won't get to post photos until after the holiday.
Can’t wait to see them. I’ve seen sugar beets trucks before they have special box bed on them don’t they?
Greetings Everyone,
Here's my rendition of a Norfolk Southern track maintenance supervisor vehicle. BTW Happy Thanksgiving To All!! 
Chief Bob (Retired) 
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Very nice Bob! I always enjoy your post thanks for sharing, and have a Happy Thanksgiving also
Excellent NS model and excellent lighting effects, Chief Bob!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
New truck on the layout. Got to oil some roads, keep the dust down.
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Jackie
That’s a really great dirty truck! Irking on or just finished a couple projects here, one the Mobil tank truck that Revell did. Interesting experience, as I had the same issues with assembly as I did when I built my first one...and I was 10.😉
The second is a Porsche Cayenne. It s a well engineered kit bought direct from China. Better have some modeling experience: good drawings, instructions in Chinese. Lol
Yes the Cayenne is a bit out of era, but my railroad has a garage with scalenmodels of most of the cars I’ve owned—compromises abound in this hobby...
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Jackie. Nice old Diamond T oil truck. Is that a Rusty Rail body? I’m going to get one of those some day
Don. Cool old White 3000 you did a great job on it.
John. Thanks for posting pics of your REA trucks.
Thanks guys for sharing your trucks
lee drennen posted:Jackie. Nice old Diamond T oil truck. Is that a Rusty Rail body? I’m going to get one of those some day
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A prewar tinplater, I have a preference for the dimestore pieces. Here's an early postwar Tootsietoy "refurbished":
A bit of Rustoleum that is a good approximation of the original, and a dab of Testors enamel on the trim bits. Added a few decals from I94Enterprises.com.
PD
pd posted:A prewar tinplater, I have a preference for the dimestore pieces. Here's an early postwar Tootsietoy "refurbished":
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PD
PD,
What a fun project! It looks great -- especially after you added color to the roof light, which it looks like the original lacked.
Can you share with us what's going on with the difference seen in the windows and the before and after photos? I can't tell whether that was cloudy old plastic or metal that you removed from the original.
Makes me want to head to a flea market in search of a fun find like this one :-).
Tomlinson Run Ralroad
Tom
I think that’s masking tape think he was getting ready to paint
lee drennen posted:Tom
I think that’s masking tape think he was getting ready to paint
Makes sense, thanks. Time to clean the glasses 
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Nice post, PD! I really enjoy seeing non-glamorous old stuff getting a little love.
Sorry for the late reply, guys. Yeah, the first pic was taken after a light sanding and a masking of the windows and rubber tires with masking tape. The interior of the casting is unpainted, and I wanted to preserve that from overspray. One dilemma was how to mask the axle-ends...I recalled a buddy of mine using a daub of rubber-cement as a liquid masking agent. You can't see it in the picture, but there's a bit of rubber-cement on each axle-end which was peeled off after painting.
That said, a close examination will reveal that the new paint didn't cover very well. The same was true for the original paint. Three coats and still a bit of the metal shows through. I baked the finish using a seventy-five watt bulb in a small box lined with tin-foil and letting it sit in there for three or four hours (in the summer I would have just set it outdoors in the sun for an afternoon).
A real frustration when doing these projects is the dramatic reduction in paint selection from the folks that now run Testors. I was a heavy ModelMaster enamel fan, and that stuff is virtually gone. I'm not sure if this was driven by the move by a lot of hobbyists to acrylics, or just a general drop in demand for the product. Regardless, for those of us that don't want to drag out the airbrush for small projects, it's a pain.
Okay, enough bellyaching...
PD
Don
White Mobilgas Tanker looks great. What decals did you use? I tried a set from the 1995 reissue and they were terrible. Thick, yellowed, gummy and distorted when slid around.
Removed them before they set. Maybe a bad set, I have some others. I have used 60+ year old Champ decals with no problems and good results.
Gray
