Hermann Kersten

Great build of a great vintage rig. You even think about the inside of the trailer with the wooden floor, exellent. Really nice work what u showing us, thank u!

Very nice piece of work, with a lot of beautiful details. The photos are also taken at a nice angle, with a suitable background. Good that this one survived everything and is showing here on the forum.

Thank you Dan and Clayton. Today its time to see the start of the chassis with the modifications. The first important thing, is to get the double drive axle in the right place, this was a bit of comparising on the basis of the st Joseph Motor Line picture. Afterall, the double drive fits about 1,5 times between the front axle and the first rear axle. On the ATM chassis it means that the double drive need to be 3,5 cm moved to the front. Than remove the plastic axle clips and drill the right axles through and through. Then replace these plastic axle clips with a brass tube, so that the model is always straight on its wheels and you don't have the risk that on later term a shaft bends or breaks off. I'll do this to all of my truck models. The chrome rear wheelrims are de-chromed with oven cleaner, because i will paint them later in a white colour. The next job is to make the front axle steerable. First i drill the holes in the weelhubs, than cutting and replace them with brass pinns. After this one i remove the engine supports in the frame, because the papa truck has a V8 engine, and the marmon is getting a Cummins 6 in line engine. This engine fits good under the cab and does not extend behind the cab. Then place the engine and shortened drive shaft between the chassis, together with the rubber tires from the kit , to see the proportions. Below I show the difference between the tires, in front the low profile tire and on the rear the normal tires. At last but not least, the bumper. Above the resin bumper and below the styrene bumper. For the radiator I have to check whether the radiator of the Peterbilt is a better choice, because of the height.....im not really sure. To be continued. Hermann.

Very nice, the weathering, also under the cab and the inside of the frontfenders, is really awesome and realistic. The details are also great, gives this model the finnishing touch. Hermann.

Hello gentlemen. Here is my first topic on this site and like to start the first one with the Marmon. A while ago i was together with Jacobus looking at Hanks Truck Pictures and saw 1 picture what caught my attention. Gary Morton Its a picture from Gary Morton of the Marmon daycab with topsleeper from the st Joseph Motor Lines later i found one from the LHT company. Russ MacNeil On this one the info is lacking, and i will build this model from these 2 pictures, atleast i give it a try. The first thing i did, was to buy the AITM double bunk cabine and cut this one to a daycab. As a donor, i bought the ATM Papa Truck, because of the long chassis and the airsuspension on the double drive. After looking at the cabine i decided that it was not an option to cut this cabine. The next idea was to scratch the cabine with styrene and use this cabin for the dimensions and shape. Here the start of this project. For the doorframes, i made a little smaller door so that the styrene strip of 0.5 mm can be glued around it without any unwanted bends. For the rivets i'm waiting for a Punch & Die set that i recently ordered for this kind of work. After these rivets are placed, than i can start to glue the cabine parts together. For now i continue with the bottom plate and engine tunnel. I hope you like this project and any kind of info of this truck will be very welcome. Hermann.

Nice Marmon and the self made parts and details look great.

Nice project from a nice old Ford. Engine looks great.

Hi Koos, I like this project and im sure it gonna be a beauty again, like all the other ones on the shelf. For the colours i dont know, but when the info is lacking, then you have to guess a bit, for what was the most obvious colour and style in that time.

Thanks for the enthusiastic reactions gentlemen. And yes, i prefer to make these european "daily" work horses. It was a was a big project but gives me a lot of fun to build these.

Basic or not, i like the outcome. Nice and clean build.

An absolut great and nice overall job what you present here.

Very nice idea with a perfect outcome. The paintjob is really awesome! Hermann.

David and Robert, thank you for the welcome. @David: I used also 3 times a product from Shapeways. These produchts are trailer and truck rims, the printing looks good but it gives me a lot of work to get the surface smooth. For small parts its ok, but for that reason I prefer to choose for bigger parts styrene or resin, which in my view and in my case is a better choice Hermann.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

Hello everybody, Today i show you my recently build of 2 Mercedes Benz Actros Lowliners. The base kit was an Italeri MP2, a Revell MP3 kit and for the trailer an Italeri Canvastrailer, wat is completeley modified to a big volume trailer. Both cabines are modified to a L-size, engine is modified from V8 to V6 and the lowrider tyres are bought by KFS. I hope u enjoy this big completed project. Hermann

Hello to all of you! I am Hermann from the Netherlands and in my childhood i build already modelkits, not the finest ones but still. After a stop of decades i started with military and airplanes, plastic kits and metal scratch. Since 5 years ago im infected with the truck modeling and made already a few european Trucks, mainly Mercedes Benz in scale 1/24 an 1/25 The fun for me, is to make a complete different type of transport, to modify the cabines and the detailing of these trucks. Recently I am a little brainwashed by a friend, who is also here on board with old US Resin Trucks, and started a build of my first US (old) truck This Project is as usual for me a mix with scratch, modify and kit parts. I saw in the topics that this forum is also a good resource for the US-stuff, and would help me also with this kind of trucks, because with USA trucks i'm not so familiar. The most important thing for me with modeling is, to enjoy the building proces, sharing it and to learn from others. Besides of building model trucks, i'm also building on my english, forgive me if my grammar is not correct. Soon i will be posting. Hermann.