
Amtronic
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1/25th
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Tampa Bay area, Florida
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W. Robin Tice
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Thanks for the correction!!
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For those interested, here is the actual wrecker the kit is based on, removing a car from a sinkhole in Florida. Article -- http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2014/11/14/car_swallowed_by_sin.html Video -- http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/video.html?clip=http://static.baynews9.com/newsvideo/bn9/web_video/CARREMOVED1114.f4v&vtitle=Car%20swallowed%20by%20sinkhole%20removed
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Built using a built up cat bulldozer I got off ebay. The counterweights can pivot in and out, and are filled with nuts and washers to offset whatever I put in the sling. All the pieces are pinned to the tracks so it can easily be disassembled to travel. They're never finished I just stop working on them.
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Payhauler and bottom dump coal trailer
Amtronic replied to Amtronic's topic in Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
I don't have any photos of during construction. I was getting the Payhauler kits for less than $25 each so I bought a few of them. I just hacked off the rear of one and grafted it onto this frame here. I followed the same layout of a big rig for the shorty driveshaft from the front differential. I was inspired by a photo I saw of someone who built a dual drive Payhauler dump truck with lengthend dump bed. -
Mack DM600 yard goat
Amtronic replied to Arnd's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
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Payhauler and bottom dump coal trailer
Amtronic replied to Amtronic's topic in Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
Credit goes to Hanks Truck Pictures, Model Cars Magazine, and Tim Ahlborn for advice. -
Credit goes to Hanks Truck Pictures, Model Cars Magazine, and Tim Ahlborn for advice.
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Freightliner FLL car carrier
Amtronic replied to Amtronic's topic in Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
Credit goes to Hanks Truck Pictures, Model Cars Magazine, and Tim Ahlborn for advice. -
Built this from a swap meet kit that had a broken cab. I built it as if it were a concrete mixer that had laid over and ate some guardrail while the mixer body came off in the wreck.
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Built this a couple of years ago. Setback front axle, lowered the cab mounts so it reflects a Freightliner FLL cab design. The upper front car rail folds up to allow the cab to tilt forward. There is a front support (unseen) that holds the front half of the car rail. Rear fenders are from the AMT Pete Turnpiker kit.
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Mack DM600 yard goat
Amtronic replied to Arnd's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
There is no way all the tires would match on a yard dog. It would have the worst of the worst tires, those that would barely hold air. Likely some taken off a trailer that had locked up an axle and flat-spotted. Recaps that had started to delaminate. Bent and damaged wheels. No mud flaps. Broken or cracked windows with BB gun damage. Maybe a dented cab from a jacknife accident, which is why it got demoted to yard dog.