Shardik Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Given the peculiar nature of the vehicle presented here, I thought it encumbent upon me to offer some explanation of how such a conveyance might come to exist. For that pupose I offer you...The Tale of Seamus McKinney's Truck Seamus McKinney lives on a modest fourty acre spread, north west of Eldora, Colorado. Sylas McKinney, Seamus' Granda', bought the land with the procedes from his partnership in the fourth of July Silver Mine (now a state park). Seamus' Father, Sean McKinney, ran off with a Lithuanian footwear model when Seamus was just a lad (just to be clear, the model was Lithuanian. The footwear was made in a dirt floored shack in Taipai under a French lable). Mother McKinney moved to Boulder several years ago to open a hand made candle boutique, Leaving Seamus the property, two goats, Roxanne the mule, and seven llamas. Now, about the truck. Three winters past, a flatlander was criusing the back roads in his four wheel drive F-150 when he spotted Puck and Ariadne frolicking in the snowy valley below (I may have forgotten to mention that the llamas were all named after mythological characters). He pulled off the road and got out to capture this peculiar sight with his trusty Nikon. Unfortunately, what he believed to be solid ground beneath his wheels was in fact a snow valence; a sort of shelf formed by wind currents sweeping snow up along a vertical ridge. This, of course, quickly succumbed to the weight of the vehicle leaving our intrepid photographer slack-jawed and shivering. The following spring, the insurance adjuster contacted Seamus, on whose property the truck had come to rest, to arrange for its' removal. Allways one to capitalize on a situation, Seamus offered his services (and those of his Fordson tracktor) to extricate the the unfortunate vehicle from the ravine in which it now rested, wheels-up, for the modest sum of $100. The adjuster (being also a capitalist) readily accepted the offer. As one might expect, the truck was immediately written off as a total loss. However, Seamus had noticed that the frame and running gear still seemed to be serviceable. Seeing this, a plan began to take shape. And so, after a brief negotiation, Seamus returned the "extraction fee" and took posession of the remains. Having righted the wreck, Seamus drug it behind the chicken coop where rested Sylas' '37 Ford pickup. The '37 was in relatively good shape aside from a blown engine and the predictable results of languishing under a tarp for thirty years. The grill had been replaced with sections of irigation pipe after an encounter with a near sighted big horn sheep. And so the work began to meld the two trucks into one. No longer would Seamus have to drive the Fordson into town to pick up a sack of McGruders Llama-Vite. Scratch built winch and hood hinges. Chasis, engine and running gear are from lindberg F150. More to come (as soon as I re attatch the license plate and exhaust tips that I knocked off durring the photo session) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Wow! Excellent build. Excellent weathering. Excellent concept. Excellent story! All-around winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 Wow! Excellent build. Excellent weathering. Excellent concept. Excellent story! All-around winner. Thanks, Danno. It means alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Wonderfully realistic model and a great story, eloquently told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goon Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 (edited) Very cool Love your weather, color choice. Well done. Mark Edited September 26, 2013 by the goon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Excellent job Johann, looks great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Great weathering. Model really fits the story. Great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecker388 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris White Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Real nice new....old....new....old.....ok its just cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maindrian Pace Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 The truck is great, love the hinged hood and the llama feed bag. The story had me in stitches. I can picture the look on our hero's face upon learning of the canoodling between his father and the footwear model. -MJS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Very realistic weathering. Awsume build....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 (edited) Thanks for all the kind comments. I'm pretty blown away by all the positive feedback . I'm pleased that you all found the story entertaining. This is actually how I aproach all my models. I begin with a back-story, then build the model to "flesh it out". Edited September 27, 2013 by Shardik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 (edited) Wonderfully realistic model and a great story, eloquently told. Thanks, peekay. Glad you like it. Edited September 27, 2013 by Shardik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Very cool Love your weather, color choice. Well done. Mark Thanks, Mark. Weathering is fun! Excellent job Johann, looks great!! Thank you, Larry. Glad you like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Great weathering. Model really fits the story. Great job. Thanks, Terry. As stated above, for me the model is all about the story. Glad you liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Awesome! Thank you, Riley. I'm pleased that you're pleased Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Real nice new....old....new....old.....ok its just cool Yeah, kinda' hard to pidgeon hole this one, ain't it . Glad you like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 (edited) The truck is great, love the hinged hood and the llama feed bag. The story had me in stitches. I can picture the look on our hero's face upon learning of the canoodling between his father and the footwear model. -MJS Thanks, Mike. The hood hinges were a classic case of over-reach; the next set will be better. The hardest part about the feed sack was finding fabric with a weave that was close to scale. I ended up using pocket lining from Joanne's fabrics. I think I had almost as much fun writing the story as I did building the truck. I'm glad you got a chuckle out of it. Edited September 27, 2013 by Shardik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Very realistic weathering. Awsume build....... Thank you, Carl. I got alot of weathering practice when I started building armor and aircraft models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platerpants Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 COOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardik Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) COOL Thanks, Jake. Hey, I just noticed that you replicated your 1:1 truck with the same Lindberg kit that I used for the chasis on this one. Were you as surprised by the quality of this kit as I was? Lots more detail than I'm accustomed to finding under their lable, and you made very good use of it. Edited September 28, 2013 by Shardik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davewilly Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Very cool and great storyline to go with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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