PierreR89

Here is an old Volvo truck i worked on when i worked as a mechanic. These are the only pic's i have of it. If i remember correctly the wheels on it are made out of wood and not steel. Just remebered that the cab is also made from wood on it. Thought some might like it.

Bought a new truck. Its a -97 Chevrolet Suburban 4x4 and with the 6.5td v8 in it, hopefully i can pick it up this weekend. So now i have 6 vehicles... 3 jeeps, 2 cherokee XJ´s with the 4.0 and one Grand cherokee ZJ with the 5.2 3 chevy diesel trucks, 1 C20 with 6.2 and one K2500 silverado with 6.5td and now the suburban also with the 6.5td. I also realized that everytime i buy a new vehicle it is always larger then the one i had, if its not the body it is the engines that go up in size.. Now i am almost scared of what the next one will be...

I have that oilrig to. Just need an oiltanker in the same scale to make it look right The oiltanker is Revell's Esso Glasgow in 1/400 (You can also see a part of Revell's colombo express in 1/700 but i dont count that as weird)

Nope, just boring electric motors.

This is the weirdest kit i have.

Gasoline is tricky. It dont even have to hit anything hot to ignite, if the air is just right, the tank is a bit 1-1.5 meters up or more and the drainpan is on the floor. Then it can selfignite just because of the friction that the fuelstream encounters when it is falling through the air down to the drainpan. Maybee something like that happend and everything caught fire?

Stumbled on this on ebay and just had to buy it. Mostly because i am from Sweden and the small village i grew up in can be traced back to when the vikings was around. There are graves and a few runestones there. Some of wich still can be read if you know how and because that village had them the school learned us how to read them. (Edit: did some checking just beacuse i got curious it can be traced back to before the vikings was there. Some of the graves dates back to sometime in the bronzeage, it ended in 600BC here) And for those who are interested, no one knows when the church in that village was built but its first mention in any document was in the 14th century. The only extra thing i am going to with it is to put in the correct engine for it as the one italeri have in this kit is not even close to be correct for this type of Volvo FH.

Looks good, but i dont understand what the manual has done wrong with the tires for the trailer? I dont know how many of their trailers i have built and i have never had any problem. There are 2 things that i dont really like. (Probably because i used to work on these types of trailers when i worked as mechanic) Airlines connected to the underside of the airbags, if they were that way in real they would have been ripped off within minutes from leaving the factory or after road debries hit them. The air hoses for the airbags is on the top of almost every trailer with air suspension. Airlines to the brake should go to the brakecylinder (round part of the brake assembly) that sits on the caliper, the way you have it is so it goes to the calipermount. a modern trailer like this have 2 hoses for each brake cylinder, one line is for the service brake and one is for releasing the parkingbrake. Other then that it looks good

Has not happend much on it latley. Mounted the fenders to it and are waiting for the paint to dry on the wheels.

No they have not. Some of the frame crossmembers have numbers but the rest you have to compare the parts to the very bad illustrations on the drawing to see if you have the right part...

Got some paint on it at last, took longer then i thought it would do. Btw, the PE hinges for the rear platforms are not fun to do...

Yeah it is a beast. I have just started to paint it today but for the next one i am going to use spraypaint for it because it is very hard to get the brush to reach every part of the frame because of all the crossmembers and drivetrain. But it worked and if it does not look good i can always call it for "battlescars", most of it is not going to show anyways when it is done. Also found out how much i dont like working with PE parts this small.. unfortunatley there are alot of those to in this kit. The next step is to mount the fenders and skidplates then the frame is completed and it is just the rest of the body to do. Already started on them so there will probably bee new pic,s sometime next week with them on the frame. The supportlegs are also complete but will mount them afre i have tires on it, the manual had 2 choises for them, travelmode or combatmode. I decided to have it in combatmode, just because almost every pic of this thing on the web has it in travelmode and not combatmode ready to launch.

Done a little bit more. Most of the frame is complete, all of the steering linkage is in place, torsionbars for the suspension and mounts for the front supportlegs. Just missing some exhaustpipes but will mount them after the engines are painted. Both engine are done.

Started building on this just because i felt i needed a break from trucks and trailers. After about 10hrs of building this is how far i have come. There are alot of parts in this kit. Even the driveshafts are split up into 3 parts, mainshaft and the yokes that go in to the transferboxes. The transferboxes is between 5-7 parts each. According to the manual i am about to start on step 6 to assemble drivetrain for the 2 middle axles and by the looks of that page that is about 5-6hours of work..

Thanks.

Thanks, yes they do look good, only to bad that they are rarely seen on the roads anymore.

Built this a few years ago and took these pic,s before i was going to paint it. I must have totally forgotten about it because i found it in a box today still unpainted. The 3 last pic,s is just to show how big the real thing was This is 1/35 and the Humvee is also in 1/35 Old pic,s + some new

Thanks. The weathering turned out good on them, it was my first time trying to do it to. Yes, but they were built to work and looks was nowhere on their list of things their tanks needed to have. Unlike the german tiger tanks, they looked good but were totally useless during the russian winters. I have a few other kits of the different versions of KV1 and KV2 that i need to build sometime.

Built this so long ago that i honsestly have forgot what company made it. I think it was Italeri but i am not sure. Also in one pic i had the nebelwerfer in a weird angle so the tires looks crooked, but they are straight.

Also one that i built a few years ago.

Built this a few years ago.

Bought this from ebay: And this: ZIL 135. They will probably look good next to my to MAZ 537 tanktransporter and KZKT 537 tractor once they are built... I actually know a person that owns a real ZIL 135 that was used for the luna rocket and that one is parked not far away from my parents house. Unfortunatley it is a non runner as both engines in it have siezed and the missile ramp is removed. He also owns a T-34 and 2-3 Diamond T tanktransporters from WWII

It is that kit i am refering to, italeri 728. So they could basically have whatever the buyer wanted put in them? This could be fun when it is time to build it.

Looks great.

Been building this for a few days now and i am finally done with it exept the mudflaps but the paint on them had not dried yet. Because i wanted to "eurofy" it i used orange lenses for the indicators and used orange paint for the sidemarkers on the tub exept for the 2 where the hatch is. Need to redo the chrome on the piston as the molotow pen i used ran out in the middle of painting it...