RoninUtah

Thanks! You nailed what I was going after. Ordinary trucks for their day, built and used for hard work with a minimum of frills and nothing fancy.

Power steering and automatic transmissions are for weaklings!

Danish! Of course! I should have known! But in all fairness, pre- Euroband Danish and NL plates were pretty similar. So, I guess your truck is working on a dairy farm!

Very cool build, Jürgen! I like the Dutch plates! Even though DAF is owned by Paccar, along with Peterbilt and Kenworth, they’re virtually unknown in North America except for some Class 4 and 5 COEs that are branded as Kenworth and Peterbilt (although they are really DAF models.)

I usually post over in the Big Rigs section, this is my first time posting here. From the days when 1 ½ to 3 ton trucks were the norm, here are 1/25 representations of what Detroit’s big three automakers had to offer back in the day. I just finished the Ford; it’s a Jimmy Flintstone resin cab, with 3D printed frame, flatbed body and wheels from various designers; interior and glass are from the old Lindbergh pickup kit. The “Job Rated” Dodge is also recent; the cab is 3-D printed from files by Ditomaso147 on Cults; the body and wheels are from other designers and partly scratchbuilt. The Chevy is an old Ron Cash resin kit I built about 20 years ago, with parts from a donor ERTL (now AMT/ERTL) pickup kit. Gotta love them old cabovers!

Most of it would turn black eventually anyway!

Yeah, one time I slipped off a roller and landed on my chin on the pavement and a mild concussion. Needed a few stitches... No OSHA reporting in those days!

I can't wait to see this thing painted, and spots of black goo on the appropriate places! When I worked on an asphalt crew, we would pull the fuel truck up next to our equipment to wash it down with raw diesel fuel. It did a great job as a solvent for liquid asphalt. That was over 50 years ago, I don't think you could do that today!

I made mine simply by painting it flat black and then going over the edges and stripes with body color with a super fine brush. It turned out okay but a decal would have been better. I make my license plates the same way Jurgen suggested. I’ve been collecting plates for years and I’m a member of a couple of world-wide collector clubs, so I have access to a lot of resources. North American plates are 6”x 12” so I just scale the photo to 1/2”’wide and it’s accurate to 1/24 scale.

Amazing results, I’m always blown away by how much detail you put into those little 1/32 trucks to make them look realistic!

This is such a cool build, it’s fun to see it progress. I happened upon a very different Ford C600 today, in Murray, Utah: Can’t recall the last time I saw a box truck with a sleeper!

Yeah, it’s amazing how much 3-D printing has opened up the field. Over the last year, I’ve probably built a dozen models of trucks that I never dreamed that I’d be building… and it feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface! And yes, that cab is basically the 1955 Dodge pickup cab that for some reason, Dodge kept alive in their medium and heavy truck line for a couple of decades afterwards.

Thanks, Alan!

Thanks, Larry!

Thanks, Brian! When I looked at all the reference photos, that's the one that jumped out at me. That rig actually had a two-tone stripe; orange on top and dark red below, but I decided just to do it all red for simplicity's sake. It actually looks orange against the gold background anyway!