Firebuilder

Very nice!

Very nice! I miss seeing Hess trucks on Jersey highways.

Good morning Charlie, I am working off photos only, no actual measurements. The interior is completely different than the Trumpeter interior. The other problem with that is , I didn’t even think of using that as a base until you suggested it and I looked at your photos of modifying it. The cab was already built and is about 1/4 inch narrower in width than the Trumpeter and the wheel well openings are also off. I found some better photos last night and see a few other spots I need to correct on the floor and dash area. How do you make all of the light switches and other detail items in the Control panels? Thank you for your help. It is greatly appreciated!

Thank you everyone for all the comments , they are much appreciated

Progress continues, very slowly. A lot of trial and error, mostly error on the cab interior. I am Trying to figure out a dashboard , but so far I have scrapped most of what I have come up with. It’s More complicated than I thought it would be.

I took Charlie’s advice and replaced the front cab corners with the 3/4 pvc pipe. The corners are much cleaner now, just slight sanding and filling. The Top of the cab at roof line also worked out much better. Just a little more filing to refine the curves. I am thinking of attempting to resin cast the trumpeter grill, so I can make multiple headlight bezels and won’t ruin the grill to the kit, which I can still use on that cab. Trying the resin casting will be another first for me.

Wow what an amazing build, the details are excellent !

Although I am new here, welcome back Daniel

Thank you Charlie , I pulled out one of my trumpeter kits and will start working on the cutting the headlight bezels off and trying to figure out a grill. Work on the cab has been slow, did not get much done this weekend, except for sanding off the excess putty on the seams and cutting off the corners. Have to cut the PVC pipe today and rebuild the front. Will post pictures when I get all the completed

Looks great, paint looks really good

Looks very nice, a lot of work going into that trailer

Thanks for the input, in all of my internet searches for model paint I never found MCW, I checked out their site and will be placing an order, my current build will be sprayed with their paint and my airbrush, no rattle cans again hopefully!

The hoses and couplings were cast resin which came with the kit. The only credit I can take for them is painting the parts.

This was completed this past summer. The paint was done with rust oleum spray paint. Not thrilled with the paint finish though. I usually used model masters paint and an air brush, but finding it since they ceased production has been difficult.

This is an SSB Resin Pierce that was completed about a year ago. It took awhile to prep the parts , lots of sanding and some minor filling, putty in some spots. Still need to add a department name at some point!

This is the cab which I am trying to copy as. Lose as I can get it . Still a long way to go, picked up the 3/4 pvc pipe, and will also be using a few other ideas from Charlie. Never thought to use solder for window trim. Thank you all for the positive comments and suggestions.

“Amazing details! The cab corners look great. Gives me a lot ideas

Thank you for the advice, I am going to try the pvc pipe out. I was not satisfied with the curve of the cab corners. Hopefully the 3/4 pipe will give me more of what I am looking for. I am also wondering if I can modify the trumpeter eagle grill and headlight assembly to fit this cab, any thoughts on that would be appreciated.

Hello, I am from New Jersey. I primarily build 1/25 and 1/24 scale fire apparatus . I have been building them over twenty years and have a decent collection. Some are replicas , and others are just fictional departments . prior to that I built model cars, trucks and planes, military. Once in awhile an occasional diorama for a friend may be built on request. Dom S.

This will be a fire investigation unit , the box is a resin unit I found on eBay. attempting to build the cab from scratch, will see how that goes. The frame is from amt pumper kit.