Redo of Aurora's '53 Ford F800 and Bay City power shovel

[traditional]

 

 

This modified and detailed version of Aurora’s tractor/trailer/power shovel ensemble was a collaboration that we’d talked about doing for a few years. 
In the mid 1950s, Aurora introduced this simple and inexpensive Ford F800 tractor/Rogers low-loader trailer/Bay City power shovel plastic kit in approximately 1/64 scale and it happened 
to be the very first plastic model kit that we’d ever purchased for ourselves. 
We were only around 10 years old back then and, even though the kit’s quality and proportions were somewhat coarse, we both think back on that first kit with fondness and nostalgia. 
Over 60 years later, we decided to build a much improved version of the kit in a way we could only dream about back in the day. Proportions were adjusted and details added throughout. 
This was truly a labour of love.

Cliff Read and Larry Read

 

Edited March 13, 2019 by traditional

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Wow! Another amazing build in small scale. Excellent work!

[Pete68]

Beautiful out come its amazing what we can do with these old kits you did a great job.also nice rigging on the shovel 

Edited March 13, 2019 by Pete68

[Ben]

Excellent work!!

[tbill]

Wow, great work on those, beautiful.

[Gramps46]

Oh boy I remember these as a kid.  You did a wonderful job reviving them, thank you for sharing.

[Jim B]

Very well done.  The details are great.  I'm guessing that those were originally made for S-gauge railroads.

[Deathgoblin]

That looks amazing! 

[redneckrigger]

Wonderful work on a classic kit...... absolutely beautiful!

[leafsprings]

Very much improved version of the original, very nice work.  For 1/25 builders, AITM now offers the '56 F 800.

[CRUSADER2]

Looks great, lovely detailed work, and interesting to see the two models side by side, it looks like it was a decent kit for all those years ago.

[Rusty92]

Very nicely done. I would like to find one of these as well.

[chuckyr]

Excellent rework!  It's as if that was the original intent of the kit.

[sweeper]

I have one of those. Got it from my dad.

[cobraman]

Those are oh so cool !

[Hermann Kersten]

Absolutely beautiful!

For me, the rims are really stand out,  perfect build in this small scale.

 

Hermann.

[Plastheniker]

Exactly what I expected: Immaculate work all the more in such a small scale!

[Oldcarfan27]

Fabulous job, well worth the time invested!

It would be cool if Atlantis models ends up having this tooling and could reissue it. Looks like a fun one!