A pair of Fords

[Aaronw]

I haven't had much time to build lately but I finally got a little building started. I've decided to do a two part build as I find I do better with more than 1 build at a time.

I am building a pair of US Forest Service fire vehicles, a 1937 Ford Stakeside crew truck and a 1934 Ford forestry pumper.

This is my inspiration

I am using Revell's '37 Ford and Lindberg's '34 Ford. The stakebed is modified from the Ford C600 kit, I shortend and narrowed it for the smaller truck. The photo is a little dark but I'm using Krylon Fusion's Hunters green, it is not black like it looks. The white sheet plastic on the side of the stake truck will be a sign for the forest / crew identification.

[mhadman]

That is a prject i can really get in to.Any thoughts of a small dio with maybe the photo as a backdrop?

!/25 scale figures would be a great(tho maybe difficult to simulate)addition to your builds...

Looks like your off to a great start.

[Aaronw]

I hadn't thought about a diorama. Normally firefighter figures are hard to come by but in the 30's pretty much any "labor" type figure could potentially work, protective gear back then for wildland firefighters was jeans, boots, long sleeve shirt and a hard hat, G scale railroad stuff might work for some people.

Good idea, I might not do anything with it, but thanks.

[mhadman]

Hey,

I am working(off and on)with a figure kit from Revell(firefighters circa 1940's-50's?)that was sold in Germany.I am having to heavily modify the clothes and such,but with work,you can do alot with them..the kit comes with German SS style helmets(i modified mine into a baseball cap,still not right in the pic,too big)and it comes with some basic hand tools.

here is an example of what i did with one of them.it is supposed to represent Dale Earnhardt Sr.still have work to do with it but you get the idea..anyway...keep posting on your build..i LOVE old trucks!

[Aaronw]

Well finally got some progress on the stakeside at least

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the wheels yet, I had a set of resin duals I had planned to use but they are too wide. I noticed some of the trucks in the photo I am using for reference have single rear wheels so I ma stick with the kit wheels, I also have a set of single truck wheels for a 1930's International heavy truck which I may end up using since they are a bit beefier looking.

[Kenny]

Any update on these? A couple of great subjects!

[Aaronw]

Actually, I just pulled the '34 out and started working on it again. When I started on it I painted it before extending the frame, rather than mess up a decent paint job I'm making it into a patrol truck instead of the engine. I've got another '34 I'll use to build the engine.

The '37 stake bed is about in the same spot, I'm not pleased with the wheels and haven't decided what to do with it. I can't fit anything larger on it without a fair bit of work, but that is probably what it needs. Remember kids measure twice cut once. Then Revell brought out the '41 Chevy and now '50 Ford pickups which further distracted me.

I was just looking at the '37 this morning, so who knows it might get done yet.

Edited January 20, 2008 by Aaronw

[Jim B]

Aaron,

Have you tried these guys?

http://www.reynaulds.com/preiser/preiser.html

http://www.oakridgehobbies.com/g_scale/g_w...cs_figures.html

http://www.seltd.net/products.html

http://www.slmonline.com

I think I remember 1930s firefighters in one of these places.

[Aaronw]

I haven't made it as far as actually looking for figures. Thanks for the links though, it gives me a place to start.

[Jim B]

No problem. Glad to help.