Glenn Dale, MD Pierce Heavy Rescue Squad

[miatamadman]

After an entire year of scratchbuilding, Squad 18 is now in service. This model was entirely scratchbuilt with Evergreen and Pastruct styrene sheets and structural stock. The only kit sourced parts used were the wheels and tires. Everything else, hand made. I used the factory line drawings from Pierce as a guide along with numerous reference photos.

The interior is completely detailed right down to the individual headsets.

Here is the link to the build:

http://public.fotki.com/zh/model_construct...-dale-md-pierc/

And here is the link to the rest of the finished model pictures.

http://public.fotki.com/zh/fire-truck-mode...-dale-md-pierc/

[Mike601]

Beautiful Work!!!!! Awesome build

[Raul_Perez]

Very nice, clean build!!

What are the overall dimensions of the model?

[Foxer]

That is astounding! The gear alone should have got you into the funny farm! Truly a work of art! ..I think the real one looks more like the model

The build pics were very interesting, thanks for posting them.

[RJWood]

Outstanding build, and Incredable results.

[Lyle Willits]

Another fantastic model from the master builder!

[Dragline]

I spent an hour this morning looking at the build pictures while having my coffee and I am completely in awe.

I'll spare you the hyperbole and just say BRAVO!

A triumph of patience and engineering.

Humbling indeed.

Dragline

[Dominik]

WOW! Its just an older post, sorry for that - but i'm a newbie and there is much to see...

Great work - never seen such a type of model! First i thought, you based it on a LaFrance Tiller (?) but it is all scratch built! WOW! Great respect for this work!

[Dr. Cranky]

Very interesting subject matter. You don't see too many of these out on the show benches. Great job.

[Danno]

Awesome build, Zoli!!!

Don't know how I missed this 2 years ago (think I may have seen it & commented on the Spotlight board, though), but I'm glad Dominik stumbled upon it and brought it up again.

This is REAL model building ~ talented model building ~ and well worthy of another look. Truly deserving of the often-overused term "AWESOME."