a ntpa pulling tractor and a helicoptor walk into a bar.. lol

[graintruck]

lol, my attempt at humor.

anyhow this is a question for now for some info for a project down the road. well two diffrent projects. i've seen some people have done the 4x4 pulling trucks. so it makes me wanna do someday a pulling tractor. You know the ones that are long with skinny tires up front and huge tires on the back, with 3 or 4 up to 7 or so engines. some thins aircraft engines( allison aircraft and jet turnbine). i wanna do a model of this someday. one with many engines i think this would be so cool looking with highly detailed racing engines. and im guessing one way to get motors would be to buy mulitible kits, but that would get pricy for just motors.

so any suggestion on what to do on that ? next would be the huge tires in the back. look like monster truck tires but i thing the sizes would be way off. i guess one thing with motors would be to resin cast from one kit but i've never done it and its down the road for me to try it.

i know the dragster models have big looking motors, but i think they're too big. so im thinking funny car. any idea are thanked

now for the helicoptor im building a 359 pete with a flat bed trailer. your typical 48' trailer( not a step deck or lowboy) becouse in my travels as a trucker i've seen one hauling a huey helicopter. and i think what might of been a tarped apache ah-64. and most models in that scale are 1/48 . so if i was todo that fro a load. anyone know of a scale close to what i need for 1/25 that would look close but not overly off?

same goes for a tank i seen a truck with a it looked like a older tank like a vietnam era. someone on cb said a shurman m-47 i think? but anyhow same goes for scale size.

i just want a cool cargo load. if anything i might try a load of military jeeps if my other loads dont work.

thanks

gary d

[roadhawg]

Monogram made a 1/24 scale Huey, that would be your best bet.

[dptydawg]

Hi Gary

This is probably the kit you need for your Huey project

if you pillage the jet turbine out of it you would have a power plant for your pull tractor.

As for a pull tractor kit AMT made a model of the Meister Brau Blazin Bison tractor. It has 3 engines, big tires and lots of suitcase weights. It would be a good place to start to build a puller. I nevefr built my kit but it has been a great souce for parts.

Carl

[highway]

Wow, I never knew a 1/24 scale Huey was ever made! It would make a great load on a tractor trailer!!!

[graintruck]

yeah, highway, thats a great load idea i came up with huh? i know i seen a 48foot skateboard with it one time i think in texas! im sure the weight wasnt a issue, but it was permited oversized. i think for it hanging over back if i recall? but i think hight wise it wasnt much over 13'6

thanks for the info on the pull tractor guys. you think a few engines from a top full drag car would be a path to go ? i see the pulling tractor kits are quite pricy! im a trucker i cant afford that !

[Danno]

Wow, I never knew a 1/24 scale Huey was ever made! It would make a great load on a tractor trailer!!!

Yep. There's also this version (which was the original & re-issue a couple of times).

[graintruck]

mcm yeah im thinking the same with the dragster motors, but im not sure what to do then with the tires, i kow everything else can be scratch built

[LDO]

There are also tanks in 1/25. I know of a British Centurion (Korean War era) and several Geraman WWII tanks, along with a Russian WWII tank or two. I don't know of anything more modern than the Centurion, but there could well be something out there. If you go up to a 1/16 scale rig, there are lots of choices there for tanks, also. The price goes up a LOT, though. I would love to have Tamiya's 1/16 Leopard 2A6, but at 900 bucks, it will have to wait.

As far as pullers go, (let me put on my flame suit) I think it would be better to just get several kits with the engine you like. You can get good deals on auction websites, and the kit will have lots of parts for your spares stash.

There are several pullers using Allison V-12s. I've seen AMT Parts Pack V-12s on ebay recently at good prices. There is (or was) a puller in Europe that used 4 Allisons. There are also pullers that use the Rolls-Royce Merlin. That's available in Airfix's 1/24 P-51 Mustang. Airfix's Spitfire and Hurricane may have Merlins. I'm not sure. I've seen pullers with Rolls-Royce Griffons, but there are no 1/24 Griffons available. Even info is hard to find on that one.

Some pullers use Radial aircraft engines. The only affordable radial I know of in 1/24 is the BMW from Airfix's FW-190. Pretty far-fetched, though, as those things are rare as hen's teeth in the real world and no one would use one in a puller. If you're going for a "what-if", though, it would be a cool model. There is a 1/24 P-47 kit with an R-2800. That could be a puller engine, but the kit is expensive. Maybe someone will come along and offer a better engine in resin. You could go bananas and get a punch and die set to make your own cooling cylinders for a radial. A puller with a 4360 would be WILD.

Edited April 4, 2011 by LDO

[highway]

Yeah Bob and Gary, I seen one or two Hueys on skateboards in my days pushing the old diesel down the highway, too! I've even seen small aircraft like Cessnas and pieces of larger planes on a few.

As for the tanks, Lee, I have seen a couple of the tanks you mentioned. I just wish I could afford them and there could be something modern like an A1 or A2 from today.

[Tony T]

I built a 1/24 scale helicopter before...Hobby Craft Hughes 500D. Basic, but builds nicely. I did it with RCMP Police decals. Rotor and tail blades rotate.

[wlhowell24]

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Edited April 2, 2022 by wlhowell24