Peterbilt fire engine (Revell Snap + Trumpeter ALF) Completed

[explorer2770]

Well, this one is finally done. I finished assembly last night by mounting the Federal "Q" siren to the hood and sent the truck to Owensville for mutual aid standby today.

There was a lot of scratchbuilding that went into this build, and I can't even think of half of it. I know that I superglued 200 scale feet of 1 3/4 in hose (1/8 inch flat elastic) for the each crosslay, 50 scale feet of 1 3/4" hose in a roll for the front bumper, 200 scale feet of 4" hose (1/4" flat elastic) in the middle of the hose bed, 150 scale feet of 5 inch LDH (3/4 inch yellow electrical tape) attached to a hydrant assist valve, and then the two hose lays of 1 3/4" hose with one pre-connected to the back. The lightbar is the MX7000 from the Lindberg Dodge Charger police kit and I made the hose bed cover following RevnJeff's lint roller technique from The Scale Firehouse.

I want to thank everyone that followed my five year long build of this truck. Now that it is finally done, I really want to do another one, but this time as a top mount with Grumman body work...

Oh, I should point out that the truck made the journey up and back to the Cincinnati Challenge without any problems and was displayed with 1/25 scaled copy of the specification drawings I drew up when I was thinking this project over. However, the truck did have a mishap when I was handling it for the photos once I got back home. The rear light bracket came loose so the warning lights above the hose bed are flopping around in some of the pictures and it won't be fixed until I take it into my office for semi-permanent display...no use fixing it if I might break it again before Tuesday. Oh well, live and learn.

[kilrathy10]

That's a good looking conversion, Man.....Glad you got it done....I forgot about this one.....Great job....Came out real nice.....Great work on the cutting out of the grill....

Edited April 13, 2014 by kilrathy10

[towman1271]

Awesome job...

[Danno]

Very nice, Brandon!

[Tesla]

Beautiful build Brandon!

[Aaronw]

Nice looking rig! I like the look of fire apparatus built on heavy commercial trucks.

[Jim B]

Very nice Peterbilt pumper. Excellent job.

[FLD120]

Great looking fire truck. The five years it took you paid off with this build. Bravo!!

[Chariots of Fire]

Nice job, Brandon. I like the combination of the standard cab and pumper body. Great color scheme also!

[explorer2770]

Thanks for the nice comments guys. There were times over this build that I was ready to walk away from it, but I always found myself wanting to get this done. I have plans to make the predecessor truck, a Diamond Reo with American LaFrance inspired body work, that this truck replaced but I'm currently working on a non-fire related project right now.

Anyway, here's some more photos that I took Saturday.

[Tesla]

Thanks for the additional pictures. Your perseverance with this build certainly paid off

[alangarber]

That is a great build with nice detailing. Great job

[Jim B]

Again, very nice. I like your different colored cross-lays. Did you use sewing elastic for the hand lines? What did you use for the supply line?

[explorer2770]

Thanks guys, I'm just glad this one is finally done.

Jim, the hand lines are 1/8 sewing elastic "painted" with sharpie marker. The supply line attached to the hydrant assist valve is 3/4" yellow electrical tape wrapped around some blue ribbon cut to width. The other yellow supply line is 1/4" sewing elastic painted with yellow acrylic paint...which I used my fingers to do.

[Jim B]

Thanks for the info, Brandon.