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Albatros diorama in 1/16th scale.

The Junk Truck.......<!-- google_ad_section_end --> <hr style="color: rgb(133, 130, 101); background-color: rgb(133, 130, 101);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <!-- google_ad_section_start -->This ground support vehicle will be picking up junk out back of the hangar.I haven't yet quite decided whether it will be military or civilian.In keeping with it's duties the truck will be pretty junky itself.Even if it were military I figure that a truck involved in this task would not be the shiniest in the fleet nor would it bear all the usual proud military insignia.
Like the running board, I decided to make my own style front fenders out of wood ,which was not all that uncommon a thing to do in the early days.

I love doing these early trucks because of the room for your own creativity that is involved.It would take a keen and very knowledgeable eye to spot this as being once a Rolls Royce chassis, especially after I weather the whole thing..
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<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->"Once upon a time......." Storyboard dioramas by JohnReid.
My photobucket:
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/JohnReid/
 
OK ,this is as far as I plan to go with the junk truck.Anything more would just look overdone.When I add the junk to the truck's bed there will be plenty of interesting stuff to look at.Now it's on the the part I love most the weathering.

I have a little update as to when the museum will be ready for my stuff.Looks now that not before August ,which is fine by me as I really prefer finishing off the landscaping surrounding the hangars outside on my porch during the warm weather.Maybe I will add a few things too..........
 
Hey John! Great shots and great modelling, wish I had your patence and talent.

One suggestion though.

In the one shot showing the rear of your truck, the right rear wheel looks a little light and seems to be sitting off the ground (I'm sure its from the "grass" under the wheel) so I have a suggestion.

Would it be too much work to "impress" a set of tire tracks to the truck's location and perhaps make a depression in the "grass" where the truck ends up finally?

:)
 
This build will be found in my photobucket in album "Fuel Wagon Albatros"

I have a few left over wheels,tires and springs from another build ,the rest will be scratch.
When I saw the pic of the RFC fuel wagon I just couldn't resist building something similar.I am assuming here that based on the technology of the day wagons like this would be pretty much the same from country to country.This could be a converted farm wagon or something that was built "in the field" by the ground personnel themselves.Anyway that's my story and I am sticking to it!
Well here goes,should be fun.
 
Snuffy said:
Hey John! Great shots and great modelling, wish I had your patence and talent.

One suggestion though.

In the one shot showing the rear of your truck, the right rear wheel looks a little light and seems to be sitting off the ground (I'm sure its from the "grass" under the wheel) so I have a suggestion.

Would it be too much work to "impress" a set of tire tracks to the truck's location and perhaps make a depression in the "grass" where the truck ends up finally?

:)
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Hi Ted! very observant.This is only a temporary positioning in order to work out the composition.:ernae:
 
I changed my mind!<!-- google_ad_section_end --> <hr style="color: rgb(133, 130, 101); background-color: rgb(133, 130, 101);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <!-- google_ad_section_start -->The white chassis looked a little flimsy so I decided to use another instead.The last pic I took is shown here.If you look on my photobucket under the fuel wagon album you will see in pic 004 the basic chassis glued together,pic 005 the cut down chassis where I shortened the whole thing and then glued it back together again.Pic 006 is a top view of the shortened version.
 
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