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Even with a normal sleeper cab you can see here on our Hino how much the cab comes up in height as it swings... Here's a pic looking forward with the insulated bedroom floor lifted and cab swung through. You can see the rope and pullys at the front. Hinge for the floor was roughly 300mm ahead of the head board iirc.... Sort of make out the room needed for the front of the cab to swing through... You could always have a lightweight floor that lifts straight up, a rope and pulley in each corner. Avoid the hinge and then have plenty of room for the rear of the cab to swing up. Or make the whole house removable on legs and move the truck out from under for full access. You'll barely ever need to tilt a cab on a Hino anyway

Ta. I'll check it out.

wow- I just looked up that auslowe site. far out- loads of bits available eh!

Barry- meet Barry. Hi.

Wow!!!!....

I've just gone joined a classic trucks and wrecks facebook group (well fuck me - there's another rabbit warren of shit to look at) and the barries are already barrying furiously.

Ha ha - I'd just edited my previous post after I looked that up too So I wonder if there is anyway I can locate the truck?

OK as promised... my old collection I have just pulled from storage and dusted off. The Ferrari 246. Bought the kit cheap, apparently never opened, on ebay and discovered the windscreen is missing. Fuck. Will still build it and learn how to form some clear plastic. I think the kit is still available out there anyway. Not sure. Will be neat to have on display because I think they (well actually the non gts version) were one of, if not the most beautiful cars ever built. This Scania I built in my early teens. Its a bit broken and needs tlc but I'll always keep it for display. Funny how when I bought this kit it was a fairly new truck on the market.... Finally my big model truck project. Started with a sleeper cab kit but I wanted to do a replica so carefully chopped the cab down in all directions to suit the TNL freighting skip truck I wanted to replicate... I would ride my bike down to the TNL yard which was a couple of blocks away from home and take photos... "oh hey Bruce- here's that weird kid again, taking photos of the shitty old skip truck"... I also took loads of measurements and did drawings while there of the various bits. I really wanted to get the model as realistic as possible. "fuck me Wayne- that kid is back on that truck and he's measuring things".... Sadly (for me..) the truck is no doubt off the road now I imagine * Interior was detailed as per the original... Now I cant remember my exact age as to when I had last worked on this model. I now know exactly when because when just taking these pics I spotted inside that I had added a scribble on a fake notepad, some initials of me and my old girlfriend, Caroline. Hannah finds this thoroughly amusing .... I am totally looking forward to getting stuck back into these models but, like old Man down south, it will be a 'later on' project because there's so many other things I wanna finish first. I could see the value in some sort of easily movable hobby setup where I could just close a lid and put the whole lot away somewhere safe. Rainy days in winter be the perfect time for this me thinks. * Edit I just looked the plates up on carjam and this truck is still 'alive' Would be cool to work out a way of finding out where it is now? https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=ky905

Well boys - this looks like a potential kit off we have going here. Anyway, its rather obvious that Micheal is just scared he might have a sticky incident with a spitfire... * *will probably only make sense if you are of a older age and read a certain young lads diary.

I'll dig it out for a pic later. Might inspire me although any spare time should really be put into the imp!

Discussion thread here... I'll leave now and let you get on with it

Yo Morris. Glad you have started a thread on this, I'm looking forward to following this. Keep them pics and updates coming please. I would love a rs500 wagon myself .... alex

You can tell when a car is one of Sams. Those mismatched wheels. Kids eh?.... Super glad this made it to Auckland without exploding into a ball of flame. How many times did you swap the plugs?

Okey dokey, because its a bit rainy and glum outside we are chilling out inside and enjoying just lazying back in the comfy sofas and cosiness of our new pad. I have just taken some pics of the kitchen (some of which show off my superb culinary skills at the fine art of perfecting toast) Here is pretty much the most essential culinary toasting device... and a most essential coffee thing... The serving hatch (is that the correct name?) needed a nice surround. Remember that lovely bit of acacia timber we found in our pile of rimu? Well it was perfect for the job and looks sweet... Still loads to do but its now a nice usable kitchen and way bigger than any van/truck kitchen we've had before. We'll make a roll out pantry to fit beside the fridge, yet to be bought. Cupboards and drawers are the next thing to build though. The doorway, kitchen closed off... Whole lot opened up.. Looking down the hallway, bedroom door on the left... Super happy with the door, another bargain from a recycling centre. This one I have mounted on rollers and it opens into a hollow wall... I have ensured that there was enough storage space above the bedroom roof to fit a Lancia Stratos windscreen for my planned future dream LMP styled sportscar build. I can get a screen now and store it up there. This I see is a sort of way to commit myself to actually building said car (but a fair way in time before I can start that) Currently there is a Bedford TK headlining stashed up there - not really quite as exciting as a Stratos screen.... We also need to build a toilet setup in the space here. Will be a small vented composting setup which will mainly be there for emergencies/night time use because the existing outdoor bathroom is working so well.

Cheers Nick. Good to know about the tap - I'll watch it carefully. The hoses looked fine and no different to the ones we've had in the past from Methvan branded taps we've fitted in jobs. Its only under gravity pressure from the main water take and of which the head is quite low so very little pressure.

Lovely wee car- I remember driving it at Hanmeet once. It just needs some widened steels and lowering by about 4" and it'll be fucking awesome! Please put some discs on the front. Drums suck. They'll always be a bit shit. Just swap in some appropriate bits from an escort and possibly just a slightly larger bore MC (someone fordy on here will know which bits work) I'm sure there's bits that swap straight in and it would be a period correct swap that no wof station would either notice or probably even give a fuck Oh and btw...

Since the last update work had continued making the studio area a bit more finished looking. Boxed in the ugly steel framework and finished the ceilings. This really made the place feel more like a house and less like a shed... Few more little bits to add, trims around the chimney. Really looking forward to selecting paint colours and getting some colour in there. So we've now moved out of the little cabin and into the workshop mezz. The cabin was getting a bit chilly, the bed a bit tiny now that the cat has decided he wants extra warmth and snuggles in between the pillows. Plus its getting boring walking from the shed after watching a movie, late at night, in the cold or rain, to a cold cabin. So we have continued on at full steam building the frame work and a bedroom. First thing was to suss out the position of the doorway frame before we started the main framework. We rummaged around in one of the woodsheds outside where we had stashed a few old doors. Picked out this one here... We'd bought this and another door for $20 together. Bloody bargain because this door is brand new, never having had any glass fitted nor any door locks or handles. Solid cedar, made in NZ. Would have been an expensive door back in the day... I scribbled some pencil lines on the floor... thus working out where the door would work best because it was going to have three positions it could be left in. Then we started frame work... insulation... Then plywood lining. Now that there was framing in the way we had to get the plywood upstairs another way. We couldn't use the stairway. I knew this was going to be an issue, along with future furniture, fridges, ovens, pianos etc. I allowed for it like this... Sorted I didn't take any pics of the plywood going up onto the walls but you can probably use your imagination. I had an idea on how to frame up and hide the steel framework in the bedroom and also set the drawers in under the kitchen benches so that way we had maximum amount of bedroom space around the bed. Its not a large bedroom but big enough to sleep in! Pretty nice to finally have a bedroom you can stand up in. Opulence for a couple who have been living in vans/housetrucks/cabins for the last 20 years. Bedroom aint finished yet but works. Rimu trims to add, wardrobe to build and some bedside shelves/cabinets. But Kevin loves it and its his go to place to feel all snug. It has a cat door the leads from the kitchen into here, past his doorway. A bit of wiring went in to suit various lights, sockets and we had to work out a suitable doorway point for our boss, sir Kevin fluffcat. He likes his new cat door with a plank he has to walk across from the bank outside.. With a cat hole sorted we brought in one of the two stainless benches we had stashed away outside. One bought cheap for $40 and the other gifted to us by a customer. Sensible choice stainless bench and sink. No pissing about. They just work forever. I cut the splashback down removing the bit with two old wall mounted tap holes and then cut a new hole to suit a shiny new mixer tap... The kitchen is almost finished but for drawers and cupboards which we will custom make ourselves to suit. I'll snap some pics of it tomorrow. Damn its nice to make a cup of coffee/cook without going downstairs or up to the cabin. Not long from finishing this project and I can actually hook back into that flat six sitting on the bench under a sheet Whoop. Oh and also I suppose I could do some more actual paid work, which there is quite a long list of jobs from patient customers up on the whiteboard yay. Shed was well utilised over the last two days. There's a Triumph 2500 wagon that's been with us for over 14 months due to covid lockdown among other things stopping the new owner from collecting it. On Thursday four likely lads flew down from Auckland and after two days of solid tinkering, carb fettling, mild levels of bodging and number 8 wire thinking they got the old girl on the road and took off today to drive back to Auckland. The movie theatre got utilised last night with many old car adverts and classic racecar youtube clips being watched. Fun times.

I just looked up images of that Shigeyuki Mizuno fella (or is it a company/group of bloody skilled artists?) WOW. So many cool models. My dream would be to combine model talents like that with model trains to maximum effect. Imagine a big model train setup , the likes of the Pendon museum etc, with trains rolling through scenes like what the above mentioned has created! My nerdy video of pendon model railway (OMG! How fucking popular has my video been- its had 198 views in less than 2 years .... eat that fucking project blinky! )

I looks sweet Pete. Really tidy. However.... I think it might roll a bit better with round wheels. But the oldschool wood rims do look funky.

what he ^ said. Looks bloody great!

You've got lovely boobs. Not sure I like your girlfriends hairy chest though.

When I looked into a car that was of the system i was 'advised, nudge nudge wink wink' by a fella at vtnz to 'find' some old photos of the vehicle wearing the plates ie make some up and create a bit of history. That's all they want really. Apparently

Cool. Yep me too looking forward to following your next journey! So is this a similar base to the multipla? I wish I could have saved this multipla that was parked at my old work place but the owner is a bit of a hoarder...