CarolsHusband Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 22 minutes ago, kyteler said: I have a few in the cupboard that I could have a crack at but I struggle for enthusiasm to do such things nowadays. I'll assume the enthusiasm returns when you get a bit older. You are a sarcastic twat KY. Give it a go, you might be older than you think, Old man. Joking aside, it is a bit geeky but when you get started it is worthwhile. Even if it's just 30 mins here and there. All you gotta do is close the box lid when you've had enough. I only started because I found my 70's Tamiya catalogues clearing out my crap from my Dads place. Got inspired, got stuck in, glad I did. / living the dream. // TOTP 4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolsHusband Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 On 03/08/2019 at 09:32, yoeddynz said: Anyone here into building 1/24 trucks? I've been scratch building a tnl freighting merc skip truck. Probably the oddest truck to want to build but it just appealed to me about 27+ years ago when when I started on it. As a youngling I'd even ridden my pushy many times to the tnl yard in Blenheim and taken photos and measurements of it. It's based on an italeri kit that I have had to shorten the cab on in 3ways. Chassis cut down and converted to 2axles. Scratch built air system, underpinnings etc. I've not touched it in two decades and had a long way to finish. I'll get some photos if interested. Looking forward to quiet modelling times during a storm in a cabin with cups of tea one day Hey Alex, you've had long enough to find it. /pics. Kind of got two truck builds in my head, a 70's Kenworth W900 as a prezzie for a mate and the Holy Grail, a needle nose Peterbilt & tanker conversion a la "Duel". Proper PITA job but could be fun. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 I'll dig it out for a pic later. Might inspire me although any spare time should really be put into the imp! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolsHusband Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, yoeddynz said: I'll dig it out for a pic later. Might inspire me although any spare time should really be put into the imp! Can't be that much difference in size..... 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Pity they automated the lighthouses, the keepers were always portrayed detailing their ships in bottles while the storms raged outside (before they ruined it all by rushing outside to rescue some damsel in distress ). Back in the 70s I built a lot of kits, before I started playing with full size cars. With my two brothers, we built a '40 Ford Coupe with a rumble seat (from a kit called Flower Power), and a custom Model T truck, as well as a dune buggy and a Chevy Nomad and a 57 Impala, and a '60s dragster station wagon (a Plymouth iirc). Also built a Ford F150, an AMC Gremlin, and a whole lot of sports cars including a Mazda RX7 and Porsche and Ligier Le Mans racers. Built a White Road Boss with a fuel tanker (iirc), and a GMC (Actros?) cabover with a furniture trailer. The only scratchbuild I ever did was when I was at high school, converted a Mk2 Capri into an OSCA race car (sort of a non-spaceframe PDL Mustang 2 clone), with handmade box flares and a rollcage made from pieces of the plastic parts frames, and the V8 from an AMT custom Ford Econoline van. I made a trailer from more offcuts of the parts frames, and spare wheels from other kits. The V6 from the Capri went in the Econoline, that would have made a terrible real-life tow wagon. Must ask my mum what happened to them after I left home and she moved house. Probably got some photos buried in a box in the spare room. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolsHusband Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, locost_bryan said: Pity they automated the lighthouses, the keepers were always portrayed detailing their ships in bottles while the storms raged outside (before they ruined it all by rushing outside to rescue some damsel in distress ). Back in the 70s I built a lot of kits, before I started playing with full size cars. With my two brothers, we built a '40 Ford Coupe with a rumble seat (from a kit called Flower Power), and a custom Model T truck, as well as a dune buggy and a Chevy Nomad and a 57 Impala, and a '60s dragster station wagon (a Plymouth iirc). Also built a Ford F150, an AMC Gremlin, and a whole lot of sports cars including a Mazda RX7 and Porsche and Ligier Le Mans racers. Built a White Road Boss with a fuel tanker (iirc), and a GMC (Actros?) cabover with a furniture trailer. The only scratchbuild I ever did was when I was at high school, converted a Mk2 Capri into an OSCA race car (sort of a non-spaceframe PDL Mustang 2 clone), with handmade box flares and a rollcage made from pieces of the plastic parts frames, and the V8 from an AMT custom Ford Econoline van. I made a trailer from more offcuts of the parts frames, and spare wheels from other kits. The V6 from the Capri went in the Econoline, that would have made a terrible real-life tow wagon. Must ask my mum what happened to them after I left home and she moved house. Probably got some photos buried in a box in the spare room. /Pics. Also, surely once the lighthouse keepers got sacked they had more time for bottle stuffing. (not sexually). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, CarolsHusband said: You are a sarcastic twat KY. Give it a go, you might be older than you think, Old man. Joking aside, it is a bit geeky but when you get started it is worthwhile. Even if it's just 30 mins here and there. All you gotta do is close the box lid when you've had enough. I only started because I'm in my 70's. Got inspired, got stuck in, glad I did. / living the dream. // TOTP Point proven. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolsHusband Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 43 minutes ago, kyteler said: Point proven. Send me your kits then, Peter pan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 35 minutes ago, CarolsHusband said: Send me your kits then, Peter pan. I can probably do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 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. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfashark Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 This reminds me I must go and retrieve the ones I have on display at Classic Flyers, since those ungrateful arseholes haven't met their end of the bargain for those of us who pitched in a lot of time and effort to get that place from a pipe dream, to a working, functional museum. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolsHusband Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 7 hours ago, kyteler said: I can probably do that. Probably don't. Build them when you're 70, I'll tell my grandchildren to look in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted May 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2021 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 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willdat? Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, yoeddynz said: Sadly (for me..) the truck is no doubt off the road now I imagine. It only failed a COF this year https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=Ky905 had the number plate BINGUY for a while too.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transom Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 29 minutes ago, yoeddynz said: 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? TNL Facebook page barries will know where that truck ended up and probably remember the wired kit taking photos ... Transport (Nelson) holding Ltd page ... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 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. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Wow!!!!.... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Barry- meet Barry. Hi. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thphantum Posted May 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2021 I ordered this last year during lock down, Then life went back to normal. Should really have another crack at it. FR Mack transkit from Auslowe. Mostly resin parts. Uses a freightliner conventional as a chassis donor. Goal is an 8 wheeler day cab Mack with 3 axel trailer in Mainfreight colours. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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