Vladislav

I bet for a ton.

Pretty cool lot of pics this time. Two sheeps had blue balls. No, two sheep had no balls, I remembered the correct grammatic. Too surprized seeing so much snow in your area, we already have it gone for a couple of weeks with about 60F now. Neat collection of the truck shots, I also noted the city of Winfall stayed good. And too hope the cabbage plantation will keep fine. Don't forget to let us know how they will being in the future.

Glad to see her running and take my hat off of the way she was fixed.

The Lovemachine truck was custom built here in Moscow. The guy painted and printed the decals for and made a lot of detailing. He showed out here once, asked for advice over the gear box. And MH was also done here by the other chap. Hi used AIM cab, filed and filled it hard though. Than built the double steer 4 axle Aussie chassis. He also looked an advice here but for that chassis. With no luck if the memory served me good.

Best of luck with the project Ryan. I'm too glad you lost the idea of selling RW and changed your way to increasing the fleet.

Don't forget the path back. Keep well.

This interesting set up with riveted pads looks strangly familiar to me. Because I worked out the same stuff in my army truck. Those rivets didn't make a trouble because were not straight through rivets. Each pad fixed to its own leaf. I had one broken leaf in one spring in the "project" truck and planned originally to change it. But when I bought the "spare" truck I first realized to not change one leaf but whole the spring. And next I resolved to change them springs both to keek them off the same vehicle.

What a nice baby! Congratulations on the results, hope to see her completely finished soon. Vlad.

I too like the color scheme on the braun cab. You may keep this kind of strip work on my mind.

Interesting point Tim, I'm right about the moment to loose my feel that I was the one of the kind

A friend of mine who lives in NJ used to drive them. If I remember correctly the first reason was the car had 3 doors (not 4), the second - it had a stick. Probably there's also the reason it was mostly plastic so no ways to scrap it. At least his wife was kidding alot about.

I thought right the different thing - what the matter to get planting cabbages instead of catching whole the hundred turkeys?? Thank you for the weekly sharing Tom.

Too sorry ECD.

Keep the work going and the truck moving! I mean in the end

Let me put my part in to the story. I haven't deal with Grainger's but I probably will. Because I had some "nice" practice with McMaster. Maybe some of you remember heart-touching story when I was in the US one of our members Paul Roncetti gave me full McMasters paper catalog. He was surprizingly so friendly so knowing I was going to visit Matt Pfahl sent that quite heavy book to his adress to achive me. I was too impressed both the way of getting it and the content of the book and after being home I registred on their web-site, filled up the order (for about $100) and... got the answer. Here you can see it: "Hi Vlad, Due to the complexity of U.S. export regulations, McMaster-Carr accepts international orders only from our established customers. This decision also applies to orders shipping within the United States, because it is based on the final destination of the items. We cannot accept this order or future orders. Christopher" I didn't stop on that point and contacted local dealer who has a partnership in the US to provide me with that stuff. They also got the answer "No", how they deskribed it to me "due to the small amount of merchandize, they used to work with monthly big deals only". I didn't stopped again though, contacted my friends in Holland, the asked their friends in NY, those folks ordered the stuff,and GOT IT with no troubles. The rest of the story was also nice - American guys brang all that in a plane by their Christmas trip to Holland, than it was shipped to my another friend to Germany, than his father carried it in his luggage by plane along his trip to Moscow. And I finally got it. Funny for shure. Uhhh...

Hope the work will be done soon. How are you shure the new spring will be quite equal to the other?

Looks pretty. No, really better to say sexy indeed.

I too like this style of a cab. There was one for sale locally but with no papers and in a shape required a lot of work. So I missed the deal preferring pay more attention to Bulldogs. They were made also in Brasilia after splitting the production in Germany, probably up to the late 80's. The late ones had dual square lights, one below another on each side.

A lot of good luck with the project! Looks awesome when painted. Still wondering how do you sand blast the assembled bogie, I mean about different seals, bushings and breathers. Vlad

Looks like it was done on the 1st page Paul, I don't use to miss your attention. I had no talks with the folks who brang that Ford to the show although I spoke with the Czech guys who built the crane and got their contact for the future. Going to wright them, will ask about the Ford also, shure they're familiar with it and maybe with the Romanian modellers. Vlad

Do you mean some of this kind? I had one with roll back years ago although didn't ever drive it in NY

Mick, those all models were assembled off plastic kits of different producers. So they conein lots of hand work and were built as single exemplairs. Many were strongly modifyed using different optional custom parts or just scratch-builded stuff. For example if you look at the pic 2 from the top of the list there's DAF chassis with high detalization. The man who built it worked it out as the vehicle he drives every day by his job. The cab used the resin casted one from the Great Britain firm, the chassis components were of some plastic high-series models strongly modifyed though and the engine was almost scratch-built. He said on my question that he multiplied it by resin casting for his future projects. So at all there's a lot of prducents of different plastic kits with nice-looking pictures on their covers although you need to add a great amount of time, labour and attention to get a really good rig on your shelf. It's also a kind of adventure anyway.

I think you're right, Paul. I saw the pics of pre-assembled not painted kit and too liked how clear it was done. So when I found out that ready truck I fixed it in my camera. As for me I don't. Just too liked how it was done. Would be too interesting to learn the answer of your misterious question.

Too sorry about those stories folks. I can feel your pain so deep. Because, as Pawel said, there's no SAE stuff here at all! Or just at all. The SAE hardware on my Mack trucks is a kind of adventure to me, an additional point of luck to keep it all original. Although a mixture of metric stuff with inches looks to me as a real BS. Leslie, if the things will go really bad I can send some best quality bolts and nuts off Mercedes-Benz cars. Used though. McMaster might be ready to help I hope. They weren't too friendly to me though being saying "No stuff to Russia by any way".

Hi Pawel! Yes, I put my foot around the center of Europe again. Although was shortened in time so went to Germany by plane and continued with the rented car. Catched the perfect weather wich you enjoyed also I hope. Came back home yesterday and found snow and light freeze here. Happily now troubles with Ukranian story yet although it makes me worry. Politics might force out course of life to be changed. Hope you enjoyed the pics and woked slightly up your modelling activity now.