Vladislav

They are really great for 1/87! Looking the pics i might think they are 1/24. Thank you for the link.

Thank you Leslie, good edvice. I knew it but didn't keep on my mind. Going to take some wheels off so your mention is quite to the moment. And I might make a real crash - I have 1" socket set.

Nice looking Dodge Vinny but why the whells are so small? Hope you will concentrate yourself on Mack. Not so much to do over as looks from the pic. Should you be in school for only a month this year?

Rick, the book title is "De historie van Mack trucks in Nederland". Interesting and with good pictures. And you might enjoy the fact they have a rich the history indeed. It has been written in Dutch though. I understand it in general when reading because I speak German a bit. Those languages are close to each other.

Great pics, thanks again. I have never seen Macks in Germany excepting in Speyer museum. Have driven a couple of thousands km a year overthere.

Mark, you are right, it's T-34, the late version with a big turret. Too progressive tank ot those years with an alluminium V-12 and 4 valves per cylinder. Ryan, I think it's definitely nice idea but a pretty good way to jail. It's not too easy about guns overhere although I may keep as many unlicensed, uninshured and unplated trucks in my land as I can put on.

Dutch book tells it was originally DM800 and worked in some steel factory in Germany. Next they put Cruiseliner cab and 600hp Cummins on it. On the last photo there is Russian Volga car, probably the police one in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR).

Welcome!

Cool pics! I like long bridges over water. But when you look out from truck's cab riding along it - brrrrrr.....

I like the blonde, the burned out R-model, the huge load of posts... the girls in Winfall... But best of all I like to see SUMMER!

If I think correct, old Detroits have special air cover for emergency shut down. At least the Russian production ones have.

I like how it looks. Congrats.

Grill opening into relation to air to air looks quit the same as on my R688. There are bolt holes in the upper and lower cross flange to attach grill. I can't be an expert until I recieve my grill. But some bodies on here helped me researching that.

Glad of you Vinny. The truck looks great. The weather was nice also. Going to out for a ride my R. Snow is gone just a week ago, roads are wet still.

I second it. When I was a kid I could trade my sole for seeing those pictures for shure. Now I'm looking them quite every evening and I think to myself I'm really happy those moments.

Sad to see some details formed not perfect although it's clear and strange he made the hood of steel when it's plastic in real. Nevertheless nice thing. A company overhere (their main deal is car restoring) build tanks in the same scale. Look fantasticaly real in action because have petrol engine with actual exhaust, tranny with diff and gears and a radio control. Run up to about 30 mph. Pait ball gun is installed in the turret.

He needed to put extremely bigger fuel tank as a contra weight.

Ryan, thank you, I followed your advice to call Phill and I did it about November. About December he sent good shaped grill and some little stuff to the export company in NJ I found for further shipping. In March they sent it out. Now it's in a container somewhere in Pacific travelling to Russian Far East (Vladivostok). It takes above 3 months so I have neither grill still. Hope it will turn out. Things are better about SS wheel parts I ordered not from the Tennessy guy but from the other one. Hub covers, lug nuts and a couple of mirrors were recieved well. It's easier getting new parts then lovely old rusty used ones though.

Haven't wanted to look over this tread for a while just to don't sorry myself. Can't make a fun to you posting any Superliners from Russia. There are some cool Dutch RW's from 2011 though.

Hi Paul! I noted different avatar of yours and was interested in. Read this tread with pleasure. Haven't heard you have dump business so suppose you need a bunch of work to paint and polish those giants for a show. All the trucks above look great with the bodies they are with. So don't see hard matter to change them. Although idea about roof mounted AC seems interesting and easy on my mind.

Good day for any wine on my mind. Best wishes!

Looks not bad. And has original (?) red interior. Wonder how high it would go.

Post what you'll see there antique. I mean of cource.

You guys told most wrong. Power divider doesn't lock itself totally but distributes torque between axles by a special way. Common diff has distribution 50/50. It means when you ride both wheels (semi shafts) have a half of the torque provided to an axle. When one of wheels starts to spinn the torque on a spinning wheel limits its traction on slide surface i.e. too small. Diff distributes the same amount of torque to another wheel. It's small also and isn't enough to move vehicle. That's why we are getting stuck. Diff of the kind with peanuts (Mack patented) distributes power in relation up to 1/3 so if one wheel spinning another one get 3 times more torque then a spinning one. It's 3 times more but usually still not enough. Then you applying brakes. Brake torque increases torque on a spinning wheel although another one get it 3 times more. That is what you feel as "enough". It's all described very good on here in the Wiki support forum. Just look: http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/21251-mack-power-divider-info/ Another way is a diff with lock (air lock or correctly say "air activated lock") It works like any other diff lock i.e. just put both shafts together as a solid one. This way you must use a vehicle like a one without ANY diff. No distribution of power so all 100% of torque can go to any of two wheels (axles if it is interaxle diff). Just don't forget that a torque stressed one shaft can also be 100% instead of only 50 when you drive unlocked.