Pawel

Timothy - thanks a lot for your kind words!

I've got another small update - I made grips on the sleeper out of brass:

Hope you like 'em, have a nice day

Paweł

Vinny, Superdog, mackniac - thanks a lot!

Vlad - glad I have convinced you. Most of the models are just cheap toys - but it doesn't have to be that way, when you put enough effort in 'em. Sleeper box of cardboard - that's a good one! Please let me know, when you're in the area of Gorzów Wlkp. (where I build the model after work) or Poznań (where I stay on weekends), maybe we can talk some.

Thanks again for your comments, have a nice day

Paweł

That's a really sweet machine, thunderdog!

But from what I read that Magnum thing was introduced in late eigties (=Superliner II), and the paint job, black with stripes, was part of the package.

The cool thing - I'm trying to model a truck looking a lot like your machine - Superliner I, with long flattop sleeper - please check out my build thread:

http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/19052-mack-rw-superliner-scale-model/

Thanks for sharing, have a nice day

Paweł

That's a great info, Dave - especially the frame drawings are veluable for modellers!

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Well, in Europe VW trucks heavier than 7 tons are ABSOLUTELY unknown. I live in Poland and work as a contractor for VW and haven't seen a VW heavy truck in person yet. I believe reading about them being very popular in Brasil - but in Europe? A VW heavy truck just wouldn't feel right. Many of the medium trucks sold in Brasil as VW are designed in Europe by MAN.

I personally drive a VW van - a Transporter 4. I just love that machine.

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

When I was researching my model I also learned the aussie Superliner is neither I nor II - because all of them were built on R-model straight rail frame - I guess it is stronger! Hope it helps, have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks a lot for the comments, friends!

That bunk warmer sure is a cool option! That's why I thought everybody who've seen that brochure would remember this photo.

So if that cross-shaped thingy is a TV antenna, putting another, say boomerang shaped antenna beside it would be a nonsense, wouldn't it? That's why I like to understand what I'm building, you know. Thanks again, have a nice day

Paweł

Although the picture is really small - sorry for that! - there's definitely some cross-shaped bracket up there. But thank you for your comment. Does anybody have an idea? Have a nice day!

Paweł

Hello everybody!

I believe most of us know this photo from the Superliner II brochure, I suppose it's our favourite photo from that publication:

What I would like to know, after we eliminate all the questions having to do with the lady, is what that thing on top of the sleeper roof is - the one indicated by the yellow arrow. Is it some kind of a bracket? What for? I'm jus going to put it on my model, but before I do that, I would like to understand - otherwise I could do something stupid. Thanks a lot in advance for your help, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello Vinny!

Somewhat late - but sincere - Happy Birthday Vinny! Enjoy good health and fulfill your dreams!

Paweł

Friends - I think you're being played here. If it's such a cool deal to live on social security, why don't you do it yourselves? Yeah, I know you've got work ethics, and you were raised other way but then this is capitalism (still) and your economic decisions should be based on cold, hard cash, and not on ideology. But I believe, it's the really rich people, like bank presidents earning many millions of dollars, who try to make you believe the people "working the system" have it so well. This way they can safely justify cutting government spending, saving them more millions of dollars. If you spend money for social security, people who receive it buy food and small stuff (if you bought it, a truck brought it - more work, less unemployment!). If you give more millions to the millionaires, they are going to put them on their swiss bank accounts - doesn't sound like a lot of hauling here!

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

The idea sure is exciting! I'd say let's cover Superliner I and II, and maybe the Australian in the first book - there's one kit readily available on the market, although full of errors, and many modellers are building it. We could put this book together in electronic form and have it printed on demand - just like the BMT Calender was.

Ryan - good to know about your friend. Such a nice, traditional Polish family name.

Mark, Vladislav - thanks a lot for your comments!

Areas of special interest for a modeller would be under the hood - photos of the radiator and the steering gear are especially rare on the internet. Back and top of the cab, as well as the cab mounts, too. It would also be very helpful to have the photos sorted "by truck" - to show differences between individual machines. Like on the Superliner I - you get one truck photographed from the left, another truck photographed from the right, and you start wondering whether your model should have two or four air tanks. The correct answer: three isn't so apparent at the beginning.

Please contact me, if I could help with this project in any way. Thanks for your input and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello everybody!

Recently found this video on youtube:

http://youtu.be/WiYdO5VK7IM

It shows a russian ZiL-157 working in a pretty rough terrain in Bieszczady - it's south-eastern Poland, real wilderness! Hope you like it, have a nice day

Paweł

Yeah, now we're talking! Throw in some scale drawings taken from factory manuals, and I'd list kits you could start from and what you need to do to them to get a good model - and you can bet people would start to build them. And if you stir up enough interest, some company could even issue a correct kit - but that's a little daydreaming now. Anyhow - there are some trick photos, that you weren't able to find on the internet, until some friends from here provided them - like a photo of the top of the roof of the R model cab - 90% of the modellers don't have access to such refderences, so they just go with the buggy kit parts.

If such a book on the Superliner would ever be done, I sure would like to write at least a small part of it!

Thanks for your comment, have a nice day!

Paweł

Thanks a lot for your comments, gentlemen!

Mackniac - thanks for your kind words!

84superdog - thanks a lot! Yeah, some of my Polish colleagues are amazing. I sure would like to help you, but I don't think I could have this model for you finished before years! But I was thinking about this - if we published a modelling book with detailed photos of your truck and other BMT members' trucks, many modellers from all over the world would build such models for themselves.

Vinny - thanks a lot, looks like you have the talent to be on the top of the page

Thanks again, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

While looking for data on my model, I've seen a data sheet specifying the air line length from the compressor to the air dryer. Now depending on air consumption (How many axles, what kind of work for the truck) this line was getting longer and longer. The thing is, when you compress air it gets hot - and if it's hot it mixes better with oil vapor and with water - steam. If you let it flow through a long air line, you give the air a chance to cool off, and the cooler it is, the more moisture the dryer can take out of it. So OK - in cooler climates, and if you don't use so much air, you can probably save a few feet of line without problems. But would it be worth it, when it gets hot and humid, and you have to brake a lot? Hope it helps, good luck on the installation and have a nice day

Paweł

Hey, Travis - the first panel would be really easy to fabricate yourself. The only hard thing could be the volume control - but I'm sure, with the help of the gentelmen who could show us what the original looks like from behind, I could help you with that. Please write me if you would like to give it a try - I could give you some hints. Good luck and have a nice day

Paweł

Jim, Larry - thanks a lot, that really helps. I'm going to fabricate a custom deck for my model truck, with a section in it meant to take the pogo stick. That should teke care of it. Thanks again, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

Sorry for resurecting this old thread - but I'm just building a pogo stick for my model of the Mack Superliner in 1:24 - and I don't really have the idea how the Pogo stick is mounted to the frame. Could anybody post pictures like that here? Can be any Mack model, I just need some examples to work on, I've never seen it in 1:1. Thanks in advance, have a nice day

Paweł

Gennulmen, thanks a lot for your comments, and for your kind words!

Vladislav - of course I tried to get as close to the real thing as I could - but I only had photos to go. Some of them came right from this forum!

mackniac, appledog - I sure will! even today I have a little update to show.

Recently I tackled the rear fenders. I started with those kit parts:

You can see the rear skirt hangers are already modified "Mack style". I stripped the remainders of the original chrome paint off everything, then puttied and rechromed the parts. After that they looked like below:

I also fabricated the brackets to hold the rubber and bought rear skirts printed on white vinyl (a company called Flemming Pedersen makes them).

Done, the fenders looked like this:

I just HAD to dry-fit them to the chassis. Here are the photos:

Hope you like it - thanks for reading and have a nice day!

Paweł

Hello everybody!

Travels have kept me from working on this one, luckily I hade some break recently and I used this time to do the radiator!

Well the kit's radiator is a Freightliner with molded-on AC condenser, so it was no use to me. I've built a new radiator from styrene sheet and copper mesh, using only the fan shroud of the kit's radiator. I could also save and re-use the fan, after I've built a clutch for it:

Next thing was to paint everything up and connect the hoses. Now it's done and looks like this:

So please help me - if you see any inaccuracies or things that could be fixed, please don't hesitate to post them here. Thanks for reading, have a nice day!

Paweł

I believe the gold bulldog was only factory installed on the V8 engined trucks. Of course you put whatever you want on your truck. Good luck with this baby, have a nice day

Paweł

And don't forget to check the bulbs - my uncle once started to check the brake switch in his car, just to se hours later, that all THREE bulbs were burned out! Good luck with the repair, and have a nice day

Paweł

And whose economy was booming for twenty years now?

Well I wish you the American economy can get better soon, too. Have a nice day!

Pawel