1/48 WW II US Bomb Truck

[jeaton01]

I've had a lot of fun things get in the way of my modeling lately so when I have had bits of time I have been working on this. It's the Tamiya kit with a Gas-O-Line resin conversion set. The resin is kind of overpriced for the quality I think but it will work OK. I've used carbon fiber rod in place of some resin parts and where they call for plastic rod as it helps hold a warp in the trolley track better. Should add some interest to the aircraft in the display case and in photos.












And my buddy that visits my back yard occasionally.

[BlackSheep214]

Oh very nice subject! Following this one! Heh ... even squirrels like to learn how to build their own kits. Maybe he’s looking for ideas what to add to his den in the tree. Methinks that rigging looks tempting for him.

[Stikpusher]

I’m kind of surprised that Tamiya never followed up their fuel tanker truck with a bomb truck like this. It would not be hard to engineer a sprue with the frame parts.

Gonna watch this.

[keavdog]

That's cool. Neat conversion. I just got the Tamiya 1/48 fuel truck with a diorama in mind.

[Floki]

This is going to be a very cool build. Have you used Gaso.line resin before? Just wondering what the quality was.

[LyleW]

That is quite the interesting build. Support vee hickles are fun subjects.

[Stuart]

That's a very interesting choice of subjects John!

[Medicman71]

Very cool! There's something that you don't see very often.

[jeaton01]

Floki, the resin is not bad, but because of the color the photos in the instructions are hard to understand. If the photos were sharper and printed better it would be easier. Hopefully my photos will make it easier for anyone else here that may do the conversion. The main supporting boom has some warps, that's the worst of it.

I made some more progress, the resin parts are on and the rigging is done. The resin is detailed but the light color makes it hard to see what I am doing, and also makes it hard to see the detail in the photos in the instructions. I've taken a bunch of photos from different angles that may help anyone else that wants to do this one. There are some clutch and brake linkages that go on the left and right side of the winch assembly and they look busy enough but I suspect they are not completely accurate. I did the best I could placing them. Some of the pulleys are not aligned as well as they should be, there was one in the trolley frame for the trolley cart cable that is too far forward to allow the cable to run to the lateral pulleys up there so I removed some material from the front of it. The thread I used for the cable hides it pretty well. Now I can go on to work on the rest of the truck. There may be green soon!

[LyleW]

Looking good!