My Collection

Spanjaard
welcome to SCM 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Welkom!

Munkyslut
Welcome aboard D! Like your trucks don't you?

Treehugger
Have you heard about the lord and savior Tamiya Extra Thin Cement? 🙂

Tim Heimer
And I thought I had a lot of trucks and trailers in my stash! Holly truck! Welcome are 18 wheeled mate!

Danny Meer
Thx for the welcome 🙂 This collection was from some1 who passed away 3 yrs ago..bought it for a real nice price. Now have enough to keep me busy for a few yrs 😛 And not sure if I will build them all. some are real collector items and most boxes still sealed.

Chaz Gordon
Unseal and get building. Nice collection and a great quality build too.

Chaz Gordon
You'll find that a lot of the accessory parts will fit other trucks in scale without much modification. For instance i've been able to fit an italieri scania wrecker back on a revell peterbilt base with virtually no modification. Those revell K100s are sweet kits, as is the alaska hauler

Danny Meer
Thx Chaz, atm working on 2 different trucks that previous owner started already. only 1 truck missing decals and 1 trailer not complete

Martin Oostrom
There are always some volunteers to be found, to help you move some of those boxes to their house 😉

Danny Meer
lol dat denk ik ook wel Martin 😛 heb van de week een houten rek besteld voor alle dozen. staat nu allemaal op de grond in mn hobbykamer 🙂 kwam er net achter dat mijn huishoudster de AMT Budweiser Peterbilt 352 truck onder de kachel had geschoven en de cabine is nu zo gesmolten dat ik er niets meer mee kan 🙁 chassis ziet er nog wel goed uit...was al aardig eind met bouwen ervan...

Spanjaard
Gesmolten cabine? Dat is echt jammer.... misschien voor ongeluck diorama?😉

Danny Meer
tsja dak van cabine is niet meer bruikbaar, maar idd misschien is dat dan nog een idee zo'n diorama. baal wel behoorlijk.

Treehugger
But seriously, check out Tamiya's Extra Thin Cement. This kind of glue makes less mess, and is supposed to be applied on the OUTSIDE of the seams, not inside as with regular messy old tube glue. The excess liquid glue will mostly evaporate, but don't get any spill on clear parts. This liquid glue may also run around your thumb leaving a fingerprint, if you add liquid glue anywhere near your thumb while holding the model with your thumb.

Tamiya also has a lemon scented version of the Extra Thin Cement.

Chris Greathouse
I'm SO jealous of all your trucks!!!

Danny Meer
Thx Chris 🙂 I'm very happy that I could buy this complete collection that contain a few hard to get kits 😄
And Treehugger will check it thx

Danny Meer
Bought a rack for my unbuild kits, so nomore kits on the floor of my hobbyroom 🙂

Chaz Gordon
Nice work area, oh for the days when I had a space to put a shelf for my stash. We'll get that table loaded up with paint bottles before you know it. If you're shopping for paint, I recommend Vallejo Model air & Game Air for all Matt colours, even for brushing. the Game air has some nice bright colours, ideal for a matt base and a clear varnish over decals.

Martin Oostrom
Yup. If you value your brain cells, get rid of the enamels, but preferably get some forced ventilation in there (suctioning is the best).
The revell glue is good for bit bits. For finer parts we recommend Tamiya extra thin cement.
And you might want to get a good sprue cutter. It cuts the parts better from the sprue, less distortion and less cleaning work with files and sandpaper.

Danny Meer
Today's mission, replace windscreen of the Tamiya 1:14 Scania cabine....have to take most of the cabine apart to get to the screws....and then I need to get a ton of wires back in lol

Tim Heimer
Wow!

Chris Greathouse
That Scania RC looks awesome! Can't wait to see it all finished, all those wires.. dang.

Danny Meer
Bought this kit of a Imai Ford CL9000 Super Truck and arrived today, but can't find it in the database here.
Or am I looking at the wrong references?

Danny Meer
Added the Ford CL9000 kit in database, only downside of this kit that manual is in chinese only lol
Not sure if I will place a motor in it, but will install the lights that came with it 🙂

Danny Meer
In the summer I go outside with my rc's...In winter I stay in my hobbyroom to build kits 😄

Rod -
I have a king hauler and a high lift hilux. Tamiya trucks are awesome 🙂

Danny Meer
Yeah, really love the king hauler. maybe next year will buy 1 but think that I won't use a sound kit like in the Scania and a simple light kit 🙂

Rod -
Hmm, I'll get some pics of mine and add it as a project.

Danny Meer
👍

Chris Greathouse
If you can scan the instruction into the computer, there are sites that do jpg > text ( translate.yandex.com/ocr ). Saved my bacon alot. Also some translate photo apps can do live translations while you look at the page through the camera.

Danny Meer
Even for chinese characters? 😛 Tried 1 app but even the app didn't translate it to normal text lol
Will try that jpg to text. thx for tip 🙂

Chris Greathouse
That yandex site does multiple languages, and the Google Translate is a live translator on phone screen, butg pics can be used too... The result are kind of wonky, but they make enough sense to get the job done.

Danny Meer
Got a kit ERTL International F-4270 for € 20,- (photo 13 on the right) and got some free extra parts, decals with it. Had the kit International Transtar F-2671, but the decalsheet and manual that I got as free extra was lookin better. not sure what to do with the extra cabines. think will put them on a flatbed trailer as cargo 🙂

Danny Meer
Got my Limited Edition Scania with the mail today 😄 very happy

Chris Greathouse
Awesome! You got the beast mode Scania! 😄 That kit looks very cool! What did you end up paying for it, if you don't mind me asking? (PM me if you want.) I thought this kit was hilariously expensive.

Danny Meer
It's such an awesome kit and yes they cost a few bucks 😛 Have a complete sealed mint box for € 300,- (around $333,-) normal price is around € 350,- in EU

Chris Greathouse
PM me when you start to rock n roll with this bad boy 🙂

Chaz Gordon
kit page scalemates.com/kits/..lage-tractor--226889

Chaz Gordon
I see why it's so pricey, the extra axles must be a resin conversion, plus the photo etch. Single axle kit retails at £45, I feel lucky the Revell heavy haulers are just an extra forward axle of the pair and an extra mid shaft, quite simple to do a conversion with standard kit parts, either a donor kit, or make a second resin set.

Danny Meer
Thx but already found the kit page Chaz 🙂 I wonder what the CNC milled parts are, would that be the rims? And not sure when I will build this 1 and in what version...the white FTG truck or the yellow with grey lines show truck..Alot of collectors will shoot me if I mess this masterpiece up with a bad paintjob 😛 To scared to start with some of my rare trucks that are expensive or hard to find now 😄

Chaz Gordon
You've done a pretty good job so far. I see your dilema, I prefer to steer away from the white as it's a fairly common colour for trucks, but on the other hand, it has the cooler graphics. Perhaps flex those research skills you have, I reckon the graphics would look good over other colours too.

Chris Greathouse
I like the simplicity and elegance of the yellow and black show truck. Although the FTG decals look much more like beast mode, heavy duty.

Martin Oostrom
Danny, this is a working truck. Built for heavy haulin'. Don't wast your €€€ on a show truck!

Chris Greathouse
Martin has a point. He wins. For that kind of $$$ you really should build the badass haulin' truck.

Danny Meer
Made up my mind and gonna make the FTG truck, not sure if it will get a trailer behind it 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Something like this scalemates.com/kits/..e-low-loader--282829

Danny Meer
That's a nice 1 Martin, was thinking in that direction. low boy or a great dane or the logging trailer
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Danny Meer
Pffff some1 is selling this 1 on FB....costs more then I payed for this Scania 😄 But it's damn epic!

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scalemates.com/kits/..-low-loader--1106296

Chris Greathouse
I agree with Martin... That big 44 ton would be an epic pair.

Danny Meer
It's a very nice 1 I agree, but it is no more for sale and finding these KFS trailers for sale is not easy...the Nooteboom trailer I found on FB costs € 400,- lol that's 100 more then the truck 😄 So maybe a trailer from my current stash (like the heavy gravel trailer?) or will see what I can find over time 🙂

Danny Meer
Can also use my Heavy duty trailer and place some heavy equipment on the back or another truck....so much options lol 🙂 The truck racing trailer also possible to use with a truck on the back...
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Chris Greathouse
Swap that truck with the heavy haulage Scania and you have a perfect marriage of truck,trailer, and cargo.

Chaz Gordon
https://rover.ebay.com/rover..k%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264576708024

Might go well with this truck. Not sure what postage would be. But £60 buy it now price

Danny Meer
@Chris, it's a picture of an Heavy duty trailer from internet, but like you said it would be a nice combo with that cargo (not sure if that's a kit or die-cast) and the Heavy haulage Scania 🙂

@Chaz Already have that 1 in my stash😄 Bought mine for € 35,- Have a few nice trailers that I could use and that's my problem 😛 Don't know what I should put behind the Scania

Chris Greathouse
This is the one from your stash, The only question would be... would a 1:24 truck and 1:25 trailer look like crap?

scalemates.com/kits/..duty-trailer--102450

Chaz Gordon
The difference between scales is 1/8 of an inch in scale per 8 Feet full size, ie the width of the 1/25 trailer would be under by about 1/8 inch, and the length of a 40' trailer would be short by 5/8 inch, or about 16mm. On the height, no-one would ever notice.
The variance between manufacturers is more like to be noticable than that between the two scales. I have a 1/24 58 Chevy pickup truck in Die cast, and a 1/25 57 Chevy truck in plastic. The cabs for those two years of truck are identical, the changes were front end treatments. But the two scale cabs are noticably different at about 1/4 inch in the width, more than twice the scale variance, and the height is quite a bit off too. A shame as I was planning to cast a 58 Front end for the 57 truck kit.

Danny Meer
I was also wondering how much of a difference it would be, but now you gave some explenation about it, think it will be ok to use a 1:25 trailer behind a 1:24 truck 🙂 thx for that Chaz 👍

Christian W
Uh! This Radio controlled 959 is Beautiful 😄

Danny Meer
Thx Christian 👍 It's a vintage Kyosho Hobao Porsche 959 1:7th scale /w pirate chassis
all original from '91 🙂

Christian W
Awesome! Thank you for this information. It's a wonna have thing 😄

Danny Meer
👍 I don't dare to use it anymore cuz it's a vintage car and parts for it is hard to get, it sits as a shelfqueen only 😛
Here is a link to a website with the story behind the car:
classic.rc-junkies.net/?p=385