The last stage
I realised yesterday that the truck body was by ConCor/Heljan and not Jordan.The dormer was built by trial and error using matching siding and some clear styrene at the bottom triangle for side windows. I added a roof made from thin card and covered it with masking tape "tarpaper" for a contrast to the wooden main roof.
Some roof trim was added and a radiator which was followed with lights and a bumper (fender). Rear mudguards were made from bent up strips of 10 thou styrene and cemented on.
A few "well travelled" details were added with extensive weathering (I think I see this a a prospector's mobile home perhaps) and tomorrow I'll finish it with a Colorado number plate and a small smoke-jack.
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| It's not as twisted as this photo suggests, I think I had a weird camera angle. |
This was a fun project and I'm pleased with this little truck even though it certainly isn't a foreground model but then they also serve who stand and wait...
And finally.....
Rear details finished with a rope around the water barrel and a 1936 Co license plate.
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| Somewhere in the Cuspidor Valley. |
Leddy and I both love it, Barry. Charmed & entertained-as are some of your grumpy C&S denizens and their curious kids, I'm sure. Is that a canvass tarp or leather bag on the back roof above the barrel and spare? Your 1926 prospector's mobile home has a back pack! Character again!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! It's supposed to be a large tarp (actually heavy foil folded over and flattened then wrapped with fuse wire and painted a canvassy colour). I really should put some wire around the barrel too if I can find a small enough drill to go into the walls. It's growing on me, it's definitely Cuspidor vintage. Now where did I store those license plates?
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