Converted Wartime GMC "Deuce & a Half Locomotive"

[KoSprueone]

Hi @Frederic_Butcher , Welcome and nice progress on your conversion.

[Frederic_Butcher]

@barkingdigger

t’s looking good! Those buffer beams are great!

Strictly speaking the truck in the pics has the hole in the roof for the gun ring, but is covered over by canvas and there is no evidence of the ring mount itself. You could do this version with the Italeri cargo truck that has the hole, but you would still need the Tamiya wooden cargo bed. And the railroad wheels are a different “solid” style rather than the fancy spoked resin ones. But there will have been quite a few conversions and each would be slightly different, so it’s all good!..

Thank you,
it is difficult to know if there is the hole in the photo on the roof but it is possible. In fact the rail wheels of my kit are different from the archive photo, there were different wheels I try to get as close as possible to the photo but perfection does not exist

Here Jerricans racks :

[Frederic_Butcher]

Thank you so much !!

[barkingdigger]

Looking good! With those can racks, are you putting them on both sides? The photos don’t show the other side so at best it’s a guess. I’ve gone round in circles on this, but I think I’ll put them on both sides…

[Frederic_Butcher]

Thank you !
after talking about it to a specialist friend it seems logical that the soldiers are added on the other side the same thing that’s what I did

[Frederic_Butcher]

About this picture

first model tole cabin and symmetrical grille

and black out added

[barkingdigger]

I never noticed the windscreen is missing on that truck! The driver must enjoy the wind in his hair…

[Frederic_Butcher]

And my futur project Finally, I hope

[KoSprueone]

@barkingdigger

The photos don’t show the other side so at best it’s a guess.

Sometimes typical with a lot of R/R rolling stock modeling. Many times we can only get a picture of one side of the subject