Here she is with a quick slathering of Mr. Surfacer 1500.
Next, some sanding and then paint… DECALS! I must find decals! … into the X-Files.
—mike
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[EDIT] D’oh! I meant “Fuel Drums.” 
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I have been sitting here waiting for that,
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I am here for the pictures not the articles, so I was fine with it. 
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Friends shouldn’t let friends type! 
—hippopotamus … I mean
—anonymous! 
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There ought to be a setting in the preferences where one could check a box:
“Appreciates friendly typo corrections”
I recently received quite a bollocking from someone who took
some minor typo-corrections as a severe personal insult …
No chill at all …
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Hey guys, that little icon under your post that looks like a pencil - that’s the edit button. If you later find a mistake your can change it!
Editing stays available anywhere from 2 weeks to a month after you make your original post.
(I am sure you folks know this already.) ;-)D
Scratch Built US Army, 4 ton Stake Bed Trailer:
Another one from my “archives”
Tires, springs and end beam + taillights are from the Italeri Deuce. The rest is scratch built.
What I am most proud of is the working landing gear. Which stays in position simply by friction within that center sliding beam. (See three step photo sequence below.) The small landing wheels are again short sections of plastic tube, filled with body putty, then sanded to a concave shape and drilled out.
That tarp on the front is simply two smaller bed rolls cut and spliced together to make a larger (longer) rolled up tarpolin.
As to this being an old build; Everything old is new again - if you have not seen it before.)
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Will it have speed stripes 
along the sides?
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No, sir. Those are for Wasser and they will not explode! 
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Ah, a kinetic energy projectile! How fast does 60L of water have to be moving to have a suitable effect?..
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Me too… just too polite to say anything (for once) 
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I was originally going to post this image, but something was just not right, but so very wrong… and it ain’t rocket science.
For Double Jeopardy, you have just one hour to solve the riddle.
…
@ Mike (165thspc), Nice retractable landing gear. 
So, Angel… how’s the boot biz going?
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Apart from the very evident flash, accentuated by the camera flash… 
The old Tamiya JC’s have the ‘very wrong’ centrally mounted spouts, where they should be mounted more to the ‘right’ as you face them. (They also have 2 square bar handles, not 3 round ones)
But this is Sci-fi, so that does not matter…
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Peter, tsk, tsk, tsk. You were so very close… and under the buzzer!
However, the official answer should have been preceded by “What are”, i.e. “What are the old Tamiya JC’s have the ‘very wrong’ centrally mounted spouts, where they should be mounted more to the ‘right’ as you face them. (They also have 2 square bar handles, not 3 round ones).”
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Thank’s for playing!
—mike 
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