I built up a railroad bike to go along with the Chevy Canopy Express:
The bike is a 1/24 scale Fujimi kit that goes together well. The rest is junkbox + styrene and left over storage:
I added a chain, shifters, brake and shifter cables to the bike - and we are ready to ride!
Cheers
Nick
Love it. We need these on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR
Finished up the PACV.
I didn’t weather it too much- just a wash and then some oil work on the skirts. A few bits I’m not happy with but thats the way it goes sometimes. An interesting subject to model, no doubt about that.
She is looking good. If you can, the barrels are not aligned. Looks like the right one is depressed.
Nice @Karl187
Yeap that is one of the bits I’m not happy with. It is sitting like that to accept the ammo feed belt- that is the only angle I could make it work without breaking the belt. Similar issue with the leftmost wiper- broke during assembly and is now sitting proud of the window- but I’m not touching it in case it breaks again!
I love that Revell includes 3 different front end Fascia’s for the 1/25 Cutlass.
For both the 1/25 & 1/1 versions I’m modifying the stock Supreme clips and bumper guards & removed the hood ornament too.
Nice work on the rubber,whole things looks good
Today I opened my MinimanFactory MM816 LET. Unpacking it revealed that the P E sheet and the clear plastic sheet for the cab windows was missing.
They’re out of business now so I guess I can’t turn to them for replacements.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
PS I’ve also got the M917 dump truck from MMF but tbh I’m pretty reluctant to open the box!
One of the negative aspects of building up a stash over time. The product outlasts the supplier sometimes and then you’re stuck. How many people are going to have a spare they could sell?
A valid point. I suppose given the (relative) commonality of parts with Trumpeter’s M915, I could approach Trumpeter and ask to buy these pieces.
I have their M915 kit in the stash but I’m, understandably I hope, reluctant to pirate an unopened kit for a few kit pieces.
Thanks for your observations anyway.
ETA The M917 dump is exactly the same. 
Oof. The windows can traced and transferred to clear styrene.
The PE can be harder to fabricate. I cannot find any instructions online. Does it have a profile of what the parts might look like?
Thanks! There is a template on the instructions. I’ll look at those instructions tomorrow and compare with the M915 set in my stash’s truck and trailer kit.
Most helpful!!!
Work is busy this summer so haven’t done much the past few months. Slowly adding rivets to Tamiya’s Mustang using Eduard’s as a reference.
Having bought a 1/43 scale bus model, I still can’t pluck up the courage to start assembling it.
And the model is unusual, and I have never assembled such a scale, and the company is previously unknown to me. And in general!
I came up with a workaround – I bought one of the least expensive sets from this company. But not a bus, but a pneumatic-tire roller D-365.
This is the first Soviet roller of this kind. They started producing it in 1958, and when they finished, I was born. And that was also a long time ago. Why a skating rink, you ask? Because everything else is in 1/35 scale and there is a lot of it, but there is not much road equipment, including rollers. And my first education is in road construction machinery.
There are not many parts and the instructions are not long.
They are all made of resin. The wheels are made of rubber, there are two small glass headlights, and the axles are steel rods.
Ha, and only now I realized that I don’t have any glazing! Just in case, I’ll look for it in my workshop, although I don’t even remember if it was in the box. I don’t remember anything like that.
It would be worse if something else was missing, but for the owner of a cutting plotter this is not a problem.
Although it would be better if this “glass” could be found.
Quite good quality resin (in my opinion).
The burr is no thicker than tissue paper, if anyone still remembers what that is.
Not without flaws, of course, there are some delaminations, like on the engine sump.
Some of the parts broke off from the bases, so I put them all in a separate box, just to be on the safe side.
And like this – again broken down into separate parts.
It’s obvious that there are no color photos of this rink.
I’m actually for the light blue color, but something else bothers me. The color of the body parts, the silver engine, the brown (in shades) seat – everything is clear.
They are mostly 1/43 and just now doing 1/35. A very interesting 1/43 catalog.
Lovely view Angel, reminds me a lot of some of our mountain patrol routes in Bosnia …
Put togheter this guy during a rain shower earlier today. It took around 45 minutes and the fit was not very good. We will see how it turns out with some paint.
Great news! Trumpeter/Hobbyboss have outsourced their replacement parts div, and I was able to order one (only) M915 p e sheet this morning. One item only at a time means three more orders, unless I can fab the glass from acetate sheet ( where to find though, it used to come in shirt collars way back).
So happy…….The rest of the M916 kit looks great, they described themselves as “The Tamiya of the resin world” apparently.
Nice, but it wouldn’t work on our golf course…….
