Joev259A Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 (edited) "Kuklinski's Principle of Appearance: A half-built scratch built kit impresses people with your skill; a completed scratch built kit looks just like any other model." I have included a picture of my in-progress scratch built 1/25 scale FWD P-2 crash fire truck. I have been working on this since March, 2020. The body is more of less complete, except for the battery compartment (the opening on the lower, center of the body). Everything is pretty much scratch built. It's about 16 inches long, 5 inches high and about 4 1/2 inches wide. The tires are resin from American Industrial Truck Models, and some parts from the AMT American LaFrance pumper kit (mainly just the seats). The next "adventure" is building the transmission, steering, and engine assemblies. I have more pictures but I can't seem to download them. I have a question for you folks: I need to scratch built two "straight six cylnder" gas engines. Any suggestions on where these can be found, or modified? I may have to scratch build these too. Edited January 26 by Joev259A I've uploaded more photographs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipmsusa2 Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 To download photos on the internet...at least if you are working with a PC...find the photos on the net, the place the cursor on the photo, right click to get a popup menu and click 'save image as'. This will get you another window where you can select the folder you want to save the photo with the photo's name in the file name bar. Click save and you're done. Sounds complex, but it's really quite simple. Hope I've helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joev259A Posted January 26 Author Report Share Posted January 26 Thanks. I found the way of copying pictures from my files to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipmsusa2 Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Nice work. As for the engines you need, straight 6 engine blocks can be found in some of the older vintage Chevy car kits. Now whether or not a Chevy Staight 6....also known as a Stovebolt 6...could form the basis of the 6 cylinder engine you need is another question. Maybe, maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joev259A Posted January 27 Author Report Share Posted January 27 Thanks for the suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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