A few of you guys really challenged me, and that's probably what got me going to scratchbuild this $@#!?°€!! machine. I swore to throw it through the window at least 463 times and building the pump and fuel cell took me eight months. The painting was done in only one weekend, and maybe that shows a bit. I might redo the whole paint job... (desert scheme ? ).

I bored you with the story for a long time, but I finally got it finished last weekend.
Thanks to Epi and Rob for pictures and thanks to all of you for comments and support !
Without further ado, here's a few pics. You'll find several more in the General's Quarters (see link below).
One of these nights, I'll upload an article on scratchbuilding this baby.

I'm interested to read your comments, both from scratchbuilders and from people who are (were) familiar with this vehicle in real life.

Jan,

It looks Great.

Just found some photos



Matt

MATT !!!

Where did you hide that picture all this time ?!

The fuel cells are the same, the pump is clearly a different type. Luckily, I had many pictures of my own, and Epi uploaded several, too.

SImply amazing, I love it!!! Especially the oil spills and the faded warning....I don't think you need a repaint, this one is as good as anyone can get!!!! Salute for a splendid job!!!

Very nice Jan. It looks like you could pull up and refuel a Hummer from that truck.

I agree with the others Jan... Incredible!

I've got a photo of a duece and a half that had two fuel tanks in the back.... don't know the capacity, nor are there any pump detail shots, but it's in a strange two-tone desert cammo with large black stars that I took in Grafenwoer (sp) Germany circa 1973.

I could scan it off to you (or anybody) if you'd like.

Thanks,
Kevin Keefe
Mortars in Miniature

Holy Batman! Gee Jan, all I can say is "awe-inspiring". Being a fan of large scale stuff, your M35 is, as Tony the Tiger says......"GRRRRRREEEEEEAT!
You even kept the weathering ' in-scale' as well! Kudo's to ya!

Tread.

Jan,
For a minute there I thought you just re-scaned and fixed the pictures I sent you.
I have no words to describe it. I am amazed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey GF - you need to get that thing to the wash rack Love the way you did the spill stains Don't worry about the paint, when crews had to paint their own eauipment, patterns and technique went out the window. Now that equipment is coming out of the factory already camo painted, it is first time I have seen perfect patterns - there is no reason for you to repaint, unless you are just a glutton for punishment #:-)

Jeff

Jan--you finally attained Armorama Immortality status..
Well done!
DJ #:-)

Jan,
Very well done indeed. Love the fuel stains
Chuck

Chuck--knowing the guys in I Troop fairly well, I can honestly say the stain does not do you Boys justice....but, I digress #:-) #:-)
DJ

Those are kind words. All I wanted was immortality status, since that was what your challenge was all about last year.
Building the fuel cells was a lot of fun, but I'm glad it's over and I can focus on something new now. I spent the past week working on a tree for my dio contest. (Well, that is one night at the office, two nights for Aikido, one night cooking for friends who came to dinner and one night (last night ) pumping ten inches of water from my basement after the rising ground water level flooded it.
But tonight I worked at the tree, and it looks L VELY ! Get ready for pics soon !

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Man oh man. I just hope I can finish building my GMC-CCKW with # 7 wreaker set as well as you have done that beautiful truck.

Cliff (I'm a driver not a private) :-)

Great job Jan. So any article is in the making goosh that would be nice to see a real talent at work and to get some good ideas on different scratch building ideas. Again great job

Excellent work Jan. You were just being modest about re-doing the painting, weren´t you? Tell the truth now? A model to be proud of I think. All you have to tell yopurself is that the 8 months paid off!!
Good luck with the next project!

Ah come now. Tell the truth how long did it take you to build that 40 X 50 foot table? And did you use a chinook or an 88 to get it up there? This is really nice you schould get the order of the golden xacto knife w/clusters for this one. One question. Did you weather over the F in FLAMMABLE or are these old eyes not up to it ?

This is an almost exact copy of a real fuel cell I found a picture of. First I painted the fuel cell green, then the mustard colored rectangle. I put the "flammable and "do not smoke within 50 feet" labels on in dry transfer rub-off lettering (the old Lettraset sets). Then I carefully spraypainted a thin layer of the same green paint over that, till it all got a weathered look. Halfway, I overwrote the MOGAS (?) label with "DF1-F54" as I have in the picture of a real fuel cell. Some more green was sprayed over. Then I did the oil and rust streaks with heavily diluted oil paint+Turpentine.
After some practice, I think I get away with the technique. Sadly I did not stop quickly enough so the whole fuel cell looks very messy - probably way too messy to look real. Then again, the last time I took my audi to the carwash was in April, so why would army fuel trucks look more clean ?