![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/icedozer35.jpg)
That beauty: Studebaker US6, from ICM:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/StudebakerBM-13-16000c.jpg)
Fantastic truck, but with an enormous defect: the wheels present the wheelwork band totally wrong:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---US6---Katyuscha/StudebakerBM-13-16001.jpg)
I used the TankWorkShop Studebakerīs wheel upgrade set...
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/rodas.jpg)
Specs:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/studebakerspecs.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/studebakerspecs2.jpg)
Building the kit:
Note the resin wheels:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud001IceDozer.jpg)
I didn't use the original engine. I made a carter with plasticard, just to fill out the space.
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud002IceDozer.jpg)
TWS wheels:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud003IceDozer.jpg)
Cargo truck:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud004IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud005IceDozer.jpg)
Building the snow plow, with plasticard:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud006IceDozer.jpg)
The beams and reinforcements of chassis:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud007IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud008IceDozer.jpg)
Aligning the dozer and the support:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud009IceDozer.jpg)
...and:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud010IceDozer.jpg)
Welding the forks of the plow:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud011IceDozer.jpg)
...and setting up the forks and your reinforcements in plasticard:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud012IceDozer.jpg)
...A vision front ...Tons of putty to seal gaps
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud013IceDozer.jpg)
Another views:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud014IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud015IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud016IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud017IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud018IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud019IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud020IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud021IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud022IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud023IceDozer.jpg)
Painting using Olive drab, with up e downs color tones:
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud026IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud027IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud028IceDozer.jpg)
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Stud029IceDozer.jpg)
Next step: Future + decals...
I decided to write a patriotic slogan in the plow:
Cleaning the highway to the West!!!
![](../../../img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Studebaker---Ice---Dozer/Studer032IceDozer.jpg)
(thanks to my friend JG, that supplied a correct orthography for me...)
After photographing this image, I added two exclamation marks at the end of the sentence....
The slogan was more emphatic and patriotic!!!