Hello folks

I'm going through a good modelling time, 9th finished kit in a row (though all of them were shelf queens...). This time, an old snap tite Datsun pickup truck from 1981, that I got very cheap right here thanks to Heavyarty (Gino).

Since I'm in a heavy weathering phase of my modelling skills, I finished it as a heavy used vehicle, could end up in an african setting vignette...I should say that scale wise, the truck its pretty close to be 1/35, dimensions are pretty close to the Meng's Toyota truck.

I did some mods like lowering the suspension and adding the mirrors, changing the hard plastic wheels with the one from Meng set (almost perfect fit if a tad loose) and put some cargo from Tamiya, Meng and also some real small wood sticks and rope. Painting was done using Testors enamels, K4 and Ammo acrylic paints and weathering products.

Hope you like it and comments welcome.

Spectacular job!!

Whoah! Nice! Never thought such marvels could be done with a snap tite...

Cheers!
Stefan

Fantastic finish! Looks like the real thing -- thanks for sharing.

Hi Klaus - I've got to agree with the others - great build! Thanks for posting

Cheers
Nick

Thanks for you comments guys

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Hi Klaus,

I'm sure I have seen that pick-up somewhere on the back roads here in South Africa - a typical 'farmer's truck'.

Congratulations on a very nice build.

Regards,
Kobus

Thank you Kobus

Cheers

Looks very much like the example I used to own. Good job!

Thanks Russel

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the "WOW" Bill

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Beautiful job Klaus!
Are those Revell kits still available?

Thanks buddy,

This kind of kits can be found on ebay from time to time but can be a bit expensive even not considering shipping. In my case I got some from a member of this site like a year ago, complete but unboxed, very cheap and I save a lot on shipping! Now I regret that didn't bought all of them!

Chers

Great modelling.

I have one in my stash to one day make something like this Rhodesian Police turreted convoy escort vehicle.



Paul

Thank you Paul

By the way, quite interesting photo you have there

Cheers

Nice job! The 1/32 scale difference is hardly noticed as the stowage in the bed seems to match perfectly in scale.

Thanks buddy

hell yeah, nice work, and it looks like a old clapped out beaten down truck.

Where did the oxygen and oxysedaline tanks come from?

I'd love to see it in a diorama.

Great job on it. It came out looking really nice.

Thanks buddy, oxigen and acetylene bottles came from old Tamiya "modern" accesory set, still got a few of those...




Thanks Gino a lot, since you provided the kit some time ago

Cheers

Wow! That's taking snap tite to a WHOLE new level! Great job!

Thanks buddy