Mr Roo (Cliff) has done up a nice feature on converting Italeri''s Tanker into a #7 wrecker set.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

I remember this one. Thanks for posting it Matt

And as always our truck master has again shown us the way to Drooling!! :-)

A very nice article, about showing how to make an excellent model....
Nice job Cliff.

An excellent article Roo,a futre project I look forward to.
russ

and once more the bar is raised.. now I can't even see it LOL.. good job there on that one...

thanks for the comments guys, I really appreciate it.

I know this is going to be hard to believe but this model was my first ever use of PE and also of scratch building. It is the one that 'launched' my quest for the odd ball truck models and it was also only the 4th model I ever made.

So this I have to say is my favourite model and, while it has mistakes and ommissions in it I am still really proud of this one.

Thanks again
Cliff

Do you darned well should be. I tried this conversion from a magazine feature last year some time and that curved support got me..........................

wonderful cliff...that does it...dangit...i'm gonna try a scratchbuilt bed for my cargo truck....between you , animal and joe wallace...i'm bit by the bug again....thanks for a great article...no other site on modeling would give you this type/amount of info...great job Roo

Yes scratchbuilding can be intimidating at best but a most satisfying project upon completion,if you have the patience you can scratchbuild.I have done several pieces as has my son who scratched a complete Centurion from the tracks up in 1/35 scale and subsequently took me right out of the competition at one of our local shows and took the scratchbuilding trophy.He`s not a modeler by the way,he got himself grounded for a whole summer one year so I gave him something to do. Roo your first try at a scratch/conversion is excellent,you should be very proud of that one! I remember how proud Dave was when he completed his radio truck,another excellent build and Animal`s breakdown 6x is looking every bit as good. Well done guys and thanks for the overwhelming incentives to get building!

Its just so beautiful

I love the pictures. I was wondering if the MG mount was a field addon or factory installed? When did you make this model? What was so difficult about the PE grille? Just a few questions. Amazing!

Jeff

Jeff, Eduards PE grill was a real &**^%$ to try and make. I tried on three different occasions with other models as well and gave it up as a bad joke. Hard to bend the bars to the same length etc etc. However I got an Aber GMC PE set and the grill was a breeze to do and this is the PE set I now recommend for the Tamiya GMC. I also believe Aber do a closed cab PE set as well.

The access hatch was factory fitted but the MG mounts were fitted in army workshops. I think the ratio was one MG mount per 8 trucks. Also there are different models of MG mount depending on what vehicle and cab type they were for. I used the original army Tech manuel on MG mounts to do this. I have this manuel scanned into my computer now and may put it in my gallery at some stage.

Cheers
Cliff

PS> don't forget that the scale plans I drew up of the deck and wrecker set are in the feature section of the site for you guys to download. Also there is a SWB 352 set of steel deck plans as well.

Here's more Info!!!

#7 Wrecker set Drawings
Steel Deck Plans for the GMC-353


HTH

does any one have infromation on the crane(images, drawings)?

Check the links in the post directly above yours.

And where do you see the crane their?

What crane are you looking for? The thread is about a wrecker truck. The drawings are for the wrecker truck conversion and show the wrecker boom. If you are more specific, someone can probably point you in the right direction.

Ruslan,

Dunno what crane your talking about but the post was about the #7 Wrecker set for the GMC CCKW 353 LWB Cargo Truck.
As for more pictures of the #7 Wrecker set, you will have to wait a while for the pics of Cliffs project. They have been taken offline for a while and hopefully will be back on in the next few months.
Cliff and/or Jim, any idea when these will be back along with the Roo's Truck Guide?


Regards
Matt

GMC had a crane mounter on the front of the truck.

The fitting on the front of this truck is called a Derrick and is not a crane as such but a lifting jib using the front mounted winch as the lifting method.

cheers
Cliff

thank you!!!!!

by any chance you got more information on it?

I do not have much info on it but you could try a 'Google' search using GMC Derrick trucks or try here

http://www.cckw.org/

this is a web site dedicated to the GMC-CCKW.

cheers
Cliff

Look here for Derrick Detail Pics:
http://public.fotki.com/carsntrucks4you/reference_pictures/usa-1/cckw_derrik/

greetings
Harald

Check out http://www.wheelsofvictory.com/index11.html and click on GMC and derrick

Jim

THank you guys!!!!

Who can I ask some about this derrick? As need some addition information.