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Posted: Friday, November 16, 2018 - 05:31 AM UTC
Hard to photograph but I have now added a gauge decal to the electrical controls panel and the builder's specification plate to the driver's side dashboard as well as the SAE badges on the outside of the seat box.

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Posted: Friday, November 16, 2018 - 05:33 AM UTC
Also been working of late on additional modifications to the Liberty engine:

Added the Distributor (driver's side front of engine), Magneto (driver's side rear of engine). Then also added the appropriate wiring from distributor and magneto going up to the wire organizing tube that runs lengthwise across the top of the engine. Included the radiator brace rod (red colored strut attached to firewall). Finally I included the spark advance rod on the driver's side of the engine and the throttle control rod, running from the firewall to the carburetor on the passenger side of the engine.



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Posted: Friday, March 01, 2019 - 08:43 PM UTC
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Posted: Friday, March 01, 2019 - 11:11 PM UTC

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My Father taught me long ago when cranking an engine, to always keep your thumb on the same side of the crank handle as your fingers. This because you were less likely to get your thumb broken if the engine caught quickly or if it backfired and the engine suddenly spun the crank backwards.

The same general lesson was given regarding the steering on any older vehicle or tractor. To never wrap you thumb around to the inside of the steering wheel ring. The front tires could easily drop into a rut or hit a bump causing the steering wheel to suddenly and violently turn. The drivers thumb could get forcefully bent backwards by the spokes of the steering wheel.
(Only ever happened to me once but lesson learned.)

I received the same steering wheel warning at Ft. Knox while taking driver's training, getting checked out to drive the US WWII halftracks at the Patton Museum.



Hi, Mike!

GREAT work and photos, as usual!

Re: The thumbs outside of the handle when cranking- That's the position of my hands/thumbs which I use when I DRIVE- Taught to me wen I was about 16 years old by my Brother-In-Law, who used to drive semis and "Modified" dirt race cars back in the late 1960s and through the '70s...
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Posted: Friday, March 01, 2019 - 11:34 PM UTC

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I wish that lettering had been printed in black!



From the Manual of the Motor Transport Corps (ca.1919) :



Nice job on this truck Mike.
Did you know that after WW1 an enterprising Frenchman called Louis Willeme bought almost all the 9500 (!) Liberty trucks (+ spare parts) that have been sent to France at the end of the War (most of them after November 1918), and refurbished them to sell them on the civilian market ? He even used them as donor chassis to build his own "Willeme" trucks :





H.P.



Hi, All!

Just a quick comment on US Army OLIVE DRAB- Back some years ago, Pete Harlem explained my beloved Olive Drab very nicely in the first and only (MMIR) "Building the M4 Sherman" book, by Pete Harlem... (Apologies for not getting the title of this book absolutely correct, as I don't physically have it hand right at this moment) It's in my workshop... Somewhere...

Mr. Harlem explained that the US Army specified mixing YELLOW OCHRE with BLACK, to a shade that approximated "PULLMAN GREEN", which is a very common color in the Model Railroading community. The color of the OD in the color photo above is a great representation of "PULLMAN GREEN" before it really faded out, as MOSTLY ALL PAINT COLORS DID in those early days of automobilia. Paint technology has come a loooong way since then...
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 02:01 AM UTC

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So the "low contrast" blue color is incorrect!



Ahem ...
"From the Manual of the Motor Transport Corps (ca.1919) :"

Was this manual in use in 1917 or 1918 ?
Not saying it was or was not, just curious ...
Could it be that they specified white to get some contrast?
/ Robin



From my experience the wording of the manual means the markings on the vehicle itself were white. Canvas articles were normally procured seperately from the vehicles and marked in black.

KL
165thspc
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 02:12 AM UTC

Note what I think we can safely say is black printing on the canvas.
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Posted: Thursday, March 07, 2019 - 02:17 AM UTC
Coming soon from ICM:


And I hope I can slide these into a finished model!
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Posted: Thursday, March 07, 2019 - 05:39 AM UTC
Sorry I failed earlier to post the "Completed" photo of the Series 1 Liberty Truck so here it is . . . . . .

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Posted: Sunday, March 10, 2019 - 09:20 PM UTC
Working on those missing troop seats now.



Besides the troop seats, the one single detail I would most like to see added to this kit would be a small etched fret to represent the delicate leather belts and buckles used on the hold downs for the front edge of the cab cloth top. Absolutely vital and missing totally from the kit.

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Posted: Monday, March 11, 2019 - 02:19 PM UTC
A couple of Liberty Truck (Series 2) photos posted by Michel Roques on Facebook:





Note solid wheels and doors on the cab.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 12:23 AM UTC
Just came across a 1/35th scale civilian conversion project on ML :

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/liberty-b-icm-1-35-100-years-old-farm-truck-t319065.html

Judging by the French cars in the first picture background, I guess the pictured truck may well be a Willeme...

H.P.
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Posted: Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 11:49 PM UTC
Hi, Guys!
I was very surprised that i saw here a link to my work!
If you want, i can place here some photoes that i found

Nice link: http://hmvf.co.uk/topic/32126-1918-liberty-b/
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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 - 12:20 AM UTC
By the way, if you know something about prototype that I choose, let me know, this can be a great help.







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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 - 03:01 AM UTC
Welcome to Armorama Vyacheslav

Just in case you need more pics of the crane truck pictured in your post :

















H.P.
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Posted: Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 08:37 AM UTC
Info on the new WWI drivers figures available from ICM is now available at:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/276988

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