1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by **Hazmat** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:30 am

So as promised another update on this project.
Having the main bodywork of the rear section completed i started to modify the driver cabine.
I therefore removed and replaced all frontlights the way they are placed on the towerladders.
Once the parts were detached i further modified the appearance of the headlights to a more realistic look.
One thing that still bothers me with the ten truck are the headlights, which look just like some door locks or maintenance covers, but not like headlights

First as they looked like before

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And the modification steps

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Post by **Hazmat** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:51 am

The next step was to remove all ten truck markings and creating the mountings for the two front side flashers, which are attached to both front end corners.

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Then i drilled holes into the rear cabine for the small rear windows.

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Post by **Hazmat** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:54 am

Followed py painting this section. And the last picture shows how the front looks like now, hope ypu like it

That´s all for this update, but the next one will follow soon!

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Post by **JoeO** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:00 pm

Good job on fixing that front end

Post by **Hazmat** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:13 pm

JoeO wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:00 pm
Good job on fixing that front end

Thank you

And realising that the shot of the front end of the ten truck from the beginning doesn´t really show the difference, here is a closer shot of my other ten truck.

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For comparison, i also attached shots of Engine 273 and 21, which clearly show, that code 3 could´ve done better on the ten truck by simply using they´re old molds/parts

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Post by **Hazmat** » Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:28 am

Hi everybody
finally the last update on the building progress!

Due to the amount of steps i may not finish everything today, but the rest will follow tomorrow

Those who followed this build from the very beginning, know that i wasn´t to pleased with the vertical stabilizers for this truck

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So i finally came up with a far better version of them

Out of rectangular brass tubes and a brass u-shape rod and brass square rods i created the new vertical stabilizers.
First i cut the four stabilizer casings and filed a small gap in them. Then i cut out a square piece of the end of the u-shape rods.
This way i created the brackets for the stabilizer casings.

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Four square brass pieces in a smaller diameter were also cut to fit into the stabilizer casing as slide outs.

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Post by **Hazmat** » Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:42 am

This was followed by drilling small holes into the stabilizers to hold the slide outs in position.

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To finish the construction i created small top covers out of 0,5mm styrene sheets and secured the stabilizers with super glue onto the s-shape rod.
Finally i put the paintcoat on, done!
I my opinion it locks far better than before

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Ok that´s all for today, the rest follows tomorrow

Post by **Hazmat** » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:28 am

With the rebuild of the stabilizers the main "bodywork" was done and only the small details remained.
Allthough "only the small details" remained, they were quite a few.

And i think these building steps wouldn´t be very interesting to explain in detail part by part

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So the following steps are more of a "fast forward" version.
One major change was to add the reflective markings to the truck, which followed next.