Here are the photos of my trucks. All
are Tonkin Precision Series 1:53 scale replicas, except the homemade
trailers, the wood loads and the bullbar, as I said in "A 1:53 scale model of a road train".
Here is a list of dealers of Tonkin replicas: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/where2buy_tonkin.htm
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The trailers hitched to the Freightliner
Columbia and to the Kenworth W900L had no image painted on when I
bought them;
but I downloaded the images of real trailers from the
Internet; I cropped, corrected and resized them with PaintShop Pro,
and printed on paper with a color laser printer.
I applied some
layers of spray acrylic paint, then I cut out the needed sections
and glued them with a vinylic liquid adhesive to the sides of the
trailers. After about 12 hours the paper sheets adhere perfectly to
the enameled surfaces of the trailers, but not in a definitive
manner, so it is always possible to detache and substitute them.
See the final effect with the Kenworth "W900L" truck here, and with a Freightliner "Columbia" truck here.
Here are my trucks.
Kenworth W900L Dump
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Kenworth W900L with semi-trailer
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Detailed cab interior
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Freightliner Columbia with semi-trailer
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Detailed cab interior
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Volvo VNL780 with semi-trailer
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Detailed cab interior
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Peterbilt 379X B-Triple
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Panoramic view
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The bullbar
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Detailed cab interior
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Truck parade!
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