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12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:47 pm
by jhamm
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 7:37 pm
by Ecam
Nice work. Big fan of the winch! Terrific build.
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 7:59 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Here Hamm, again, your skill amazes me, and I congratulate you on yet another triumph. This weekend, I am not at home with access to my books. But I do believe that the same or a comparable variant of the Diamond T chassis/cab was used as a recovery wrecker. In fact, It may have served as a tractor for a lowboy hauler for smaller AFV's and other equipment. You may have quite a few possibilities for more such Diamond T builds.
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 8:49 pm
by Tiger6
You are thinking of the smaller 4 ton 968 and its derivatives, quite different vehicles.
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Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:34 am
by jhamm
I think the next one will be a Ward La France 1000 M1A1
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Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 9:03 am
by Tiger6
I think there are a few of us waiting for Thundermodel to finally release their 1/35 kit so that we can crack on with a 1/16 version...
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 12:34 pm
by Ratrace
Superb !!
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:17 pm
by jhamm
Hi,
today I applied the stencils and painted them with the airbrush:
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Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:42 pm
by Tiger6
Nice
Re: 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T Model 981 Truck
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:20 am
by Herr Dr. Professor
Herr Hamm: the Ward La France will make another of the rough and tough-looking trucks at which you are such a master. Behind the real Ward La France in the photo you have posted above, I also see what it think is a Autocar cab-over. I hope you will consider that one soon, too. It is so "funky" looking, but I have always liked it for just that oddity.
I so admire the trucks of yesteryear. Over twenty years ago, in a monthly magazine review article of farm models, I wrote this about an early post-war truck, originally in italics, too:
...I was lost in a reverie. Dust rises and settles as I smack the palm of my hand on the...seat. The engine rumbles; the transmission whines as if winding up to an explosion; muggy 90 degree air flows in under the open windshield and out the open side windows; gravel pings the fenders, rattles the running boards, beats the floorboards, even thumps my boot soles. Ah—when a truck was a truck!