Gee, I’m famous now, Not !! But here’s one of my trucks they put up on the site.
Pretty cool. Nice looking truck.
Nice Job. Good photo also.
GAPPLEG, Congrats go out to you. Funny thing, I have a Dick Simon Truck at home that Con-cor manufactured.
What ever happen to Dick Simon Trucking? I used to see them all the time. I beleive they were out of Salt Lake City. I used to see them on the I-15 coming down here to Los Angeles, but not anymore. I wonder if England Trucking bought them out.
Congrats, that is one fine-lookin’ semi!
yeah, about the time I cared about model truck the Con-cor truck was no longer made. I searched and searched, so I started getting photos as quickly as I could. They went bankrupt for some reason and the company was bought out by Central Refrigerated Services . If you see a central truck sometimes you’ll see the outline under the paint of the old simon skunk. I just loved that skunk had to have it, I actually have two on my layout. The were out of Salt Lake City, which is good for my Western road.
We were delighted to have the photo of your truck model; it’s a nice piece of work.
The 1/87 Vehicle Club has a number of model railroaders in its membership (including the two guys who run the Club) and the Galleries feature many photos of their work, including some very nice MOW models.
The 1/87 Vehicle Club welcomes photos of HO scale vehicle models and membership in the Club is not required. Simply send a good digital photo of your model to photos@1-87vehicles.org along with your name and a description of the model. Please note that due to the volume of photos we receive, it may be 6-8 weeks before your photo is posted, but we will post it.
Bill Cawthon
1/87 Vehicle Club
Yep, thanks to you Bill , my wife is mad at me. When the club in collusion with Model railroading magazine put out that special edition with the MOW vehicles, I instantly subscribed to yet another magazine. I thought she’d never get over it. I have built a few MOW’s of my own in the past but the one’s in the mag. were terrific. For the Model railroaders around here that don’t know about the club they should know there are hundreds of galleries of photos of vehicles that people have built, and many apply to our railroads. It’s worth looking at them all. Thanks Bill for being there.
Yep, we used to see them all the time when we would visit Park City, Utah to go snow skiing and my brother loved seeing those trucks, so when we found one at the LHS, Jake just had to have it. I think yours looks just as good as the one I have. Nice Work.
Congrads to yaz, looks very life like. One more thing…seeing your famous…can I have your autoghaph ?
Patrick
Autograph…geez is that how yaz spell it ??? My brain isn’t working on notch 8 today, sorry for the grammer, darn type-o’s.
Patrick
As luck would have it, I used to work for Dick Simon/Central Ref, Service. Dick retired and turned the company over to his son. The son in turn ran the company into the ground. The owner of Swift bought the company in conjunction with Central freight Lines of Waco, Tx and became Central Ref. Service.
Yes it is based out of Salt Lake city.
In my time there I never saw a company truck that had the side stacks on it.They were always behind the cab and single.
Good looking model and pic.
Tom
Sorry for causing the marital problems. We were just happy to have the chance to share some of our members’ work with the model railroading community.
For those wishing to check out some of the models, Club webmaster Bob Johnson has done a marvelous job of indexing the photos by category (including MOW), manufacturer of the prototype, modeler and Gallery number. The index is at http://www.1-87vehicles.org/photo_search.php.
Bill C.
As luck would have it, I used to work for Dick Simon/Central Ref, Service. Dick retired and turned the company over to his son. The son in turn ran the company into the ground. The owner of Swift bought the company in conjunction with Central freight Lines of Waco, Tx and became Central Ref. Service.
Yes it is based out of Salt Lake city.
In my time there I never saw a company truck that had the side stacks on it.They were always behind the cab and single.
Good looking model and pic.
Tom
Sometimes absolute fidelity isn’t possible, At the time I built the model:
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I just started getting interested in vehicles for my layout (and seriously am dumb as a stump about trucks)
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The unit was one I happened to have on hand.
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I would probably do better research next time. But it was a fun project. I think I sent Bill another one which is also in my photobucket which I was able to do better research on for A Canadian company, Mobile Cartage. I like the trucks with unique signage and emblems, more colorful.
GAPPLEG,
Please, if you would, take us unlearned and slow with computer skills, through the steps and material that one would use to create stickers for such a truck.
Here is SoCal there is a local trucking company that is named Gardner Trucking. No relation to me but they have very beautiful trucks and I would like to create one in HO scale. What should I do?
I think the hardest part is getting good clean shots of the truck. shadows, reflections, etc cause headaches. I use a program called paint shop pro, to edit my photo’s once I get them. I usually just paint out all the background in whit that I don’t want. If the truck side has multple designs that can be applied seperately. I will cut and save those as seperate pictures and save them to a dedicated folder for later use. I try to get the size of the real thing measured, at least in my mind. When I go to print them I size them up or down to fit the model truck side properly.
I use an Epson photo printer to make my decals, I have had good success using Micro Mark decal paper for ink jet printers. I order clear and white, usage of which is dictated by the application suface.
When I print them using photo quality setting, I let them dry for several hours. Then I coat them with several “light” coats of Krylon clean spray. Letting each coat dry for and hour or more.
This has been a quick and dirty tutorial on decals. I guess I’ve been making my own for so long I forget how difficult it was in the beginning learning how. Sometimes they aren’t perfect, but the thing about making decals is you can alway do it again.[:)] [banghead]
GEE, They posted my other truck today !
http://www.1-87vehicles.org/photo297/ford_ltla9000_mobile.php
Good job,man. I like the decals on that mobile cartage truck.