Scania T142

[PierreR89]

My Scania T142 is done so here are some pic,s of it, but without a trailer as i am building it right now.
If some of you wonder why the rear axle is off the ground here is why.
When i flipped the liftbeam the right way around and not the wrong way as the instructions say i noticed that the rear wheels was slightly off the ground.
With correct hubs for the lift and driveaxle i was able to move up the tires a bit more, its not as much up as the real trucks can.
On the real trucks they can stop it anytime they want by just flipping the switch to the off position and the axle stops where it is, so they can have the liftaxle like this if the driver want to.









 

[Funkychiken]

Looks Great! I like the paint job... although I'm not a big fan of those decals... Are they from the kit?

[PierreR89]

No, they are from the Italeri Scania silver griffin showtruck kit.
The decals that came with the kit are destroyed so they are unusable.

[gatorincebu]

 

   Nicely done . looks real good from over here .

 

 

Be Well

 Gator

[kilrathy10]

These are good looking trucks....Very nice work, Man....Gotta get me another one of these....

[PierreR89]

Thanks, yes they do look good, only to bad that they are rarely seen on the roads anymore.

[PierreR89]

A small update on this truck 4 years after is was done.
It got damaged in the move i did last year and while i was repairing the things that broke i decided to add a  trux front protection ( commonly called moose bumper in sweden).
Also added 4 modern LED lights to it.
Fun fact: Just a moose bumper mounted to a truck is not allowed here by those that performs the yearly inspections on every vehicle, but if you add lights to it then it is considered a light mount and completley okay by them.

First i was thinking of building hinges for it so it could flip down allowing the hood to open but when i looked for something else in my box of parts i found a roll of magnetic tape.
I cut 4 small pices of it to use on the bumper and truck and then put them on the bumper first to adjust the height and to find the location for them on the truck, then i just used superglue to get them where i wanted.
The 2 black things on the truck bumper is the magnets that the moose bumper attaches to, also added som support behind the magnets on the truck to prevent them from folding down by the weight of the bumper over time.

The Trux front protection and LED lights are from nordictruckdetails.