Suzuki Carry box truck, Aoshima

[Steamboat]

I just built this one for our quarterly club project. I spend a lot of time in Japan, so I wanted something appropriate.  I bought the kit over there.

Apparently the kit comes in 2 versions,a box truck, and the other version being a mobile kitchen type with openings in the sides and rear for the roach coach. This kit came with opaque plastic panels to cover the openings. I had to use about 4 coats of primer to get it so the openings would not show through. 

It's a pretty simple curbside kit, which could be motorized if you wanted to.

I tried the Walmart Rustoleum high luster lacquer for the first time and I was very pleased with it.  It went on dull (could have been my primer choice), but polished up easily. 

Just noticed the rear bumper would look better painted silver or black.  Oops!

All in all, a fun little slump buster. 

[Tom Geiger]

Neat!  There are maybe a dozen variations of that kit with different vending. I have a few of them.

[Spottedlaurel]

Looks really good, nice to see it built as a simple box van.

I have one of the food vendor versions, not looking forward to all the decal work.....

[ChrisR]

Nice!!

[Steamboat]

8 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Looks really good, nice to see it built as a simple box van.

I have one of the food vendor versions, not looking forward to all the decal work.....

If the decals were as nice as the ones in my kit, you should have no worries.  They came loose from the paper in about 30 seconds!

Watch out for the rear axle spacers though.  If assembled by the instructions the rear wheels will be offset to one side.  I cut one of the bushings in half and added it to the other side. 

[Spottedlaurel]

14 hours ago, Steamboat said:

If the decals were as nice as the ones in my kit, you should have no worries.  They came loose from the paper in about 30 seconds!

Watch out for the rear axle spacers though.  If assembled by the instructions the rear wheels will be offset to one side.  I cut one of the bushings in half and added it to the other side. 

Thanks Bill. Good to know that's the only issue you had.

Chances are I'll be swapping the wheels on mine, as it comes with funky little alloys that will be handy for another project, and I'm used to messing around with spacers etc. I'll try one or two 'sacrificial' decals to see if they work OK before I commit to proceeding with it as the full-on food van - my version is quite a few years old.