Freightliner FLC

[1959scudetto]

This is the original release from 1983, built in 1984 straight out of the box - nothing added (This is my only 1/24 truck, all others are 1/25 scale).

Though the box says "Freightliner by Mercedes Benz", my decal sheet had only stripes and license plates, but NO Freightliner logos - so I had to take a silver pen for the front and hood sides and a black ink pen for the mudflaps! The door decal is from ERTL.

 And here, hooked to one of my trailers:

 

Edited October 1, 2021 by 1959scudetto

[the goon]

Very nice.

Mark

[Jim B]

Freightliner came out nice.  Well done.

[Mopar - D]

Nice looking Frightliner and cattle trailer Helmut. 

[yh70]

looks good

 

[kilrathy10]

Beautiful truck, Bro... This baby looks real nice... I love these Freightliners... The paint scheme is beautiful... Too awesome, Man...

[grodudulle77]

Awesome look !! ??

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[trick my mixer]

That frieghtshaker came out looking good.

[Mr mopar]

This is one of my Favorite truck models and with these stripes (The Henderson paint scheme) ......Nice work .  

[Doug 1061]

Nicely preserved for a 37 yr. old build.    Nice job on both.

[1959scudetto]

On 10/1/2021 at 9:46 PM, the goon said:

Very nice.

Mark

Thanks, Mark!

 

On 10/1/2021 at 11:01 PM, Jim B said:

Freightliner came out nice.  Well done.

Thanks, James !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 1:45 AM, Mopar - D said:

Nice looking Frightliner and cattle trailer Helmut. 

Thank you, Dan!

 

On 10/2/2021 at 4:40 AM, yh70 said:

looks good

 

Thanks, Dave !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 6:24 AM, kilrathy10 said:

Beautiful truck, Bro... This baby looks real nice... I love these Freightliners... The paint scheme is beautiful... Too awesome, Man...

Thank you, JT - but it is not even your favorite color !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 6:59 AM, grodudulle77 said:

Awesome look !! ??

Merci, Philippe !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 11:27 AM, ChrisR said:

Looks great!

Thank you, Chris !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 7:44 PM, trick my mixer said:

That frieghtshaker came out looking good.

Thanks, Lucas !

 

On 10/2/2021 at 9:10 PM, Mr mopar said:

This is one of my Favorite truck models and with these stripes (The Henderson paint scheme) ......Nice work .  

Thank you, D. - the stripes were included in the kit.

 

On 10/3/2021 at 4:14 AM, Doug 1061 said:

Nicely preserved for a 37 yr. old build.    Nice job on both.

Thanks Doug - the pictures are from 2005 (when I got my first digicam) - so truck and trailer were 21 years old back then.

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[DRIPTROIT 71]

I really like this one!! I like the paint scheme!! You did all of the Freightliner logos free hand? Wow!! Looks great! Excellent work!

 

 

[vincen47]

A good-looking model of a good-looking truck.

[1959scudetto]

On 10/8/2021 at 1:15 PM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

Thanks, Larry !

 

On 10/8/2021 at 9:09 PM, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

I really like this one!! I like the paint scheme!! You did all of the Freightliner logos free hand? Wow!! Looks great! Excellent work!

 

 

Thank you Brian - yes, they are made free-hand, which worked quite well for the logos on the hood but not so for the mudflaps. I still don't know why the logos were not printed on the decals sheet (license issues seem impossible, as the name of the truck was prominently printed on all sides of the box). The 3-color stripes are from the original decal sheet - I remember that I swapped the original hard-plastic, 2-part tires with real rubber ones from a later Italeri truck kit.

 

On 10/10/2021 at 1:53 AM, vincen47 said:

A good-looking model of a good-looking truck.

Thank you Vincent !