JerseeJerry55 Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 To all good afternoon and hope everyone is well. Have some questions about a winter project i will be starting. I have the AMT IH CO4070A Transtar (Rat Fink) kit unstarted. Looking for suggestions on a trucking company/color to go with. If anyone has any suggestions I'd certainly appreciate it. I'm asking because I'm having issues finding what I need on the net as the old go to Hank's Truck Pictures is non existent. TIY. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 heres a truck pic guy i follow https://public.fotki.com/boballoa/ theres american trucks on it but it can take some searching through them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseeJerry55 Posted October 30 Author Share Posted October 30 2 hours ago, stitchdup said: heres a truck pic guy i follow https://public.fotki.com/boballoa/ theres american trucks on it but it can take some searching through them Thank you I will search through 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell C Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 (edited) 7 hours ago, JerseeJerry55 said: ...the old go to Hank's Truck Pictures is non existent. .. A couple years back here at MCM, a different person asked about Hank's, and I had a go at trying to see if his pages had been archived somewhere. I think he may have prevented the Internet Archive site from doing crawls of his pages, but I thought I'd have another look into a different archiving page. Check this one out -- scroll down its page and click on (if you are using a mouse & computer) the individual truck maker names. Works for me, I see loads of IH pics, but first I have to jump through its hoops of doing a verification to make sure I'm not a bot. (edit: It looks like some of the clickable truck makes like the one for Kenworth divert to a pointless site with a far east language, but others like Mack show Hanks old pics at least as smaller thumbnail pics, but if you click on those to see the larger image, they divert to the pointless site instead) https://archive.is/gElQE Edited October 31 by Russell C added info 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseeJerry55 Posted October 31 Author Share Posted October 31 8 hours ago, Russell C said: A couple years back here at MCM, a different person asked about Hank's, and I had a go at trying to see if his pages had been archived somewhere. I think he may have prevented the Internet Archive site from doing crawls of his pages, but I thought I'd have another look into a different archiving page. Check this one out -- scroll down its page and click on (if you are using a mouse & computer) the individual truck maker names. Works for me, I see loads of IH pics, but first I have to jump through its hoops of doing a verification to make sure I'm not a bot. (edit: It looks like some of the clickable truck makes like the one for Kenworth divert to a pointless site with a far east language, but others like Mack show Hanks old pics at least as smaller thumbnail pics, but if you click on those to see the larger image, they divert to the pointless site instead) https://archive.is/gElQE Thank you. I appreciate it. Have a great day. Kind regards, Jerry 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter31a Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Check out YouTube for Bus Grease Monkey. He recently bought a running 4070A. It's painted in 70's beige and brown and is a real time capsule. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseeJerry55 Posted November 3 Author Share Posted November 3 Also I am considering using the company decals from the A64B Autocar that are in my stash. Of the four companies on the sheet I have eliminated the Hoosier Motor Freight ones. This leaves Bixby Livestock, Dixie Motor Lines, and Western Express. My concern is all 4 seem to be dramatically out of scale. Or am I off? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokar124 Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 (edited) On 10/30/2024 at 4:25 PM, JerseeJerry55 said: To all good afternoon and hope everyone is well. Have some questions about a winter project i will be starting. I have the AMT IH CO4070A Transtar (Rat Fink) kit unstarted. Looking for suggestions on a trucking company/color to go with. If anyone has any suggestions I'd certainly appreciate it. I'm asking because I'm having issues finding what I need on the net as the old go to Hank's Truck Pictures is non existent. TIY. Check out https://modeltruckers.com for hundreds of possible trucking company decal schemes and some specifically for Internationals. Edited November 4 by jokar124 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseeJerry55 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 Update on my Winter project. I ordered these from what used to be Model Truckin. Next step is color of the fleet unit, and which of the livery I want to use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Buckaroo Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 I use to get a lot of my vintage truck schemes from real trucks that were for sale posted on ebay - many times you will find very detailed photos of the interior and chassis. I built a double sleeper IH 4070a from a photos of real truck that was for sale. The tread is buried here deep on the forum, but I'm sure photobucket watermarked all the pictures. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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