Scammell Scarab tow truck conversion 1/76 scratch-build (mostly).
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bughunterWonderful! Live the road sign 👍
gorby, What is the first thing a worker does when he falls down?
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He takes his hands out of his pockets.
Mr DBrilliant Gorby a fantastic job, l know you put a lot of work in the the builds .... with great results, a uniquely British Blinder of a job 👏 well done 👍👍
Jan PetersAh, an ode to the British working man. Looks like he is waiting for the AA to arrive?
Like I wrote with the other scammel album, it was a pleasure to follow this mate!
Alex KFantastic - punkt. A converted and enhanced ancient kit & a highly-original and interesting scratch... I wish model exhibitions had more Gorby-esque works like this! 👍 👍
gorby AutorOh wow, what nice comments to wake up to. 🙂
Thank you very much Frank, Mr D, Michael, Jan, Alex, Alec and all the likie bods. 👍
I'm very pleased you approve. 🙂
Duncan BlackI can tell that there has been a lot of work put into these and it was all worthwhile. Charming little vignettes that are simply outstanding.
gorby AutorThanks Zsolt, and thanks again for getting me interested in building tiny vehicles. 🙂 👍
MarkoI can't add anything to what's already been said here. Just a big round of applause.👏🏻👏🏻 10/10 points.
Album info
Never... in the field of scale modelling… has so much time... been spent... on so little.
Well that's what it feels like anyway.
I bought the Scarab not because I remember seeing them, I just thought it looked cute and I reasoned, "That'll be a quick, simple build".
The 1970's when fashion bordered on a war crime, where wallpaper looked like a psychedelic kaleidoscope, but everyone wore brown, a tiny tow truck was born (It was actually born in the 60's but that doesn't suit my narrative). It wouldn't get far towing a double decker, so what should it tow? Then inspiration struck (via Jan – the cheques in the post (that's a complete lie by the way 🙂 ) ). It could only be one car (Yes I know it could have been a different car Jan, do you mind, I'm trying to tell a story!) it had to be the raw power, chic-magnet that was the Invacar. They where everywhere in Britland in the 70's (everywhere except the die-cast car collection of every school boy. Odd that) as children are often disagreeable little things, we were significantly less than charitable about them. This is my apology in plastic form.
The Scarab kit cost me £7.99 and it started a project which has taken slightly over four months. If I add the materials, paint, glue etc. The whole project, Scarab, Mechanical Horse & the Invacar, would comfortably be less than £15. That works out at about 12p per day. I wonder why I have the reputation of being tight? 🙂
The little blue Invacar and the road sign are completely scratch-built. On the Sacrab, the rear bodywork and the crane thingy is scratch-built the rest is from the Dapol kit. Two days before I posted the final photos I found much better photos of the crane. Oh well, never mind.
If you want to read though the build report, this is the linky thing (warning: contains industrial levels of waffle - nearly nine thousand words long!):
The less charismatic Scammell brothers. Scarab & Mechanical horse. | Album by gorby (1:76)
This is the linky whatsit for the other part of this project:
Scammell Mechanical Horse 1/76 scratch-build. | Album by gorby
