Model Railroading > Clearing Out Old Projects

I have a notorious bad habit of starting projects and not getting them finished. These two trucks have been sitting in a box on the workbench for years. The first is a Ruskie Zil 157 6x6 military truck from a Czech kit marketed by MAC Distributing. It has no business being on any USA model railroad...I just wanted to build one. The second is a Sheepscot Autocar C-102. The prototype was produced from 1950 onward. The flatbed is from a Classic Metal Works truck and the load was pieced together from my stash of detailing parts: Grand Central Gems and Model Railroad Stuff among them. I grew up on the East Coast and there were quite a few old Autocars around in the mid-to-late 60's.

Tom Y

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Nice modeling Tom! Gotta love that Zil! I remember seeing Autocar tractors every once in a while out here on the West Coast.

Cheers,
Harry

Good stuff!

Civilian versions of that same ZIL truck, with light blue and white cabs, were part of an average Soviet city street, and still could be seen up to recent times.

And the ZIL was a crib of a Studebaker design, so a slight rework of the front end would 'Americanize' it.

grahamline Wrote:
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> And the ZIL was a crib of a Studebaker design, so
> a slight rework of the front end would
> 'Americanize' it.


Yep.

And one of two mainstays of the switcher fleet on the ex-Soviet network, the TEM-2, is a version of the Alco RSD. :)

icancmp193 Wrote:
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> I have a notorious bad habit of starting projects
> and not getting them finished. These two trucks
> have been sitting in a box on the workbench for
> years. The first is a Ruskie Zil 157 6x6 military
> truck from a Czech kit marketed by MAC
> Distributing. It has no business being on any USA
> model railroad...I just wanted to build one.

Paint out the military markings and buy a Bachman QJ, SY or JF to go with it and model a U.S. tourist railroad. Use the truck as a support vehicle! ; > )

Cheers,
Jack

africansteam Wrote:
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>
> Paint out the military markings and buy a Bachman
> QJ, SY or JF to go with it and model a U.S.
> tourist railroad. Use the truck as a support
> vehicle! ; > )
>
> Cheers,
> Jack


And buy a Roco M62 as your backup diesel for that tourist railroad! :)

Hmmmmmn, neat but unusable; suggest you paint out markings with white, paint windshield gasket Red not silver, then secure one or both trucks on a flat car and send out on next EB or SB.

Doug n

Go ahead, put it on your layout. Put a bunch of other old military trucks out there too.
Just say it's a meeting of a military vehicle collectors club!

Is that the Zil 157 for sale on ebay?