This Mack B-81SX from E. Oswald Strohmei started as the Mack B-875 prime mover resin kit from Don Mills Models. It was built after a picture from the Hank Suderman collection on the Hank's Truck Pictures web site. To match the photograph, the model got bigger wheels with Roco tires and Herpa rims and a scratchbuilt oversize (2,8 m/110 in. wide) Heil dump body. The Heil decal on the dump body and decals on the doors are self made. E.O. says although the truck looks very well in black and white, he found it necessary to add a little color so he created the blue/yellow sign of the fictitious TCT Construction Co.

Posted December 28, 2014