I won it on eBay last year for about $4.00, and thinking that HO scale was 1/76, bought it thinking I could have it in a diorama with a 1/72 plane. However it seems HO is 1/87 scale and significantly too small for 1/72, so it sat on the shelf for a while. It's quite well detailed for its size:
The red corrugated strips are the rims of the main wheels. The kit includes a clear piece of acetate with circular holes cut into it and the rims are rolled and fitted into the holes, then glued:
It works OK actually. The spokes have then to be individually bent with tweezers and forced inside the rims. After about 2 hours I was at basic painting stage, I'd decided to portray it as an abandoned vehicle:
This morning I weathered it up and assembled it. (The pics are greatly enlarged so it looks a bit rough...)
Mike, that is incredible! Brilliant weathering too. Your observations of rusting on lorry wheel arches etc. has certainly paid off. :-) - Alan ('tangfastico', ATF)
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