Here's another look at Peter Locke's terrific model we showed you in Photo Gallery 399. It all began with a Puget Sound Mack LRVSW resin kit. The truck tractor was built using a 1/72 scale Dragon Wagon for the truck frame and the beginnings of the trailer. The winch, frame, suspension and some details came from the Dragon Wagon although the truck is not built as a chain drive. The cab, wheels and tires came from the Puget Sound kit. The rest of the truck was detailed with both scratchbuilt and spare kit parts.

The lowbed was started with the dragon wagon trailer as a core. It was lengthened and widened. The wheels are Sheepscot 12x24. The ramps, sidebeams and deck beams are all styrene. The deck is 4x12 wood planking. These trailers are 14 feet wide with about 30 feet of working deck. They are used to haul the huge off-road grapple yarders and spars that were once very common on the British Columbia coast.

Posted March 27, 2010