Post by brizio on Aug 30, 2009 5:20:20 GMT -8
Yesterday I finished this model, that I was working a the same time of the Agri-Jeep.
The Willys is the Italeri Fire Jeep kit in 1/24, the trailer is all scratch buid. I found online a 1947 Italian brochure about a company that make trailer in Italy, the particular thing was that to pull this trailer wasn't a big truck, but a Willys MB! As you know, after the WWII a lot of Jeep (but also truck, motorbike, etc.) was left in Europe from the US Army, and this helped the Europe or in this case Italy to start a new "life". Because most of this vehicle were used by private person, or police, fire department and others...
This Willys it is one of those. On the brochure they say: transform the army Jeep in a useful vehicle. They called it "Squirrel" I think because the Willys is so short, and the trailer is so long, that look like a squirrel's tail. Another particular things about this Jeep-trailer configuration is that the trailer is not removable from the Jeep, and also it has a steering wheel system, so when the Jeep turn in a direction, the twin wheels on it also turn. And so does my model...
The first ting I did, was to cat the Jeep frame.
Because I wanted have the steering wheels on the trailer to work, I made also the front wheels on the Jeep able to turn, this for give a realistic thing...
Some works on the front axle...
Here some test if it working good.
The soft short top for the Jeep.
Starting the trailer...
Fenders...
And here finally the model finished... The two red stripes are from a old law in Italy, that mean you can carry only private stuff. If those strips where white, means that you can carry stuff for other people too. I chose red for have more contrast, also because there is a red stripe on the back of the trailer. In the pics you also can see the old Italian license plate, BS mean Brescia, a city in the North close to Milan. In Brescia also there is this company that make trailers. As you can see on the back of it, it is wrote Brevetti Orlandi Brescia. Orlandi is the name of the company, Brevetti mean Trade Mark.
Pushing the trailer on the right or left make turning the wheels on it...
Here the model with the original brochure about it from 1947...
Thank you fr looking...
The Willys is the Italeri Fire Jeep kit in 1/24, the trailer is all scratch buid. I found online a 1947 Italian brochure about a company that make trailer in Italy, the particular thing was that to pull this trailer wasn't a big truck, but a Willys MB! As you know, after the WWII a lot of Jeep (but also truck, motorbike, etc.) was left in Europe from the US Army, and this helped the Europe or in this case Italy to start a new "life". Because most of this vehicle were used by private person, or police, fire department and others...
This Willys it is one of those. On the brochure they say: transform the army Jeep in a useful vehicle. They called it "Squirrel" I think because the Willys is so short, and the trailer is so long, that look like a squirrel's tail. Another particular things about this Jeep-trailer configuration is that the trailer is not removable from the Jeep, and also it has a steering wheel system, so when the Jeep turn in a direction, the twin wheels on it also turn. And so does my model...
The first ting I did, was to cat the Jeep frame.
Because I wanted have the steering wheels on the trailer to work, I made also the front wheels on the Jeep able to turn, this for give a realistic thing...
Some works on the front axle...
Here some test if it working good.
The soft short top for the Jeep.
Starting the trailer...
Fenders...
And here finally the model finished... The two red stripes are from a old law in Italy, that mean you can carry only private stuff. If those strips where white, means that you can carry stuff for other people too. I chose red for have more contrast, also because there is a red stripe on the back of the trailer. In the pics you also can see the old Italian license plate, BS mean Brescia, a city in the North close to Milan. In Brescia also there is this company that make trailers. As you can see on the back of it, it is wrote Brevetti Orlandi Brescia. Orlandi is the name of the company, Brevetti mean Trade Mark.
Pushing the trailer on the right or left make turning the wheels on it...
Here the model with the original brochure about it from 1947...
Thank you fr looking...