1934 Ford

[Eric Green]

I  turned this into a truck that sprayed used motor oil on dirt roads.  1/48th scale.

[Ray Dunakin]

Awesome! Looks great!

[Chuck Doan]

Nice! Is this the Berkshire kit for the truck?

[Eric Green]

Chuck, yes.  I bought five.  Next is the oyster van.

[Eric Green]

And the oil sprayer.  It's an old boiler than has been bunged.

[Eric Green]

In location, town of Penobscot Falls, 1956

[Ray Dunakin]

Great stuff. Is the oil sprayer based on a particular prototype?

[Eric Green]

No.  Just a memory I had as a kid.  My father drove a 356 Porsche beginning in 1952.  Everyone HATED those cars then and I was beaten up in school because my father drove a  Kraut car.  But my dad loved Porsches and he would avoid those oil soaked dirt roads like a plague.  He would drive 50 miles out of our way to avoid one.  He called it "tar and feathering."  It did little but make a mess.

[Les Tindall]

Love that oily/gritty texture on the tank.
Les

[Lawton Maner]

Given the frugality of most rural Yankees if you look hard enough you will find one.  When I was a child, Allendale, SC had an elderly black gentleman who oiled the alleys in town with a wagon and pair of mules.  In my tomorrow box is a Boraxo 40 mule team kit from which I hope to live long enough to model him in 1:48 scale.  For those of us who need to populate a rural post WWII layout with mules the kit is a treasure trove.

[Eric Green]

Bob Love's son Dennis sent me Bob's unfinished saw mill, his masterpiece he was creating when he died.  I've weathered most of it, but I need help laying out the saw mill floor because I've never worked in a saw mill.  My best buddy Mitch has, so he will come up and help.  But my point is there was one figure of a guy near a giant clamped log with one side cut off.  I made the guy black with a white beard.  Black people have a HUGE history with railroads, etc. but we rarely model our figures as black.  Of course in Maine in 1956, two is probably all I can sneak in.  I have a porter as well.

[Rich Wolfanger]

Eric,

Just found this topic.  Very nice work.

Rich