aureol40012 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Hi all, have searched the group and can’t find a thread on this. I have a rake of the excellent Bachmann FFA/FGA container wagons and want to build a yard with prototypical period lorries for onward transport. I can’t find any that match the bill, does anyone make them RTR? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 35 minutes ago, aureol40012 said: Hi all, have searched the group and can’t find a thread on this. I have a rake of the excellent Bachmann FFA/FGA container wagons and want to build a yard with prototypical period lorries for onward transport. I can’t find any that match the bill, does anyone make them RTR? For the 70/80s unfortunately no. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted September 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) As Merfyn says, no RTR, but if you are prepared to consider kits, there are a number of cabs & trailers by both : Road Transport Images https://www.roadtransportimages.com/ and Knightwing Models http://www.knightwing.co.uk/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?next=0&cart_id=1630556523.106&product=OO-HO_Road_Transport_Kits Edit: the Knightwing kits are 1:72 scale. Edited September 2, 2021 by Moxy Added info about Knightwing kits 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I wondered who had ended up with those old Kiel-Kraft lorry kits of the early 1980's, having bought some of them when they first came out - They are now in the Knightwing range. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium richierich Posted September 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 2, 2021 The 1970s and 1980s are poorly represented by model manufacturers for commercial vehicles. Only real option is RTI. Or modifying a Base Toys Leyland T45 Roadtrain, which is probably as much work as the RTI route. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 From what I remember, at the beginning of the period there were relatively few skeletal or extendable trailers, most smaller operators were still using flat-deck trailers fitted with Twistlocks. Tractor units were still of the two-axle sort, mainly UK-built; Seddons, Seddon-Atkinson (from about 1976) and Guy J6 were the main types used by Freightliner themselves, whilst others used Fords, Bedfords, Leyland Group wagons with Ergonomic cabs. The Continental builders were beginning to appear. Many of these tractors appear in the Oxford range, and could probably be repainted; vinyl decoration had yet to become commonplace, so second-hand vehicles might be be in original fleet colours, but with lettering painted over. I used to do a lot of hitch-hiking in the mid-1970s, and then worked for a commercial vehicle factor and several jobs 'stuffing' containers, so I got to see a lot of vehicles close-too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 I made this one using an RTI trailer wheels and scratchbuilt chassis as I really wanted a model from the first Transport company I worked for. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 You might some of these images useful https://www.flickr.com/photos/seacoaler/albums/72157631175246968 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 You may be able to use older, non-specialist vehicles like this? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB 3C no.2 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Odd that no one makes 'em in model form. Looking at the Commercial Motor archive first mention of skeletals being supplied is 1966. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrange Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) Oxford make an excellent DAF 2800 / 3300 which is ideal for this era. They also make the Scania 110 for 70's stuff, they were mostly gone by the early 80's though. Loads of Stobart Dafs going cheap at present, remove the curtainsider body and make a flatbed trailer with container locking points @JCB 3C no.2 definitely - the skelly is a gap in the market, the oxford 5 axled one aside which is a tad modern for the period Edited November 8, 2021 by LaGrange 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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