This is the 1/35 scale ICM Ford V3000 kit. I have added a trailer kit which was purchased at the Azimut stand at the Telford show many, many moons ago. I’m not 100% but the trailer floor, side mouldings, and the wheels, look to have come from an Italeri kit, with Azimut throwing in their own sourced chassis, axles, and drawbar.
Completed around 2011 not long after the kit was released, it was a straightforward build but the multipart chassis is quite a challenge to keep square. The styrene in my kit was also extremely brittle! I have since learned that from an accuracy perspective that the wheels, front and rear, are way too close to the bodywork! To remedy this, either a spacer is required to lift the axle off the chassis, or a re-working of the leaf springs are required. The kit's two-part plastic wheels and tyres are not at all well rendered. The tyre pattern is of the civilian type and has an unconvincing and shallow tread. These are much better represented these days by numerous aftermarket options.
The trailer is a simple kit with very few parts but unfortunately it came with some terrible vinyl tyres! They will, as I have found over time, melt the styrene wheels. I did replace the rear pair with resin ones.
Both vehicles were painted with Vallejo acrylics and weathered with MIG enamels and pigments. This was possibly one of my very first attempts at the chipping technique with hairspray.
Load accessories are courtesy of numerous manufacturers including Tamiya, Bronco, and Miniart, to name a few. The taurpaulin was made from tissue paper.
You can see in the pic below how the Azimut vinyl tyres on the front axle are slowly melting the styrene wheels
The finished model was placed on a simple base made from a wooden name plate. The groundworks were made from Sculptmold mixed with acrylic earth tones and covered in model grasses and natural earth.
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