|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
1:50 recycling site built by Azur Modelisme for the 2011 Menton model show (French Riviera). Central to the "diorama" are a Nordberg mobile crusher C12 and its belt conveyor SW348 (HiMoBo models): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Another mobile crushing unit, here a Rimac-Moby 1060 (Ros model). It is moved on a 3-axle Tasklift lowloader (Heavy Goods kit) towed by a 6x4/2 Renault R370 tractor (MiniCams model): The same Renault truck with a Putzmeister M52S concrete pumping unit 2-axle semi-trailer (Conrad model): Vermeer T1255 Commander 3 trencher (TWH model): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Renault Trucks Magnum II 500-19T dXi 4x2/2 tractor (modified Universal Hobbies model) + 3-axle ACTM S60 315A lowloader (modified MiniCams model) carrying 2 JCB 3X Super Sitemaster 4x4/2 backhoe-loaders of 8.42 tonnes each (Motorrat models): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 6/18/2003 Posts: 2,179 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
|
Man I love that Renault tractor and rear loading trailer. The backhoes are the perfect load. Thanks CAW
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Quinella, Thanks for your support. In the early 2000s, a cement mixing plant was displayed by Azur Modelisme at the Menton Model Show: Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Volvo USA VN 780 6x4/2 tractor (modified WSI model) and 2-axle Talbert TSDW-140K-FG-TI lowbed semi-trailer (modified Conrad model), carrying a Coast Guards bi-turbine Eurocopter Dauphin HH 65A helicopter of 4.31 tonnes (New Ray model): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Renault Trucks Magnum 480-19T dXi 4x2/2 tractor (modified Joal model) + unknown brand 3-axle semi-trailer with container tipping gear (modified Lion Toys model) loaded with a Van Hool PBPC 30' container, dedicated to bulk transport (Lion Toys model) Scania R 164L-480 4x2/2 tractor and 3-axle Meiller SKHK 24 halfpipe tipping semi-trailer (Tekno models) Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Early 2000s, another diorama displayed by Azur Modelisme. As often on this type of display, too much activities (road repairs, dismantling and construction, construction site opening, etc) in this little village supporting a very dense traffic! Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
A French construction site in the 60s with some equipment displayed earlier: the Willeme 615 tipper (Minitrucks kit) and the Bucyrus-Erie 22B shovel (EMD model). An ex-WW2 "civilised" White 666 is waiting to be loaded (Angego kit): An ex-military GMC and its Ben-Hur tank trailer have been converted into support vehicles (Minicirque kits): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
A few models on the Azur Modelisme display table, at one of the Menton model shows: with, from left to right: an ex-Corgi Ford Transcontinental towing a bulk tanker, a Conrad Mercedes-Benz tipper with a Zon Models crane, a modified Minitrucks Renault towing a homemade tipper and 2 typical French products - steel beams carriers with narrow central cabs - made from DAF and Berliet modified Minitrucks kits. The other end of the display table: Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
In the eighties, a French construction site with a Poclain 220 excavator (Miniatures du Faubourg model), Renault GBH 280 6x4/2 and 6x6/2 trucks with Marrel tipping bodies (MiniCams kits), together with a Mercedes-Benz LAK 2624 equipped with a Meiller body (NZG model): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
In the sixties in the USA, delivery by an IH agent of plant equipment with a White WC 2864 BF 6x4/2 tractor + its 2-axle LaCrosse lowboy loading an International Harvester TD 24 bulldozer of 18.3 tonnes (SpecCast models): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Back in this century on German roads with Conrad models. A Mercedes-Benz Actros 4160 K MP3 8x4/4 truck, fitted with a Brechtel Masterlift Comfort F wrecking body (with under-chassis lifting fork and 2 winches) is towing away a MAN TGA 33-410 FDK 8x4/4 truck, equipped with a high volume Meiller body (replacement of lost original mirrors in progress): Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
A British heavy haulage move by Sunters from Northallerton (UK), somewhere around 1983-84: Are mobilised for the move, a DAF VH 400 BN 4x2/2 escort van (Lion Car modified model), a Nicolas Tractomas TRB 66 C4C 6x6/2 ballasted heavy tow truck (A. Smith modified kit), two 8-line Nicolas modular trailers with bolsters (MVI modified kits with Zon Models elements) and a Titan GmbH 2632S 6x4/2 ballasted heavy tractor used as a pusher (built from a 2-axle Conrad model). The load is a Beaird Industries refinery distillation tower of 245 tonnes (homemade with Zon Models bits and pieces) To be followed. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
The 3 metres wide Nicolas tow truck, built in Champs-sur-Yonne (France): One of the first export success of the - then young - Titan GmbH company, from Appenweit (Germany): To be followed. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
MVI - a French small model builder specialised in fire engines - was offering in the early eighties some highly detailed Nicolas 4-line modules: each line could be directed from the tow bar, providing that you managed to cut and form all brass bars found in the box to exact length. These difficulties (plus numerous others) resulted in all lines being now fixed and equipped with Dinky Toys tires, much more realistic that the ones originally offered: Regards. Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 6/18/2003 Posts: 2,179 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
|
Guy: The "Schwientek" twin steer wrecker is "bad to the bone". Wish we had a Mack COE like that. Nice pictures. CAW
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 1/22/2013 Posts: 203
|
Now those are some great photos of a tremendous collection! Thanks for sharing, Guy. Mike
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
Quinella and Campmb,
Many thanks for your support.
Guy
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2005 Posts: 3,347 Location: Le Muy - Var - France
|
A few models made by Jean-Francois. The MAN 32-240 DHAK - shown already - was made from a Zon Models chassis kit with a Mangin resin cab and a Conrad crane: The DAF NTT 2826 DKA - already seen as well. Its chassis is from the same origin but fitted with a Lion Toys cab: Regards. Guy
|
|
Guest |