Endzeit II - Peterbilt 353 "Zombieplough"

[MaxHeadroom]

Btw: is "BtS" a britsh-english or an american-english board?

So: Zombieplough/Zombieplow

A fortnight ago, my wife Sonja remembers, I'd told about an old REVELL-kit of a Peterbilt 353.
This was, when I was busy by making my Porsche Zombinator and she asks, if this old Peterbilt could be also a survivors vehicle.

The best wife on earth!

Now, I extend my scenario:
Two men, enthusiast for older/vintage cars, members of the same club survives...
Being connected in the first weeks of the Zombiecalypse by still automatically working phone, they coordinates their projects.
J.D. pimps up his Porsche and his pal changes his Peterbilt into a Porsche-carrier-anti-Zombie-resistance-is-not-futile-war-machiene!

A week ago, I was at my mom's house and grab the truck out of my former child-/youth-room.
This is when I placed it at my workbench:


O.k., I'd deassembled the Peterbilt but in opposite to the Porsche it were much more parts.
So I deassembled part by part or into groups.
For example: The driver's cabin was completely deassembled but the Diesel-engine I kept together as a complete/unified part.

Using some of my collected plasic-bags – think over, before you throw something into the litterbox, if you can't use it sometimes-  I stored the parts.
Now the overview:


Deassembling, I see a fault.
I have 3 axes with 10 wheels.
But no spare wheel.

Hmmm!
Now, I don't re-fix the 1st rear-axle, put the axle and the 4 wheels as spare-parts ON the truck.
The Peterbilt never will tow a trailer, and with some 1.000 kg of Porsche and roundabout a ton of equipment the now single rear-axle won't be overloaded.

Using my precision-saw, I extracted the driver's door from the cabin. I will decide later, if I show it open or not.

That's it for today,

Max

[Cliffy B]

It's whatever English you speak  :)

Popcorn and beer at the ready!  Please proceed sir 

[Buzzbomb]

Goody, goody.. more Post Apocalyptic Zombie goodness.

[Queeg]

Max - you appear to be the master of old kit deconstruction !!!!!!!!!!!!

Brent

[Old Wombat]

Watching!

:)

Guy

[LemonJello]

Watching with great anticipation.

[MaxHeadroom]

Ooops!
Your comments makes me under pressure! 

No! Just a joke!
I'll do my best, I promise!

'Cause I need a special color for my Porsche, I'm now busy by cleaning the parts of the Peterbilt.

Max

[MaxHeadroom]

Some more food for your eyes:

A little fumbling in between.

I started making the two pumpguns.
One will be part of the Porsche and the other will stay in the truck:

Above the "bigger" parts of the one, below the shell of the other.
To do the fine work, I'd assembled it, because otherwise it will be much too gropy!
Equipment to aim, trigger and it's guard will be added, too.

A break-action-gun (horizontal twin-barrel) and two pistols will join the arsenal.
The  pistols will be designed close to the Walther P99, the standard arm of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Police and will be found at each corpse of a policeman (if there wasn't someone faster).


Btw, two machetes will be build, also.
The dimensions are from the net... you'll find a lot of answers, if you ask the right way.


Max

[Kerick]

People in the US have been buying old military trucks, removing one of the back axles, shortening the cargo bed and calling them "bobs". It looks like you are onto a good idea.
British and Americans, two peoples with shared heritage separated by a common language. And the Australians? just don't even ask........

[MaxHeadroom]

Thx kerrick for the "bob"-story, but I need the cargo-bed for the Porsche.
Therefore I use the idea of a pal to give the first rear axle only 1 tire at each end and getting two spare-tires.

But:
There is something new!

The guns are ready (sorry for the crappy light, normally the rifles aren't shining!):

It was fumbling!
At this moment a special thanks to my MD, who is my source for syringe needles in every length and diameter.

And the bush-knifes are ready also:

I have made two different (in lenght and hilt [form and color]).

The problem was the material.
My brain was smoking until it makes "click": I have high-quality steel at home – also in the right dimension!
A modern multi-blade razor.

These blades can be extracted (by using little power with a forceps) and can be cutted by a common manicure-scissor
And: You can see, the machetes are functional.

Max

[Queeg]

Wowser 

Fantastic work on the weapons ..... machettes that work ... really ........... 

cheers
Brent

[Old Wombat]

Functional micro-machetes? Ouch!

:)

Guy

[MaxHeadroom]

O.k., I'll try:

After deassembling and cleaning and remove some faults of the sprued parts of the kit I'd started to reassemble.

First step was to reunite the frame, the suspensions and some other additional stuff:


Meanwhile, I'd extracted the driver's door and the driver's door inside paneling from the each 1-thing-parts of the cabin and the interior:


And I coloured the Diesel-engine:

following this model:

(It may give you a hint to the future color of the body.)

Norbert

[MaxHeadroom]

Gimme a "F"!
Gimme a "U"!
Gimme a "C"!
Gimme a "K"!
What does ist spell... 

F-U-C-K... Why does posting including FOUR pics easily now???

Nevertheless: enjoy!

Norbert

[GTX_Admin]

Which side of your mouth was your tounge sticking out…that might be the answer.

[MaxHeadroom]

LOL

N.

[MaxHeadroom]

Continuation!

Frame and additional parts primed and hangend to become dry in the bathroom:


The battery compartment cover:

At the same time it is the steps for entering the driver's cabin
I Won't paint it, so I took some aluminium from the kitchen to cover it to look like a chromed part.

You see, I'm busy by painting the frame with bright black:

I did it for 3 evenings, every evening for several hours.
But bright black is stupid!
Indeed!
Sometimes, I'd thought to have forgotten some places to paint and did repaint... only to see the same. The shine of my lamp was making the black in some corners looking white (or primer-grey).

Now the later base of the Porsche at the back of the truck::

I'd welded L-profiles and put some bracing between. Total lenght (scaled): 6.5 meters.
Above you see the material for the next steps.

Now with wodden planks:


And finished, the planks covered by plates of aluminium:

I used pieces of  pharmaceutical blister packs

How it might looks (1):

and part 2:

As you can see I've also built movable and foldable ramps and already added the framework.

Now?
What do you think?

Norbert

[Kerick]

This looks great! It has that thrown together in the field look like something built by zombie survivors.

[Brian da Basher]

Projects like this never fail to amaze me. Your attention to detail is incredible!

Brian da Basher