Soviet ZiS 150 cab and bed
 

Saw this on ebay. little steep but pretty interesting. May pull the trigger on one for something down the road.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/142364866006

http://www.ebay.com/itm/142364864389

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i've got 2, going for a street rod look with one and an old international with the other. google research reveals the Zis actually is a 47 international.... amazing detail for an amazing price, opening doors, hood etc...

here's the first mockup on a trail finder chassis, going to use a pumpkin bed with another set of front fenders grafted on

http://photos.bigdogrod.com/i.ashx?g...rdsize=640x480

http://photos.bigdogrod.com/i.ashx?g...rdsize=640x480

the stock bed will make a great landscape trailer

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Nice! Much to the cab assembly? I'm going the not scale approach and may put it on a CC-01.

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no, went together pretty smooth, had a small issue where the instructions showed the hood assembly backwards, but emailed the seller and they said they would fix the misprint

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Tammy pumpkin bed?

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Would it fit on a king hauler chassis ?

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yeah, those are king hauler wheels on the front, rc4wd lo pros on the rear. it's 12'th scale so it might look a bit off next to a tamiya semi, that's the next project...


google search/ wikipedia: 1947 international semi truck

street rod

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-keL1w-Mm6x...filiate_80.jpg


https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net...20100529052926

how about this?

http://www.tenfourmagazine.com/conte.../pdishow01.jpg

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Mine came in today. Very nice packaging and well shipped. Mine may be ear marked on a CC-01 for a retro Dakar truck. Instead of this sissy energy drink all over it, it'll have pouch tobacco, hair tonic, etc sponsors from the era...he he. Grabbed the preassembled bed too. It's nice as well, though geared towards a 6x6 with it's size.
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psolgyt2pt.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psthmpmd08.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...pskoi5quev.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psbpn5ijqz.jpg

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Any progress?

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Not yet. Still deciding how I want to go with it and what colors.

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I also ordered the Cab and deck, great quality!!! Spoke with the seller and he said watch out for more models :-)

Look forward to more pics on this build...

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Right on. Yea, looks like they will be a cool company to keep an eye on. Right now I'm still thinking of doing a retro Dakar truck on a CC-01 chassis I have laying around. Cream/brown cab with a brown flat bed with old school logos for advertising. I decided to go the trailer route with the bed. Have an old 1/8 dirtbike trailer I'm going to put it on and make it a dumper. Gotta hack up the C channel to shorten it a bit then extend the neck for a king pin. Throw in a screw drive/esc and a pivot and call it a day.
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psnnntjl3a.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psf3hsxkuh.jpg

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CC-01 chassis isn't going to work, too small. Going to look at other options.

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Here's an interesting thread on a scratchbuilt ZIL-157, if you haven't already seen it.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/multi...spiration.html

Thank you for starting this thread. I ordered the cab and bed, but am not sure if I want to build it as a cargo version, or just use the cab for a tractor version. Trumpeter has that 1/35 SA-2 Guideline kit that uses this cab, but I am certainly not willing to build the trailer and missile for THAT!

There is also the AT-T prime mover that uses a cab similar to this one. Looks like it has an extra front window and different grill, (and also I don't have a spare Hooben T-55 to mount it on). Sure is an intriguing thought, though. -Mike

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Hey Mike, it's me Bret (same thebennyb from RCU tank forum.) I'm still trying to figure out what chassis I'm going to put the cab on. Don't really want to buy a chassis just for a body but looks like that may be the only route. Looking at trail finder 2 long wheel base. Hoping I can find a used one somewhere.

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Hey Bret. Yeah, I think three's a few of us who haunt the same forums. I was thinking about using an Axial SCX-10 chassis, (only because I have one that I didn't use for anything else), but I won't know if it'll fit until the cab & bed get here. Wheelbase on this is 11 inches, and inside & outside measurement of tires is 6 and 9 inches. It may be that if the width on this is okay; I'll have to stretch the length a bit. I really wanted to lean towards more of a scale suspension rather than a 4-link type, but am thinking that I may just have to go with whatever fits best. -Mike

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I think the SCX10 will be too wide. I was leaning towards Tamiya truck rails?

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I got mine and started to paint it. Sticking to original military green.

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Jack, did you assemble then paint or paint as you went during assembly? I can't decide how I want to approach this sucker. Detailed interior or not. Hate to assemble then have to mask small area's to paint, door panels/hood and such.

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Yup, SCX10 will be too wide. Also if you have the battery/ESC up front it wont fit over it.
Really, unless you have a flat footprint with no obstructions this cab is a toughy without cutting it up.

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Paint separately, more control over the process and if making mistake, you can fix small part on its own, rather then the whole thing. I went with interior as well.

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pictures or it didn't happen....

:cop:

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Took some pictures, will try to upload
https://flic.kr/p/WkhJvo

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wow, good job, that thing looks real

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Benny, I hope I didn't hijacked your post....The ZIS 150 has a special significants to me, even though I’v lived in Canada most of my life, I was born in former USSR soon after world war 2. My father drove this truck. I still remember its dark military green colour, smell of engine oil and gasoline on a hot summer day. Sometimes my father would take me with him to work and I would spend a whole day bouncing up and down because of bad roads and poor suspension. In the winter it would be bitterly cold, because the truck had no heating and no insulation. Still its a part of my childhood memory. Hope I’d be able to build a model that reflects this part of my life.

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No worries Jack.

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What glue would you recommend using with this kit?

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Do you guys have a pic of a king hauler beside this zil truck ?

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I'm using PIKO fix glue. Just happen to have a bunch around from building some of thier buildings. You need a glue for ABS plastic.

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Help at all?
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...pss5zon7go.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...pshnnkro17.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...psdgbtqicx.jpg

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Yes that helps a lot thanks

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That's no help at all, just shows your bench is waaaaaay cleaner than mine :-(

:-)

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Anyone has actually started working on mechanical aspect of this truck?

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My imagination but it seems a little big compared to the KH , or am I going nuts

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yeah, the zis is 12th scale

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So roughly 10 % larger ?

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He he, yea not very efficient. The chef headworking always tells me to keep it clean.

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I'm with you folks, but seem to be running a day late and a dollar short. I bought both the cab and bed from King Kong RC (from eBay). They said that they couldn't ship both together (to save on costs, I hoped) because they were already boxed separately. Okay, no problem. The bed arrived promptly on the 22nd, but not the cab. Two days later and still nothing. The tracking info on eBay said that BOTH had been delivered on the 22nd, so the mailman told me to go check the USPS website. That said that both had arrived at their Honolulu sort facility; that one had been delivered on the 22nd and the other was out for delivery. It never showed up, and there was no change in status for the next five days. Then on the 28th, it said that it had been delivered - to GUAM, of all places! Today it says that it's out for delivery, (but I have no idea to where....back here?...somewhere on Guam)?
Anyway, I am hoping to eventually get it. Until them, I am considering possibilities. I'd really like to build something WW2-ish; either Soviet or maybe a 1940's International K-series tractor. I also ordered a set of King Kong's tires that are meant to fit the Tamiya rims. These look like the uni-directional military tires, but I really don't know what to do to modify the Tamiya rims to NOT look like modern ones. And, I haven't seen any aftermarket replacement wheels that look like they're from the 40's or 50's.