Fire trucks where do you start?

[Wombii]

Hi there! Building a firetruck is the most fun ever! I'm the one making the yellow Scania in one of frizzen's links earlier. Feel free to send me any questions about anything.
I've been using 0.080 and layered 0.040 Evergreen styrene with Tamiya Extra thin cement normal and quick version. It's a solvent that quickly liquifies the styrene and then quickly evaporates. By holding the pieces together and applying a small drop you can tack them together in a second. If you squeeze the joint and apply a good amount of cement, you'll see the liquid styrene ooze out and get a very solid joint.
I extended the cab into a crew cab and it feels strong enough that I would trust it in a roll over, but the large water tank module definitely will not (yet). The smaller pump module in the middle might. Hopefully I'll never get to test it.

Plans and stuff:
Any measurement you can get on the 1:1 truck will help. I found some photos taken at long range with minimal distortion at reasonably close to 90 degree angles, front, side and back. I then took photos of the model truck from the same angles with a telephoto lens from a distance, with a ruler in the picture. I overlayed those on the photos of the real truck making sure to scale it as close as possible and used the ruler in the picture to get properly scaled measurements

[sassgrunt]

I bought one of those AMF metal fire trucks several years ago. I had a fascination with a conversion done to a Crown fire truck by putting a fifth wheel on it, which allowed it to tow a water tank to remote locations. I figured maybe I could use a Tamiya tractor and their fuel tanker. Still on my list of things to eventually do, though. http://www.crownfirecoach.org/Featured_2004-01.html

[frizzen]

If you wanted to just start with a globe, and not do many body mods: this company has/had a howe grumman lti 100' ladder, with a kenworth coe tractor
http://www.longislandfiretrucks.com/...gory/company-2

Here's a guy running a 1/14 tiller ladder and some other aparatus.
https://youtu.be/LdGhp2hQDhw

On your LaFrance if you get a chance, could you measure cab width, or rub rail, or fender width?

This has some really nice detail pics of different ways to set up a tiller truck.
http://www.tractordrawnaerial.com/th...-drawn-aerial/
It breaks it into tractor, trailer, tiller sections