Midnight Pumpkin scale close to semi's?

[Thorsteenster]

I've never actually seen a semi, other than my Volvo cab I have now, but I have a Midnight Pumpkin body and I was just wondering if anyone else can compare the two and see if they look about right together.
I know officially the Midnight Pumpkin is 1/10, but the body runs much smaller.

[Espeefan]

Hey Thor. Over on Scale 4x4, a friend of mine, Rick, aka Rogue posted a picture of a Pumpkin body on a Wedico chassis. I think the Pumpkin body is around 1/12 scale. Another member here, named Chris, aka Oztruck (I think) has also mounted the same body on a Tamiya single axle rig chassis. I think his thread is also on Scale 4x4. I don't think either guy has made a thread here showing off the Pumpkin as a Ford semi truck yet. You might want to search over there, or I'll see if maybe I can find their posts.

[DieselKid]

Harry, (aka Bullitt) used a Pumpkin body as the basis for his rat rod service truck project as shown here...

http://rctruckandconstruction.com/showthread.php?t=191

That's not the build thread of course but I'm sure Harry may be adding the entire thread shortly.

-Alex

[Thorsteenster]

Cool, thanks for that, and now that you mention it, I remember seeing one awhile back. I wasn't thinking of putting it on a semi chassis though, but I was playing around and cut a semi tire to fit a 1/18 wheel and it looks great in the Pumkin wheel opening. So I was thinking it would be cool for another truck to have one day when I finish my Volvo to bring to a truck meet

[Espeefan]

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53228

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7306

Here you go. Check these threads.

[Thorsteenster]

Drat, yeah I just went and compared the Pumpkin to my Volvo cab, it is almost as wide. But maybe they would still look okay running together. I like big pick-up trucks!

[Bullitt]

Hey Thor,
The MP cab will make a great body if you want to put an 18R chassis underneath it. I am not sure about the Weidco chassis, but I can tell you that I narrowed my Tamiya front axle and widened the front fenders to get the tires under there. I think I stuck the front fenders out 3/8"per side and I think I narrowed the axle 1/2".


Harry

[tc1cat]

My US6 Studebaker has a MP cab as its base. It is close to 1/12th scale. It did look big compared to the big rigs running around at Indy this Past weekend.