Mount Vernon Fire Replicas
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:48 am
I was sitting looking at these two trucks, the Broward Pierce Tower and the Savage Rear mount and thought we haven’t seen many Rear Mount Platforms from Fire Replicas as of yet. Broward, and Chicago are the two out there. Pierce has some great looking rear mount tower’s so I figured let's give it a shot. The 2 trucks that make this up are the Savage Truck rear mount, and the Broward Ladder Platform.
My goal was to just change out the turntable, and ladder’s. The Broward did pry off at the turn table, while Savage is screwed in from the bottom inside the frame of the body into the turn table. The stainless steel ladder on the trucks are also screw in to the body from the top of the ladder rungs.
Once I got the ladders off, I removed most of the decals from the Savage tuck so I could give it a new name. The Broward truck and basket are done with a wrap, so the decals would now come off the basket or ladder board. I covered the basket with a medium red decal that matches the paint job on the truck, the ladder boards repainted with Krylon Banner Red, again very close to the paint color on the truck.
I added some decals from InQuarters, and various ones I had in my stash. This MVFD has Mighty Mouse on the ladder board emblem, the trucks nickname Big Red. Just some fun with imagination, and great Fire Replicas models to use as base trucks to reconfigure.
My goal was to just change out the turntable, and ladder’s. The Broward did pry off at the turn table, while Savage is screwed in from the bottom inside the frame of the body into the turn table. The stainless steel ladder on the trucks are also screw in to the body from the top of the ladder rungs.
Once I got the ladders off, I removed most of the decals from the Savage tuck so I could give it a new name. The Broward truck and basket are done with a wrap, so the decals would now come off the basket or ladder board. I covered the basket with a medium red decal that matches the paint job on the truck, the ladder boards repainted with Krylon Banner Red, again very close to the paint color on the truck.
I added some decals from InQuarters, and various ones I had in my stash. This MVFD has Mighty Mouse on the ladder board emblem, the trucks nickname Big Red. Just some fun with imagination, and great Fire Replicas models to use as base trucks to reconfigure.