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I took one of the Fire Replicas Type 3’s apart. First this is the most detailed piece I have encountered from Fire Replicas, such a small truck compared to others and it indeed has over 400 pieces. Once I striped everything off I went with a white paint job to match the NPS units. I am slowly making progress, I can’t believe all the detailed parts and tons of photo edge parts that clean up nicely. I still have about 150 parts to go

Some more staring to look better.

Museum quality replica you are making there. It looks fantastic. Which is harder, removing 400 pieces or putting them back on?

Fantastic work so far!

Thanks for sharing

Sirentoys wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:34 am

Museum quality replica you are making there. It looks fantastic. Which is harder, removing 400 pieces or putting them back on?

Thanks Jeff,
I believe putting it back together is the hardest. Taking them about is easy since the glue is soft, way easier than Code 3 ever was. The reason I say putting them back to gather is when I glue stuff on I have seconds to make sure it's straight, also to not touch the glue itself is a bit of a pain since some of the parts are so small. It does give me an appreciation for the people that do this for a living, and I am sure they're much faster than me.

I do look at the assembly pictures on the Fire Replicas site to help me understand the trucks and parts. Like I said earlier this truck is amazing with all the different parts.

Joe

Got a few more parts on and finished the rear, still a few more things have to go on driver side, and even more on passenger side.

That looks amazing. Great job! I'd really love to see someone do a USFS and an LACoFD Type-3 from that model. Ventura Co would be great too.

I really wanted to snag the CalFire, but my job is pretty uncertain right now.

Wow this looks so great I can imagine how difficult it is to put all the tiny pieces together!