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That is one cool looking project .Paint IT UP IN Olive Drab with a White star on the door. You get the idea.... BC1Jim
These half track trucks were quite common. My father had a book about them. I will put up some pix tomorrow.
The Lombard RC truck looks great Chris! A fun model. I see it unloads freight with the same TLC our local UPS driver uses. Got a monitor for a PC delivered bent 90 degrees in the middle and the glass in a million pieces last week. Less than optimal. Oh well. Even the Pony Express tossed the odd package off a running horse I guess..... The freight looks vaguely like 3D printed pumping engine cylinders......any truth to the rumour? Are you experiencing symptoms of pumposis in some degree? Just kidding you, good to see your posts.
When I was a kid growing up in the early 1950's, "Happy Jan" the owner of Jan's sawmill had a world war two military half track. He used to go roaring in and out our side road with it. I don't really know what practical purpose he had for it (probably timber ranging), but he had a lot of fun with it. He was very mechanically inclined, in fact, he built the first snowmobile I ever seen, using sawmill belting, hardwood cleats, and the engine from a two man chainsaw. The front 'ski' that steered it was the hood of a 1938 Dodge car!!!
Having the truck kit as a starter sped this project up a lot, all I needed to make was a few adapters for the hubs on the sprockets and some mounting plates. The cab is thin plywood with glue blocks in the corners. If made from scratch, this would have been a much much longer project. Right now am painting the headlights and steering wheel from the truck kit.