Hooded Daf 2800 european roll-off

[PetervR]

As you might know a truck with a hood is no so usual as on the us side off the great pond.
like the pete 320 what I was posting about earlier. This truck is not the most likely to have a model build off.
at the pete cab posts I talked about the euro roll off. I thought It was time to show that one. I hope It's in working order at the show we have end october

the build started 7 years ago. the idea was to get a leimbach "hook system".
and have a finished model real quick. that was a wrong idea.
first the build of the cab. is was made of balsa wood.



made to a almoust perfect finish,



to make a resin mould.
the resin cab is a good copy of the wooden one.



the chassis was made from rectangular tube in the wedico size.

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the frontaxle is from wedico. the driven axles from robbe. the suspention I made myself. like most parts of the truck.

the truck was driving and with a simple dumpbox


at this moment there are 2 drawbar trailers in construction for this truck.
the easier one is a modified bruder lowboy.


It is narrowed en shortend. and an axle added.

the second trailer is not that far in the build.

this is what is suppost to look like when it's finished.
but this is what it looks like now


the truck is not having a hooksystem. it has a chain system fitted now.


it works like this.
the rollerchain is going round. at some point there are 2 other chains fixed to te rollerchain. witch can hang down to te ground.
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and there is a hookup plate fixed to the front of the containerskid.


this way the truck is able to pickup the containerskid. when is working well, the driver can stay in the cab. so it's perfect for rc models.

more next time



gtz PetervR