Now that the chassis is near enough to finished a start is made on constructing the subfloor framing and the floor itself. I was fortunate to find copies of the original body building plans of these Australian #9 Gun Tractors on Keith Webb’s excellent web site www.oldcmp.net/ and these helped immensely by giving me the […]

The chassis is about 95% finished at this stage and this part of the build will all but finish the chassis and will start construction of the body. A lot of work done to this stage will not be seen once the finished model is mounted on a base.
Why do all that work when you […]

I was going to use a steering box from the Italeri 15cwt Chev kit but after viewing photos of the real thing decided to make a new steering box and column to suit my Ford as the mounting and looks of the box were different.

This is a steering box on a Cab 12 CMP but […]

I raided the spares box once again for 4 plates that the spring ‘U’ bolts attach to when the axles are fitted to the springs. The Ford CMP has a different method of placing the plates between the front and rear axles. On the rear the plates sit on top of the spring while on […]

First I must correct a fault with the tow bar setup in Part 05 that I was made aware of after publishing. There was only one return roller on the left hand side for the winch, so the right hand side one had to be removed from the model.

the right hand roller removed
A copy of the winch […]