Curious old M49 fuel truck

[Paweł]

@gringeltaube , @msgjd - you guys are amazing! It's priceless to have you onboard when building a model! Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction. It's not going to be easy to build, but now I have the feeling I know what I'm doing, so I think I can make it! Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł

 

[msgjd]

There must be a reason they put the extra wide 10-ton mirrors on those tankers (?)

yes, the operator(s) wanted it to look cool !! ... and better visibility in tight spots for sure , although the small rectangular mirrors on the early deuce A1's & A2's were better than round lollipops , but yes we operators definitely preferred the west-coasters (except when the trees or overhead truss bridges got really tight! .. slapped mirrors with other trucks more than once )

 

[msgjd]

Thanks again for your great help and have a nice day
Paweł

you have done an incredible job on this model !

where did you find pictures of the dash of a M44-series deuce gasser as reference?
i don't recall any of them having a tachometer or that many tags, but i suppose it's possible
it happened at some point in their life .. although 5T and 10T gassers certainly have a tach

one thing i learned about 6x6 trucks in my 50 years of hands-on, slight variations within each
type no longer surprise me .. My M49A2C (former gasser) has a tachometer with gauge holes punched in a pattern i have never seen .. again, this was converted into a multifuel and lost its original speedo-only dash , but did it really? Has anyone else out there seen this layout? I have not seen any gauge located between the speedo and tach , let alone a row of four at the bottom



... as compared to the typical M44-series gas gauges below

 

[Jbulach]

Wrong mirrors. Wrong gauges. Might as well start over, and send that one to me to play with?

But seriously Pawel, your model looks amazing!

I wouldn’t be concerned about leaving the motor-pool mods in place, especially if you have pictures to support them.