timtosino
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UPDATE: 3 Additional Trucks Added from the show (not all Jamie Davis). More pictures: HR-126 Peterbuilt Tandem, same size at HR 126. Jamie's newest truck and his biggest chrome showpiece. I just noticed I forgot to put the rest of the axle caps on this one oops. VSA Highway Maintenance Plow, the contractor for the Coquihalla Highway. Includes main plow in front and side wing. VSA has a variety of trucks in use but I tried to make one of their older Western Stars. Might eventually do a tow plow to go with it (for plowing tow lanes). Quiring Towing's Green Monster driven by Al Quiring. Kentworth Vulcan Tri-Drive wrecker with fold out stabilizers.
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Yup it looks a lot better with the new tires.
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He sent it off to Alberta when the started working there but I heard he really designed it for his main base in BC. As in season 4 you see all the nice is equipment is in Alberta and a small crew is stuck in BC doing the same big jobs with older, smaller equipment. The two trucks you see here are ones he ordered for Alberta but then once they close down everything there in season 5 they get sent back to BC. Thanks for the compliments :) Thanks! I'm heavily a purist when it comes to painting and stuff, but Jamie is famous for the chrome on his trucks "I drive a big red truck with lots of Chrome". I might swap out the front grills on the trucks though with the chrome ones if I find enough.
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I like the cab design and it gives the feel a smaller day cab truck if that's the look you were going for. Have you considered using a bit bigger wheels though?
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Awesome! Perfect scale!
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Thanks! Even though I don't watch much TV it's actually one of the TV shows I'll sit down and actually watch rather than play in the background. There's also a spin off series for Toronto and they have even bigger trucks but I couldn't get to liking it as much. Maybe because it's much further removed from where I live. Thank You! The Tundra is mostly based on 60148. It's interesting to see how many countries the show is broadcast in!
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Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue is a towing company based in Hope, BC Canada (about 2 hours from where I live) whose main operations are on the Coquihalla Highway and are featured on the TV Show "Highway Thru Hell". I posted my Jamie Davis Rotator back in 2014 and said I wanted to eventually try to do the same truck in 7 wide. After seeing 4000022 I wanted to try to use those techniques on a new 7 wide truck but around that same time, I heard that Jamie had sold his prized truck the Rotator. When Season 5 of the show started airing last fall I started building the next biggest truck in his fleet which is even newer, a 50-ton Tri-Drive Western Star along with a smaller tandem unit and a Toyota Tundra for Traffic Control. Heavy Rescue 117 is a Western Star Tri-Drive Century tow truck with stabilizers, and a side puller (3rd winch on the driver's side). Used for recovering Semi-Trucks and other large vehicles. HR 116 is a Western Star Tandem Tow Truck with sleeper cab. Smaller than 117, but tandems can do just a much work as the biggest trucks. IR 104 is an Incident Response Truck for flagging traffic control. Toolbox in bed. Dispatched to secure accidents before the bigger trucks arrive or roadside service to smaller passenger vehicles. Full Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_tosino/albums/72157681702229046 Still working on Al Quiring's Truck aka "The Green Monster" which is unit as big as 117 and a VSA Highway Maintenance Snow Plow (all in 7 wide) and I may just tackle Jamie's Newest Truck HR 126 (which hasn't made an appearance on TV yet) in time for our local con (http://www.brickcan.com) -
So BrickCan is just two weeks away. The con is being hosted by the VLC, VicLug and AbbyLug and I know there is a fair bit of people coming out from Alberta. Anymore Canadians coming out?
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So two weeks away and AFOL registration is closed at 225 attendees, and public tickets are over 75% sold. Anyone else on this forum coming out to this con?
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So far 175 attendees registered!
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Totally love 40221 too. Hope it's not a very limited edition give away.
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I love the way you did the steps on the back.
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I got mine 2 weeks ago here at a LEGO Store in Canada, the 40 sets a week reference was said by someone about a LEGO store in Chicago only this week, so they still are attempting to get them to the North American Market at least in LBR Stores. They have not restocked S@H for this market since Oct.
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That message has been up for a month, so it seems it taking them a while to consider it :P
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All sold out now. Someone was saying that a US LEGO store gets 40+ of them a week, whether they are actually selling those out every week is a mystery!
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Very cool, love the simplistic design of the back.
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This was one of my first purchases as an AFOL, I thought the road plates might be useful one day but literally haven't used them since.
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The pictures are down for me, not sure if its just me or the site.
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Thanks again, I'm not sure I can use that piece for the rotator since most have two lifts that are linked on the exterior of the boom. I will definitely use it for the smaller trucks though.
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Thanks for the tips! I was trying to use the plates to change the direction on top of the jumpers but there's no point in that and it just makes it flimsier. There seems to be a big following in Scandinavian Countries!
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Thanks for the tips, I will build a second truck with 7 wide in mind, I agree at this point it does look small and needs to be beefed up, as even the yellow tractor seems to dwarf it.But maybe I was going about things in the wrong order as I was building from the grill and backward, but if you could take a couple interior pics of the build I'd be grateful
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Thanks again for your comments here. Like I said above I was trying to at first make it 7 wide like yours but wasn't happy with what I had come up with. Would you be willing to share some pictures of how yours is built either here or on flickr? I have my buses as 7 wide but building this is a bit more of a challenge for me.
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
timtosino replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
It's a Pool Hall or Billiards Hall, usually they serve drinks as well.. not sure what you would call that sort of place in NZ. I would imagine they are apartments with access and mail boxes like the GG. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
timtosino replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Don't think so, looks more like an alcove to enter the Apartments. The Barber shop has the main door facing into that way as well. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
timtosino replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
I've seen it. It includes the DA on the 2nd story, billiards hall below and a barber shop next door with apartments on top. A new piece scissor or "shears" are featured prominently. DA has brick with profile walls, while the pool hall has a brown front with glass windows and green canopy. Barber Shop is in Navy blue with the apartments lighter blue.