Hello everyone,
I thought i’d create a thread to show my models that i’m building. They are all white metal 1/48th and 1/50th scale mostly built from discontinued kits with a lot of scratch building and lot’s of extra detailing. I’m working my way through my stash of kits in readiness for showing at a future model/truck show.
This series of models are my “Barnsley and Beyond” collection. They all depict Barnsley hauliers including some from the surrounding areas. My family grew up in Cudworth, Barnsley and in the 60s and 70s there were many trucking firms just in our local village alone. This will be the heart of these builds eventually with firms from surrounding villages/towns my family would have seen passing through. My uncle used to have many rides with local drivers as a kid all over the country. My dad remembers the first time he saw a Redfearn National Glass Scania 110 working it’s way up the village looking huge compared to the other trucks on the road. The models I make are all a memory,truck ride or a truck my family have photographed many years ago.
I will be building hauliers such as Myatts, Mason Bros, Redfearn National Glass, Tom Roberts, Fearns, Majestic Motors, D Sharp and Son, Pulverite/Durrans, J Cutts, Alan Lodge, Ernest Thorpe and many more. I’ll keep this updated as I get the models built. Hope you enjoy the models, they keep me busy. All the best, James
Modeltrux Foden S80 and 40FT Curtainsider - Jefferies of Otley
I have been to this yard a few times as a kid with my dad and I remember seeing them out on the road in their later days. This model was a pleasure to build for me as the kit is one of my dad’s original Modeltrux kits before he sold his moulds to Kingfisher Models. The kit is probably nearly as old as me. The Foden is the first truck kit my dad made, The 40ft Trailer kit was based on a Whitehead Trailer, he used to work there welding trailers, converting flat beds to curtainsiders and so on. These were based on Carlton industrial estate in Barnsley, a stones throw from J Cutts Transport and eventually moved to Bargh Green near James Durrans and later on Ken Mallinson. I built the kits mostly out of the box like my dad used to make them when he was in business with just a few minor extra details. I added a driver, curtains and other cab details, some lovely little resin and photo etch headlights, suzies and after some weathering added a country road.
My Dad used to produce this in the Jefferies livery as a full kit, sadly I was a bit too young at that time to remember the S80 models but I have fond memories of dad’s later code 3 work. Daf XF’s, Volvo FH’s and so on. These were usually all Tekno and Conrad kits with corgi trailers. I will always remember mum and dad stood at the kitchen sink wet sanding corgi Boddingtons curtainsiders. He used to make a lot of Yorkshire firms back then for the firms themselves as well as countless customers. Our dining room was a sea of Pete Osbornes, Dews, Viamasters, Jefferies etc. I used to peel the masking tape off the many Stobart striped bumpers. The trucks from this period (later 90’s and early 00’s) are where my memories are, once I have built all the classic trucks I will build some slightly newer trucks that I remember fondly as a kid, had rides in etc. Dad now mostly works in 1/43rd scale depicting Swedish Scanias and Volvos mostly and some scratch builds. He makes a lot of things in resin these days which I do a bit of for my models too. His models are beautiful and he is a natural when it comes to scratch building.
