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I've finished the Trabant and got myself another Renault Magnum build kit, an older version, but that is ok. A fellow modeller offered me the kit, since I have literally no truck parts, as this is my first truck I am going to build (besides the Krupp, but that was a review).
I had some more thoughts on the 'Torpille', The nose is too long, as pictured above, so I studied the Scania Torpedo and tried to use those lines somewhat.
I also decided to make a different back end, and it will have a modern racehauler look to it.
A bit like this:
This is how the Magnum originally should look like
And somewhat of a crude rendering of what it is going to be
In this rendering, I extended the nose, a bit too mucht, but to get the idea (don't pay attention to the headlights)
And the work starts....
I extended the frame with roughly a inch and a half
A rough idea of the truck, the back end is only for imaginative purposes.
And I am going to lower the cabin, since it towers quite a lot. Together with the back, it would look silly
The original fender next to the shortened
I shortened the front
Which compares as follows with the original
I had some more thoughts on the 'Torpille', The nose is too long, as pictured above, so I studied the Scania Torpedo and tried to use those lines somewhat.
I also decided to make a different back end, and it will have a modern racehauler look to it.
A bit like this:

This is how the Magnum originally should look like

And somewhat of a crude rendering of what it is going to be

In this rendering, I extended the nose, a bit too mucht, but to get the idea (don't pay attention to the headlights)

And the work starts....

I extended the frame with roughly a inch and a half


A rough idea of the truck, the back end is only for imaginative purposes.


And I am going to lower the cabin, since it towers quite a lot. Together with the back, it would look silly

The original fender next to the shortened

I shortened the front

Which compares as follows with the original
