Scammell Mechanical Horse 1/76 scratch-build.
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Let me take you back to Britland, just after that 1940’s unpleasantness. Not literally of course, there’s only one seat in my time machine. A time when people thought a Brylcreem quiff looked hip daddy-o (cool man), ‘The mashed potato’ was thought a reasonable name for a dance and tuberculosis was all the rage. A time when ‘designers’ designed the clothes of millionaires and were kept well away from the motor manufacturing least they inject the foreign concept of ‘flair’ into the British way of life. With one unfortunate blip (Jag ‘E’ Type) that state of affairs continued until well into the 90’s – a point proven by the Austin Metro and Maestro.
Even without the interference of designers (or perhaps because of) the Mechanical Horse and it’s Scarab replacement were a huge success.
This was my winter 24/25 project...sort of. My intended project was to learn to use a 3D design package and I kind of got sidetracked a tiny bit.
My aversion to accuracy (it’s a preference, not an allergy) was satisfied by the 99.9% certainty that these dustcart never set tread in Coventry. Other than that one historical porky* the model is based on photographic evidence (I feel faint even saying it).
The Mechanical Horse is entirely scratch-built other than the rear wheels and mud guards. The dustcart trailer is scratch-built other than the chassis (which you can’t see) and heavily modified front wheel assembly (one part becoming 28).
*(translation: porky = pork pie = lie).
If you want to read though the build report, this is the linky thing (warning: contains nuts.):
scalemates.com/profi..ums&album=120327
This is the linky whatsit for the other part of this project:
scalemates.com/profi..ums&album=124923