I have to admit that when I started the Italeri DAF 95 Canvas Truck I thought it would be a relative quick build. However, being the ever optimistic type of person I am I have got that wrong! Nothing new there then! The chassis is taking a while to build. Some of that is down to converting to right hand drive and fitting aftermarket hubs and wheels but some is also down to the instructions. Italeri instructions for their truck kits have never been the best and become downright problamtic when they start mixing up kits. The canvas truck is a mix of a kit for a DAF 95 tractor unit and the body from another earlier kit. It all works in as much as there are the right parts in the kit to build the pictured truck on the box lid. However there are a great deal of surplus parts which are not always identified on the sprue layout plan as being surplus. In addition the instructions seem to be a cut and paste from several previous instruction sheets. For some strange reason there is a section of the instructions covering the fitting of the fifth wheel coupling. The kit is for a cargo truck not a tractor unit! There is also no reference to the fitting of the spare wheel carrier but it appears in some drawings as fitted to the chassis but from what parts? Those are just a couple of examples which take time to work out and resolve.
Moans and excuses over with, there has been some progress with the build with yet more sub-assemblies being built but now beginning to be fitted to the chassis as well.
At least that has not been a problem!
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