[cliff]

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Cliff,

Its a great model Cliff - I never realised how much work goes into them.

Yep that colour on the 1941-7 Chevy model you posted a photo of is the same one that my 1940 is wearing. I noticed that the roof on the model has a roof hatch and some other bits and pieces. I think one is a grab rail - what are the other bits?

My truck has an intact roof with no sign of a hatch ever being installed. Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionel below is 2 photos. The first is a 1940 Chev in the Northern Territories and the 2nd an AWM photo of the trucks in Malaya before the Japanese took over. The NT truck is a standard Civilian vehicle with an army GS body on it. No guard cut outs, no roof hatch and standard civy wheels. The Malaya truck has the cut out guards and 18inch combat split rims but again has no roof hatch and is basicly a civilian truck with GS military body fitted. So you can see a lot of this model did not have the access hatch in the roof whereas a larger proportion of the 1941 model had them as they were fitted at the Holden factory during assembly.

The model was built using AWM photos of fuel tankers in the Atherton Tablelands during WW2 and is accurate to the photos. There is the roof hatch with hand grabs in front of it and a clip that the hatch attaches too when open.