The Marmo Method Modelbuilding Guide #2: Building A Transtar/Peerless Logging Rig

By Richard Marmo

The second Marmo Modelbuilding Guide focuses on the construction of a 1/25th scale logging rig. This project combines an AMT kit of the International Harvester TranStar 4300 tractor (truck) with an AMT Peerless Trailer and a scratchbuilt diorama base. Learn how to create a unique logging scene that includes a realistic load of logs from natural sources.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rincom Productions
• Release date: Apr 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310351815

Richard Marmo

The author is a freelance writer and professional modelbuilder. He has also spent decades researching his family's genealogy. He has written three print books, several hundred articles and created several CD-ROM photo galleries. Along the way, he has produced well over 1,000 models for clients ranging from Aerospace companies to private collectors. A self-described aircraft/science fiction nut...ahem, enthusiast...he will and has built just about anything you care to name, depending on his client's requirements.A native Southerner who was born in Tennessee, he has spent most of his life in Texas (He got there as soon as he could.). He lives in Fort Worth with his wife, Nelda, his dog, Magnum, and more model kits than he'll ever be able to build in this life.

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The Marmo Method Modelbuilding Guide #2

Building A Transtar/Peerless Logging Rig

by Richard Marmo

Copyright 2013 Richard Marmo

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Table of contents

Getting started

The trailer

The cab

The base

About the author

The narrow, mountainous, dirt road snakes its way through an apparently endless pine forest that looks as though it has never felt the hand of man. But appearances are deceiving. As the sun rises slowly over the tops of the towering pines, its heat creates a mist that slowly dissipates as the temperature gradually increases. At the same time, a sound is heard that doesn’t belong in this idyllic setting.

Growing ever louder and nearer, it reveals itself as the roar of a diesel engine under the hood of an International Harvester Transtar 4300 Eagle. Attached to the Eagle’s hitch is