33: An Associated delivery truck, made from a Mini-
Metals 1941–46 Chevrolet tank truck, shown at a
grade crossing.
33
A delivery truck
One way to help identify your oil dealer is to have a highway
delivery truck alongside your loading platform. I used a Classic
Metal Works (“Mini-Metals”) 1941–1946 Chevrolet tank truck,
and repainted it. These models can be disassembled from
underneath, handy for painting, since glazing can be removed
and the tires kept separate.
The tank supplied with this model looks too big for the kind of
trucks built in 1946 and before, so probably represents a later
addition to an older chassis.
Although I don’t know exactly how Associated delivery trucks
were painted, I chose to paint mine the same red color used
for trim on the structures. For emblems and lettering, I used
the same Microscale set used for the vertical tank emblem,
87-874, along with pieces from their O-scale set, 48-434.
