BMC TM-140 Truck
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Scale:  1/24
Started: 12 December  2007
Finished:
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ABOUT   BMC TM-140  TRUCKS
BMC TM-140 is one of the milestones of Turkish truck manufacturing industry. The BMC factory in Turkey was founded under licence of BMC (U.K.) and manufacturing started in 1966. The first trucks were cab-derivatives of WF series, with bend-formed sheet metal cabs instead of die-formed body panels.
The initial production was named as TM-135, which was produced in small numbers, then TM-140 was produced in 3 series during the production years.
The TM-140 was a robust but a comfortless truck, with a mechanical and hard-to-turn steering wheel. These trucks have performed very tough jobs throughout the years, and many are still in operation.
The model I chose to make is the most made, series-2 type. Since no kit of this truck exists, it had to be built fully from scratch. I developed the parts from the blueprints.

 
12 December 2007:
I began by cutting the chassis arms from 0.3 mm brass sheet, then bent them. I soldered the notched parts from the insides and filed them smooth.
21 January 2008:
I began manufacturing the cross-members from the rearmost one. I cut the development and bent to shape. I applied some pre-soldering to the ends of the cross-member and the inside of the chassis arm, where the member would rest.
While holding the member in place, I applied heat with a torch and melted the mating solders, thus making a weld.
25 January 2008:
I prepared the member for spare wheel hanging, the same way.
Again the torch was used to weld the member in place.
Now was the turn of cross-members of front and rear brackets of the rear springs. I cut and bent to shape. I applied pre-solderin to where the parts would meet.
While holding firmly with pliers, I applied the torch heat to weld the mating parts.
I welded the two cross-members in place just like the preceding ones.