German and European building site dump trucks are a common sight on the streetscape.  There are dump trucks with 3 or 4 axles. Dump trucks with normal dump boxes or recently also with round hollows.  Since there is no kit for such a model on the European market, I looked around elsewhere. I found a model of the Mitsubishi Fuso dump Truck, which is unfortunately only available in Japan .  

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This is the Mitsuwa model kit of a Mitsubishi Fuso dump Truck.  The kit is crisply molded in good quality.  What surprised me is that the driving cab is one whole piece.  This particular vehicle is right hand drive.  There was no flash and the chrome parts were of a very high quality.  They could be used straight out of the box.  

The model was built purely by me out of the box.  The seats were refined with viscose rayon flakes. Various interior parts were painted with Revell colors, which became the drivers cab and the dump truck box which were painted with Mint green autolacquer. The rear axle is very well represented and easy to see in the photos.  Since the tilting hydraulics were so well done in this a kit I chose to display the model with the box in the up position.  

Heiko

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