gray
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LearnerHello everybody, name is Graham but everybody calls me Gray and I am rushing headlong into retirement age. All being well I'll get there in October.
I live in a small village called Llansteffan in West Wales. For most of my working life I was involved in road transport, from drivng to management and I always said that apart from my late wife I always had three love affairs, trucks, lager and chips with everything.
Nowadays, I can't afford the lager, the chips just put on the pounds and nobody will let me play with 44 tonne trucks. That leaves me with model trucks.
I started collecting 1:50th trucks some 14 years ago when I had to give up work to look after my wife who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis.
The collection is now at about 100 and growing. The main focus of my collection has in the past been N F C, Pickfords, BRS etc., but of late I have been concentrating on heavy haulage with companies such as Wynn's for example. I have also started a collection of DVDs on heavy haulage as well.
Being as I can't get what I want (model trucks that is) I have started some code three projects but judging by some of the examples that I have seen on this site my efforts so far are more akin to butchery than craft. However I'm learning more and more everyday and hopefully I will soon be able to post pictures of some of my endeavours.
That is of course after I've sorted out this pixel stuff.
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ncc1701d
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 Gray, always nice to see truck collecters.
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MISTER C
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Hello and gray,this is the place to keep on trucking  quite a few on here into those monsters.......enjoy your stay and the crack
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ALI-G
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in it 
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Gaz
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Welcome Gray, things on here are a little topsy turvy at the mo, but I'm sure things will settle down shortly, and you'll fit in just fine. Thank you for you introduction, it's always nice to know a little about the person your talking to.
You'll want to talk to Ken R, about Trucks. 
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Ken R
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Gray, as Gaz said, I'm into the 1/50th trucks myself but havn't yet had the nerve or bottle to chop one up ! Give it time and maybe when I see what you can do, i'll bow to peer pressure and cut up the odd Gibbs or Twyfords just the fun of it ! 
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gray
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Truck choppingThanks for the welcome.
I've read a vast amount of stuff on the forum since I joined up and have been totally amazed as to the amount of information that I have gathered in such a short time.
All these things are completely new to me, plasticard, metal putty, epoxy resin and using caustic soda for paint stripping, to name just a few.
All of this information has come from here.
Like you Ken R I have been reluctant to chop a good model so I have started small, a matchbox Scammell dumper 99p on ebay, which could become a Wynn's ballast tractor and a Solido GMC 6 x6 which might end up as a wrecker. That is at plan c at the moment, a and b have been recycled.
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3nero
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Hey Gray
I like chopping trucks aswell
but mine all end up in show bussiness .gif)
check my link in my signature for some pics
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Spenny
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GRAY, as KEN said he aint got the bottle but i have
enjoy your time with us and if you can find the post (in competion with fred) you will see some of my cabinets and if you study them will find lots o trucks cut up and code 3d
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Nile
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Hello Gray and welcome here from the U.S. this is a superb forum to get info from and give some of your knowledge as well. That is how we all learn. You drove trucks for a living? It would be neat to make up liveries of the truck lines you worked for. I have very recently got into making my own decals, designing them in Photoshop from scratch and making up my own stuff. It is so cool. Did you drive for Pickford's?
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Corgi kid
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Hi Gray, Nice to have another new member on board.
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kitkatman
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Hi and to the Forum Gray. Looking forward to seeing some of your models 
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Mark G
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gray
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PickfordsIn answer to your question Neil, I worked for British Road Services, a sister company of Pickfords. B R S were the general and contract hauliers while Pickfords specialised in domestic and industrial removals and heavy haulage.
I started as a casual driver and ended up as a truck rental manager. They then made me redundant but invited me back to work in the office of a customer.
From there I went to work for the local Scania franchise as a truck salesman.
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gray
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Sorry Nile got your name wrong.
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junkman
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Graham
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keesie25
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Hi there Gray. Sorry I am a bit late, but welcome to you. I am not to much into trucks, but I sure like your other hobbies such as chips.......and I LOVE your part of the country!!!!!!
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