Italeri: Create a truck – Competition results

And the winners are…well, to be fair, we feel that absolutely everyone was a winner on the day.

The running of our inaugural ‘Create a Truck’ competition has blown all our expectations out of the water. You guys and gals have really got stuck into this. The level of imagination has been quite liter- ally off the scale, well done to everyone.

We have seen it all, from Kiwi fruit slices as wheels right through to working LED headlights. Even disconnecting trailers complete with landing legs, the list goes on. So as you can imagine, the judging of all the entries was going to be a difficult task. However, we had an ace up our sleeve, with good mate Craig Christensen stepping up to the plate for us as our guest judge, thank you Craig. Some of you will recognise Craig from the August 2022 issue of New Zealand Trucking magazine where we featured Craig on our Mini Big Rigs pages. Our story on Craig’s model truck building abilities, creating model trucks out of household items and waste, was the very inspiration for this competition.

Guest judge, prolific model truck creator and truckie to the core, our good mate Craig Christensen

We also say a big thank you to the team at Italeri truck kit sets for coming on board as our sponsor and providing the major prizes for us. Italeri truck kit sets are an absolute pleasure to build with accurately fitting parts as well as immense levels of detail, so we are sure that our class winners are truly going to enjoy every minute building their well-earned prizes.

Without further ado we bring you the contestants and winners of the inaugural 2022 ‘Create a Truck’ competition.

All we can say is bring on next year – we cannot wait to see what you all dream up and build next time around!

WINNER Jack Peachey went all out with his class-winning Scania, including detachable trailer with working landing legs as well as his own paint scheme and sign writing

WINNER Riley-Ray Herbert’s class-winning build complete with opening doors, dashboard with steering wheel and a load of rocks

WINNER Amelia Murray’s class-winning K200 stock unit based on a real unit operated by Beale Trucking of Mangatainoka, we all loved the Aerodyne roof detail

VERY CREATIVE Oakley first designed his build on an iPad, then printed it out. It has opening doors and storage lockers, and it is proudly known as the Topkick T6000 Rapid Responder

NICE DETAIL Sebastian’s Christmas Transport truck and trail- er was real cool, including the pallet loaded with presents

VERY AWESOME Nathan’s Fulton Hogan 450hp Hino truck and trailer combo is back loading snow to Gizzy so they don’t get to0 hot this summer, awesome job mate

HIGHLY INNOVATIVE Tristan went all out decorating his build with the stickers out of his copies of Little Trucker Down Under magazine

NICE PAINT JOB Clive is a big fan of Steve Grahame from the show ‘Outback Truckers’, so his build is based on Steve’s C501 Kenworth

IT'S MACK-NIFICIENT Walter has built a ‘Mack- nificent’ 6x4 tractor unit, here he is seen standing with his build outside Motor Truck Distributors in Palmerston North, the home of Mack trucks in New Zealand

MASTER BUILDER Blake has gone with timber to build his flat deck truck, cutting his own wheels from a fence post, nailing them on was difficult but he stuck with it and got the job done

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Campbell has built himself a conventional transporter truck to shift his PC400 Komatsu from job site to job site

GREAT TEAM WORK Jannik and Julia teamed up to build this T9 series Kenworth complete with low loader transporter trailer

LEGO STYLER Zavier is an avid fan of Lego, and here we see one of his latest builds complete with trailer

KEY IMAGINATION Brodie has based his build on the Mercedes-Benz truck his Dad drives at Flat Point station, it is an 8x4 flat deck complete with working LED headlights

HIGHLY INNOVATIVE Jordy has built an 8x4 cabover logger using cans that are joined together as his load of logs

KIWI INGUINITY Khalid has thought outside the square here with his eco build using kiwifruit slices for wheels and Mr Kiwi the driver is made from an avocado husk

Italeri: Create a truck - Competition results

And the winners are...well, to be fair, we feel that absolutely everyone was a winner on the day.

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