Mark Savage Trucks

[cdntrucker]

I have read a few articles in regards to the great builds of Mark Savage. I know from these and speaking with numerous people in the Calgary area that he spent some time here in Alberta researching the heavy oilfield trucks used to move drilling equipment.

I found a couple pictures that might give us all an appreciation of his work. M&R Trucking was based out of Drayton Valley, Alberta about an 90 mins north of where I live. Operations ran from the late 70's to the early 90's until new owners took over, Artie Kos Trucking. Attached photos of Marks intense work. I would like to express that these are not my photos.



Real 1:1 truck



Mark's build

This truck was featured in Fine Scale Modeller magazine about 6 years ago, among a few others. If anyone is intersted I can scan the article and post. Truely a craftsman.

Interesting note, Klaus Clever built a Pacific P10 bed truck which was part of the KOS fleet a couple years ago. Link is a Guenter's model site.

Glenn C.

[plastictrucker]

I remember his work in old trucking magazines.Each one got better and better.I loved it when he started concentrating on Canadian trucks.If I remember correctly he was only about 14 when he was first published a true artisan.Go to. public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale / . Look under magazine articles for commercial truck modeler,it was printed by Mark.

[Rustycab]

I had the opportunity to meet Mark on a few occaisions.
Back in the 80's I started a model club P.B.C.A. here in Greensburg, Pa. not from from Butler Pa, where Marks home was at the time. He attended a few of our model shows and was a big encouragement for me.
Always a gentlemen and very informative. I remember him telling me at that time of his travels to research the oil rigs
Here are a few old and grainy pictures from back in the 80"s where he attended our model shows.


And not to be overlooked there was Clint Freeman who at the time was building the 1/16th scale Oil field trucks just prior to his start up of Resin casting



TWO ICONS IN THE HOBBY

[edwin87]

Mark and Clint were true craftsmen. Mark's models were simply amazing back in the early to mid 1980's when he was writing a lot for SAE. Clint filled Mark's shoes in the late '80's and early '90's. The level of detail was way beyond what most people were doing at the time. And they specialized in trucks that involved a lot of scratchbuilding and modifications. Many, like the Pacific P-10, had to have almost everything built from scratch. Mark's line of resin was also superb for the time, I just wish I had ordered more stuff when I had the chance.

Ed

[Rustycab]

I know Mark is still in Buisness doing smaller scale stuff and I cant seem to connect with Clint and no one seems to know why he got out of the resin casting

Craig

[pbtrucker]

Hi Craig,
I was told by two friends, that are close friends of Clint's, that he stopped casting and making parts, because it was just very labor intense and time consuming. I know Clint had he's business for around 6 or 7 years, he offered alot of great parts and conversions.

Doug

[Red Oval]

When Lou Kroack was featuring Mark in TableTopTrucker in Owner/Operator Magazine in 70's I couldn't understand how someone the same age as me could be building such impressive models. It was as if I was trying to light a fire with two sticks and he Bic lighter.
A true craftsman.

Tim

[lizardwizard]

as i live in alberta and see these trucks the amont of scratch building to make a model of one is a goal i have set but there is only one way i culd ever be as good as mark and that is to make a deal with the devil he was the best at what he did end of story i wish he was still around making models and selling parts

[blwn2000pu]

It was seeing Mark's trucks in Lou Kroacks book that inspired me to start building truck models as a kid. I used to order a lot of stuff out of autoworld catalogs and that is where I found their books. I still have Lou's book as well as Phil Jensons book that I bought with allowance money when I was only 10 or 11 years old. I also have a couple of Mark's resin conversions, an International 9600 COE and a 9300 along with an old Jim Etter Dodge L- 700 resin conversion. All of these are very brittle resin I might add ( had to fix a few chips in them) but very detailed. One day I might actually use them but for now they are packed away somewhere in a closet.