Hand-drawn U1300L/37 Truck Vector Artwork and Desktop Wallpaper

This… is actually what got me started designing again. “Design” is a bit rich – let’s call it “tracing” for now. I don’t care, I am enjoying it. Anyway, I thought it would be great to have a T-shirt with this on it. And of course I need vector artwork to accomplish that. So, here we go. I still need to find a T-shirt vendor…

So, this is is a hand drawing that I think comes from the shop manuals or some other publication. There are a ton of drawings like this in the various manuals but this one is specifically my truck, the U1300L/37 or 435.117. This depicts the regular two door cab and I believe this is how it was probably delivered to Ziegler whom then extended the cab and built it into a Feuerwehr truck or “Feuerwehrauto”.

This is my version. The truck itself is pretty true to the original. I left a few details out here and there just because they didn’t add much and cluttered things up – like the second frame around the window.

The typography I took creative license with. The original is just an ugly block of text. I also changed the font for the measurement text.

Then, I created the desktop wallpaper images I posted earlier. For those, I ended up creating what I call a label that housed our logo, contact info, and info about the image. The starting point of that was the text on the line drawing you see above. That morphed into something I was much happier with. The “435” is a bit too spaced out for me but I needed it to fit the same space as “DOG”, “MOG”, and “EXP”.

Here is the MOG version:

Now, here is the line drawing with the new label. I might end up using “MOG” instead of “435” – I haven’t decided on that yet. What I do like about this is it looks like there is a box on the back of the truck.