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Yes they do Jeff. I need a break from the AMT kits for now I like all of them but at the end of a hard day at work sometimes I can’t tolerate a fiddle kit. I had this original one like you in my younger years I built it up at Bills house in Kansas City one summer I was around 17 years old drove up there in a old International pick I had 😂 I’ll never forget it too bad I did keep it.

Gary your hard efforts paid off on this one nice beautiful build and thanks for sharing your build thread on this rig.

Glad to see you got it done the Bulldog looks great.

Great job on the honest John that can be a difficult kit I’ve built several. The KW extended hood looks great I like it as a day cab.

Beefy Pete I’m with Steve how did I miss this some one nice job.

Good looking Brockway Scott the final is awesome and enjoyed the build thread.

Nice turn out heading there to take a look thanks for sharing your build Gary.

Two more cool builds.

Going to take a look. Thanks Scott for sharing this build.

Cab looks great Brian I like the little silver heat insulation where the dog house is on the firewall nice touch

Gary I like those tires

Nice paint job. This will be an interesting build.

Thanks. What’s next on your bench?

Here’s one I started several years ago painted twice and decaled still didn’t like the way it turned out so I put it away till last summer ordered some different decals and started chipping away at it. I’ve done some work on it this week I’ll be adding the cab decals once the cab is finished and it gets mounted to the frame to ensure they line up correctly.

Looks like a hard working Louisville to me great job on this one. I like that Tag axle reminds me of my dad’s 1973 Chevy C65 dump truck he bought new he added the Tag just like yours thanks for the memories. I have to say it but I guess old corn binders do get scraped 😂.

Thanks Brian. I’ve thought about buying the long nose Chevy long bar grille single headlights. My Dad bought a new one in 1972 along with a new trailmobile flat bed trailer but it was a short nose version.

It’s your dream , dream it. Sounds pretty cool to me.

Glad to hear that. I’m always a little leery about 3D printing stuff not being smooth

Yes we need to had a light hearted attitude and have fun like Gary I’m enjoying this thread. I built one like yours in the summer 1985 and still have it I painted it close to the box art color I was just so excited that I even got my hands on one because back then they was so rare and I found it in a old hobby shop that had several old discontinued kits left. Back then it was an easy build and real didn’t pay much attention about the multiple cab parts and other things just had fun building it and you should do the same. I still build my Trucks this way today. Have fun with this kit it’s even better than the one I have no more worries about a big tire impression on your decals 😂.

Yes that belly pan would be a classy touch for this beast

I painted a Louisville dump truck about this same color last year one day I’ll get to building it maybe. All is looking great

Those look nice and more impressive once they have been installed. Nice work Gary.

Sweet!

Cool color for the engine that matches the truck body I’ve seen this before on real show shows and it’s neat.

Very well done one the upgrades Steve I’m enjoying this build.