Amtronic

Concrete block delivery truck. Set forward front axle.

Oil rig service truck.

Shelves of truck kits. I finally quit cold turkey.

Off-road water truck.

My concrete mixer phase.

Another lowboy with flip axle and a scratchbuilt scraper as the load.

This one I did manage to finish. A off-road coal truck and trailer using the IH pay dump truck and a lot of plastic stock.

My building got increasingly more erratic and over the top. This one is the last one I attempted, and never finished since the move interrupted it. The first couple photos are of the real item, a salt harvester down in Mexico. The rest are of the build in progress and mock-up to judge the stance etc. I never went for an exact duplicate of the real equipment, using them more for inspiration.

This is a pipe laying dozer, using the stock bulldozer with the blade removed and scratchbuilt pipe boom and side weights.

I liked taking the lowboy trailer and cutting it up and making a more modern lowboy trailer from the parts. This one has as a load a scratchbuilt loader that used the tires and wheels from a monster truck kit.

This one is a mostly scratchbuilt dump trailer, using the dump trailer frame and axles. The body is modeled after a bulk fertilizer haul trailer manufactured by Killebrew Mfg.

Since I moved, all my models are packed away in storage since there is no space for building or displaying them anymore. So here are some shots of my builds from back in the day. I went a little overboard with my building - Tim had the market cornered on Pete and KW builds, so I tended toward more esoteric (weird stuff) builds. This first one is of a heavy haul KW T800 - jeep - lowboy - tag dolly. The T800 is a standard T600 with stretched frame, the hood assembly is a cut and modded combo of W925 and T600 hoods. In this photo, I have done the weathering on the jeep but not the truck or trailer parts.

Here's my build. Got it at a swap meet around 2000 for 50 bucks, started to build it as soon as I got home!

Here are two I built using the AMT accessory kit with the ramp body and the camper body. The ramp truck used an AMT promo model with the frame lengthened. The camper was the Dodge ambulance cut to use the cab and the camper body grafted on.

The trailer started out as the AMT car trailer with clear sides. I used some parts box pieces from the AMT Livestock trailer and a lot of Evergreen plastic stock to make the sides and rails. The pickup is mostly stock, the gas cap was missing from the kit so I used a small piece of red material to look like a red shop rag used for a gas cap.

This one was a blast to build. I took the Ford Caterpillar 3208 motor, put it in the back of an extra set of frame rails, added a mixer body, scratchbuilt the cab, with a lot of parts box pieces to complete it. The mixer drum was lengthened to make it reach out over the cab.

I took the AMT flatbed and added a couple of pieces of stock to make a drop deck trailer.

Another lowboy with a detachable gooseneck. The loader is scratchbuilt, the tires came from a monster truck kit. The tractor is the Revell KW kit with the frame stretched and a drop axle added.

Why yes it is. I moved the front axle back, then scratchbuilt the side aprons and steps. The front apron is from a T-600 I put in boiling water to soften it, then pressed it flat from the original rounded front. The fuel tanks are from a GMC General kit.

Cut up several of the lowboy trailer kits to explore more updated designs. The last one is a heavy haul for nuclear plant parts.

I scratchbuilt a ROPS for the D-8 so it would look a little bit more up to date. This is all using Evergreen plastic stock.

A pipelayer based on the D-8 Caterpillar kit. The ballast weights can pivot in and out as can the crane boom.

Used the back half of another kit to make it a dual rear axle tractor. The trailer was scratchbuilt with Evergreen plastic stock. The pivot hitch is fully articulated.

A water truck for off-road mine roads. I used the front half of a Payhauler dump truck to make it 4 wheel steering. Not practical in the real world.

This was an IH mixer kit I built a wrecked truck from. It flipped onto it side, some guardrail penetrated the cab. The mixer body I used on another build.