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So another day, another kit bargain. A 1/25 scale Revell Historic Series '80 Peterbilt 359 Conventional, being made into a custom "old iron" tribute intended to evoke old needle nose trucks, with a parts bin day cab that will be backdated to not have the paddle-style door handles (it is a Kenworth, but I thought it flowed with the rest of the rig, and it is "within the family"), and a cutdown interior that will be a retro-styled simple affair. Single large round Dietz headlamps replace the stock items, grille will be body color with custom made slat or screen inner section, and base color inside/out will be Glidden brick red with Glidden matte black as second color. Found at Michaels today and it rang up for a touch under $20 as many Facebookers hinted at. Plus, it was the only land vehicle kit available, so it was a Pete or nothing. First look at it in paint and mocked up. This interior used hand painted upholstery/mats/dash/etc, a custom steering wheel/column/shifter (not shown) and had material taken out to make a sleeper cab Pete interior work in the denuded Bandag Bandit KW cab that I made look more like an old Pete needlenose crossed with a Diamond T or an IHC westcoaster.

So the rig is majorily WiP and will likely do a white interior to go with it. Might color match the engine to the interior as well. (Still in debating about it.) The trailer is my ugly as Sin... old school car hauler left to rust, but still servicable. These are my first 2 builds into big rigs. I now have 9-10 rigs and 3 more trailers for cars.

This started life as a Revell Peterbilt 359 snap-kit and became the new Gables Corner VFD's Incident Support Unit 1. The box design is based on Summit Fire Apparatus' air cascade units, similar to Kenton or Columbus's units. Lots of scratchbuilding and a few parts from shapeways.

Started the transformation of my Peterbilt 359 from having a sleeper to eventually getting a dump box and a transfer trailer. Got the sleeper off and starting to get the back of the cab made. Still lots of work to do.

This is the Revell Peterbilt 359 snap kit, or at least my version of it. A great kit to build, especially for someone that hasn't even had time to sit down at the bench for a couple of years (me). Anyway, there are a few changes from stock including the decals on the doors (from the AMT California Hauler kit). I ditched the Revell supplied wheels and tires, replacing them with ones from Moebius. The headlights were donated to the cause from the AMT TeeVee Dune Buggy. I added BMF, stripped much of the chrome replacing it with Testors Metallic Red to match the body and gave the engine some detailing with different gauge wires. Overall, I am quite happy with how it turned out, hope you fellas like it. Cheers.

here is a project i got from a friend, he cut off the sleeper and cut up the frame. i finished off the cutting and worked it out, made a daycab panel, fixed the frame and am making it all work out and look good. still have a bit of work left to do on it, like the interior, fix the rear frame, some minor weathering, and a couple other details. this is a revell pete 359 "snap" kit. cant rotate one of the pics, but needs a small bit of touch up in the paint. color is mystic emerald, by testors, in one coat laquer.