Peterbilt 351

[The Brush]

Hi, Heres my pete351 i`m building from plastic card & spare parts + homemade resin castings - balsa wood, A couple of the first pics are blurred my fault sorry, it may not be 100% accurate but if looks like a 351 i`ll be happy. Cab is 1mm card with .5 outer skin to add detail ,balsa roof & bulkhead. Hood grill & fenders from parts box.

 

 

Edited April 14, 2023 by The Brush

[Rockford]

Clever, clever stuff there mate. Where are you getting your dimensions from? 

Edited April 15, 2023 by Rockford
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[cifenet]

Wow, I don’t even know how this works. 

Great job getting this going!  Would definitely follow this. 

[The Brush]

Hi, After a small break to visit the wife`s inlaws what joy!! I have finally finished the frame which is now in paint. I made an error with the front shocker which is now in its rightful place, I must have had a senior moment. I put some wire supports on the front axle to stop it bending upwards. It`s curbside with half  a cummins block in place, Now on with the interior.

Thanks for the comments, The cab dimensions are from a downloaded spec sheet which i enlarged to scale size. The rest is from pics.

More soon . 

[Rockford]

I'll bet when your in-laws were talking all you were thinking about was the next stage in your Pete ?As ever, a work of art, with materials from various sources from what I can see. 

[gotnitro?]

Love your chassis details! Very nicely done 

[cifenet]

Ok, this is some serious job you are doing here!

No kidding around, the work is fantastic so far.
 

Keep it up!

[The Brush]

HI, Thanks for the comments much appreciated. Heres the interior I built this from pics off the web, made from the usual materials plastic card,pins & homemade resin castings this is now ready to paint & detail.

Edited May 7, 2023 by The Brush

[Rockford]

Very nicely done mate. Keep up the good work!

[The Brush]

On 5/7/2023 at 10:48 PM, Rockford said:

Very nicely done mate. Keep up the good work!

Thank you steve.

[The Brush]

Hi heres the frame airbrushed in revell aqua color Greyish Blue. wheels are sprayed aluminium acrylic & buffed to a satin finish, bumper is alclad chrome over black laquer. The weather is good at the moment so the cab is in the paint & body shop, AKA- the garden shed being painted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[leafsprings]

Incredible scratch building going on here. Fantastic suspension and cab work! Glad you went with a leafspring rear suspension, air bags would be out of place for a vintage Pete.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Awesome work! It looks great!

[Rockford]

That's looking great mate. You're right, it is finally good weather for painting over here in GB. I'm sure your paint job will turn out great. 

[Force]

7 hours ago, The Brush said:

Hi heres the frame airbrushed in revell aqua color Greyish Blue. wheels are sprayed aluminium acrylic & buffed to a satin finish, bumper is alclad chrome over black laquer. The weather is good at the moment so the cab is in the paint & body shop, AKA- the garden shed being painted.

 

 

 

Nice job on this.
When I look at the rear suspension and axles it looked a bit strange to me...it took a while to see what it was, but it's too late to do anything about it now tho'.
It looks like you have put the front differential carrier section of the rearmost drive axle at the back of the forward drive axle and upside down, and the rear "pumpkin" part of the forward drive axle is at the front of the rearmost drive axle.
Hard to explain but the axles should look something like on the picture below, the round "pumpkin" parts of the axles goes to the rear on both axles, the forward axle has the drive shaft between the axles going out on top of the "pumpkin" and it goes down to the rearmost axle differential carrier.

6 hours ago, leafsprings said:

Incredible scratch building going on here. Fantastic suspension and cab work! Glad you went with a leafspring rear suspension, air bags would be out of place for a vintage Pete.

Well Peterbilt introduced the Stabilaire air ride suspension as soon as 1964 so it would have been available on the 351, same suspension that later ended up with Freightliner as the FAS Airliner.
But I also like the Reyco style four spring suspension.

[The Brush]

13 hours ago, Force said:

Nice job on this.
When I look at the rear suspension and axles it looked a bit strange to me...it took a while to see what it was, but it's too late to do anything about it now tho'.
It looks like you have put the front differential carrier section of the rearmost drive axle at the back of the forward drive axle and upside down, and the rear "pumpkin" part of the forward drive axle is at the front of the rearmost drive axle.
Hard to explain but the axles should look something like on the picture below, the round "pumpkin" parts of the axles goes to the rear on both axles, the forward axle has the drive shaft between the axles going out on top of the "pumpkin" and it goes down to the rearmost axle differential carrier.

Well Peterbilt introduced the Stabilaire air ride suspension as soon as 1964 so it would have been available on the 351, same suspension that later ended up with Freightliner as the FAS Airliner.
But I also like the Reyco style four spring suspension.

Thanks for your obsevation, i see your point about the axles . Put it down to a senior moment.

[The Brush]

22 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Awesome work! It looks great!

16 hours ago, Rockford said:

That's looking great mate. You're right, it is finally good weather for painting over here in GB. I'm sure your paint job will turn out great. 

 

22 hours ago, leafsprings said:

Incredible scratch building going on here. Fantastic suspension and cab work! Glad you went with a leafspring rear suspension, air bags would be out of place for a vintage Pete.

Thanks guys, Cab is now painted, just let it degas then i`ll carry on .

[Force]

6 hours ago, The Brush said:

Thanks for your obsevation, i see your point about the axles . Put it down to a senior moment.

Don't worry about it, it's under the truck so it will not show that much.
Keep up the good work.

[cifenet]

The way this truck is standing looks very good.  Well balanced and poised. 

Love the details and I can see tremendous efforts went into it!  Keep it up!

[The Brush]

Hi, thanks for the comments, After many other summer garden jobs that had to be done, I have painted all the parts & added home made  decals, A few other bits need to be made yet. I glazed it with acetate & added window rubbers with 1mm round elastic from a craft shop.

 

Edited July 1, 2023 by The Brush

[leafsprings]

Details look great, really taking shape! Those pre '61 era cabs had extra thick windshield rubber gaskets, almost touch each other at the vertical bar.

Edited July 1, 2023 by leafsprings

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Nice work!!

[The Brush]

On 7/1/2023 at 6:54 PM, leafsprings said:

Details look great, really taking shape! Those pre '61 era cabs had extra thick windshield rubber gaskets, almost touch each other at the vertical bar.

Thanks for the info, I do intend to put 1mm vinyl round the outside to make the gaskets thicker.

[The Brush]

On 7/1/2023 at 9:28 PM, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Nice work!!

Thanks you, Appreciated.