Help with F350, planning and plotting

Pakmule87 · February 2, 2012

Hey everybody. I am new to the forums here, and was wondering if anybody could help me for planning for a build I am wanting to try to do. I want to make a model of my dad's work truck, 1994 Ford F-350 Dually Crew Cab.

Several obstacles that will be in my way are the running boards, aftermarket bumper, sun visor, clearance lights, and mainly the engine.

The bumper, I figured I would be able to make decently easy since its mostly flat other than where it cuts in for the rear hitch, clearance lights I would have to take a try at making with clay, probably buy the sun visor that is on ebay and modify it. But more trouble on the running boards and the engine.

Does anybody know of an engine that is similar looking to the Ford 7.3L Turbo Charge/International T444E? And any other suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated, since I am about as inexperienced with this as you could imagine, just got back into building models.

Thanks in advance!

mikemodeler · February 2, 2012

post some pictures of your Dad's truck and what you are looking for help on and I am sure the members here will be able to guide you in your quest to build the truck.

The crew cab will have to be scratch built as there is not a cab on the market. The engine will have to be scratch built as well because there has not been a diesel engine in a pickup kit.

The good news is that you have the truck there for reference, don't let the fact that you are getting back to building keep you from getting this done.

Jordan White · February 2, 2012

Best bet is grab an AMT F-150 regular cab-long bed kit and a Revell/Monogram F-350 Dually kit to start. Pics would help for the exterior stuff, but I think some people have been able to use the 7.5L V8 from the F-350 kit to make the 7.3L Diesel.

Pakmule87 · February 2, 2012

Yeh, so far the f150 and f350 were what I was looking at to use parts for since the front end of the dually body style has the flatter front end and the f150 has just the right setup overall including the headlights. Just won a f350 kit for parts (missing drivetrain and wheels) which gives me a start for having more of a feel for what I can do. I will try to get some pics in the next couple of days if I remember, camera actually happens to be in the truck as well lol.

But just to say for the heck of it, I spent a bunch of time trying to do as much research as I could. Just a pity nobody ever made an International 4700 model kit (other than the conversion) to give a donor engine.

Fabrux · February 3, 2012

Something to keep in mind is the AMT 92-96 F-150 kit is 1:25 scale and the Monogram 87-91 F-250 kit is 1:24 scale; the bed won't line up with the cab. To make a 92-96 dually bed to match the AMT cab, the best way would be to get a long bed and a flareside kit and graft the flareside bedsides to the long bed. As long as you're very careful with the cuts, it should turn out good!

Pakmule87 · February 3, 2012

Actually had ran across a post where somebody actually went and cut down the f350 cab into a standard cab and sat it side by side to the f150 cab, which I originally had planned to use the f150 cab as the base and then cut from the f350 to make the extended cab, but now I am just planning on taking the grill/headlights and hood to give me the right front end look instead of the original bit, and use 2 f350 cabs for the crew cab so that it matches up correctly to the bed. Though I get to have the fun of extending the chassis slightly to accommodate for the extra length.

By the way, anybody know of a good set of bucket seats that were used in the Ford Windstar? My dad had modified some from a van he was scrapping (tranny went out and paying more to fix it than what he paid for the van wasn't worth it) since the seats he had in it were falling apart for the cushion (not even original to the truck to start with, since its an Odessa Edition for what that counts).

Fabrux · February 4, 2012

Nothing close to Windstar seats available in scale. The closest you'd get would be Taurus seats and even then they'd be split bench rather than buckets.

Pakmule87 · February 6, 2012

Just got a bunch of pictures, though I am sure I can probably manage to take another 20 to be able to give a good set to look at, but I think these should suffice for everybody to see what I get to deal with.