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Ditto JT's and Kostas!

Thanks for showing. Now I FINALLY grasp how you guys do the rounded corners. Duuhhhh. Been told a million and one times but never clicked. This is cool. And the moving trailer? PERFECT. Got Mayflower or Allied written all over it! Just a wonderful bed bug hauler. So is the add on living quarters or storage or both? Stumbled across the below. Probably the ugliest execution of this ever. Thank you KW for the Aerodyne to set some justifiable aesthetic standards...LOL

This is so neat. Inspires me to perhaps one day build a yacht/big boat hauler trailer. Got a neighbor with a Prostar that hauls new 25-40' footers and his trailer looks alot like this...just not quite so heavy duty but very similar. Nice job!

Those are really sharp looking, Steve.

No problem Pavel. I greatly enjoy seeing your masterpieces!

Dont let it kick you! You got something great going here! Your paint job alone is incredible. Never give up! Never give in! Never accept a butt kicking by a piece of styrene!

Sharp Alan! Did the aux lights on the deck come with the kit or did you make/purchase them? Have not seen one of these in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

Trying to spray silver and get it look right and flow evenly as a primary body paint color is no easy task. You did VERY well. Better than I could do for sure. On the decals and just offering a suggestion. There is some stuff called Solv-a-set by Walthers (there are others but I find this one the best) that works well on pulling the decals into tiniest of grooves, rivets and louvers. Sometimes it takes a few applications of it over a couple of days but it does work. Solv-a-set seems to be a bit more aggressive than Tamiya, Testors, or other decal setting solutions If you have already clear coated over the decals, you can take a fresh blade and basically slice or ###### the decal through the clearcoat and after several applications it sometimes still does its job. If you elect try it on the front intake vent louvers, I would try doing one louver over and over for a few days and once it completely dries, then try the next one above or below it otherwise the whole thing may open up noticeable cracks. And the blue frame and upgrades you have done will make this a really nice rig. Surely dont see many models done up in silver but I surely do remember alot of them on the highway back in this era. NICE job.

THANKS for the link!

Very snazzy! What is that on the trailer?

PM Sent to you Jim.

Another fine one and it is pretty obvious you are never going to live down the orange. BTW - while in Dollar General, I found some decent animals for $1 that look about right for 1/25. Lions and Tigers and Bears. Oh MY!. Seriously lots of dogs, cattle, sheep, all that. I think they are by the same outfit that does the people you found at Hobby Lobby or at least are in the clear "tube" like Hobby Lobby. If they dont have them there and you want some, just PM me. I really like the headache rack. Thanks for sharing.

MORE MORE MORE! Just curious. I have used the glass that goes on the top part of microscope slides when doing model trains decades ago. Yes, cutting it is a pain with a high percentage breaking, but it is so thin and the effects were incredible. Obviously it limits you to flat glass and I have been rolling this around and the framing technique you describe makes it sound plausible. Thank you so very much for sharing.

This thing is going to be sharp! You are onto something great.

NICE! PM sent.

Neat stuff and Earl, I really like the Pete. Classy. Would like to see more of it.

Surely would like to get a nice photoetch grille for my KW W900 in the works though the price would likely make it a jaw dropper.

This thing is going to mean serious business! Gonna be sharp!

This is going to be a cool project. So enjoy when people kick in the creative thinking and make something out of nothing.

Lots of ways of doing this. One way would be a front mount PTO off the front crankshaft (runs anytime the engine runs) and the other off the transmission (can be disengaged/engaged with the clutch). Lots of cement mixers in my area at least up through the 80's had front mount PTO's for the mixer drum with the big spacing between the grille and bumper. Autocar was easy for this as the radiator was mounted high if I recall and a straight shot with the shaft from the pump to the crank was not that hard. Good luck!

NICE job! Did you scratchbuild the visor?

Love the dirty and well used stuff! Outstanding job!

You know I like them dirty and well used! Interesting projects you have going! I dont know a thing about the Euro trucks so it always nice to see different things. Jesse

Insane! The effort is paying off!

If you want to do some scrounging, Red Dot was big in these air conditioner packages. Just google them as they are still around. Might be able to find something. Air condition on a Ford C series (or any truck of this style and vintage) would definitely be a luxury and rarity. With regards to air discharge using ducts in the cab I doubt it...but am gladly willing to be proven wrong. There would have been a second "unit" with the blower motor and ducts somewhere in the cab. Perhaps under the dash as typical add on units back in the day. It was never "integrated" on these to the best of my knowledge (there are no vents built in...only heat and defrost ducts) as that would have required major retooling for an option that was seldom ordered and certainly not cost effective for a design going back long before air condition being common. Good luck!