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Very nice. Bending that exhaust must have been tricky. VERY NICE. What is the secret for getting those irritating side mirror together clean and squared like you did? Do you make a jig to hold everything? Love the big sleeper.

Though nowhere in the league of some of the others, I had a thread going a few weeks ago on my build. I live in hotel rooms and dont have alot of tools and do this on a shoestring budget and give them away to friends. Anyway, just finished mine up. What worked quite well (givenbudget and tool limitations) was using cheap and thick water based paint like I use on the interior as a "final filler" on the cab seams as I did not want to blow out the rivet detail with sanding. Perfect? No way. Better than sanding along? Absolutely. Plastered it in paint and let it dry. Ran it under the hotel room sink and just kind of smeared things in place. Let dry. Then just used wet Q tips to remove the extra. Also, I found the shifter tower took some trimming to get to fit well so the cab would sit flush on the rear mounts. If I had to do over again, spend time on the cab mounts, shifter base and grille alignment as soon as possible. I also put "chrome" foil on the fuel tanks, visor, battery box and over the front bumper to make it look more like a one piece style. Good luck!

That is really cool about using the coat hangers and other ideas for stacks. Resourcefulness and scrounging at its best.... With a set of stacks like that, it can't help but to look "sick". Nice job.

Holy Cow! You should consider selling a bill of materials/kit so some of us could give this a try. Absolutely amazing! I would be real curious how many $ you wind up with in this thing just for future planning. If I hit the lottery, I would like to try something like this with the 1/16 Monogram Peterbilt. I remember when I was a kid (far too long ago) I took a battery operated war tank drive out of a Tamiya kit and put in a 1/32 snap tite GMC General kit. It was "front wheel drive" and had the batteries stuffed in the sleeper. Ahhhh memories. FANTASTIC job. Excellent use of the old brain.

WOW! Very impressive! Look forward to following it!

For what it is worth - 30 some years ago I probably put together every AMT and Ertl HD truck kit made. Fool I was and pitched them. Anyway, I have bought the re-released Diamond Reo and now the Freightliner COE. Like a bad nightmare I remember the cab/hood on the Reo/Western Star/Road Boss and 3 piece cab on the Freightliner COE was not good on these things back then either. I guess some things never change but for $30-40 compared today to the $5-6 bucks back then, I surely hoped for some improvement at least on the warpage. Oh well. Just glad to have them back. I welcome any cheap and simple suggestions for getting the cab joints on the AMT Freightliner COE clean without destroying the rivet detail. Been a long time....

That is going to be a nice piece. Great job!

That is going to be great!

Love the B&W photo. Steal the saying from Peterbilt back in the day...."Class". That really sets it off well!

Outstanding! Very sharp and crisp. Are those rearview mirror part of the kit or did you get them someplace else? Nice touch having them so "clean" and square. They have always been my downfall on AMT kits.

Incredible. Love the papers on the dash!