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Beautiful build! Great subject matter. The oil drum really does catch your eye. What brand / color red is that, if I may ask?

Great building skill, combined with a vivid imagination yeilded very cool models. I am an American truck purist, but I can't help but really like these Euro haulers. I applaud your originality.

Great color compination. Looks like it rolled off an I-H sales brochure.

Sharp. All your builds end up having great eye appeal.

Really liking the color and stripes. Great looking custom.

Now thats pretty slick. Lots of character.

Could be very interesting. What car will it be hauling? Will the paint on the hauler match the car? Pretty cool concept.

JT, GREAT color, very rich looking dark blue.. Stands alone very well on such a large surface area sleeper. Sharp as always.

Jeff, you are welcome. A big part of why I like posting is to, hopefully, inspire my fellow builders. I know a lot of the work on here brings forth a lot of ideas. JT's orange fleet had a hand in setting the paint job this model will wear. I just need more time, a 32 hour day should work. Thanks to all for the kind words.

Thanks Doug. Don't worry, the 352 is still on the bench, just needed a little break. Starting to WANT to work on it again, so thats a good sign.

Thanks guys. The air cleaners are the ones from the Revell snap W900, with some spare AMT wheel backs, for the lids, filled in with Evergreen tube and rod to form a centering post over the post on the body for the snap chrome hat. The wheel backs measure a scale 15", so do the air cleaners, making for a decent representation of a 15" Vortox unit. The grille and air cleaner screens come from Plano Model Products, in Plano, Tx.

As always JT, very cool. Did you make the rear sleeper wall, (chrome part)?

I wanted to take a break from the rivet counting, and there is a resin 358 hood on the bench, just staring at me, (saving that for the California Hauler reissue). So, for a fast, (for me), fun project, I ripped into a snap Pete. Wanting to do it up in a different style than I usually do, so a custom 358 is the result. Here are a few pics, including a mock up so far. I narrowed the grille and hood, used AMT headlights, (still my favorites), added photo etched for the grille and air cleaners, streched it to a 285" wheelbase, with a smooth frame insert, and am going with straight pipes The smoothed the battery / storage boxes are kit parts, and the brakes are from the parts box. The resin rear fenders were so warped, I had to use a 1/16th " steel rod as part of the front and rear mounts to keep them square, even after hot water and some tweaking. Thanks for looking, Mark.

Great color choice! Nice work on the assembly.

A real eyecatching corn binder. Nice work.

Nice work. Really liking the green.

This is beyond cool! Awesome work.

The engine looks really good. It makes a convincing replica. Well done. Love the hood and headlights. Going to be A very cool model.

The crane swap is a great idea and the 3208 transplant is very cool. Can't wait to see more.

Very cool Titan. Looks like it came off a brochure. First attempt: really? Looks so good, me thinks thou pullest our legs. lol. Well done.

Sean, they are functional. In a couple of the pics you can see them folded open, They are the Model Car Garage Big Rig piano hinges. Good Stuff. Thanks for the compliments.

Hey Everyone, Just thought some new pictures were in order. The first pictures show the storage compartment door jams and striker plates installed. Them you'll see the main door jams are in place. Since i got the idea to open the radiator access door on the front, I had to modify the doghouse some. Found some goo reference photos of a 352 for sale to go from.The doors themselves have had the windows resized and shaped to be more accurate and I moved the door handles down for the later model. There are the begininings of the door palels, too. Preliminary work on the rooftop A/C unit, So/So results. Test fitting the doors revieled to little clearance, so the jams will have to be sanded a bit to allow for primer and paint. Lastly are the parts that will become the door latch mechanisms...turn the handles to open the doors kind of thing. Thanks for checking it out. Mark. P.S. Bowtie, I am a charter member. Some days its like a sickness. lol.

It causes me great distress that this is not mine. lol. Way too cool.

You have a great start on what will be a very cool trailer. Doors look very good, love the Carrier unit.

Tout simplement magnifique. Amazing work.