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Thanks everyone for your comments, they are very thoughtful. I appreciate it!

Good news! Thanks

Nice looking rig. What’s the length of it?

That’s a very nice looking truck.

Excellent!

I love your builds of Revell’s epic new duo.

I just got a set of the CTM rubber hood latches and they are really very nice, but they do seem small for the hood ones I’ve seen. Maybe they are more of a European design? I think they’d work well for battery boxes. I’d be interested in larger ones, as Cowboy Rich stated above, maybe in the 6”-8” range. Not sure of the actual prototypical dimensions, but I think they would need to be longer for hoods. Thanks for all of the cool stuff you make.

She’s a beauty!

Excellent job!

I was scrolling down through the pictures being really impressed with what I saw, and then I got to the lights. Jaw dropped. Wow. Amazing.

Sounds like a great plan, looking forward to it.

This is really nice, looking forward to seeing it behind a truck and hauling a load.

Nice clean build, great job. Glad to see it finished!

Looks great. Is the conspicuity tape refective?

Agreed. An improved refinement of the signature style.

Thanks! And thank you for your service.

True, a Monroe County Fair sticker would be awesome. Good idea!

I looked at that on a review video on YouTube recently, and though the boy doing the review meant well, it wasn’t 1/24 as he thought it was - and I wish it was. 1/50 seems more like it. The listing says 21cm long - if that’s true, then it’s not 1/24. It would be great if it was, though. I bought a “1/24” bmx bike on eBay from one of those really cheap outfits from Asia, and it was more close to 1/12 scale. Ridiculous. Glad it was only $3 or so.

Every single item is a model in itself, as a true work of art should be. I love the tire with the outside shoulder wear!

Fantastic! What a great project. A lot of work, I’m sure, but it shows.

Thanks! The milk crate is a 3D printed item from eBay, a guy sells them along with other diorama items. Search for 1/24 milk crate. I made the bungee straps using Ben Wicker’s tip of using bicycle inner tube, cut into tiny strips and s-hooks from wire. They actually function by holding the milk crate and Susie coils down on the photo etched deck plate from Czech Truck Models.

Awesome build, I love it! What a backstory, as always. I can only imagine the hot torture that seat and it’s predecessor had to endure. Funny! I like this Jerry guy.

Yeah, it’s kind of a headache rack, figured that’s something someone would do. I wanted to cover up those tab slots in the sleeper wall. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It was an enjoyable build.

Here is a Revell Peterbilt 359, I built as a 1982 Peterbilt 359-119 Farm Truck, still hard at work today. Backstory: The Ol’ Pete spent the first 10 years of its career as a long-haul owner-operator truck, but took up its second life as the primary truck on Hartic Farms’ roster in the early 90’s. Today, she’s been long relegated to secondary duties. However, she is mostly original, very reliable, and still the favorite of the original farmer’s son, who has dreams of resorting her to her former glory. She was the first truck he learned to drive as a kid, and that’s probably the reason she’s still around, now that he has taken over the family business. The engine is a Cat 3406A, non-Aftercooled, 350hp. - originally factory painted white, but re-painted Cat Yellow when it was rebuilt 25 years ago. You can see a bit of the original paint showing as the yellow has chipped and worn off. A remanufactured compressor was put on it a few years ago. The tires are a variety of Moebius, Moluminum, and Double Take Replicas Bridgestone and Michelin steer and drive tires – replaced only as needed to save some cash. They ride on Moebius steer rims, and Double Take Replicas 5- hole Drives & Hubs. When she needed her exhaust replaced, the son put on a set of straight pipes, hoping to boost the power a little, but it also looks and sounds cool. The truck recently got new Earl Miller air and electrical line susie coils, though she still needs a pogo stick or something better to hold them. The back wall of the sleeper was repaired, after a farm mishap many years ago, with steel diamond plate. The original grille was also fixed after a run-in with a piece of farm equipment using Plano Model Products oval photo etch sheet, after the original Revell grille was cut-out and removed. The headlights are from AMT. It sports a Double Take Replicas visor, and ModelTruckin’ stripes, along with miscellaneous kit and homemade decals. It’s still quite dirty from the fall harvest, where she pulled extra-duty subbing for the farms’ much newer primary truck that was in the shop - yet again. I hope you enjoy. Questions, comments, and critiques are welcome.