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Now there's a mockup ! That dump box looks great on the steel hood mack. Did you modify the camelback span on this build ? Heard they have an excessive span out of the box . Yours doesn't look that wide .

Beautiful work on your great dane extendable trailer. Cant wait for your winged fleet too

Turned out fantastic ?

Thanks Brian ! Huge milestone reached this weekend, the paint started flying !!! Stopped by my local lfs , and found exactly the colors I was hoping for, tamiya chrome yellow and racing green ! The chassis is in final color, the cabs gonna be a few days . You can see my cab lurking , I used silver base to seal the previous red paint from bleeding thru..THANKS Sam !!!! I added a filler panel under the cab before paint . Here's a mockup w everything before the final primer coat and yellow goes down. Getting to this point seemed ridiculous fast, but really enjoying building this plow. The blue cab and hood really let me down, something caused bulges in the doors, and 3 spots dead center in the hood. I think these new parts came from Kelly Ingram, so glad I had them

Cool little ranger build ! Killer idea dropping the 3.0 under the hood , now its a faster pizza delivery truck !

You've really taken this build to another level! Those large floats look good on there. Swapping hoods really changes the appearance of the DM , much more of a working truck imo

The hood looks fantastic

We're nearing the end of the BRBO 21 , only a few short weeks to go !! Really looking forward to posting everyone's finished builds together to celebrate another brbo in the books ! Plenty of time left for the builders to complete their projects and join the finishers group Huge thanks again to gw trucks for sponsoring this year BRBO and everyone for their participation.

Heck yeah bring on the Mopars!

Man Bill you must be feeding your squirrels better than me , they keep a really clean work space !!! They leave stuff all over mine , gotta have a chat w em

Outstanding details

Wow Dan , I hadn't noticed the pass side wiper before..but now you've mentioned it..I'll see what the rodents say . I did spot the headlight holes in the bumper ends, have those planned. Another smallish detail I wanted to include is the diamond plate panel over fenders, the photo shows it extending down side ! That truck didn't have the cab guard or cold temp shutters..but plenty of easter eggs to ponder Jeff

I'm guessing it was hydro dipped , cool idea . Creates a modern wrapped kinda vibe

Outstanding work

Cant wait to see your work on this steel hood truck ! Mack's gotta have spokes too

Personally I like the color combo, especially on the square body trucks . You'll love it soon enough

The spoiler treatment is a huge improvement ! These split bumper camaros had great character lines

What's not to like about this build , it has huge floats, that wicked bumper, and BB stripes! Curious..dm 600 steel hood from AITM by chance ? His steel hood Mack's are insanely cool. My buddy is doing a RD? steelie right now

Definitely watching this develop, loved your take on the 300C

Gorgeous color and the engine looks great I'm partial to B5 blue , but your lime green makes a killer that will definitely turn heads

Very nice work, those proton packs are a treat to look at

Thanks Dan sometimes I spend too much time changing a perfectly decent part , for small gain. We're building a truck from a fleet ..getting them close enough has been our motto. One area we've been chatting about being noticeably different is the hood/ grill. Ryan found the ad from auction site, and it cleared up some questions we were having. The kit truck is a 6 series AC , the reference truck is a 7 series. Pretty close until ya start looking closer . Slam lock doors are obvious, then the elephant in the room..the square hood / grill . Here's one of the trucks I've been picking details from..and staring at the non tapered grill So..short of remaking every kit part , or ordering a DC cab / hood , i decided to experiment. Taking .040" strip and filling the tapered section of the upper grill, then sanding the curved top back into it..and I have a modified grill. The vertical sides will remain tapered to avoid a weird profile looking at the truck. Its one of those small changes ya might notice, or not . Checking the shape w hood I'll have to foil cast the original emblem to replace the one sanded off..I forgot to foil cast it before sanding away. Finally the cab guard was replaced. We chose to model a truck with one, and I had already removed it . Just enough space for the plow supports to fit under it. The other side will have the exhaust stack . Thanks for any feedback or criticism! Jeff

Another fantastic build from your bench!

Wknd update ! I've been updating several parts that I'd built incorrectly. Most prominent was the fuel tanks, the kit parts needed the straps sanded off and relocated . I feel like I'm rivet counting again... new steps and mounts were added too A big surprise happened Friday when a package arrived from the west coast ! Ryan Pedone had cast a new pair of solid steel wheels up for his truck, and sent me a set. These wheels were very common on plow trucks..they fit the 24s perfectly I was starting to get distracted by new project photos..so a mock up was in order. This helped refocus the crew ! The 5 hole rear wheels hadn't been swapped yet

Really nice work and photos. Definitely looking forward to a couple kits Hopefully they'll replace those inner side walls w solid sheet , cant imagine real truck has those slots for trash to collect around packer blade .