Dandydan

Thanks Mark and Chris-I appreciate the compliments! I got some stripes laid out on the cab-hopefully everything will look as straight after the paint as it does with just the tape on it...

Good for you Chris, this kit had a few quirks I felt-looks like you did just fine.

Both absolutely gorgeous-nice work!

I got rid of a Monza kit recently-I had no idea it could be made to look so good-nice work!

I haven't seen too many of these-cool build choice.

Thats a real beauty you've got going there! It doesn't matter who's built it or how many times-thats why I (and I might be speaking for others) come here-to see everyones work-even on the same kits.

I'd love to get one or two of these when they hit the shelves too. Love the stock red one and the Trepaneir built car-both beautiful in thier own respect.

Love that color combo-stellar job!

Not much is glued yet Ed-lol! Lots of dry fitting is one thing I've learned. I've taken a little poetic liscense on the stock boom to make it look more like the one on the truck-pics of that coming soon!

I actually did prime-sandable gray is what I use most of the time. Until you just mentioned the colors, I just remembered it was the Destroyer I used for the cab-not Bigfoot. I guess red is notorious for bleeding through, but after sanding, shooting silver, and re-priming with whire primer I'm pretty happy.

I got some resin Budd style wheels from BNL-I was extremely pleased with the quality and how quick they came. The only downside was they're 4WD wheels and Dad's wrecker wasn't-but that only required a little trimming to hollow out the hub area. So this is the early mock up-thanks for looking!

After trimming the rear flares, lots of sanding, and covering it in a coat of silver, both halves matched pretty well. The wrecker body is going to be yellow anyway, but there's a yellow stripe that starts on the front, and I wanted to make sure the yellows were going to match over the same whites. The drivetrain is mostly stock except for the exhaust, which I made out of solder after watching some guys on here. For my first stab at it I was pretty happy.

I started using a Bigfoot cab and chassis, and the Midnight Cowboy wrecker body, as that was the closest to the Holmes body on Dad's. The first problem I encountered, and got solved here by some helpful folks, was getting two different colors out of the same can on my base coat. I was perplexed to say the least.

I'm building this replica of a wrecker my Dad ran for a few years back in the late 70's into the mid 80's. If all goes well it'll be a Christmas gift this year.

Very different and very cool.

I like what you're doing Randy-BNL has been very good to me lately also!

What you got so far is great Trey

Beautiful shine and colors-very nice!

Very nice job-adding this to my wish list!

Love the stance and the underhood detail-nice job.

Just finished one of these too and I agree about the quarter windows-what a pain. Love your engine choice-looks great in there!

Absolutely gorgeous-nice build.

This is a great kit-I've finished one and have a spare I'm unsure what to do with so far. You're off to a nice start!

Welcome and good luck with this! I can't add anything really that these guys haven't already covered-take your time and don't be afraid to ask questions.

Loving this-had a 58 in the family for a very long time-thanks for jogging those memories!