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Hallo guys Tanks a lot for all your answears. I decided to power this littel girl with an DD 6-92t which is as I read a quite offen used engine in trucks loader and powerunits. I have a mold from my 6v-71which I used for my mack. I will cast that engine and rework the valve covers and add a turbo kit. I think there are no mote difference between this two engines. If I am wrong please correct me. I think to use the first transmission from the alaskan hauler. It has this doble transmission with the short drive shaft between it. What type of transmission is this exactly? 5 or 8 speed? So long Arnd

Hei Alain Grate work on this one. It is grate to see how a childrens toy turns in to a real life replication. Just amaizing. The weathering and the used look just perfect. So long Arnd

Grate work on that subject. I am verry impressed about the shape of the parts They look verry realistic. Do you own one of this cnc mashiens? They are quite expensive but do a grate work and the possibilities are endless on what can be fabricate. Looking forwad to this project. So long Arnd

Hi guys thanks alot for all of your answears. It isgrate to read that you like this littel ugly duck. As for the engine I did some resarch but I think that the Cat engine was only used in the Top Kick versions were the cab was a bit higher and the hood was of a different shape. The most offen engine I found searching the internet is the 8.2, it is a DD but not two stroke. I do not know if I will really want to start scratch building a complete engine. But just as an idea, beeing repowered with an DD 6v-71 would this be realistic? so long Arnd

I am not sure about the type of mirrors which would be the correct one for such a truck. I but some on the brackets for a test but I am not happy with them. I have to look for some others. After that I went on with the interior. It is not really easy with it because of the cab’s shape. The dash with the steering wheel is one part with a holder on the firewall. The rear wall is the second part. The fool with seats and is the third one and the door panels are the forth part. All together are the interior. It took some time to fabricate all the holders and pins which keep all the parts on their right place. The next picture is just a try to see how it looks like with a trailer behind it, but I will use something like a 20 or 28 feet one axel flat bed with this little one. Do you have some ideas for the right engine for such a truck? No gas, I want to use a diesel one. So long Arnd

Hallo all I worked again this weekend on my GMC. The wipers are from the spare box with some rework and being now 2mm shorter they fit quite well to the windshield. It will be possible to move them in each position you want. The next step were the rear mirrors. It took me some time and tries until they looked quite well in my opinion. Not totally equal to the original ones but ok. The holders are made of some 1mm plastic tube, cupper wire and some mirror brackets from the spare box. I am not sure but now when you have a look at them they appear a bit too wide. I am not sure if should correct them or not. The old resin cab was quite useful during the fabrications time.

Hallo all Thanks a lot to all of you for the grate posts on. Thanks a lot for this grate advice reworking resin parts with water, which sounds very interesting. My hood is already fixed to the cab. I will leave it like it is; being a bit wry gives it this special used touch. I had some time and worked a bit on my GMC. I was a lot of work with many little things but not a lot which is really visible and changes the whole model. I reworked the rear part of the hood with the slits for the air ventilation it is from a Revell Chevrolet. The wipers seem to be under this part of the hood. Different to its location for pick ups. After some work it looked quite ok and fits grate to the cab and hood. I changed the rear window to a small one like the real trucks have. The front part was of the grill with the lights was reworked a bit and fits now a bit better to the rest. I added the hood release lever. The next step was the interior. I reworked all the parts and combined all of them together. Some from the resin cab and some from the Revell cab. The start is quite ok, the door panels look grate. There is a lot more work to be done but it is grate to see how this little thing grows up. So long Arnd

The rear wall was changed to have a more realistic look. The rear window should be reworked; most of the trucks I found in the internet have a small rear window. I am not sure if I will rework it on not, jet. I changed the front part too. These big and sloppy gaps looked terrible. I cut them out and replaced them with same self made. After the parts were glued to the resin cab the left gaps were filled with putty and then sanded. The first coat of filler was sprayed over the whole cab. After it dried well I will have to sand a lot to make the surface a bit more smoothly. So long Arnd

The next step were the inner fenders the hole to the firewall, self made from plastic stripes I use an old International Paystar fuel tank, reworked a bit its shape added some details and fixed it on his place under the cab The next step was the hood. I decided to hinge it like the real one. It is not perfect and not 100% like the real one but it works. It took me some time and 4 or 5 tries until it worked but it gives a real look to the truck

The step on the right is scratch build from plastic parts and it can be used as the holder for one of the air tanks.

Hallo all This one here is a fun project just to get a bit away from the all day work and business. I always liked this GMC and Chevrolet C series trucks a lot, two years ago I bought a GMC C6500 resin cab in 1:25 from P&P Vintage kits and when I got in my hands and I saw what a terrible work and what a low quality it is, I put it away far far back in my storage. It is incredible bad, twisted and warped. Some weeks I found an old Chevy pickup cab from a Revell Midnite cowboy and then I decided to look for my resin cab, to cut it in pieces and to combine it with the pickup cab. And the GMC experiment started. It is still not perfect but the rest of the twisted and warped shape can be explained with the age and the miles this truck has on his back. It was hard working every day and night. For the frame I decided to use the parts from the AMT Ford C600. The front axel and the steering system were reworked so that you can move them. The rear axel is from the IHC Transtar as well as the rear rims. I like them more because of the rounder shape which fits better to the original ones from the Ford. The front part of the frame was reworked to fit with the new bumper. Some tow hooks were added, too,

Hallo guys I have a question about the Peterbilt suspension. I want to know up to which weight the different suspension types can be used. First one is the old one from the Peterbilt 359 from AMT with the small window? The same one as Italeri uses on their standard frame. The second one is the one from the newer 359 from AMT and from the Revell 359? I hope the experts here have some answers for me. I am planning to build up a 351 used as tractor for heavy logging trailers. Thanks for your efforts. So long Arnd

Hallo Nice work on that Pete. By the way will the hood be a butterfly one? So long And

Hey guys I need a techniquel Information I tried to find something in the Internet but it was not a big help. Can one of you tell me which is the normal Standard fuel tank for this pick ups? The one after the rear axel or the one in front of it? Thanks for your efforts. so long Arnd

Hallo all Not a lot of work done this week just some sanding and filling the gaps and lines between the two cab parts. Still have to work out the gap between the doors and the cab. The part in front of the windshield and the grill have to be reworked and then the cab is nearly done. I sanded all the lines on the cab and the bed away. Like this it has a more old and simple style. Hey Chuck that with your friend is a grate information, I will let the bed like it is, grate used look. Still a lot of work to be done but it is a lot of fun to see how this thing gets more and more a new face. So long Arnd

Hallo all Some of you perhaps know me from the truck pages of this forum. Cars and pick up were the first model kits I started to build during the 90es. Most of my old kits I still have in my lower basement. They were just built out of the box with a bit of paint. This is relaxation and fun project. The idea behind it is an old truck still being used in Alaska or in Canada as a service pick up for logging trucks. It is old, rusty, tired and built up or better said rebuild from many different junk trucks. Some facts: 1980 Ford F-250, pick up, long bed, 4x2, 5.0 liter (302cuinc.) V-8 gasoline engine, 4speed manual transmission with over drive. The model: it is based on the AMT Ford F-150 pick up and the Monogram Ford Bronco. The frame, axels fuel tanks and the bed are from AMT. The cab is from Monogram and I had to change it to fit to the rest of the truck parts which are 1:25. The back part of the cab is from AMT. Cut in to pieces to fit to the rest of the cab. The holes filled up with plastic and then everything sanded as long as necessary to fit each other. There is still a lot of work but the shape is already here. The rear fenders have the shape of the newer model they are round. I am not sure if I should change them or leave them like this, being an old truck it is possible that the bed was changed with another one. Just some pics today. I hope to work a bit more during the week on this little thing. So long Arnd

Hallo all Here is the start of another project. I hope to keep it running until it is finished with out heaving too big Problems and brakes. I was inspired for this by the TV series American Logger, I just saw it hanging on the top of restaurant and then started to search for this type of trucks in the internet. And after receiving a lot of information from you guys, thanks a lot, I would say that the right type would be MACK DM 611 SX. Please correct me if it is wrong. It should be a tandem axel tractor for pulling logging trailers. I not sure about the capacity of and number of axels for the trailers now; I will have to talk to the Mack enthusiast up here, to know what will be possible with this truck. I started the whole thing with an already started DM 800 kit with missing parts so there will be some modifications and many parts will come from the spare box, my own junkyard. The pictures are not very well, sorry it was quite late last night and the light was bad. Here are some first impressions of the truck The start. Now the first questions Is it normal that the gab between the rear tires has to be so big? Can I use the rear suspension from the AMT Junk Yard Mack, too? I want to go with 22 inch Italeri cast spoke rims with standard Italeri tires on the front and heavy duty Revell on the back. The kit includes two engines with two different transmissions. The V-8 would be too big for a normal DM. I will have to use the inline six but which? Mack or Cummins? Which one would be used for such a truck? Thats all for now, hope to have some time this weekend to work a bit on the Mack. So long Arnd

Hallo all First of all thanks a lot for your answers. Hey Mark I will come back to your offer for sure. There will be a lot of questions and details which will come up with this build. Just wait until my parts are here and I can start. I saw a hood conversion kit by Sourcraut and it looks quite well. The one at AITM is one piece not the best one for a lot of details in my opinion. I will start with a Mack DM800 already started kit and will change it into a short nose tractor building it up to a tractor for pulling 40ft log trailers. Well this is the idea behind this model. I tried to find some more pics from the small Pelletier’s truck but no luck on this, only some DM800 and Western Stars. I will try heavy equipment forum and Hank’s truck pictures perhaps I find something. I hope my parts arrive tomorrow or on Sunday to start it. So long Arnd

Hallo guys I tried to find some information about some special Mack trucks; I call them the DMs with the short steel nose. I am not sure what the correct type is. This is the one I mean: The pics are not perfect but hope the experts know what I am talking about. I want to know the type the normal size of the tires, the engine types which were offered and the length of the hood. Is the BBC the same with a DM 600? Were they used as tractors in the logging industry? I tried to find more information on that little blue one but nothing on the internet. Thanks for your help and efforts. So long Arnd

Grate work on this. The rivets look sooo real. Where do you get them from? So long Arnd

wow grate work on that one. the details make it really special so long arnd

That is the truck I am talking about. I tried the v8 but no way it does not fit and because the hood is of an really bad quality, it is on the back at the cab brighter than on the front at the bumper. This made me a bit sad and I stopped it and put it back in the storage. But now as my Mack came to the end I take it out and I like the shape of the truck a lot so I decide to star with it again. I my mind I want to use an DD 6V-71 but it should be originaly and realistic that the truck was availebel with, that is the reason why I started this treat. Thanks a lot for your help. so Long Arnd

hey Terry thanks a lot for this quick response. Could you please have a look and tell what type of Detroit Diesels were used. so Long Arnd

Hallo guys I had a look trough my backyard projects and find a log time ago started White 9000. It should be a singleaxel short nose truck from around 1970. I tried to find some more information about the engine transmission frame and all the little details but I didnt find anything useful. Does one of you have some leaflets from these trucks? Or just know about all the details. Thanks for your efforts. So long Arnd

Hey Jim That with the article sounds intetesting. Would it be possible to get it too? Thanks for your efforts. So long Arnd