Superpeterbilt

Looks great. This is one that Im really intrigued to see finished. Its got cool written all over it.

The series is on Hulu. I just watched the episode with the truck race featuring Tyrone Malones Boss Truck. I was cool to watch, although the screeching car tire sound effects was a little rediculous. 6 semi trucks racing on dirt with screeching tires! I remember some of those effects from the cartoons at the time. Very silly! Still a cool race nonetheless. The episode is called "Goin home part 2". The race was about 35/40 min in.

Brian, your killin me... that visor is awesome. The mounting brackets are a perfect touch. The seat looks mighty comfy also.

Beautifully done Charles. As with your other builds, this is a work of art.

Thanks a lot guys, you are too kind. Im ready to bring this thing into the home stretch. And yes Bob, I promise Im going to dull down the tires. That may be one of the last steps, but Im going to do it.

Michael, the windows are really mostly eyeballed with some loose measurements. I scaled them the best I could from the photogragh of the gold truck above. I use a 6" machinist scale(ruler) that is very thin. I aline it with the cab panels as best I can and mark lines. I use my cailpers to measure everything out and mark it with a lead pencil. I draw the windows square, and then curve the corners using my machinist radius guages. They are little thin steel pieces that have a positive and negative(concave and convex)radius on each end used for measuring radiuses on machined parts. They come in handy because they can be traced and make perfect even curves at each corner. Then, using a pin vise I drill relief holes all around the window. Then, using my sprue cutters, I cut out the window using the holes that I drilled and most of the plastic is out of the way. Then, using a series of small files I file the plastic back to my drawn lines.Lastly, I curve in styrene strip inside the cut edge to replicate the window gasket. Heres an example of the syrene strip gasket replacement on a Peterbilt cab. The windsheild looks a little too big out of the box, and the gasket is not very pronounced. I didnt change the size or shape of the window, just made it smaller using a gasket. After this pic was taken, the gasket was filed down closer to the cab and rounded over to resemble the rubber. This is the same cab your using on your build. I hope that helps.

That is very nice Kurt. There is definitely a need for a spread axle flatbed on the market. Ive been scrounging materials to throw one together myself. This looks great.

Angel, this is where I got my best of Movin on DVDs. The quality is not perfect, but its better than nothing. http://www.truckerflicks.com/

After much sanding, a paint mishap, stripping it, and more sanding, I finally got some paint on the dump body. I still just have some chassis details to finish up such as, brake cans,drive shaft, steering linkage, and a few other things. I made a rock guard for the engine using brass strip and styrene sheet.

I want to build a spread axle flatbed to go woth the yellow KW, so I took some shots of it with my ertl stretch flatbed to see how it looks.

90% of it is the factory finish. The chrome was very easy to work with. It stretches over the curves very nicely. I bought two of these sleepers, and now I know how Ill do the 2nd. I have more things to do experiment with on this chrome sleeper, so stay tuned!

Yes, it is self adhesive. I bought this years ago also and never had a reason to use it. I was just attempting to assemble the chromed sleeper, but there are spots that need touch up. This worked great for that.

Thanks guys. Parts of the sleeper were wrapped with a sheet of chrome vinyl that I bought from an RC shop. The sleeper top was sanded and blended with the sides, then wrapped with chrome. The upright "corners" of the sleeper were also sanded and wrapped due to where it attatched to the sprue. I have this set aside for a special project.

Here are just some random things being worked on. I added baby moons, and sprayed the tool boxes silver on the W900 KW longhood and 8 bagger with Moebius wheels Chrome Mercury inspired by the Outlaw

Tom, this is really looking great. I may have said this already, but the wheels really make this rig. The color is perfect also.

Very cool! I love those old sweptlines. Looks like you got yourself quite a solid truck. I dont hink Ive ever seen one original in that good of condition, without having been restored. Congrats.

Ive been waiting for this reissue. How does it look?

That really looks great Angel. Keep up the good work.

Very cool custom rig Chuck. The mods to the hood give me some ideas. Great choice on the headlights also.

Great job on the doors Brian. Thats a big improvement over the resin. Nice job on the hinges also.

Nice work Chuck. These trailers can be a pain but they look good when done right.

Looks good

The colors look good to me!

Its an Italeri body. It came in these two kits that I know of. I added the tailgate and fenders.

Pat, I believe thats an IH cab. Spaulding usually has a resin R-190 for sale on ebay occasionally that has this same cab.