Superpeterbilt

Cool score JT. Im interested in seeing what you do with the FLC.

Great work, and very cool project. That Dodge cab looks perfect on the FL chassis. And what better load than my favorite year of my favorite car. Ive thought about building a car hauler full of wrecked General Lees off to the junkyard, but Ive never been able to decide on a tractor. I have a few of these Dodge cabs, but they are sleeper cabs. Anyway, enough rambling. Great job!

Excellent work man!! This is going to be a beast.

Nice work Chuck, and just in time for the 2015 deadline. Im tooling around with a vintage single axle dump trailer that would look perfect behind this. This truck looks great with the buckshot tires on it. Great job

Awesome work.

Welcome to the forum and great job! The suspension conversion and engine swap are a nice touch. Just a few small changes like this can make all the difference on a seamingly boxstock build. I cant wait to see what else you have coming.

Todays progress, I started getting the winches put together and placed throughout the rig. Im almost done fabbing up the drag winches on the boom, and the rear drag winch. I moved the two main winches on top of the boom rather than in front. I added two big gussets underneath the boom drag winches.

Thanks guys Im glad you like them.

Welcome Cliff. Good to see you back

Thanks JT. Ive always been into scratch building stuff for my models, but before I discovered Evergreen & Plastruct, I had to rob what I needed from other kits. So I was always looking at the shapes of things. Then the discovery of evergreen just seemed like.......finding a boat after swimming and swimming and swimming

Awesome Clayton. Im interested to see your take on the DR. I probably have some extra tanks if you want to use one as the Hyd tank instead of the one from the dump trailer kit.

Sam and JT, heres a few more pics

Yeah, its a speccast 1:25 dragline. They made a shovel too, but they are hard to find now. Its a cool piece.

Thanks JT. Angel, that wrecker is my favorite. That IH with the buds aint bad either. They all look great

Sam, thats a Peterbilt 351 built from junk parts. I had a resin unilite cab, and started there. I made it a 6x6 so I put drive hubs on the front. There are many innacuracies, but it was built a very long time ago, and it still looks good.

Thanks man! Its got an Autocar frame, spoke rims, and cummins, and one of Daves tulsa winches, but the rest is me. Im not gonna lie, I like having it on the shelf.

JT, the red beam trailer was included in my Brockway 361 thread. The darker red lowboy was started years ago and finally finished for a show this year. Ill take some pics for you and post them later. Clayton, if I helped Im glad. And Im sure to most of us its gluing plastic, but its more than a hobby. Its a happiness, frustration, and sense of satisfaction that you cant get anywhere else.

I know the feeling. Ive only attempted one, and I shortened the hood. Im going to finish this thing in 2015 for sure.

Clayton, for a guy who said he hasnt built in years, you sure have done some impressive work. My faves have to be your Cali Haulers. The FL cabovers are a close 2nd. Jt, Ive never seen anyone crank out such clean trucks so quickly. They definitley contain an element of your own style. Id say my favorite of yours is the FL cabover with dromedary box. Chuck, you made a cool looking Road Boss, which isnt easy but the Diamond Reo is my favorite. Its got enough character to be plucked from the shelf and turned into a real truck. Tom that Road Boss is the one to beat. Thats one of my favorite long hood versions.

Heres my completions for the year. Ive started more than finished, but thats more to finish next year In this photo, the two 5 axle lowboys Almost forgot this one

I would look for some diecast donors

Just PM me when your ready

What I find helpful in these situations is sleeper rooves and the big air bubbles(spoilers, fairings) like on the Pete 377's, Freightliner Fld's, things like that. Curved corners and things like that can be sourced from odd places sometimes. I kitbashed about 15 Western Star Constellations and threw all the cabs,hoods, sleepers, in a box. I used pieces of those things to scratchbuild all kinds of other cabs.

Yeah, my heart goes out to the families. The sad part is the shooter is not the only guilty party. There are several people with blood on thier hands.

Awesome! I love models of the Heavy Haulers.