Superpeterbilt

To the Peter-copter!! Ha! Yes, I was thinking the same thing. I appreciate the input. Im open to all ideas and suggestions. To make a couple of silly puns, Im really flying by the seat of my pants with this one, and kinda goin where the wind takes me. It started as a simple drawing and has led to this. Every time I finish a small part of the build, I have no idea what Im going to do next. Thats kind of the fun in hows its turning out. I might leave the headers as is, or I might bend them upwards. I dont think Im going to run them thru the body because Im doing that on my drag truck. But who knows what will happen! Stay tuned! As for how Im going to display it, how about a flatbed that is made into an aircraft carrier?

Thats a sharp, clean little tractor. Good job.

Very impressive. Great job

Thats shaping up to be a Hoss! My vote is for the daycab. Good job so far

Yes they are. Im probably going to weather them eventually.I have a bunch of diecast equipment on my trucks. I have another huge fire dozer, and a dragline. Im building a beam trailer to haul the big dozer.

A few years ago they reissued the A64B kit, but those are already sky high. I would love to see the dump truck reissued, but nowadays there are many more options in resin. Good luck with your trucks.

The first kit I ever built was a Diamond Reo. Its a great kit, and Ive built a ton of them. I probably have 30 of them in my shop. My 2nd was the AMT Pete Wrecker. Its been all uphill from there. Trucks really allow you to freeform and build it however you want. There are no rules. Swap engines, sleepers, tanks, stacks, bumpers, wheels, bodies, whatever you want.

Very impressive. Your blazing a trail here....

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That was a typo. I meant tools such as scribes, fine saws etc. Thanks on the truck, but its a Brockway 361 that Im resin casting.Im keeping it under wraps until the cabs are ready. So far its the most detailed truck Ive ever built.

Looks to be a great build. So are you finally motivated to finish it?

Basically Diamond T and Reo were combined to be Diamond Reo. D Reo and Autocar were aquired by White, then White was aquired by Volvo. Now they just exist as garbage truck chassis. The Ford Sterlings are no connection with original Sterlings. From what I was told they were just a mixture of a bunch of random truck parts. Complete junk.

Very cool! Awesomely done. The stance is perfect. Ive never liked the stance of the stock kit. Great job.

I buy most of my supplies from Walthers. Its a model railroading website that has a ton of scratchbuilding supplies. I buy evergreen, plastruct, etc. I bought two different kinds of mesh from them recentley. One is perfect for grills, the other is perfect for catwalks, headache racks. They carry a lot of tool also. I know some others on the forum can probably recommend vendors that sell photo etched grill screen. As for muflaps, I usually use the ones in the kit but in the past Ive made them from thin sheets of rubber gasket material from the hardware store. The rubber was red, so I sprayed it black. They were a tad thicker than I wanted but still looked good.Here is one of the mesh.

Ha! Yeah imagine shitfting a 22 speed and steering with a joystick!

Got some rough sanding done after the first coat of filler. Also made some side scoops for the air intakes of both engines. Made them from pieces of the P51 Mustang

Got the engine built and fabbed the headers. Using a Tyrone Malone Allison transmission for mock up before I resin cast it.

Glad I could help. This was the first time I attempted to pull this off. To give a brief rundown, the bodies were heated(with my heat gun on low), then poked with a flathead screwdriver, primered, then painted white. I spread some glue in the areas that I wanted heavy rust, and spread sand in to the glue. Rustoleum makes two shades of rusty metal primer,that looks just like rusty metal. Coincidence? Using the darker primer on the sand then shading with the light primer on the tips of the sand. Then I misted the whole body with tan. I used the same primer thinned down to rust parts of the truck.I used thinned black for oil leaks on the Hyd cylinders,wheel hubs, and fuel tanks.Hope that helps.

I just almost bought one of these, but I lost it. Its a cool lookin truck for a foreign job. Ill be watchin

No problem!Autocars are my specialty. And Im sure you know, but you would have to move the cab on a road boss. The hood is longer than the D Reo or the West star. Post some pics when you get started! Good luck!

I, personally would use a diamond reo or a white west star. The axle and cab should already be in the correct spot. This truck wasnt super heavy duty, so the running gear would be almost spot on.

Also have this pic

Heres what I have.

Heres a little side project that I picked up to add to my junkyard rebuild collection.Im using parts from my dumper parts box to make a body out of cut up dump trailers, and pieces of the Autocar body.Im leaving the cab paint original, with some weathering and rust. The frame will be mostly repainted. I changed the grill to the other style. I sectioned an Astro fuel tank into a hydrolic tank. I also added a resin roof a/c.

Looks great! Perfect color choice.