Petetrucker07

Looks great Terry. Next week man.

Mine is inspired by a truck called sledgehammer. Its a 379 but it has the look i want. The chopped little window 359 will look good, at least i hope it does. It should if i can make it look how it does in my head anyway. Them are some rare snap kits there Casey. Nice score.

1 of these will get the chopped jimmy flintstone cab

Just scored 3 more for 22 bucks each.

They should be. Truck drums are usually universal. Only real difference, at least today, is inboard and outboard. I dont know exactly what the difference is, but they are dofferent.

Ive done quite a bit real truck mods. The last truck i drove was a working show truck. Lots of blood sweat and tears went into it. I had a hand in doing 4 trucks at the previous company i worked for.

Yes. So its easy to cut and bend. Im gettin pretty good at doing styrene, but havent ventured to aluminum yet.

Even when your young. Sometimes i forget why i went somewhere or over think why im there. I just leave and revisit my outing later.

That was my intention. To buy his stuff then figure out how to do it. But its just easier for me to buy it done than buy the tools needed to do the stacks and find the right material for the visors.

I got it from the hardware store. OSH to be exact. It comes in a plastic tupperware type deal.

Ive been using yellow frog tape, delicate surface. A little more money but worth it.

Hes gonna be getting 1 of mine very soon. Stacks visors bumpers.

Pretty easy, just spray the black 1st. Let it cure, about a week or when theres no paint smell. Get some good, delicate surface masking tape. Lightly clear it to seal the edge. Let if dry. Then spray the blue. Let it dry. Unmask and you should have a sharp edge. The silver stripe is another story. You can either try to find some decals or get some of that vinyl pinstripe tape from auto parts, cut it thin and lay it on, then clear it all. I used that method on this but did the teal 1st then the black, cut the vinyl thin laid it on then cleared all of it. This cab is replacement for 1 that grew wings and fell victim to the tile floor. Thanks to JT for supplying the replacement.

Had to bring that up didnt ya, LOL. Life happens. If you do have a, well, me moment, apparently. Just drop into some Purple Power and let it simmer for about a week. Im getting pretty good at it, not proud to say it.

1st off, congratulations on coming to the darker side of modeling. Trucks can be tough, aggravating at times, but worth it in the end. You chose a pretty decent starter truck kit. Its bit limited, but a good platform to start at. You can lower it, stretch it and thats about it for basic mods. You can lower it by cutting the "axle blocks" off, shaving a few leaf springs, if its still not low enough, alter the rear shackles, thats the front. The rear you can trim the air bags down till it sits level. To stretch it, just cut the frame after the cab, before the suspension, and not on a cross member. Leave some room inside the frame raile so you can either, #1 double the frame with the right size styrene channel, #2 box it with close to same size, some what thick flat styrene, or #3 a combination of those and a smooth, around .030 thick sheet styrene deck plate the length from the cab to the 5th wheel. You will need to strengthen the frame or it WILL sag, the longer you go, the stiffer it needs to be. If you can, a good idea to get is a set of moebius rims and tires. Youd need to do some fab work to get them to fit, since kits are all different how they mount tires. The Revell rims can be a bit tricky to get seated right on the tires, that and they are kinda odd looking, IMO. There is a guy on ebay that sells stacks. I havent tried them on a KW yet, but the are long. They have the elbow, no muffler, and a curve out tip. This is what i did with the Revell Pete from the same historic series as the KW. It has the stacks i was telling you about. Aluminum drop visor, resin rear fenders, Moebius wheels and tires, aluminum bumper, slammed, blocks, leafs, shackles and air bags cut up.

Its a different motor than the Maxxforce. It is Cat and Navistar engineered and made. Theyre ID'd, CT 13 and CT 15.

Absolutely amazing. A beautiful old steamer. I think ol' Jay Leno would be fooled this is plastic. Awesome work.

It happens man. I tend to get in a hurry with thinner, lighters colors, whites, yellows...., it runs and wrinkles. Or the wind blows it off my painting area or drop it. The wind blew the hood for my Prostar in the dirt yesterday. I shouldve waited but i was in a hurry, as usual. Now its takin the putple bath.

Now this is gonna be wild. Lookin good so far.

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Now this is cool. Your definitely thinking outside the box. These petes are so smooth to build. I have a case of them. You do very nice work!

Very nice. Those 2 do look great together. Wish i could find motivation to do something with my tanker. Boy was it frustrating.

Now thats different. That looks cool. So does the mower! Nice work.

I figured somewhere in the world the 2 companies would do this, since theyre partners. This is gonna be cool. Nice work so far.

Welcome bud. Your definitely in the right place. Its pretty safe to say you have the styrene fever. Very nice.