chuckyr

Actually, I had designs on this one. I'm not much of an artist, but I am pretty good with computer graphics. The mural would require much manipulation, but I could print it out with some work. I really like fleet subjects and your's looks just right.

You beat me to it! I have seen them in the lower 48.

KKS excavator is sold out and discontinued.

Great photos Hessel. The Jabbeke model show always has gems on display.

Everbody is trying to get hip to the game.

Nice clean and careful build. Doesn't stripping the factory chrome and replacing it with more realist paint make a model look more authentic? You've got skills.

60 Minutes had a story on these type of wheels way back in the 1970s or 1980s. Guys where getting killed when they inflated these things and the weld failed. I thought they outlaw them.

Are you familiar with André de Vries? He is the moderator of the Yahoo Dutch Model group He and others are big time truck modelers.

Nice rig. If there is one thing the Dutch know, it is Mack trucks.

Spot on.

Check out this Euro site: http://www.dtmc.dk/Engelsk%20side.htm

Yes, there are several mutual members on this board and that board such as me.

Ashame no one bid on them.

Great job!

The actually container is accurate and in scale. The Italeri 20 foot containers are accurate also. You will have to scratch build a North American trailer to haul them on.

Nice tractor. One of the better BJ KWs I have seen. That Italeri trailer looks a whole lot more in scale when you shorten the van body and modify the suspension. It actually looks more like 1/25th scale than 1/24th scale. Did you use the Heller Thermo King unit?

As was state above, "G" can mean a number of different things. Their is "G" scale and "G" gauge. It can mean different sizes based on the manufacturer being North American or European and even the same manufactures offer different "g" sizes depending on which line they offer. "G" can mean anywhere from 1/20.3, 1/22.5, 1/24, 1/27, 1/29 or 1/32 scales. The Aristo-Craft Road Railer series in the video above is listed by the manufacturer as 1/29th scale and I think it is actually closer to 1/32 scale from my estimation from seeing their models at a local hobby shop. furthermore, the trailers, in my opinion do not have the level of detail the 1/24th or 1/25th scale truck modeler would accept. Rudimentary suspension and wheel detailing. Unfortunately, the most detailed model railroad semi trailers I have seen have been the Model Power 1/24th scale 40 foot trailers and they are lacking in our standard of detail. Nice try Ben, but as of yet the only, some-what modern, North American styled 1/24th or 1/25th scale semi trailer model currently available to us, not counting the old Ertl and AMT kits is the Italeri American 48 foot reefer kt. You can always massively correct that kit or totally scratch building a trailer. Hopefully if we keep badgering Italeri and our new friend, Moebius Models, they will capitulate and offer us that 53 foot semi trailer we all need to make our tractor models complete! Check out his incredible Intermodal "G" scale train layout!

You can reconstruct an entire hood but you can't do a headache rack? Go for it!

Great headache rack! You were just one step from hinging the doors. The chrome turned out nice. I plan to make one using Don Mills tread plate. I remember you saying that Plastrut tread plate is more "in scale".

I think this thread should be on the pick up truck board.

The trailer decals are 'O' gauge decals from Microscsale.

Correct lug nuts and acorn nuts and threaded studs are available from other sources, but they are another fortune. If I could afford theses wheels now, I would get them.

Nice to see you included the trailer hoses. That is always a missing ingredient to making a model look real. Revell offered this kit.

A list of all 1/32nd Scale Model Trucks ever made. From my recollection: AMT (Matchbox/Ertl) Ford CL 9000 cab over Ford LTL 9000 conventional w/sleeper Mack Superliner conventional w/sleeper Mack Superliner wrecker Kenworth K100 Aerodyne Kenworth W900 Aerodyne w/sleeper Fruehauf Reefer Trailer Fruehauf Dry Van Trailer Monogram Mack R Ford Aeromax 120 Kenworth T-600A Freightliner Conventional Freightliner cab over Kenworth K100 Aerodyne Kenworth W900 Aerodyne w/sleeper GMC General Chevy Bison Peterbilt 359 Peterbilt 352 Fruehauf Gasoline Tanker Fruehauf Reefer trailer Fruehauf Dry Van Trailer Mack Pumper Fire Truck Kenworth T-600A w/ Race Team Trailer Ertl International 9670 cab over Volvo N10 conventional Esci Volvo F12 Volvo F12 Globetrotter 20 ft Intermodal trailer w. container Euro covered trailer Log Trailer Entex Ford C800 Moving Type Van Ford C900 cabover w/sleeper & 28 foot trailer Did I miss any?

That Entex Ford was ment to be used as a back drop for 1/32nd scale slot car track dispaly. It was a well made kit.