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-Thanks! The pictures were enough to see the rocker cover, it IS the one I was looking for! That black rocker cover is the saw-tooth version, I was speaking of! THANKS again!

-I'm GLAD I stopped in to see what this one was.. NICE work man! GREAT use of rear dual slicks, AND a Hemi engine to power them! And a working roll back no less? NICE JOB!

-That IS lookin' good! NICE work on the engine, stock model said to be a 360? OR did you go all out and make it a 440? (It resembles both in different ways), BUT its more a 440 then a 360 just cause of its size, AND the fact the distributor is on an angle in the front (signifies "Big Block" which the 360, was not!) GREAT lookin' truck no less, NICE job!

Thank you!

OK Did a quick Google search, the "MURPHEY'S RULE III" comes up with nothing, ANY manufacturer name on that ruler? (I'd LOVE to find a 1/24th and or a 1/25th scale ruler, IF not BOTH of them marked on it......

THANK YOU! (I'm not sure others were understanding what I was trying to ask! I THINK the thickness of the line on the 1/2 inch mark BOTH "0" AND the other end at an exact 1/2 inch would be 1/25th just a little under that as i know its merely thousandths of an inch LESS then 1/24th.

Thanks! I'll be contacting him!

Well I myself, get into a LOT of scratch building, and I'm trying to figure out what 1:1 scale measurement fraction of an inch or Metric measurement is equal to use as a 1/24th scale foot or inch or a 1/25th scale foot or inch..... I haven't seen a ruler to depict either to date so..... I'm doing the best I can to figure out what I need to make 1/25th scale "foot" and 1/24th scale foot as well, as they are really close the same! Any help with this I'd appreciate!

Thanks for that where or how to contact them? I can't wait to see what that rocker cover looks like due to know if its the saw edge type or not..... (Difficult to explain) -But a specific look is what I'm trying to achieve!

Thanks for that! What might be the measure used for one scale inch or one scale foot? 1 MM = one inch? 12MM to the foot?

Thanks! Got a seller name?

Dumb question (I admit I did NOT read the whole thread) BUT what was the scale length you used to make the box? The lower half of it fron just behind the cab, to the rear? See, I ask, as I have a similar build too, BUT mine isn't a U-Haul, Mine is a work truck with a long Utility bed. NOT the standard 8 foot bed, so.. As I don't believe a long utility bed (Reading bed) is made for 1/25th scale, and i can't justify the cost of 2 of the smaller ones to make on bed from. SO I'm gonna do exactly what your doing here, scratch building my own! I am however trying to figure out what the length and even the width needs to be so I can draw it out and then use the drawing as a template. Thanks any info, and guidance on your measurements and what you used to go by for such, would be GREAT!

Where'd ya get the Cummins diesel from? I got use for a 6.7L or even an old 5.9L Cummins for in a Dodge truck, I got in the plans...... And which Cummins is that you got seen here? Any closer pics of that engine? I want to see what the rocker cover looks like on it to see if it will work in the truck I have planned for t. Thanks!

NICELY Done Dakota!!!! I'd LOVE to try one of these BUT "open" the hood and find some V-8 to stuff in it, with a full detailed frame.... I think it could be done pretty easily. And I have to say, it does look like a Baby Ram....... the fellow that said that had a dang good point!

Where did you find the Warlock decals? I'd be interested in a set of those for a future build!

Thanks guys! It has been a fun one to do, and the nice part, (sort of) is my air brush is down, I am doing all the paint work you see here from spray cans I have or brush painting (MOST of it is being being brushed on currently), so....... as this was partly to blame why I started this build, as I have so many others in progress right now as well but all the rest require my air brush to be working! I just got to get it all together and the air brush be up and going, THEN, I may get side tracked and I'd rather not, right now and at least get one model done before I go and do that. But thanks guys! I appreciate the kudo's on the build, and From one Dodge guy to another THANK YOU! I've done a few dodge trucks over the years and this one, no exceptions has been the best and most fun of them all, and really, I got quite a line up of dodge trucks yet to build AFTER this one is done! Stayed tuned, I got at least 2 more of this same truck to do, AND a '67 and then numerous Dodge A100's and 2 Revell VTS Rams as well!

So, with the interior of the truck posted, the missing part was the dash..... On the real truck, all I replaced to the actual dash part was the glove box cover. As it was a matching, or sort of matching color, I was good to have one with NO rips or what I recall remembering a slice or something in the glove box cover, SO, it got that from the donor cab! I also changed out the steering wheel, and column, as the one in my truck, was "OK" its just the donor truck had tilt steering, and a nice aluminum centered steering wheels! SO, while the truck was setting with no motor in it over a weekend, I added these parts by myself to be inspected come Monday morning as the garage opened for business. As the Owner Don had it a PA inspection station so.... -just before the truck was rolled outside to open up that bay for business that day! I left the dash keep its original chrome plates that went around the gauge clusters as those in my truck were actually the one of very few things in really good shape! Seen here I used BMF to add them. The gauges themself were black plastic, but because of how well the gauges turned out on the model I left them be BMF chrome as they show the details a bit better then I could have EVER painted them to be seen! The model itself out of box, did not have a turn signal lever OR anything for a tilt steering lever, SO I made them to fit the column! One thing I also noticed with this truck, was the interior came with having a "automatic" transmission, NO clutch pedal! And thinking of it a bit, the engine itself came with a standard transmission! SO having said that, and my real truck being a 4 speed manual, I had to remove the single pedal for the brakes, and leave the gas pedal to add the chromed foot, BUT I have to make a clutch pedal, and a brake pedal and while I'm at it, I'm going to add in a emergency brake pedal as well! These have yet to be added! Granted, the interior is almost done as well. Once it is, this whole model will be sat aside to allow me to do the same sort of work to the truck that I'm modeling after my Dad's truck and that truck will as well be in this same thread! As when it comes to painting the 2 trucks cabs and beds, they can be done at the same time due to both truck being black! So really, I'm almost a 4th of the way done! ENJOY more to come as progress happens!

OK, I mentioned it, now comes what I been doing with the interior of this truck. The real truck had a tan interior. In poor shape I might add, BUT working for the garge I did at the time, the owner Don told me if I needed or wanted anything for inside the cab to look in the "grounded" truck cab to what was a Little Red Express out back of the shop. So, me being me I did go and have a look, the cab was in pretty bad shape first thing I noticed but the interior from the outside looked to be in pretty good shape, (what I could see of it from a distance) as the windows all were wound up, and there was A LOT of under growth around it. So, back to the Garage I went, and into the office to talk to Don about what it take to get to the trucks cab, and if and what was in it that be of any use to me, (I was unsure), he told me, it was getting hauled up next to the garage the following Monday, as if I remember correctly this was on a Friday afternoon, OR Saturday, I can't remember exact, BUT come Monday morning, I was to come to the garage grab my chain saw and he'd have gas and bar oil ready for me and a weed wacker and some other tools to clear a pathway to it..... Well needless to say, we got it out from where it was, up next to the garage, and able to get into the cab, and boy, let me tell you the cab was in some rough shape! It sat on the ground for what Don told me was at least 8 years, as they got a whole truck in and the frame was in half ways decent shape as well as the bed of it, the truck had hit something (large) as the front was mangled up a bit and rusty, whatever it hit, was high enough that it took out the radiator and grille but just missed the filler part that ran under the grille to the back of the top of the front bumper..... BUT the interior tho, was in pretty good shape! BETTER shape then the truck I was building, WAY better shape! Dash pad had a pretty good rip in it, so I left my original dash where in the truck, BUT the cubby hole cover was good mine wasn't and the seats were untorn ANYWHERE, so I took both of them as well as both interior door panels. As my trucks had a bench seat in it with rips EVERYWHERE or so it seemed at the time as well as the interior door panels on my truck wheren't "ripped" anywhere but were simply raty looking compared! Now to get to making the model like this was in my truck, a few things may have been different, but I'm going from memory so not ALL may be 100% so..... But at this point, I'm good with that! A few things to point out here..... Notice that the cab has bucket seats, my truck originally didn't, BUT the donor cab had all that in good shape! The only difference I can recall was the seats..... Notice the seats have 2 different colors in it, both "tan" but slightly different shade, they were like that on the real thing, BUT the "center" grain runs length-wise on the seats seen here, on the real truck, if my memory serves me right ran side-to-side. I can live with the difference! Then on the real truck, the gear shift to a 4 speed transmission had no gear shift knob, NEVER did and the donor truck didn't have one either, SO with a bit of modeler's license I took and added my own rendition, a "skull" gear shift knob. Thought that was a good way to add it in. The accelerator pedal on my truck was an unpolished aluminum "foot" NOT with any "tread" on it, but the detail I used, I think looks good! AND the the carpet, in my original truck it was tan, the darker of the 2, BUT the donor cab had good "black" cab carpet so I installed it, as there was no rips, or rot in it as the truck had when I got the truck I was building! showing the door panel details a bit better as well as the seats. That chrome strip you see is to the band that was like a horizontal door handle, my original truck had solid black ones, the donor cab had nice chrome ones that I musta polished on for an entire weekend at home before they went into the truck! Then last but not least, looking as tho through the windshield. Showing the seats a lot better now..... ALSO, something else that was slightly different was the gear shift "shaft" my original truck had what looked to be a "blackened" shaft, NOT painted black mind you, but darkened metal. Was "OK" but just didn't stand up to the one in the donor truck, being chrome. Needed polished which I did and had just a little rust on the bottom end of it where it was connected originally to the donor trucks transmission, BUT wasn't to bad to clean up to make useable again and in working order, so that too got changed out! Dash is next! Stay tuned!

OK as promised, I'd have some pictures of the recent posting of progress I made (I had to be in a good place to stop and get pictures!) Anyway, the rear axle now has its shocks in place, they like the front ones were custom made, from existing model shock "mounts" to where they go on the axle, and then have the "barrel" or telescopic parts custom made from evergreen styrene, cut to fit, and had a coil over spring added that I also made with a spring mandrel in my lathe and spring wire guide. The pics here show them, quite well also shows the custom made angle iron brackets to connect them to the frame. The rubber grommet around the shock nearest the coil over spring is to be like the real ones that were on my real 1:1 truck at the time.... Slightly different view just a bit "over-head". Same thing, just the frame setting on its wheels to show how they look as well as showing the chrome differential plate a bit better then the pics I took to depict it! This actually "completes" the frame at this point, The next things to be done to the frame seen here is the added bumpers both front and back as well as the tail pipes bent down around the rear bumper, and "exhaust tips" added, BUT those details won't be seen till the very end and will be the completion of this particular truck model in the set! Interior is up next! ENJOY!

Thanks Ira! The detail part is what gets me, I make A LOT of my own details so. that makes it that much more interesting to the real one..... SO, With that said, there are some updates to post with this build!

Tom, You got that right! I am honestly enjoying the time pass in this one as it brings me back to that place and time so I'm really enjoying this one!

NICE smooth paint, GREAT engine, and just over all DONE WELL......... the paint tho, got me, that is as smooth as a new born baby butt! WOW! What on earth did you polish that with? AND did you use any clear coat? And the panel lines too, those turned out killer just like the rest of the car!

Thanks Stray! I have always been a Mopar guy, most if not all of my life..... So, having said that, and just getting back into the hobby about a year ago, and got to thinkin' then I was gonna build a Father & Son set of Dodge trucks, and then........I got to see the price of them! A couple of good guys done a trade with me to make the 2 trucks a reality..... SO having said that, this is one of them, and the other to follow will be my Dad's. THEN to top that all off, I got yet 2 more trucks to build! One being like the truck I currently own, and the second one is a work truck my Dad drove around for a couple years for the railroad. Both of these trucks are Dodge! My current Dodge is a 1967 Dodge Power Wagon W-200 4x4, and the Railroad "Hi-Rail" truck was a '78 Dodge pick-up truck (I think this one too was a "Power Wagon" but I am not 100% sure if it wasn't, they really all looked really close the same as for a work truck, it would not have had all the side panel trim on it so..... BUT, If it were a Power Wagon, it would not have had it anyway..... And to add to it, Its difficultto tell really as all it was was a Dodge cab, with a '78 grill that had a work truck "utility" bed on it, and the hi-rail wheels in the front and back..... Sadly this one, I don't have any pictures of it, BUT I do remember it having a grill just like the '78 I once owned! SO..... And it was painted dark blue so. with yellow lettering and a single thin yellow stripe..... But, thats about all I know the whole truck tho, was/had a long utility bed, which ole John is gonna get to do a scratchbuilding on that one as I don't know anyplace that makes a "long" utility bed! For a railroad signal maintainers truck..... -I have to say, I'm actually sort of lookin' forwards to that build!

Thanks Gator! I have to say, building this model takes me back to the time and place the real one was being done, so I guess you could say, I'm re-living that part of my life, and doing the model of the truck, allows me to enjoy all of that, all over again! Needless to say at this point, I'm VERY detail oriented, kinda builder..... NOW a bit of an update, I got the rear axle shocks in place and mounted, with custom made mounts as the model didn't have no such detail, and the truck in real life we used 2 inch angle iron as the factory mounts were shot. So, I did the best I could to re-create those parts to go with the shocks I had to use with the kit which are custom made just like the front ones..... I'm also working on the interior as well! Pictures as I am able will follow of this!