OldTrucker

Flashback to when I first started driving! Looks great!

Has a WOW factor of 110! I would call that putting ones heart and soul into a build!

Nice conversion! Looks great!

My sis-in-law and her husband just closed up their shop. He is on his way out with severe COPD and heart disease but tat isn't what closed him down. His RC sales was booming as well as board games and puzzles but his model kits were limited and he could not get a decent wholesale price because everyone wanted too large of orders to get a good deal. What killed his business was shoplifting and beak-ins and one armed robbery while my sister-in-law was there alone. On shoplifting and break-ins the police would not even come there. They had to o to the station and write up a report and list of items taken. They were operating on a shoestring as it was and it just because a fruitless cause.

Another started kit that spent years in the back of the closet waiting for it's return to the bench.

Dave the hardest was the Wagner. It was cut up lettering from the 65 Chevelle Wagon kit.

Finally calling this one done. Started so long ago cant remember exactly when. Wish I had better lighting to display it.

Getting closer but being a real pain at times!LOL

Looks heavy duty for sure! I remember in the article on narrowing the the Pete hood and adding shutters they use a slat from a mini blind cut into strips so it had that slight curve to them.

Had that happen once when someone else loaded the truck and couldn't push two pallets of roofing far enough foward. My mistake not checking the load.

Sweet looking build of a kit that can be a real pain! All it needs is swing down legs at the back. Had then on an International delivery truck I drove that had a long overhang. Backed to a dock at a sister store and while I was catching up my delivery log a newby opened the door and tried to drive the fork in without the legs being down. All I knew was I was several feet above the round looking at the sky! Would be easy to fab, just spue and a couple little flat squares on the bottom pinned to a clevis under the box corners.

This is my cat BooBoo. He will be 65 years old on the 16th.

Great start Sam! Looking forward to this one. Got one to finish. Building mine to haul a bull rack.

What a change in the truck building realm this one is!LOL I like it!!!

Great start! Going to be a looker for sure! I have one 3/4 done I need to drag out and finish. Maybe the next one up.

Very interesting build! Saw lots of these trucks in various forms when we lived in Colorado, most long out of service sitting behind barns and old buildings. One was an old fire truck in the small town we lived in and had a plow on it! The truck I remember the most was a wrecker version that a local company used for years to pull big rigs. Called it "Big Moe".

Slow going but getting closer. This has been one tough kit with poor instructions and ill fitting parts. Had to remove rear axle and adjust it to line up with the wheel wells.

I got the idea from an article in Scale Auto magazine that I had years ago and no longer have. I believe it was the width of the center raised section at the front angled to the center point at the back then squared it off to meet the cowl. Been a long time ago so do some measuring and research it online. It may still be out there somewhere.

I used Krylon Ivory for the base color and couldn't make up my mind on a second color. My wife picked the second color. Had half a can of Ocean Mist Rustoleum sitting in the closet and she said it was perfect so that is what it became.

A test fit as it heads to final stage of the build. What a pain this old kit is to get everything situated correctly. Axles seem not to be aligned from drivers side..

I can identify with that!?

One of my favorite episodes!

The will claim Bransons orbital flight was a fake but Besos' flight was real because they just went straight up and back down because the is no round to go around.?

You believe they are doing this on their own dime? Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX have received nearly $5 billion in government aid over the years in various forms—grants, environmental credits, tax breaks, discounted loans, and more—while Amazon received more than $3.7 billion in taxpayer subsidies at the federal level alone.

After a couple delays they finally got the launch off. Already bored with it all. Just millionaires playing with expensive toys and catering to those with deep pockets to take a giant (dangerous) carnival ride. Has nothing really to do with space exploration as far as I'm concerned. Think how much good could be done with the money spent right here on the planet where we have veterans living on the street and homeless children that they could be helping.