DRIPTROIT 71

Excellent Build! I used to know someone who had one about this color.

Beautiful Build!!

That looks great! It's going to be a real eye catcher!!

Looks Awesome! Incredible craftsmanship!!

Looks Amazing!! Great fabrication work!! It looks like it's ready to pave! Top notch work!!

Thanks Jim! It took me a little bit to figure out how to get my camera to focus in on them though. ? Thanks Pat! Thanks! These were the company colors, although the letters on the trailer are a little light in color. Thanks Force! Thanks Ken! I like the old vintage stuff. Thanks Tom! I one of these when I was 13 or so, hand painting the letters on the trailer, but was never completely happy with it. I've been wanting to do one for years. I'm glad that I was able to get around to it. Thanks Jeff! Thank you for helping me get decals for a build that I've been wanting to do for years. Without your help, this and the 7400 project would still be in the "maybe one day" stage. Thanks!! Thanks so much!! Thanks Bill! Most of the extras were collected over a few years. The decals were the last obstacle. I hoped to get this one as close as I could to the original.

Thanks!

Great looking rig! I built the original version of the R-Model back in the early 80s and really liked it back then.

Very nice work! I've been wanting to do a similar log truck project with a different truck for a while. There used to be a lot of similar log trucks around here. Many were build on 2 1/2 ton truck chassis and were gas burners. Your log bed and headache rack are spot on for these kind of trucks. Most were made at home with whatever could be gotten a hold of. Nice work!!

Very nice, clean and realistic build!! I would like to build a large scale truck some day, but what to do with it when it is done is the problem for me. Great work!!

I really like this build!! Those exterior post trailer seemed to always get bowed out at the bottom and torn up like this one. Looks great. I also like what looks to be an U-model conversion, complete with offset wind deflector. The weathering is a great final tough! Great work!!

What Tom said!

I love that two stroke diesel sound. A outfit a mile up the road from my house has a 4200 IH with a 318 in it that they use to haul hay and I can tell it apart from all the other trucks when it pulls out of the drive.

Thanks Guys!!

Absolutely Beautiful Work!!

Looks Awesome!! So, exactly how many rolls can it haul??

Looks Good!! I hope that Detroit is going to have straight exhaust on it! Folks need to hear a wrecker coming!

Now that ain't nothin but cool!! Looks Great!!!

Very nice build! I've always liked these trucks!

Thanks Tom!! This one is now Under Glass. Thanks to everyone who commented along the way!

I'm calling this one finished. It is nothing fancy, just an old workhorse. This is built to be a replica of the truck that my dad drove for a while. I had the privilege of riding all over the east coast with him in this truck. It was powered by an 8v-71T Detroit. The truck belonged to Wilco truck rental and had formerly been leased to Monkey Grip, so it had a pretty fresh paint job on it. The truck began with an AMT K123. I swapped out the rear suspension with a Reyco style. The engine is from the AMT aerodyne kit with valve covers from the AMT 352 Peterbilt. The drive wheels are from the AMT Superboss kits with the center hubs drilled out. The front wheels are resin from an Ebay supplier. The 10 tires, front bumper, grill, intake stack, and fans are from KJ at Double Take Replicas. The deck plate is from moluninum.com. The dash panels came from Czech model truck parts. The air deflector is from an AMT Road Boss kit. Emblems, door handles and steps are from Auslow. The tanks are PVC pipe. Decals on the truck and trailer are from diecastanddecals.com. Ladders and turn signals are from the Revel K100. The trailer is an old Ertl kit with resin wheels from an Ebay supplier. Oiler hubs are from molumnium.com.

Awesome collection Ken!! I have trouble deciding on a favorite!! Of course, it's probably between the yellow and white cabover KW and the rainbow Western Star.

You can't go wrong with a cabover KW!

Thanks Vince! The trailer says: "Hudson Industries Inc." on top and "Manufacturer of Fine Foods" on the bottom. The shield on the trailer says: "H I I." The trucking division was "Hudson Transportation Inc." The shield on the truck door says "H T I." This was a company based out of Troy Alabama, just up the street from Wiley Sanders. They made mustard, mayo, etc.. They had a plant in Lexington N.C. for several years. My dad ran the Lexington truck shop for a while, but also drove for a while. The truck that he drove was a KW like this one.

Thanks for all the comments guys!! The trailer is done if I don't add any weathering, but I haven't decided on that.