DRIPTROIT 71

Nice, clean and realistic looking build!

Thanks for all the help guys! Unfortunately, the red cab is junk. All of the areas that were troublesome before began to soften back up. On the other hand the "crater cab" (green one pictured before) is in usable condition now. So this project is back to moving forward. My original plan was a farm truck that was a little banged up, so I think this cab will work now. At least it's dry and not soft. The bed is mostly done. I need to paint it before I install the belt, and I have to install the belt before I can install the spreader assembly. Then I can finish with the hoses.

Very nice build!! Great Work!!

I'm going to have to get you to give me a class on weathering. Great work as usual!!

Very cool build!! Excellent work on an interesting subject.

Very nice build! A friend of mine had one of these back in the day. I always thought that it was a cool truck. Great work Pat!

WOW!! This thing looks Amazing!! Excellent work!!

Wow!! Looks Awesome!!

Looks great!

I shake too much to put them together on the cab. I draw a templet of the door area and assemble the mirrors on the templet and then glue the whole assembly to the truck at once.

I received such an offer in my inbox on Ebay last week on a Peterbilt kit and bought it at the offered price and received it with no problem.

Thanks! Thanks Charles!

Looks Great!!! Very nice clean looking Peterbilt.

I use evergreen styrene angle or channel made into angle. If you look through the window of my Brockway you can see the channel as the windshield post. The top was rectangle stock that I shaped like the inside of the cab leaving a groove for the windshield to fit into.

You have to be careful with super glues because they will fog any finger prints that are on the glass. I do use it sometimes, but I also use two part epoxy. There are also some canopy glues as Jeff said which are basically a white glue, but I've never tried them. You may not want to go to this much trouble, but I sometimes make a frame for the window to slide into without using any glue on the actual glass itself.

Did it snap right down the middle. If it did you could just use the two halves since you have a center post. I use clear lay film from Hobby Lobby on my resin builds. That would work too.

Very nice! What did you make the sleeper vents out of?

Very nice!!

I always enjoy your builds!! Another excellent build! Looks great!!

Thanks Lee! I'm looking at all my options. I've even been looking at other floater trucks for inspiration. I may get a long hood. Try making the file smaller. I had the same problem with pictures and after I made the file smaller they uploaded fine.

I had the same problem. I was using my phone to take the pictures and they were full size. I made the file smaller (2.8 MB to 114 KB)with my phone and then they uploaded fine. I thought that maybe a limit had been set on file size.

I'm pretty sure that is why it is swirly. It seemed cured, it's old enough to be cured. I've seen other swirly castings on Ebay before. I'll never touch a swirly casting again though.

That is a thought. More work than I had hoped, especially in thick resin, but definitely a possibility. His may be thinner than these. He has thinned a lot of the old M.T.F.A. kits. The mold is bad on the short nose and he said it would be a while on that one. I could just build a 318 long nose.

They don't look like either. Dave's cabs are much better quality and I've never seen a M.T.F.A. cab molded in green. These are from the same origin as the M.T.F.A. cabs as far as original master goes. These may have been some experiments gone wrong. Every M.T.F.A. cab that I've ever had or seen was primer grey. I was told that was because that is what they used for mold release. I was going to use at least one of them despite the rough appearance. But, now it seems the best looking cab is just going to melt away with paint applied to it.

Well I'm pretty much at the end of my rope with these cabs. I don't think that I'm going to be happy with neither. The red one was dry, but the swirl marks began to "ghost" in the problem area which was mostly the driver's door. After it began to ghost it got soft again. I scraped to the paint off of the door to find the resin soft and flaking off. I think that the putty in the other cab will continue to crack because it is pretty thick as you can see in the crater pictures. These cabs are currently unavailable from Dave right now until he can make new molds. So here you can see the swirly green resin after the paint came off. Notice the lower part of the door is fine with the primer still bonded. In other news the spreader bed is coming together. So whatever kind of cab that I have to use, I'm planning to make a spreader. If anyone has a spare GMC 9500 cab or even a C70 cab that they're willing to part with, let me know. Thanks, Brian