DRIPTROIT 71

Very nice looking start!!

What he said!!

Thanks! I've liked the daycabs since I was a kid because the engine stuck out the back!

Nice build!

I agree 100%! The Ertl kits were and still are the best to assemble. Although I do still like the old AMT kits too. They require a little more patience though.

Looks Awesome!! Who does your decals?

Very nice, very clean, and it looks like the real thing. Very nice work!

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!!