DRIPTROIT 71

Looks pretty awesome!

Looks great!

Very awesome work as usual! Your weathering is always spot on!

We've all been there. At the end of the day, this is just a hobby, life comes first.

I think that you really captured the look! The only thing missing is the kink in the hood. Excellent work! Best looking snap Blazer that I've seen!

That is one Awesome looking Chevrolet!! Excellent work as usual!!

Awesome build!! I really like the subject!! Lots of great scratch building!! I like the hinge on the hood. Looks great!!

That turned out great!

Resin Model Ranch lists them too if I'm not mistaken.

Jim, the main reason that I wanted to do the contest this year wasn't to see who could build the greatest truck, but it was to motivate some great builds and generate some more traffic in our truck section which I hoped would also encourage more building. With that being said, your awesome Mack build fulfilled the spirit of the contest even though you were not entered. With five entries already finished, I'm optimistic on how many great builds we will get to see.

Very nice!! I think that you are going in the right direction. You may know this better than me, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but the hood in your reference truck has low mount fenders. Your hood from Gary has high mount fenders. From what I've read the cabs on the RS and RL models sit slightly higher than the R. The early model RS and RL models used the regular R models hoods with high mount fenders and the later models had the low mount fenders. So your choice to go with the old cab is spot on to go with your hood, unless I'm mistaken. If I am it won't be the first time.

Very nice build! Great story!!

They are both 1/25 scale. The DM600 though has a little too wide track on the rear that can easily be corrected. Depending on what you want to build with some engineering parts from one kit can be used on the other. I recently combined parts from both kits to build U-Model with too has the off-set cab like the DM but was lighter duty. AS said before the DM has the older steel dash, and flat back cab. The R model has the newer dash with the plus 3 rounded back cab. The DM has heavier suspension and beefier "fishbelly" frame rails. The R has lighter suspension. DM has older style spokes and the has the newer style.

This truck is really cool! I really like this one!! Looking Great!!

Well guys it is April and we've only had one definite withdrawal and one fail to update. We also have had five to finish. Builders who are finished no longer need to update every month. Here is the list as stands: Finished: 1. Spruslayer DM600 2. landman Paystar 5000 3. gotnitro? Mack R Model 4. Sam I Am Titan 90 5. tbill Western Star (waiting to post "Under Glass") Remaining entries: 1. iamsuperdan 2.Goodwrench3 3.Mopar-D 4. Aaronw 5.PierreR89 6.Oldmopars 7.stitchdup 8. jacubus 9. DrKerry 10. amtrak115 11. K100 12. drinkone2 13. BuilderX 14. guitarsam326 15. Bennyg 16. dodgefever 17. Chris541 18. Cowboyrich 19. SpreadAxle 20. signguy2108 21. Iwwoodss Thanks to everyone for hanging in there. If I've made any mistakes, please let me know. Thanks, Brian

Looks Awesome Jeff!!

Amazing details!! What time does the help come to work? It looks like they have plenty to do.

That came out great! I really like the black rims with the body color spokes. Nice work!

That turned out Excellent Jim!! Top notch work!!

Thanks for the comments everyone. The flex pipe is not a bendy straw and actually isn't flexible. The exhaust from the manifold to the muffler is actually one piece of Evergreen styrene rod. I've been wanting to try this method to see if it would work for a while now and so I finally broke down and tried it. I took Evergreen rod and with heat made my 90 degree bend. I then took a metric die that was loose enough on the rod to slightly cut a spiral pattern and ran the die down the rod almost to the 90 degree bend. I bent the flex portion using slight heat to fit the truck and the finished product greatly resembled the bends of a flex pipe. The clamp covers where the pattern stops and is made from aluminum can and styrene strips with Meng bolts. Here is the left over section of rod before paint. Here is what

Thanks for the kind words guys. What do you guys think of my scratch built exhaust flex. I'm sure someone else has done it before, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Excellent work!!

Nice work!!

Looking good!

Looks Awesome!!