DRIPTROIT 71

Excellent work Pat! You captured the real thing for sure! It looks Great!!

I would go with the flatbed and send the Page and Page to me.?

I don’t blame you on the hood Dan. I’ve done a few that I didn’t open the hood and have a few yet to build that I am not planning to open the hood on either. They still make great looking models and the truth is, I rarely look at the engine once they are finished anyway. Excellent work on this one so far!!

This will be good!! Looking forward to this one!! I’m not sure what was available in the Peterbilt, but 6-71s and 6v-71s were used in road tractors.

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That really looks good! I like it! Your decals look great! Very nice job on this one!!

I’m wanting to do something along this line. Not necessarily a Peterbilt, but definitely a single axle cabover.

They were known as the “Big Stick”. They were also called “Continental beds” as they were used by Continental Truck Towing. Most were very beefy. I read when I built mine that the controls were up at the winches and the wrecker driver actually had to climb up into the bed to operate it. If you will Google “Big Stick wrecker” and “ “Continental Wrecker” or “ Continental Tow truck” you will find more info. I think that there is even a Big Stick Facebook group.

I have a built up 70 if you are interested. They were physical the same as the 69. The only difference that I know of was the marker lights actually had bulbs on the 70 and were just reflectors on the 69. PM me if you are interested in trading. I too had two 69 1:1s and planned to build a model of one of them, but truthfully will probably never get around to it.

Thanks Dan! I was a little afraid to over do it on the snow. There is a little snow on the cab, but nothing like the picture of the 1:1. I may experiment some more when I do the outside shots.

Thanks! I used a Woodland Scenes version of plaster for the concrete. It turned out pretty good, then it ended up with snow on it.

Awesome build! It looks real in the pictures!! Is that a real solar panel? Cool story! Excellent weathering! Top notch build!!

This one is pretty much done. It was my first experience experimenting with snow in scale.

Thanks guys! I like the way it looks clean too. You are right Dan, these are about the only clean CF trucks that you find pictures of. Weathering will very light and mostly chassis.

Thanks Warren! It leaks. I need to get that fixed.?

Excellent work! Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks Brian and AJ!! I close to done except for some weathering and figuring out how to replicate the concrete for the bed.

Looking good!

This will be good!

Oh man that looks good!!

Awesome pair of mixers! I like the paint scheme on these! They are rugged and mean business and ready for the weekend truck show. Excellent work!!

Awesome!

Getting closer to the finish line.

I built mine as an Apollo 92 as well.

I like “Big Stick” wreckers and Western Stars! Mixing them together has got to be good!!