Pete68

Thanks Jürgen I appreciate it

Yes it does

Your welcome Ken. I know you will make the a beautiful truck like you always do.

Here’s another old build that I started around 2010 and never finished. When New Ray came out with these I bought 2 cases of them. I would disassemble them and strip the paint off then Custom Make my own Decals and sell them on eBay. Here’s one that never made it to eBay that I was working on and I never finished it. Maybe now I will finish the Truck but it will not be for sale this time it’s going into my personal collection. The truck cab is painted Tangerine Orange and I hand painted the hood, fenders, grille and frame with Testors Acrylic Dark Blue. The Roadway decals are the old Ert DM600 ones scaled to 1/43 that I did. I’ll be adding some Don Mills Wheels, Mirrors, Bulldog and side badge decals. Other parts are from 1/43 AMT models like the front spit rim rings the old 2 piece Tire’s, metal axles and I made a scratch built bumper made from styrene channel. Hope you follow along.

Thanks Jeff I’ll be looking for it. It needs a Twin Big Brother. 😂

I appreciate your complement and that is what I was going for on this truck years ago. Thanks for stopping by.

I have to agree for a small scale it is. Thanks for your complement.

Thanks I appreciate it.

I dug this one out this evening going to try to finish this one also soon. I replaced the 10 Hole Alcoa wheels for the spoke wheels out of the Kenworth K-100 Cabover truck. Over the years I’ve lost the inter wheels and had to replace them from my parts box. Soaking the wheels in Ammonia to de-chrome them.

Thanks Gary I appreciate it. I moved it to Under Glass for better pics.

After just shy of 10 years this one is finally done. The kit started out as one of my last AMT 1/43 Peterbilts I’ve collected over the years and this little guy triggered me to go back and start collecting these 1/43 Peterbilts again.(24 and counting as to date) Thanks for all who followed and supported the build over the years. Some features are Don Mills Metal Front 5 hole Alcoa wheels reworked. Don Mills Mirrors and turn signals, Goochie Custom Made decals, Homemade Air Horns, 1/43 New Ray Rear Tandem wheels and tires. Enjoy the pics.

It’s finally done after 1 year shy of being ten years when I first started this truck can’t believe it’s finished. Thanks to all who has followed the long saga and who have supported me. I’ll post the Under Glass pics later.

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Ken that engine looks good dropped in there. Thanks for sharing.

Nice updates Steve keeps getting better.

Nice thread seated and following.

Yes I’m like you seeing the same old “Watkins” scheme so many years but I plan on building a 1/25 Kenworth some day with the trailer 😂

Gary I’m in neat looking build seated up front.

Thought I would post some more updates before calling it a night. Made some Air Horns out of a HO Scale Engine Bell added Styrene rod and the back of the kit horn. The kit horns are horrible Added some Don Mills turn signals by cutting one in half

Thanks Brian for the complement yes I have a few more I’ll be adding.

Thanks Gary I appreciate it. Getting closer to being done

Worked on the Pete this afternoon. De-Chromed the Fifths wheel and made it pivot. Then I Hand painted the Plate,Carriage, and the Fifth Wheel with Tamiya Red. More updates soon. While I was at it I decided to hand paint the whole frame to give it a fresh look since it’s been years since it’s been painted.

Jürgen thanks for the nice complement. Yes it’s like building the 1/25 scale but smaller. It does varies in some details like the 1/25 scale but there’s enough here to still make a good looking model. Thanks for stopping by.