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I would say less high speed, and more long hours packed into single days. I will sit and work for 4-6 hours at a time. You can get a lot done when you are not interrupted all the time. Working in short bursts is tough.

I am closing in on the finish line with this build. I still have to put a second coat of paint on the trailer, find some kind of grill for the round vents on the side, fix a few minor issues on the cab and then weather it all. But I am seeing the end in sight.

I got a bit more done this weekend. I was able to finish some of the details on the trailer and get a first coat of paint on it. I still need to find something for the center of the round vents on the side. I still have some tweaks and corrections on the cab to do. Once I get those done I can do some light weathering on both and it will be done.

Keep in mind that in 1968 the Beetle in the USA was available with swing arm rear if it was a manual trans, and IRS if it had an Auto-Stick trans. The kit has the right rear suspension for a stick shift 68. What you see a lot of is 68's with the Auto-stick that have been converted to a regular manual trans. All 69 and later USA Beetles had IRS, so double CV joints on each axle. As for the front, up to 67 were king pin, 68 and up were ball joint. In scale it is had to tell the difference.

You just gotta love Hollywood. For every movie and TV show they have more than one Hero/villain vehicle. In my case this make things very difficult to replicate the TV truck when there are at least 2 and they are not the same. I have pictures from the show both showing the left side of the trailer and in 2 scenes just minutes apart the whole left side of the trailer is different. The action is happening so quick that when seeing the show, you just don't catch it, but when I am attempting to recreate it, it is very frustrating. I am having to just pick one and go with it. The truck even has different rear wheels depending on the scene. Luckily in several scenes it has the ones I have in the kit. More progress has been made in spite of the "Hollywood" issues.

I have been going a little crazy on my build of Sarge's truck. I have a few pictures and I was able to find a video from the show with the truck in it. However I am finding that there are at least 2 trucks used. I know this is not that odd for Hollywood, but it is driving me nuts as the trucks are different. You would not notice it until you try to replicate it in scale. The trailer on the driver side is different depending on the scene. I mean WAY different. Depending on the scene the truck has different wheels on the back of the tractor. One scene it is spokes, the next it is Budds. Is anyone else fighting Hollywood's multiple vehicle issue? It seems the Close-up vehicle is always different from the "Stunt" vehicle. Oh, well. I press on. Here is more progress on the trailer part of the build. I have had to do a lot of work making scratch parts for the sides of this thing. It is getting there.

WOW, that is over the top. I love it. Really great job on the weathering. I am really blown away by this build.

Wow, great build. Looks awesome. You really moved through that build, I can't believe you got it done in 1 month. My tractor is 99% and my trailer is not even close.

I have been on the road the last several weeks and so my bench time has been cut to a fraction of what it was. That is why I got so much done in the beginning, I had a lot of time at home. I did get some work done on the trailer. The video showed an angle of the trailer I could not find in pictures. This required me to take the back of the trailer off and redo it. It has a door on the back, but not a roll up, it is a man door, like on a house. I still have a few more details to do, but it is closer to the TV truck now. I was in San Diego this last week, so I was able to stop by a hobby shop and pick up some more Evergreen to finish up the missing details on the rest of the trailer.

I look forward to seeing more progress on this kit. I have one on the way and have big plans for it.

I like it, nice work

That is looking great, keep it up

I know this is mostly about older trucks from movies and TV shows, but I am currently building a replica of Sarge's truck from Marvels Agents of Shield season 6. It is a 379, using a 378 Italeri kit. Had to use the older release to get the older flat top sleeper. It is my B.R.B.O. for this year, see it in the workbench section

I will be in the San Diego area this next week. I don't have a good hobby shop for getting stuff close to me, so I thought I would take a look while I am there. Any suggestions. Looking mostly for truck stuff, and scratch building Evergreen.

WOW, great work on this. I love the look of it and the way it all fits together and looks like it is headed to or from a job site. I have done a combo like this and know the amount of work involved, great job.

2 reasons the Turbine never caught on, the complexity cause them to be very expensive and the emissions output was too high and could not be reduced. Given time both issues could have been resolved, but the emissions restrictions just kept getting tighter and the costs were going through the roof. Piston engines worked and could be made to pass emissions with less cost. I love the idea of Turbine powered vehicle, but the dream never came to reality. As for this bike, OH HECK NO! I ride a bike, but would never get on this thing.

I got a little more done on Sarge's truck. The trailer I ordered came in, but it was too long and ribbed on the outside. I had to cut out 8 scale feet, then turn the box inside-out. I have a bit of it mocked up. I cut the details on the sides with a waterjet. 60,000psi will cut styrene in nothing flat. I still have a ton more to do to the trailer and I found out that there are some details on the truck I need to correct. But, I am moving forward.

Thank you for finding that clip. It has a lot more details in it than I have been able to find anywhere else. Like the back door. I had always assumed it was a standard door, but now I see it is not. I can also see a few other things I need to go back and fix. I will be saving that clip and using it a lot. Thanks again.

It would not be the first time Hollywood has used more than one vehicle for shooting a TV Show or Movie.

The TV truck uses plastic/rubber tracks from a snowmobile, but there are none in scale. So, I had to use the next closest thing I could find. My buddy sent me these from a 1/35 scale M1A1.

I got the box of the truck together. I have added a few of the details, but still have a ways to go. I took 8ft out of it to make it a 40ft trailer. Anyway, just a minor update.

I don't know what the "engines" on top of the sleeper are for, or even what they really are, but I made them out of a 55 gallon drum from the AMT Ford C600 kit, some 3/4 CPVC pipe and some electrical wire nuts, a bendy straw and some parts from the Ghostbusters car. The truck is from a TV show, it was in the show all season, but was only in about 1/3 of the episodes. I wish they would have showed it more. A lot of the time it was shown, it was in the trailer section. BTW, my company sells a Waterjet that could be used in any home/Garage. It is 240V/30A powered and just hooks up to a garden hose. I wish I could afford one, but at $22K they are a bit out of my "Hobby" budget. So as not to promote something like that here I will not go into any more details, but if interested, PM me.

That is beautiful, very nicely done. If your customer does not like it, he is a genuine Horses Fanny.

So, the truck is 99% done, I still have to add the tracks to the top of the fender like the TV truck. My Armor building buddy just sent me a set from an M1A1. I got the new trailer I ordered and it is coming along. The sides are groved, but not on the TV truck, they are smooth. So, I had to turn the walls inside out. I also had to shorten the trailer by a scale 8 feet to make it a 40 foot trailer. For work I work on and install waterjet cutting machines. 60,000psi of water cutting pressure. I finished up the install of one today and needed to do some testing. What better way than to cut out some styrene for my trailer. The TV truck has these strange linked rings on both sides of it, I cut some out today as I could never replicate these with an X-acto. Kind of fun to be able to make stuff like this. Keep in mind the picture is up close and these are sitting on the screen of an IPhone 7. They still need a little clean up, but still way better than I could do myself.

Looking good. I did a day cab conversion on the sister KW Snap kit. Be sure to do something about the frame where the sleep floor is removed, it gets really week once you cut it off. It is looking great and you are on your way to a really cool truck.