Oldmopars

Great choice on the Fire truck theme. This is my own personal Ex-Fire truck. Its a 1985 Chevy K30 4X4 with Reading box converted to Fire/Medic use. It still has all the labels of what goes in each cabinet and the Cert for Emergency use. And best of all, it only 17K original miles on it.(Documented) I am building a 1:25 copy of it just for fun.

WOW, WOW, WOW!!! That is Awesome! I love the paint, though never a big fan of the "Low Riders" that is one outstanding model. Good job. I too have one in the Que, but plan for a "Showroom" stock version.

Very nice, looks perfect. The Dio is spot on too. You did a great job. I want to do one of these and a Dozer, the Dozer is being reissued, hope this does too.

Well, I still need to do some painting on the interior and the wheels are now primed as well as the frame. I am getting closer. Today I added a few details to the exterior. I did the lights on the rear, wipers, glass and added some Dull wash to tone down the shine. I fought with the wipers, tried several times to glue them on. I finally drilled and pinned them, this worked the best. When I move out of this RV I am living in I will get the rest of it painted.

I know that we are a good bit into the year on this, but i will be joining this with a Revell 1980 Dodge Ramcharger converted to a 1974 Plymouth Trail Duster with 3D printed hood and grill. I have to finish my Cannonball Run "Stool Bus" and TAT Pete first, or at least get close before I devote too much time on this. But I will be joining soon.

I had one of these many years ago (mid 80's) It never looked ugly to me back then, but now I see how ugly it really is.

So, I made a little more progress on the Cab of the Stool Bus. I needed to figure out how to lower the headlights. I saw how some others did it, but just did not like the idea of cutting of the bumps and then cutting in the new recesses. So, I did it my own way. I basically made a box around the headlights, cutting wide at the bottom and tight to the headlights at the top. This way I could flip the parts side to side and they would lower the lights. See the pictures as it makes sense. Also, in the last picture you can see that I drilled out the vent below the headlight on the passenger side. I will be adding a fine mess screen after paint. Now I need to find some very very small rivets to add back the ones that got removed doing this mod. I am also thinking about removing the wipers, sanding back the window trim to fix the top of the cab(casting lines) then add back the trim. It is really poor and shallow anyway. Then get some PE wipers.

This is the Rivet detail I want to restore

I have been working on correcting the White Freightliner headlight issue, them beeing too high. I cut them out and flipped them side to side(will be in my build thread), but not matter what I tried, I just ended up loosing the rivet details. Is there any way to do this without loosing the details? Anyone sell very tiny rivets that I can add back? Any other ideas?

No, not a plumber, just good with Google and I have seen them in person so I have taken pictures of the trucks I see.

Looks great. I have been wanting to do a Rat Rod truck also, I will be following

You did a great job on this, looks great. I love the light weathering on the chassis. I also am working on this kit, with a sordid history. My kit can from Goodwill for $6. Someone started it and used a half a tube of glue for the 5 or 6 parts they put together. Then lost 3 or 4 parts too. I have replaced a few of the parts, but still need a few. I pull it out and work on it for a while, then get frustrated and shove it back in the box not to be seen for a month or so. Someday I will get it done and hope it looks as good as yours.

I don't see any link or site

I really hope they get this one out, I want one.

Thats the fun thing about plastic models. You are not destroying a real 55 Chevy, so you are free to do whatever you can dream. Anyone doing this to a real classic should be locked up. As for your model, its great. I like it a lot. Great job

Looks great to me

And the hood side emblems are different. There are a lot of other small differences, however most of them would not matter at the level of detail you get with a 1:25 scale model.

More important info, the door panels and the heater are different on the 67 from the 68-72. Yes, I am also a huge fan of these trucks.

Just wanted to add this as no one seems to have pointed out the differences in the safety reflectors on the rear of the beds. This is taken from the FORDification.com site

Growing up my Dad had one of these, but a 1 ton. It was a little rough and one year the old V6 froze, so he put a Corvette 327 in it (he worked at the Chevy Dealer). Then he cut the back off like a pick up truck and mounted our camper to it and it became like a motorhome with pass through. It stayed that way for several years till he got a new body, from a pick up. However when he stripped it all down and put the pick up body on the panel frame, he found the frame was 6in longer than the pick up. So, he mounted the bed and cab 6in apart to make the wheelbase look right and mounted a set of Camero side pipes standing up to fill the gap. Everyone thought he did it that way custom. Cool old truck. I love what you did to this panel, it looks great and brings back memories. The color is great and the built looks perfect. Very nicely done!

Try shapeways, they have a ton of stuff and this seller has lots of 1/35 military wheels and other stuff https://www.shapeways.com/product/RZ2HK2CSL/1-35-tire-750x20?optionId=61786119&li=marketplace

very nice

Anyone have pictures of the corrected body next to the bad body?

As you can see, this is a Septic truck AKA: The Stool Bus. The story is that it needs to be an inline engine, so I went with the Cummins NHC-250 and I wanted something the Cops would avoid stopping. How many times have you seen a cop stop a Poop Truck? I added a turbo from an Italari Scania kit I had for more power. In real life this would not hold Poo, but would actually be a fuel tank so the driver would not have to stop, but could just keep driving coast to coast.

I have this project over in the Trucks, Big rigs workbench, but thought I would post some updates here so you all know what is going on. I have the basic truck mocked up, the engine is done and the tank is mostly finished.