Doug 1061

This is too cool. Gonna have to follow this one.

Nice work on that. Smooth black paint. That was a funny movie. I WANT MY 2 DOLLARS!!!!!!!!

Looks like someone has too much time on their hands. That warning likely means someone tried to eat that.....

Yep. Dive in and try it. If you make a mess of it, well you know what didn't work. Off to plan B. It's only plastic.

Nice work. 6 months seems to be the norm for me on a truck kit. Sometimes you have to walk away from it for a bit.

Great job on a difficult kit. X2 on your photography skills.

Made a bit more forward progress on this trailer. Fabbed up the mounts for the subframe arms. Just going off of pics I found on the net, eyeball engineering here. Also noticed I have to do something with the axle spacing. Tires are touching, DOT would have a field day with that....... Got the liner primed and sanded smooth and ready for paint. Put the tractor in front of it just to get an idea what it will look like. Now to make the plate for the king pin and make it all work. Will likely take a few tries to get it. Hope I can pull it off.

That is looking great. I especially like the exhaust system. As real looking as they get.

I just checked, it is turned off.

Oh, I know. That Hobby Town here in my home town is an icon here. Been around since 1970. I go there all the time, very well stocked. Gotta support the little guy.

HLs in Denver area all well stocked. The one closest to me had the 1/16 57 T bird, had the Ford Snowplow truck a couple months back. Too bad I bought the T bird at Hobby Town back in mid Oct. Always my luck.

Thanks Dave for the reply. I am using Chrome for browser, not in private mode. Cookies are enabled. Maybe cancel acct and re sign up?

Hello all, I was wondering if I am doing something wrong on sign in. Every time when I try and get on the board I have to go through the reset password routine. Just wondering if this is normal, or is it because I am fairly new here? Or maybe something with my settings? Or maybe I am not doing something right? I would be thankful for any help. Everything works OK just a bit of an annoyance is all. Thanks, Doug.

I like these. These simple kits are fun once in a while.

Nice. You captured that used and abused look, love the sandblasted look on the front. One of these days I gotta get up the nerve to try weathering a truck model.

Hey, this is the first I am seeing this. I lowered it about 1/8 inch. I cut through the rear cab mount with a razor saw so the bottom rear of the cab would sit right down on the frame rails. Of course I had to alter the front cab mounts and 4 or 5 other things to make it work. I feel like it was worth the effort.

That looks great. I wouldn't let lack of an engine keep me from building one of these. It's mostly the price tag on the Italeri kits that has kept me from buying one. That and the fact that I have 300 years worth of kits sitting around here.......

Made a bit more progress the last couple days. Keyword little haha. Got the seams from gluing the tub pieces together sanded down and a coat primer on inner tub. Gotta hit the store and get a can of filler primer to get it smoothed out, got it pretty close already. Whittled and sanded a whole bunch of flash off of the suspension pieces and chopped off the springs and mounting points for the forward axle. Still not sure if I will make it frameless yet, although I am leaning that way.

Scott, yes the flash is unreal on this thing. I spent nearly 2 hrs. yesterday deburring the tub and inner liner. Had to be careful I didn't cut myself on it. There is almost enough flash on it to make another kit. I remember all these truck kits were a bit sloppy even back in the 70's. Cleanup alone will add several hours to this build.

What he said.

The Greer Black Prudhomme car would get my vote. Thinking Revell would do it justice.

That is unreal. You did some great work there. Looking at these pics that I thought of that song from the 70's, They're coming to take me away hee hee ho ho ha ha !! I woulda maybe got thru that cockpit/firewall/bulkhead assembly and boxed it up and forgot about it.

Nice little Fokkers..... Looks like those wings would be very fiddly.

First try at a build thread here. Gonna do a MPC end dump trailer. I am stitching two of these together and making a 35 ft. tandem. That 24 ft tri axle always looked strange to me, betting it would be a handful to drive that. Would be downright scary on wet or sloppy roads. I am still debating if I want to change it to frameless. Thinking it would be about the same amount of work as stretching the frame. Might have to flip a coin. Anyway I got a start on it, got the tubs cut and glued together. This might take a while since I am not a very fast builder.

Looks great. I always liked the base model trucks, no chrome bits to fall off.