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Great progress so far! Looking forward to seeing this come along.

Great job on this one, Ken!

Thanks all. Just got out of quarantine, so hoping to get paint on the engine later this week, that's the last major component to be painted. Meanwhile, I got the cab parts on, interior together and painted and couldn't resist taking some mockup photos. It's starting to come together. Interior is a pretty plain black and tan, highlighted the dash a bit. Not my best work but will be hardly visible when it is complete.

Looks amazing!

Thanks! I like it as well.

That'll be cool!

Thanks everyone! Vincent, I am going to scratch build the body. I always loved the look of the Leach pack masters, and they are relatively simple bodies. We'll see how it goes. Couple long days of building (having to quarantine helps) got some paint sprayed on the frame and cab. Will look pretty good with some light weathering. Will get paint for the engine and transmission once I am able to get out and about again.

This will be a really cool build!

This'll be a cool project!

Will be a cool project!

Looks sharp!

Good day of work today, engine assembled and the frame is mostly together. In the picture the rear cab mount is in the wrong spot, caught that, it is fixed now.

For this years BRBO I am going to take the AMT Autocar dump truck kit and build a Leach 2-R Packmaster refuse body to go with it. Hopefully I can get this done by the end of the year. This is my first attempt at scratchbuilding, and I've only built a few big rig kits before this, so my expectations aren't super high. I'm excited to get working on this!

You can add me to the list I will be doing an Autocar DC-9964 with a garbage truck body.

Love that green!

Thanks for hosting, Rog! Jeff, I'm excited to see the truck come together as well.

Beautiful result!!

That yellow looks really nice.

Looks like a really cool + unique project! Will be fun to watch this come together.

Gonna build the Autocar kit, and probably (if time allows) try to fab up a Leach refuse body. Always loved the look of these beasts.. and yes, planning on painting it in red/green, they look really sharp.

Nice work! Truck's really coming together, excited to see the final result.

Will be cool to see how this one progresses. Nice work so far.

Looks really nice!

Nice start, will be cool to see how this one progresses.

Awesome build. Great progress you've made, and I look forward to seeing more progress on this rig.