Jürgen M.

Oh my God, I posted this in Under Glass! 🙈 I'll try to delete it and put it over to "in progress"! Sorry about that! Thanks to Stichtup for transfering my thread to the right place! 👍

Hi Folks, I've been struggling about what to do next and changed my mind several times. Finally I decided to do one more Truck from the movie Convoy! This time I better not say it's the last one! 🙈 OK, enough of my personal bla bla. This is it: an IH CO4070a Handle in the movie: "Bald Eagle"! I will of course design and print all parts myself. At least of the truck. I'm not sure yet if I'll purchase a reefer kit. (It's a lot of printing!) You'll be the first to know! These are the first parts I designed: The cab with sun visor ...and the interior tub with dash: I downloaded the instruction sheet of the AMT kit to see the details of the interior parts better. Hard to see on a finished model! For the cab I used my finished IH model: Hope you enjoy the thread!

That sounds cool! Can't wait to follow the build! 😊

Thanks!

Looks nice! I love that IH! Is it the Ertl or Amt kit?

Do you have one with right hand drive? There aren't many of them. Otherwise you'll have to scratch a right hand dash!

Yes it is! I even chose the "short" version. I used the tri-axle trailer chassis with a fifth wheel instead of using tandem dollies! That would have made it even longer!

Hi Ron, I used two AMT live stock vans and a flatbed that used to be a reefer! It's the Italeri White Western Star road train kit! Hope that helps you a bit! 😊

I agree with Ron. The whole engine looks so real! Great job Pal! 👍

Nice job! This will be a jewel!

I hear you, Ron! When I had my road train finished I first didn't know where to put it. I'm sure you'll find a worthy place for it!

Hey Ron, that is one hot rig! 👍 Beautiful to look at! Very impressive!

Looks nice! I love aussie trucks! Great job! I built the Italeri Western Star road train myself. It's the only kit I know of that has right hand drive. Only the cast in wipers are the wrong way!

Nice going Pal! I wouldn't even have known the types of brakes! Looks great. I can't wait to see more!

I hear ya! 😉

Looks really cool! I had to put a new shelf on the wall for my 1.72m road train. Not easy creating space for such a long rig! You'll think of something!

Nice build! Looks like a hard working machine!

Nice Trailer! Looks great with the Titan! Most of my trailers are scratch built but I've got the AMT cattle trailer three times which I used on my Pig Pen rig and two on my 1/24 White Western Star road train. Can't say I had the ride height issue on those eventhough both have larger tires. Maybe I was lucky or it's just the reefer that has that issue! Anyway you solved the problem perfectly!

Nice build! Great reproduction of the real thing!

Awesome Pal! This is going fast! Engine looks great!

Nice oldie! Looks great!

Looks awesome, Ron! Nice build! 👍

Thank you very much Guys! Glad you're enjoying it!

Wow! Thanks! That's a really helpful list! Just when I started designing my own tires! 😂 That must have been quite an effort making that list! I really do appreciate it.

Have faith in your skills! You can do it!