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RoninUtah

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  1. Thanks, all! I fixed the front wheels and took new photos, see above. It does look much better now. Still not perfect, of course, but none of my builds are! Here is a shot of the White in its place in the "museum," so you can see how the scale looks compared to the Mack AC next to it. The little red truck is a 1908 Chase high wheel delivery van, also designed by Ditomao147 and printed in 1/24.
  2. The guy I bough this kit from was a Nash collector too; he was downsizing and thought he’d never find time to build the kit so he sold it. It turns out that the dealership in San Francisco I used for the graphics on the model was the same one that originally sold his prized Ambassador!
  3. That's amazing! It's a super-rare truck, and an even more rare model kit. Did he or you ever build it?
  4. Thanks! I'm sure top speed was somewhere around 30 MPH, but considering streets at the time were mostly cobblestone, if they were paved at all, yeah, it must have been a kidney-buster!
  5. Yeah, the resin body is so heavy it knocked the front wheels out of line. I need to re-mount them.
  6. Lately, I've posted a few 3-D printed builds of recent trucks; the hump-back kind with giant loft sleepers, like you might see on any highway in North America. This is not one of those. This is a White Model 45, approximately from 1921. It was a big rig for its time, with a 5-ton capacity, built tough to last on the rough roads of the day with a worm drive, cast steel wheels and solid rubber tires. This one was designed by Ditomaso147 on the Cults website, designed in 1/48 scale. I scaled it 200% to 1/24, and it looks pretty close when standing next to one of my Monogram/ Atlantis Mack ACs. I added cowl lights, a taillight and a horn from a Mack AC kit, and the barrels are 3-D printed from another designer, scaled to fit. The windshield and side/rear windows are scratch built with polystyrene strips and clear sheet. Everything else is from Ditomaso's design.
  7. Great build, especially considering what you had to work with at the time. Hakan's comments are spot-on. AITM had both versions of the Peterbilt needlenose (fortunately I was able to get both from Dave before he passed). The butterfly hood was a conversion kit for a 351/281; the AITM version had a pre-1960 cab. The single-hinge hood was a hood conversion for the AMT kit to represent a '60s tilt-hood (dual drive Model 358, I forgot what the single drive model # was); I used it with an old Unilite cab I had in my stash to create a ca. 1965 needlenose. The tilt hood version came out in the 60s, but the butterfly hood was still available at the time as well. Now there are plenty of resources for the Duel rig, as Hakan pointed out, but most of them ae not accurate and it will still take a lot of work and imagination to do it correctly.
  8. Great looking AC! I've built three of them, most recently the dump truck, and I've always liked these kits. The pneumatic tires and spoke wheels are perfect for a late 20's- early 30's version of this truck- they were in production until 1939 and the later ones had pneumatic tires. Always wanted to do one this way but I never had the right wheels in my little stash of leftover AITM parts. I miss Dave too, he was the nicest guy in the world and he was always willing to do everything her could to help out. Great job!
  9. Agreed. The market for modern truck models is too limited, and the cost of tooling and production are too high to speculate on for the big manufacturers. Not to mention the cost of getting the proper licenses from the truck manufacturers.
  10. That’s where 3D printing comes in. This is the lineup on my kitchen counter- Peterbilt 579, Kenworth T-680, and Freightliner Cascadia, all with 3D printed bodies, scaled to 1/25,on various donor chassis. The W990 is from A&N and is a beautiful kit, if a bit challenging to build. If you want a plastic kit that’s easy to glue together with the help of instructions, that’s probably not gonna happen. But there are other options out there. I find the old vs new trucks debate a little tiresome. I love them all, and my collection spans from 1908 to 2025, with most in the 50s and 60s. My favorites are from the golden age of American trucking, 1950-1980. But the current trucks are an important part of history too and deserve a place on the shelf as well.
  11. Great looking work! Your 3-D prints are so clean- can I ask what kind of machine you use?
  12. I’ve done that more times than I care to admit! Interesting build, I’ll be watching…
  13. This looks great! The mods are perfect, and as others have said, the weathering is just right. Very convincing looking mixer. Well done!
  14. I can help with that. I have some from a Revell W900 wrecker kit.
  15. Black and orange looks sharp! This will be a very impressive rig- I like what you're doing.
  16. Nice stuff! Looking forward to see how you use it!
  17. I used one of these engines in my White Freightliner Powerliner, and that’s what I did. Twin air cleaners with twin stacks. Yours won’t have air cleaner stacks, of course but you can route the air cleaner plumbing separately to each side of the hood. Nice surgery on the hood- this will be a massive truck! I’ll be watching with great interest, because I’ll be doing something similar with a KW W900 heavy haul tractor sometime early next year.
  18. I love how this turned out! It looks completely authentic- ready to pull in to a gas station and refill the underground tanks. I especially like how that trailer turned out- a perfect match for the truck.Well done!
  19. Hey, Lee, great topic! But be careful what you wish for! 2024 was a very successful year for the acquisitions program of the Northern Utah Transportation Museum (NUTA), for both the Core Collection and the Revenue Division. Here are our 2024 acquisitions, in chronological order: January 7: 1949 Sterling Chain Drive January 9: 1948 Nash Haulthrift Wrecker April 29: 1965 Ford T950 tractor/ Freuhauf 40' van trailer (May 3) May 13: 1972 Mack F-737 June 13: 1967 Ford W1000 June 25: 1949 White Super Power July 10: 1980 Kenworth W900 wrecker July 20: 1980 Kenworth W900 tractor August 10: 1954 International RFC-405/ Trailmobiile flatbed trailer (Aug. 16) August 19: 2024 Freightliner Cascadia (Revenue Division) September 6: 1978 Chevrolet Bison September 26: 2025 Kenworth W990 (Revenue Division) October 13: 1922 Mack AC dump truck October 28: 2024 Peterbilt 579 (Revenue Division) November 17: 1966 Peterbilt 352/ Open top trailer (Oct. 3) November 23: 2011 Freightliner Cascadia/ Utility 53' reefer trailer (Sept. 8)(Revenue Division) December 13: 1941 Autocar U-80 As a reminder, admission to the museum is free, but reservations are required.
  20. I don't know, I think that third bolt on the right needs to be tightened a little more...
  21. Nice! Love those added touches!
  22. Ultimately, we build these models to please ourselves, and hope others like them as well. Just knowing that that extra level of detail is in the build, even if you have to look closely to see it, makes it worth the effort in the long run.
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