Scott Eriksen

Looks great!!! I aways liked the snub nose look . All the years of working on trucks ,and a lot of corn binders,,I never saw a 4300 with the IH V-8 ,,usually a Detroit or Cummins .. they make for a sweet looking wrecker

....................shot the red,,,,,,,,,safety striping came out pretty good,I expected more bleed thru under the tape ,,,,,,, more do-dads on the mast.fabbed up outrigger chains and hooks . I forgot to cut the holes in the back for the Scotch Block chains,I may still do that.........today I plan on decaling the body and possibly shooting the clear

This one is real close

..............and I guess MPC called it "close enough ! " lol ?

I guess the question is what version of the car are you building ? The NASCAR version would use the Hemi/single 4bbl/and the air cleaner that draws in air from the cowl

................I'll need a 6V-53 Detroit and an MT640 Allison to go along with that cab please ?

The NASCAR Hemi engine had a single 4 barrel carb on what they called a "bathtub" intake manifold here is a pic of a 64 Plymouth with one

Nice job,,, I have to get one of those C-cab Ford kits or should I say Budd cab Ford kits ? I worked on enough of them back in the day.

Thats a NASCAR air cleaner,,it pulled in air from the cowl

I remember selling them when I worked at the Hess station for $1.69 with the batteries ,,,, but then again we also sold leaded 101 octane @.29 cents a gallon ?

.............cabling the boom ,, the way the mast assembly was 3D printed you can't run the cable correctly as the 1:1 Holmes ,,but it will fly.I will do a bit of black and rust wash on it when completed

This was my 1st big truck build after getting back to building a few years ago,,,,,basic AMT Fruehauf tanker trailer and basic AMT White Road Boss with the exception of an Auslowe 8V-71 Detroit Diesel . I worked at the Hess station in Rockaway N.J. while I was in high school ,, Winters Trucking hauled for Hess and I can remember them having Whites ,,,,may have been 9000's not Road Bosses ,,,my memory on that is foggy.I took these pics in my display case ,,the lighting is not that great

Progress report...... shot the back of the body yellow for the safety striping ,,worked on the lightbar and some other bits

That thing looks great! .......... all it needs is a Tachograph ? Nice job!

Thanks Terry...that resin Dodge cab was a handful ,,,I keep torturing myself with resin stuff!

It will put my fine tip air brush paint fading to the test !

yeah..I know,,I did 2 of them in the 90's ,,1 I left a 'vert ,,,lol ....I'm older and wiser now,,but I can't see and bad arthritis in my hands....it'll be fine ?

This is what I got planned after the Autocar is done,,got the Chally,got the Prostock hood,got the Hemi,slot wheels and the Slixx decals

Current situation........... the Mr Surfacer worked great,,,, didn't like the cast in compartment doors so made new ones,will use PE Kenworth latches from CTM ,, used some C-channel for body side caps,will probably hit those with chrome pen after paint , cut out right and left rear corners for winch control handles,,,, pinned all the pivots with brass rod on the boom ,,primed and painted Chrome Yellow .........prime and sand the body some more tonight while I listen to Cousin Brucie on WABC

Here's a pic of one of Logan's older trucks,a '63 Autocar twin steer

I got 2 miniature gear sprockets and drive chain for the PTO from Micro Mark .....lol .You can see the black gear I drilled and mounted on the gearbox .The winch drums are part of the mast 3D print and so are the gears (without teeth) on the spools ,, not sure if I'm going that crazy and cutting teeth ......I'll just wrap some cable on the drums I think

Thanks Walt ..I'm pretty sure that was A4 Silver from a can of Duplicolor .... I used Duplicolor a lot back then ,,,,and yes those MRC wheels were the best!

I'll see how the Mr Surfacer works,,it's pretty thick ,,I can always strip it off or just throw the whole thing in the trash....lol!

The challenge will be the crappy plastic from the 3D printed wrecker body,,the booms and mast are grainy too but I'm not as concerned as much with them,,the booms are the older style Holmes tube with angle iron reinforcement . I drove my Dad's Holmes 600/IH Fleetstar 2010 on calls back in the late 70's early 80's when we had the truck shop in South Plainfield

I've been working on this one on and off for awhile (that's why my bench is always trashed,,lol) . Started with AMT's Autocar dump ,stretched the frame and went single axle ,using the rear springs and rear from AMT White Freightliner SD/DD kit . I found the Holmes 750 on Shapeways ,,not too bad EXCEPT with the plastic used "versatile white plastic" ,, has a texture grainy surface and does not sand well at all (I gave up waiting for AMT to make a 1/25th scale version of their 1/43 scale Holmes decades ago ! ) . I assembled/painted most of the chassis and cab already leaving off the fenders and trim bits so I wouldn't break any off ,,the decals are custom by Bedlam Creations. I laid Plastruct diamond plate sheet in the bed and top of the body front ,,my struggle now is with the textured plastic side,,, I shot it with spray Mr Surfacer 500 1st and now applying skim coats of Mr Surfacer 500 out of the bottle , which might work ,,,on my 2nd coat today waiting for it to dry . The hoses on the cab are for the A/C unit .