Scott Eriksen

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 .

Thanks Brian.....Alclad , came out better than I thought,,, I'm hit and miss with that stuff , conditions have to be perfect ,, lol

I just caught his youtube video ,, glad he's ok

Yep...broke my heart when E-town closed,,,and then Atco,,, lets just hope Island Dragway hangs in there,,last time I was at Island was 1971 to see Sox & Martin ........ here's a pic of me in the R/T on RT18 on the way to E-town in a Mopar convoy !

........and those Cragars are those MRC Muscle Car Hop Up Set wheel and tire parts packs that aren't around anymore ,,I think I bought a dozen each of the Keystones and Cragars !

Only has the hemi mufflers Jeff ! lol ..thanks!

Model Master and Dupont Chroma System clear which I still have a quart and the activator,,,still good ! lol

The good old days.......miss that place

Hey Walter! We met at Etown wayyy back hope all is well with you .I used to take my R/T to the track all the time .never missed Mopars At Etown ,used to run the car on the 1/8th mile ,,here's a pic of you with the Green Hornet 65 Plymouth and my Coronet R/T

Thanks Bob ,,never thought I'd still have these models 30 odd years later!

And another 30 year old build , I used the AMT 71 Duster and if I recall a Ross Gibson Hemi with a Rat Roaster intake ,,some things I didn't do but should have was paint the engine Ford blue and a more correct engine (Tunnel Ram,,,D5 dual plug heads etc. ) Not as much reference material back then as there is now like Jim Schilds Sox & Martin book and books by Geoff Stunkard and others.

Another 30 or so year old build,Jimmy Addison's Silver Bullet GTX tribute sort of...... I didn't flare out the quarters though

Great job! I did one years ago but I didn't flare out the rear quarters .I always wanted to do a diorama of either at Spehar's/Addisons Sunoco station ,or at a traffic light on Woodward Ave.