Harv Mushman

I really like your approach here Straightliner, and that's some beautiful work. Sadly model shows are not really a thing where I live on a little island at the bottom of Australia.

I'm pretty confident in scratching the appropriate HD parts to at least make a light duty FE look like a 361. The belts might be a fiddle but I think I can laminate and shape styrene pieces for most of the rest.

I'll seek one out! Thanks for the tip. I'm on the fence if I want a 361 FT or something spicier (I can probably use a 390 to represent a 361), though I'm inspired by this real life F700/M700 which has a Paxton-blown 361. Thanks Garageguy, that's an approach I'm confident with. I was mostly just considering channel for the section between the cab and rear axle, but on reflection most of it would be pretty overscale in thickness at that sort of sizing too. I'll scribe out the rail profiles and fabricate. Considering using the light duty chassis

I have a leftover engineless Moebius '66 F100 kit from a project (in this case, retrofitting a 240cid six into a F100 4x4) and I'm thinking I'd like to kitbash a medium duty truck. In this case, a '66 F700. The bodywork seems straightforward enough. Wheels, tyres, no problem aftermarket. Should I scratchbuild a chassis (e.g. rails/xmembers), and if so, how? I looked through Evergreen and Plastruct and neither seemed to have suitable channel (approx 9.5x3"). It will need a front beam, 2-speed Eaton axle and some suitable spring packs, anything in the aftermarket that anyone would recommend? I considered buying a C600 as a general parts donor but the detail seems pretty representative, at best. I'm unsure as to which engine yet, but I do have a 352 available. I can live with the Custom Cab interior (e.g. sweep instruments) for this job.