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Built lots of them when i was around 7-9 years old in the late 70's. All were pretty bad i'm sure build wise and destroyed through playing with them. But that was half the fun!
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Bill
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Kurt the main problem I had was getting the fender straight when attaching them to the hood. Also the hood sides were a little warped but I got it fixed. Aligning the hinge pins on the fenders was kind of a pain also.
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Bill
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I used the reissue of the old AMT kit of the Chevy Bison for this truck. i've always liked the look of the Bison and General conventionals. I used the reissue Peerless trailer for it and added a short frame extention on the rear of the truck frame. I used a set of spare 5 hole Budd steel wheels for the rear drivers, and replaced the kit airbag suspension with a
Hendrickson setup off of a Chevy Titan cab over. I used Krylon red and grey paint for the color scheme. I used various kit and home made decals for the markings. I wanted a basic no frills company truck, with a little bit of chrome.
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Bill
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Sorry for the absence of posts but I have had some major life changes. this is the 1973 Oregon Jaycee show truck. They had a different one every year to show off Oregon logging to the country. I had several color photos of the actual truck to work from. I made all the markings on my computer. I stretched the frame and added a AMT Peerless log trailer. I used chrome 5 hole Budds from a et of doubles.
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Bill
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Sorry for the absence of posts but I have had some major life changes. this is the 1973 Oregon Jaycee show truck. They had a different one every year to show off Oregon logging to the country. I had several color photos of the actual truck to work from. I made all the markings on my computer. I stretched the frame and added a AMT Peerless log trailer. I used chrome 5 hole Budds from a et of doubles.
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Bill
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I just finished this engine today. I scratch built the entire body, and cab from styrene, as nobody makes a 1/25 scale Crown. These are what a fire engine should look like to me. This model represents LA County Engine 51 from the series Emergency in the early to mid 70's. This engine appeared in the first two seasons. I made patterns for the main parts of the cab so I can trace them out and make different Crowns in the future. I used various detail parts in white metal from AITM, and the front and rear ends and wheels from an AMT LaFrance pumper. I still need to find some decals for LA County fire apparatus. There are a lot of area I want to improve on the next one I build, but this is my favorite fire engine of all time.
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Here is a conversion I did using the Ford C series stake bed truck. I added a tool compartment to the front of the wedge and added strip styrene to the sides to bring the sides farther out.
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Bill
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This is a project I've been wanting to do for a while and finally got started. I've got about 4 different C series fire engines and tankers that I want to build, and this is the first.
I used the reissue Ford stake bed truck for the basis, with a frame shortened about an inch off the rear end. The AMT ALF fire engine body fits perfectly on the chassis, along with the fire pump underneath it. I replaced the kit rims with resin two hole Buds, and the light bar is off an old Monogram funny car/police car. I used lead free solder for the hose reel lines, and the hose in the bed is from a Revell Pete fire truck.
I used Tamiya Italian red over metallic silver for the paint, and used the kit decals to create the markings for an engine assigned to Powers, Oregon, a small town near where I went to high school. I doubt they ever had a truck like this, but I wanted to use a small town fire dept. for it. All my future C series units will be painted similar.
I apologize for the lousy pics, I'll try and get some better ones at a later date.
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Bill
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Here is the latest scratch built piece of logging I've been working on in 1/25 scale. It's a Skagit self propelled 110' tower yarder. These things are monstrous, and they just look awesome. I drew up some scale plans on Autocad for it and that and a ton of reference pics is what I'm using to build it.
more to come as I add to it.
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Bill
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Well here it is after about a month and a half of work. I drew up scale plans of it on Autocad, and then used those to construct it from sheet styrene. These units were used in the timber industry here in the Pacific Northwest in the 50's to early 80's. There are still a few out there earning their keep. It took 5 cans of Tamiya camel yellow to paint it, and I made the decals up on the computer. I'm pretty proud of the end result for being my first ever totally scratch built piece of logging equipment.
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Bill
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I did this truck for a forum build on another site. I shortened the nose to 108". and added twin stacks from plastic tubing and bare metal foil. The rear chrome Budd's are from an AMT Freightliner. I used Tamiya Ferrari red for the main color and the kit decals. I wanted the truck to appear as sitting on the lot.
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Bill
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It's supposed to be issued again this year Matt. I saw a little blurb on Round2's website.
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Bill
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It was a fun but frustrating project. Mathew, for the most part I think the Western Stars of the early 70's looked essentially the same. I took the AMT kit for a 73, as its about when it came out. I've always loved the Western Stars of the early 70's, they look tough.
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Bill
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I finally finished this monster after 8 months tonight. It's actually a rebuild of the yellow truck in the first picture. I never liked how it came out so I essentially ripped it apart and rebuilt it from the frame up. I scratch built the self loading equipment which all works like the real thing. I had my dad Muleskinner on this forum make me up a set of working grapples for it. I stretched the frame 5' in front of the drivers and added chrome Budd 10 holes all the way around.
I used an AMT Peerless log trailer with a shortened reach, and modified the trailer suspension so it would sit right on the truck. I made the trailer hitch/hoist from Evergreen styrene and used small dia. vinyl tubing throughout.
Both the truck and trailer were painted white, and then the white stripes were masked off and the whole truck was sprayed Tamiya linoleum deck brown and gloss coated. I made up the Cascade Logging decals on the computer. It was nice to finish it as I kept getting frustrated and putting it back on the shelf.
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Bill
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I finally finished this thing. I ended up breaking the cab hinges twice, but I managed to get it done. I've never liked how the hinges work on these cab over Pete kits. They are such a bear to try and get to line up correctly. I used the red strips out of the reissue White Freightliner cab over, and some old Mongoose decals from a funny car. The cab and fairing are painted Tamiya semi gloss black. I also added some Good Year decals to the tires. The decals in the kit were almost translucent and were really bad. I ended up throwing them out and using the stripes. I think it looks better like this.
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Bill
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I'm building the Turnpiker kit right now. I have two of them and finally decided to build one out of the box. I really never cared too much for all the fancy stuff in it, but after starting it, it is actually kind of cool. It will go good with my Tyrone Malone trucks.
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Bill
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Awesome truck Paul. I actually thought about building that same truck. I have that same book, and liked how they spruced up a company truck.
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Bill
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Here are a few of my logging trucks loaded with redwood logs. I still need to make wrappers for them. They sure look better loaded.
I need to get some pics of them outside, but I was messing around with them tonight for fun.
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Bill
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Here are a few of my logging trucks loaded with redwood logs. I still need to make wrappers for them. They sure look better loaded.
I need to get some pics of them outside, but I was messing around with them tonight for fun.
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Bill
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Here's the latest wrecker to the collection. I used the Matchbox/AMT kit of the Road Boss. I stretched the frame 1-1/2" and added resin rear two hole rims. I used Tamiya brilliant blue, Testors white and red for the colors. I made a lot of the decals for it. The wrecker body and all related Holmes equipment was built from scratch from Evergreen and Plastruc sheet and shapes. It was built in several sub assemblies and then assembled. I used model ship line for the rigging.
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Bill
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Here's the latest. It's AMT's original 1971 issue of the Ford Louisville, with a later issue of the tanker trailer. The tractor went together perfect. I changed out the kit's chrome wheels for some spoke units from some Ford C series cabovers. I added a home cast AC unit on the cab and made the Texaco decals myself. I spray painted it Testors gloss red. I've never really liked this kit or truck much until this build. I've actually gotten to like it, and have a half dozen or more variants in the closet to build.
The trailer was a pain compared to the truck. I've only built this kit one time before, in 1988 when I was in high school. It just did not want to fit together well. I fought it all the way, and while it's not perfect I called it close enough. I made the Texaco emblems on the trailer also, along with the hazard placards. the tank is spray painted Testors metallic silver, with the frame and suspension painted the same red as the tractor. It gives the look of a typical no frills fleet truck, which are by far my favorite
I'll try and replace these pics with better ones this weekend. I apologize for the poor quality of these.
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Bill
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Thanks guys. I like using the box lids from kits as wall paper. Most of the ones on the wall are original except for a few repops that will be replaced in the future.
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Bill
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Here are a few pics of my CAVE I hide in to relax. The N scale model railroad above everything is Tacoma, Washington about 1958. All buildings save a few are completely scratch built from historical photos.
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Bill
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Here's a couple on the lowboy. That is a great Data sheet for the truck. I was wondering about what it's specs were.
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Bill
scratch built 78 Cozad 60 ton 9 axle lowbed and tractor
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This is a project I've been working on for over a year and finally finished the ###### thing. Now I have to figure out where to put it. I used the reissue Transtar for the tractor and masked off te paint scheme to go with my other one that is a self loader log truck. The Jeep is a scratch built Peerless 1971 unit that I found great pics of. The 78 Cozad I drew plans for on the computer and built from them. I must have punched over two hundred holes in the gooseneck alone. All the framing is there under neath the deck with the holes punched in them where applicable. The gooseneck is removable. The attachent beam in the rear is also moveable for the 2 axle booster. The booster is a 70's Cozad unit and it like all the other parts is built from scratch. I finished the booster tonight.
I used Krylon gloss black spray paint for the entire unit. The decals are from the Peerless log trailer kit from AMT. I used three different hand held hole punches and I believe there is over 400 holes punched in various parts of the three units. I used basswood planks for the decking and used a sharpie pen to put the nail holes in them.
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Bill