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Tim, Nice work on all the trucks. Doug

Billy, The Pete 359 kit your asking about is a good kit. It has a Cat 3406 engine in it, (straight 6). It has good detail for a snap tite kit and for the price. If you want to lower the Pete I have some directions on how to modify the suspension, if you want a copy. With a little work you can lower it like the green 359 in your two photos. Send me a pm if your interested in the directions. Doug

Hey Scott, De-Elegant Model Trucks offers a Freightliner columbia cab conversion. Don't know if he has any in stock right know, here the link to the site. http://www.de-elegantmodeltrucks.com/ Click on "Show dates" towards the bottom on the left. There it will show you all the conversion kits Kuenn offers. Maybe someone else here know's more about Kuenn's kits. Doug

Tim, Great looking Mack, the scratch building is great too. Doug

Jason, I've never had to use putty on my resin parts. Never used an airbrush either. I sure there are some other members here who could answer your questions.

Hi Jason, Welcome to the forum. Here are three website that you can find nice resin truck parts. I buy from them and they are all great to deal with. http://sourkrautsmodeltrucks.com/ http://www.aitruckmodels.com/ http://www.stsmodeltrucks.com/ Doug

Chris, Your work on your Pete looks execllent. Your Detriot Series 60 looks great too. However if you didn't know your oil pan is mounted backwards! Your truck has a set forward front axle, the "sump" as they call it, the deep part of the oil pan, should be torwards the rear of the truck. Your's is mounted for a set back front axle right now. They're mounted this way on the real trucks so the axle will avoid hitting the oilpan. Just wanted to help you out. Keep up the great work. Doug

Tim, Your oilfield Pete looks excellent, nice build. Did you just use reference photos to build the winch bed or...? It looks great! Is your model going to be the same color as the real Pete in the photo?

Kurt, Your Freightliner is coming along nicely. Like Tim said, nice color choice. Keep up the great work.

Kurt, Love the headache rack and the FLD. Have you decided on a color yet? I've sent you a pm. Keep up the great work. Doug

Tim, The car hauler is very nice. As you were wondering if they are called racks, I've always refered to the tread plate parts as "ramps". Anyway the color is nice, I love grey. If you build a trailer for it that would look great. I've been wanting to build a car hauler for several years, your's is very inspiring. Doug

Hi Kurt, You have an interesting project started. Your progress so far looks good. That FLD SD would look good as a tractor or dumptruck. If your asking for input, how about a tractor with a frameless or frametype East end dump trailer? I've always thought of building some sort of end dump trailer, lots of scratchbuild though to say the least. What do you think? I'd put a DD S60 in it since you've already built the Pete with a Cat. Just my input. Thanks for sharing Kurt. Doug

Hi Brian, Welcome to the forum. If your looking to build a Pete 386, the hood conversion that the guys spoke of is now available at American Industrial Truck Models, website addy, www.aitruckmodels.com. This is the hood the Tim Ahlborn built the master for. It looks great. I've been building for a while, haven't finished anything in a while though. Doug

You'd think Revell of Germany would make a modern truck kit in 1/25th scale to go with the Beall tank trailer, and that kit is on it's second release.

Thanks for the info guys.

Hi all, I've been gathering parts, etc. for a future project, (LTL carrier), and I need some decals. Dose anybody know where I can buy a few sets of ABF decals? Any help would be grealty appreciated. Thanks, Doug

Kurt, Your Pete 357 looks outstanding. I love those aftermarket floatation tires and wheels. They are light years ahead in detail to the Italeri kit wheels. Looking forward to seeing the Pete completed.

Jackhammer, The pics could be a little bigger, your K100 look great never the less. Doug

Kurt, Your Pete looks EXCELLENT! Looking forward to seeing it when it's finished.

chuckyr, I agree, that reefer trailer was a big dissappointment. It's bad enough that the trailer wasn't the right height, but the floor, ceiling and walls all come in two parts. The best thing that it can be built into is a grain trailer. Doug

Hi All, I have a few kits I'd like to sell. All kits are sealed and complete unless stated otherwise. If your interested you can email me at dgmtrucker@suddenlink.net 1) AMT lowboy, latest issue, unsealed - $20.00 2) AMT Cat dozer, latest issue, unsealed - $40.00 3) Ertl Tri-axle dump trailer, original issue. I have 2 of these, One is sealed $40.00, One is unsealed $35.00 4) Amt Peterbilt 359, latest issue, unsealed $22.00 Thanks, Doug

Hi all, I have a few kits I want to sell, just downsizing my collection. All the kits listed are complete with decals. I've listed below if they are sealed or not. If interested email me at dgmtrucker@suddenlink.net I have no why to show any photos of them. Prices do not include shipping. I only ship in North America and I only take US mony orders as payment. 1) Italerl #738 - Frieghtliner FLD120, (this is the original issue, not sealed, but complete). $45.00 2) Ertl/Model King - Mack DM800, (not sealed, but complete) $40.00 3) Italerl #3827 - Volvo VN670, (not sealed, but complete) $55.00 4) AMT/Ertl - John Deere Farm Tractor, (2 kits total, sealed) $25.00 EACH 5) AMT/Ertl - John Deere Backhoe, (2 kits total, sealed) $25.00 EACH Thanks, Doug

Anthony, Your lowboy looks great. I really like those spoke wheels and tires you put on it. I'm planning on building one someday, just don't know when. You said you were thinking of building a Mack DM800 for it, that would look sharp with the lowboy. Keep up the good work.

Hi all, I don't know if this topic has been brought up before, so I'll ask it anyway. If the kit manufacturers were to produce some new kits of modern trucks with modern engines and chassis and trailers also, what would you most like to see made? List just five you'd most like to see, trucks and/or trailers. My five are, 1) Any Peterbilt highway or vocational/construction truck 2) Mack Granite or Vision with sleeper 3) Kenworth T660 with 86" Studio Sleepr 4) International 9900ix with Pro sleeper 5) Great Dane 48'/53' x 102" Reefer with chrome front/rear doors and modern Thermo King or Carrier reefer unit, closed or spread tandems. I could list more but I thought five, because the list would just get out of control lol!

Kurt, Your Cat looks awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing your Pete dumptruck completed. I have a Cat 3406E I started about 5 years ago put it up because of work etc. I'll finish it some day. Anyway keep up the good work. Doug G.