Romell R

very nice steve very nice!

Hey Cranky can you PLEASE!!!! post your famous salt rusting technique for those of us who missed it???

Excellent job with this tutorial Jim! I never thought of that before. Keep up the good work bro!

Got more build pics for ya tonight stay tuned...

Ok John I think i know what youre doing here youve sourced real build pics if the actual truck and youve photoshoped them to look like its on your desk.....im on you you LOL! great job bro cant wait to see it all buttoned up!

Matt to the rescue again!!

Hey Dennis it wont look like the misstress altho I originally started to just make a replica of her, but I have other ideas now. I will say that my build will have the body of another of Ohares trucks. Oh and yes the wheels come with everything you see including tires.

To answer your question ....Yes they do make long muliple day trips. I have seen wreckers pick up a load and haul it across counrty. If your truck breaks down in Texas and you live in Michigan would you just leave the truck in Texas and say forget it? or would you bring it home and fix it? There are companys that specialize in long distance retrival

OK well i added about 49 scale inches to the wrecker body so that meant i had to add 49scale inches to the chassis so i cut the frame in half and grafted in 49 scale inches of frame from the extra frame that came with the kit....enjoy Stay Tuned for more to come...

Ok Fellas heres the next installment remember I said I wanted to model a more modern wrecker?? with a body like this one but the kit is like this..... notice the wrecker I want to model has a longer rear end that has two large doors and about a foot of space between them. So guess what my next mission is? you guessed it I need to scratch build that extra door and space, and at the same time I have to strech the frame. alrighty then! heres what i have done so far.....enjoy! I decieded the easiest way to do this was to copy the section for the big door directly from the instruction sheet. So i pulled out a sheet of styrene and traced the parts from the tree and made a whole extra set. new parts from styrene..... Now what I did was put the first box together using kit parts and one of the sides i made so that the kit side could still connect to the wrecker rear. heres the two seperate door boxes, one scratch built and the other kit build or kit modified..... once the two boxes were built I had to connect them as one piece with a scale 12inch center piece.... heres what it looks like connected to the wrecker rear.....

Bro heres a word of warning "Never let your project sit!" just find something eles within the project to work on. Keep the wheel rolling, even if you have to go do some reserch on 4X4's (looking at pictures of nice trucks). once you let that fire burn out its gonna be surper hard to get it started again. Heres a few Ideas i hope will get you goin again. 1. scartch build a stereo equipment, 2. make a spare tire mount for the bed. 3. detail the chassis with nuts and bolts. 4. weather the chassis, 5. make sunvisors . these are some of the things I do to keep the buil going. You get it just do anything to keep the fire burning. Im looking forward to you finishing this one. Keep ya head up bro TTYL. Romell

YIKES!!! that thing would be big enough to ride on!

The build is posted in the "ON the Work Bench" forum seeing as it is a work in progress that is the proper place for it. I didnt see anywhere that it said not to place a truck WIP in "On The Work Bench", it means whatever is on your work bench. I will post certain aspect of the build and the finished product here though. Oh and you can just pretend its a giant Alcoa wheeled hot rod if that'll make you feel better about viewing it in a forum other than "Trucks"

Yeah Bro this is commin together nicely keep the work commin!

Hey fellas I got this idea from Moparman to put a link to my build in "On the Work beanch" so without further ado ..... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34600

cant wait to see where you take this one your builds are always so interesting

Heres another small update.....the wheels dont fit the kit spindles so I had to make brass fittings for them.....enjoy Stay tunned to the Pro Modlers Channel for more to come....

Heres where the fun starts I need to reshape the roof of the cab and the sleeper so they are more in line with a modern cab/sleeper please dont laugh ....well feel free to laugh I did when i looked at what I was doin LOL! enjoy This is how I went about getting the shape I need. ok laugh now while you have the chance.... I know you guys are like what the heck is he doing!!!???.... Ok you can stop laughing now! LOL its starting to come together....

Well I decieded that if I was gonna build a more modern Kenworth I have to make some changes right off the bat, so in this installment I was able to modifiy (not scratch build) the cab and sleeper. The resin cab i bought fell short of being Kenworth correct so follow along as I make some corrections......enjoy this is the resin cab as it came....the windows are wrong and the cab hieght is also wrong so we'll fix that now.... here the window has been corrected , I removed the post in the window and I also reshaped it i also added 5 scale inches to the bottom of the cab. Not quit done yet but its better the front window had a seperator in the middle also so i removed it , here I have the sleeper that came with the kit ready to be modified This section had to be cut out because the more modern sleepers are intergrated onto the cab..... See where Im going???

Well the way I see it this is a truck build , thats on the work bench so what I'll do is post the build here but I will post certain aspects of the build in the trucks forum.

ROFL !!!! CRAZYAWESOMESICKNESS!!!! we have new word folks, Man i had to read this comment twice, Thx Evilone compliment duely noted!

Hey Clay just email him with the part number you want and provide him with you CC info and mailing address and he'll do the rest. also tell him what your working on and he'll make sure you get the right parts ie.1/24th as opposed to 1/25th And he'll also let you know what your total is in USD. Dont forget that hes one day ahead of us so when you send your email it will probably be the middle of the night in Europe so exspect a reply the next day.

Its no more expensive than you would pay here in the states , they drop the 16% tax on it and the shipping is about the same. I saw these same wheels on a site based here in the states and he wanted 180 bucks for it I came out cheaper getting them from KFS.

Hey Clay the Novas not done yet,but very close just have to finish the rear end and the hidden rollcage. The aftermarket parts come from a guy named Howard in Europe his store is called KFS you can view his items on his website http://www.kitformservices.com he's got some really nice stuff check him out and tell him Romell sent ya! LOL thx for the compliments also.

Here you see the bracket has been removed and ready to be filed down.... and here its been relocated..... AHHHH the wheels are in the right place these wheels require that you put the lug nuts on..... here a pic of the finish chassis almost ready for painting, I figured I'd put it all tigether because it all painted black