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Great work on this one Roger.

We don't have any plating service for modelers over here either but if you have an airbrush you can use Alclad II Chrome for the wheels...not perfect but it gets very shiny and it's the closest thing you can get with paint. Who knows, maybe Round 2 will reissue the old Ertl IH Transtar II Eagle sometime.

It would have been great if you did the Tyrone Malone Bandag tires as well Ben...many of Malones trucks can be built with current and recent truck kits, you have the rims and they are top notch, but the tires are hard to come by as the original AMT kits are harder and harder to find and costs a fortune. Possible trucks to build except for the AMT Malone kits are the Boss Truck Of America W900, the Defiance Freightliner, the Mama Truck K100, the Old No 8 K100 truck with the living quarters trailer, the W900 Whale Truck with reefer trailer, the No 13 KW W900B, maybe the Hurricane W900 if you are good at scratchbuilding and modifying...and some more.

Nah, it's not as cool as the other Malone trucks but he got both the Defiance and the IH transporter at the same deal. On this picture you can see the Defiance Freightliner and the Smokey Bear Corvette on the lowboy trailer behind the IH and you can get a glimpse of the Hurricane KW on the truck bed. I also read somewhere that the Defiance were not used that much as the Allison engine didn't cooperate and didn't run well all the time, so it was mostly displayed on a stand with the front wheels up in the air.

Nice work as allways Alan. I have tried BMF for masking when I did stripes and it works well without bleeding...a bit expensive maybe but it works fine and you get sharp fine lines. One thing tho'..you have to use regular masking tape a bit away from the actual line, then the BMF right at the edge where you want the line to be andmake sure it's overlaping the regular masking tape some, otherwise you can get in trouble when you want to unmask, but with the overlap you pull up the masking tape and the BMF follows so you can get hold of it and it's easier to take off. Another way is to mask as usual and first paint the stripe with the same color as the base coat, or you can even a clear coat, this is to seal the tape, when that paint has dried you paint with the color you want the stripes to be, that way the under bleed will be the same color as the base coat...or clear if you use that.

Not the exactly right models but maybe this might give you some hints...the S 2600 series is a long hood set back front axle chassis.

Have you seen this Alan?? https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=858253740869448&id=189062841121878

Have you seen this Alan? https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=858253740869448&id=189062841121878

Very nice work, I'm looking forward to your updates

Yes it does...I just checked. For some reason Revell has labeled the newly reissued "Will Do" Wrecker with the Historic Series logo...I didn't think the the original "Can Do" kit was that old, but it came out 1993...so it's 21 years ago.

Yes the KW K123 for sure has baby moons as well as regular drive hubs, same as the W925 kits. I have bought a couple of sets of machined aluminum baby moon caps for trucks but I don't recall where...it could have been Saurkrauts.

Could be 1979-84.

Cummins 300...well the 300 only tells it's a 300 hp engine, most likely NTC. An adjucated guess would be that the rear suspension is leaf springs If the tractor is a single drive with no tag axle it's not a heavy weight hauler as there are limits on how much weight you can have per axle or axle combinations on the roads...and for a single drive axle without a tag axle it's not that much, maybe somewhere around 20 000 pounds, 10 US tonnes or slightly over 9 metric tonnes, so they are more of a lighter duty truck. So as Aaron says, most of the single drive tractors with no tag axle hauls double or triple short one axle trailers (commonly called "pups")...or lighter single trailers...and the 3 axle trailer in your picture could as well have been empty...otherwise it can't have much weight over the kingpin due to the weight limitations for the truck tractor wich is somewhere around 30 000 pounds gross, (15 us tonnes or 23.6 metric tonnes) in this configuration. I did a google picture search just now and most of the pictures I found of ABF single drive trucks hauls double or triple pups.

Yes it looks to be the 108 inch cab, it also looks like it's a K100E with square headlights and a more squareish grille. I can't wait to see your progress with this.

I did some research and have found out that the 1967-82 Kenworth W 900 short hood is 63 inches and the 1970-82 extended hood is 74 inches so the difference in real life is 11 inches. That difference in 1:25 scale is a touch over 11 millimeters, I measured the hoods from the 3 kits we are talking about and the Revell short hood is 61.6 millimeters, the AMT short hood is 61.3-61.4 millimeters and the Revell AG extended hood is 72.2 millimeters, all 3 measured without the grille...so you can do the math yourself. If you want to cut down an extended hood the cut should be just behind the front fenders so they are the same on both hoods...and the difference in taper on the top of the hoods isn't that bad, maybe 0.5 millimeter between the hoods at the same place lengthwise where the cut would be, so it would not be that noticeable. So of course you can cut down an extended hood to do a short hood if you want to....and yes...you have to move the cab forward the same amount the hood is shorter.

The tires are not the biggest problem, it's the rims...mostly the rear...that doesn't look that good as they are much too shallow to look convincing.

Yes Modified Production had "looser" rules than the Super Stocks in some places and harder in other...mostly in safety, but they didn't have the full roll cages and tube chassis that many of the modern race cars have. Even a Super Stock race car has more of a roll cage and are allowed to be modified more today than back then...but that's maybe necessary due to the fact that some of them are able to run low 8 second passes now.

Well the Demon name and devils pitch fork wasn't that popular with the "believing" church crowd so they changed it to Dart Sport in 1973...so you could use the 74 Dart Sport for your build, there are small differences between 73 and 74 but on a race car they aren't that noticable.

Nice work Jarda.

Great work Alan, can't wait for your next one whatever it may be.

The old Monogram Snap Kit Peterbilt 359 and Kenworth W900 recently re-issued by Revell has a Caterpillar 3406 inline 6 engine and the Revell Germany Peterbilt 359 has a Cummins NTC 475 inline 6 and the Revell Germany Kenworth W900 V.I.T. has a Caterpillar 3408 V8. Revell Germany also had a Kenworth K100 and it has the same NTC 475 as the Peterbilt has. The biggest drawback with the old snap kits is the wheels as Dennis says, and the missing outside sun visors.

Sagehorn's truck is one of the TV trucks but it has been updated to Air Glide 100 8 bag suspension instead of the torsion bar it originally had, the wheels has been changed to one piece Alcoa's instead of the original lock ring wheels and the engine in it now is a Cummins NTC Big Cam 3. If I would do the Movin' On truck correctly (wich I will some day) I think I would start with the Revell AG W900 and use the short hood from either the AMT W925 or a Revell snap W900 Aerodyne, and use the wheels from the AMT W925 or maybe even the larger wheels from the AMT White Freightliner. I believe the AMT W925 frame is too short for the 60 inch double bunk VIT sleeper, and the Revell suspension are a bit difficult to change as some of the suspension parts is molded to the frame rails, so I would cut off the Revell frame in front of the rear suspension and replace the rear part with a piece of the AMT frame (either the AMT W925 or K923 will do as the rear part of them are pretty much the same)...and as the original AMT W925 with torsion suspension is a bit hard to find P&P Resin Works http://www.ppvintagekits.com/ or Melbourne Model Truck Accessories http://mmtaer.webs.com/ comes to the rescue as they have resin copys of the KW tandem torison bar suspension. The correct paint can be found at http://scalefinishes.com and http://modeltruckin.com does Movin' On decals for both 1:25 and 1:16 scale. The Cummins VT903 engine can be found at Auslowe Model Accessories http://www.auslowe.com.au/ and here is a couple of pictures from Tim Ahlborns http://timstrucks.com site to prove that one of the TV trucks had that engine....but of course a Cummins NTC would also work.

The manifold looks to come from the Revell Pro Stock Firebird kits. There are still some carburated Pro Mod engines out there amongst the Super Charged and Turbo Charged engines in that class...they are large cubic inch mountain motors with sheet metal tunnel ram intake and dual carbs on Nitrous Oxide. But as James says, this build is too sophisticated to pass as a "period car" as the Pro Stock (wich the car body is too old for) and Modified Production cars looked more like Super Stock cars with a more suped up engine back in the day...they didn't have tube chassis with roll cages and that wide tires so one of the more modern classes would be more suitable

Yes of course.

As far as I know the Cummins Formula is a version of the NTC.