mackinac359

The hood on the Italeri Constellation WS was a short-lived offered by WS. The design quickly changed to the more traditional hoods. The kit hood can be still be seen on the road from time to time, but there weren't a lot of them built. I wish Italeri would have waited a year to develop the kit as WS had the traditional hoods in production by then. A resin caster in Australia casts some nice traditional hoods, but they are the Aussie versions. With some gentle modifications they could be built as the north American WS's. Tim

Looks good! Tim

Moving stinks, but unpacking is like finding something new in everybox! Keep going with the stories! Good stuff. Tim

Nice fleet-look. Tim

Nicely weathered. Tim

With the engine the kit has, it really should be a 127". When this kit was developed, the 127" long hood wasn't a style option, you got it if you spec'd certain engines. It was around '82 or so that the long hood (no such name as 'extended hood' in the Peterbilt price book) became a style option as well as a requirement with certain engines. Standard config with this engine and the 8v92 and 8v71 turbocharged would have the air cleaner on the left (single only as there wasn't enough room under the hood for the piping to the right for a 2nd air cleaner). The RH Luberfiner is correct. If a 2nd breather was installed (perhaps a dummy unit on a 119") the Luberfiner would be mounted on the frame rail beside the battery box (left or right). Take a look at the red 359 on the left and the orange 359 on the right. Tim

Nice work Daniel. Tim

What you have there isn't a 4300, it is the rare 1st issue 4200 (F4270) kit with the Cummins V903. Nice save !!! Tim

Sweet ! Tim

The red McClean posted earlier is one I built back when Spaulding's offered this cab about 10 years ago. I scratchbuilt the frame from C channel plastic, but today I would use a Titan 90 as the donor for ease or even a Road Boss. Tim

Sounds like defective chrome. Tim

The kit springs are, well, strange. Nothing a highway spec 378 would have. I suspect that Italeri sliced up the 377's springs (which aren't right either) to make the short-stack springs the 378 has. Tim

Nice work ! Tim

Nice dog ! Tim

Very 70's. Nicely done. Tim

Nicely built! Tim

No words to describe.. Tim

What did you make the "salad bowl" air cleaner cap out of? Tim

Nice colleciton! Tim

Nice scheme. Tim

Someplace, somewhere, someone probably built a real one similar to it. Neat concept. Tim

Always amazing builds! Tim

Looks good so far. Tim

Looking good so far. Tim

Mike, Nicely done ! Tim