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Kostas, In that huge stack of my Italeri Pete kits - only 3 of them are sealed and untouched. The rest have had resin parts put in the box, cabs/hoods or other parts modified or swapped from other kits. Almost all of them have the parts needed to build the model based on the 'inspiration photo' that I attach to the box cover. By putting the resin parts in the same box as the future kit, I don't have to worry about space for storing the resin parts - or forgetting that I had the part on hand (not that having additional parts is a bad thing). Tim quote name='Kostas Parchas' timestamp='1308487291' post='482452'] Tim, Its always confusing trying to count others models from pictures. You count the same models twice, please note that in some of the pictures the kits are stashed on the north wall and in other pictures they are stashed on the east wall. I have 31 377s, 18 378 Long haulers & 6 378 (the blue one #740) and waiting for 24 378 long haulers to come. Kostas.

I see 38 377 and 378 kits in your pics.. How many do I have? um.. uh.. I'm embarrassed to say - 81. Tim BTW, Tim how many ITALERI PETERBILT kit you have there with you?????????? Greetings, Kostas.

So THAT is why I can't get any Italeri Long Hauler kits... you've got them all ! Tim

From a California newspaper.. My link Tim

Matilda, the old 350 COE cab was actually wider than the 359,379,389 cabs. Tim Oh, that's wrong on so many levels! I'mgonnabesick. Tim

The term "bubblenose" also applied to the Peterbilt 350 but never officially by Peterbilt. Even though the 350 COE cab looked like the conventional cab, it only shared the doors and instrument cluster, the rest was unique to 350. The 350 COE was replaced by the 351 COE in the late 50's. Sleeper and non-sleeper were available. I often wondered why Peterbilt didn't attempt to use the 350 COE cab on a conventional. Tim

Ahh, thanks. I did include that on the bumper. Tim

Kostas, Flatbed? That small black round thing - I knew once, but can't remember. Shore/hotel power connection? The vertical chicken lights are round Evergreen plastic rod, sliced and glued onto a straight piece of plastic, then block sanded for an even height (at least they shouldbe even, then painted with Bumper Chrome paint and Tamiya clear orange. Tim

Cool long hood. Tim

Believe it or not, the dome is the bottom of an AMT Pete air cleaner with the corners sanded down and a strip of plastic added to it. Tim

Finished! More pics are Here. Thanks to Doug Walker for the decal logos. Thanks for looking! Tim

Thanks, I thought about hinging them.. but just don't have the nerve to do it. Plastruct has several scales - the O seems too big, the HO close. Tim

6/11/11 update. The cab is on the frame. I forgot that TMC had their own white mudflaps and removed the kit flaps and made my own with ink-jet decal paper printed logos. I made the headache rack out of Evergreen Plastic sheet stock. I have this black with red fenders hood that I use for mock-ups. The change in fender color sure changes the look and 'feel' of the model. Red Black Still to go - air cleaner light bars, CB antennas, hood install, bumper install, trailer hoses and decals. Tim

Put the lime in the cocoa-nut ! Wow - THAT is lime green. Cool. Tim

George, I have bought many many parts from AITM, fine quality items. I also buy from P&P, Sourkraut, Kit Form Services, Plaskit, Illini, Spaulding Trading and Shipping and many others. Tim

Who on earth wrote their product description ?? "Introduced in 1959, the Peterbilt Cabover 352 with tilting cab was designed as a replacement for the non-tilting 351 cabover. The 352's "Panoramic Saf-T-Cab" was constructed from hand-tooled UniLite. Available cab sizes ranged from 54 in. (1,372 mm) to 110 in. (2,794 mm) from the bumper to the back of the cab (BBC). Kit features easy snap assembly, a detailed body, interior and chassis; dual exhausts, air horns, mirrors, chrome-plated wheels and colorful Peel 'n Stick decals with stock and custom graphics." HUH? "hand tooled UniLite?" As-if unilite was a material. The Panoramic-Saf-T-Cab was the 351, not the 352. Yeesh. Tim

Doug Walker made the decals I will be using. Tim

I modified the Italeri 378 hood and painted it last summer. My original plan was to build it factory-fresh, but then changed plans to build it as a fully dressed TMC tractor. I've made the light bars from flat plastic and covered them in Bare Metal Foil. This morning I installed the glass. Additional pics are in the TMC album or through my main site. Tim

Looks good. Tim

Kostas, I was surprised at how easy the pin stripes and scollwork really was. The KFS decals are quite easy to work with. Tim

From what I've seen - the homemade fenders are usually installed after the truck is in its second or third life - from highway tractor to local/farm truck and eventually converted to a water tank or such. Some of the purpose-built vocational applications such as what Halliburton or Schlumberger might have built have the fiberglass tilt hood fenders removed and fixed to the frame flat fenders installed are rare. Here's a tilt hood Pete 357 setback axle with the round fenders removed and Peterbilt style flat fenders installed to mounts on the frame. (similar to how the 357-123 (butterfly hood) fenders) Anymore, the pit fenders are becoming rare. (exception being the C500 and WS off road configs). Tim

The spot mirrors are part of the Italeri kit. Tim

"Pit" fenders, or "flat fenders" as KW and Peterbilt call them were factory options. KW still offers them on the C500 series. Peterbilt offered them on 357-123 until 2003, in the70's and 80's the 353 and 387 had them. Autocar's DC series. Diamond Reo offered them. Ford never did, GMC never did. White had the "Construcktor" with them. Each make had their own shape and style of fenders. The ones seen in the Revell of Germany Pete 353 are more aftermarket than factory. Tim

Neat show truck! Tim