Chuck Most

I'll cut right to the chase- that's a full-blown masterpiece.

Wow.... I'm beginning to think I should just have you build my Autocar dumper for me. I love how you did the butterfly hinge- I had an idea of trying something similar to hinge the doors on the "Big 4" cabs. Good to see the idea is workable. The thought of using a photoetched piano hinge makes my head throb. Your solution not only looks like it's easier to deal with, but looks quite a bit more realistic on the model as well.

All I'm going to say is snap these up before they're gone, like the recent run of the 510 BRE. I'm still kicking myself for only buying one of those.

I have an incomplete Aeromax 120... but again, I'm going to make my own Ford chassis for it. I'll save the chassis for something a lot more Freightliner-y. I believe the KFS instructions show how to modify the 'Shaker chassis to work with the CL cab, though.

Send me the the Mustang II front suspension. You could always built it as a stripped old junker and load it up on a flat bed, though I suppose that might leave you with only slightly fewer components you'd have no use for.

A II? And here I were thinking you were some Luddite with an original Selectric. Please don't tell me yours is the Correcting Selectric II...

Oh, it hit the wallet plenty hard enough. But if you want it badly enough you pay, right? I think I might do my own frame with some C-section strip and spare Louisville crossmembers. Might be a while before I get around to this one, so I've got plenty of time to map things out.

Walking on sunshine...

Just to clarify, Tim built these, not me. And the concrete company was Andersen, not Anderson like I spelled it in the post...

I'll order this one no trunion, then. (Ba-dum-tsssssssssss)

Well, I can finally scratch this one off the list...

Forgot this one. It's not a model, it's Tim's 1:1 '70 Diamond REO SBFA. And yes, he is planning on building a model of it.

They're all over the internet. The Apple Cabin Foods flyers are great too.

Nice! As for the "creature on the roof" idea,... did you ever watch King Of The Hill?

Thanks guys. A few here and there. I cut off the oil pan pin so the engine would sit down closer to the crossmember, otherwise the fan and belt would interfere with the fit of the radiator shroud. The pins on the rear leaf springs don't line up very well with the holes on the chassis. Overall though, nothing too terrible.

SMBC sells a couple of complete 351 Cleveland engines, but I'd be willing to wager he'd sell you just the heads and valve covers if those were all you needed.

Two Raiders, one with a forward-set axle, and one with a set back front axle. The setback one looks like it might be an old Gortsema casting.

I've got a couple of Heller kits, and a few of them have the glass molded in with the inner door panel. A bit unorthodox perhaps, but it seems to work okay.

Just met up today with Tim Gibson of Saginaw, MI. He's a lifelong truck enthusiast, retired truck driver, and as I found out today, an all-around nice guy. If you read "Truck Stop" in the other mag years ago, you might remember the GMC Astro pulling twin tankers built by him. He still has that one (you can kind of see the trailers in the top left corner of the first pic). Some time ago he sent me some photos of a few of the models he's built. He has an account here but he admits to not being very tech-savvy at the moment, so that's where I come into play... This is the James House and Sons Number 85 Diamond Reo, pulling two powdered cement trailers which were built by James House (part of Rex Transportation) at their own shop. These two REO mixers represent real mixers owned by Anderson Sand and Gravel and Saginaw Rock Products, respectively. The Ford stake bed is box stock other than the Quality Door & Lumber markings. The Anderson GMC Crackerbox represents a tractor driven by Tim's father. It is Spaulding cab cut down to a day cab. Both trailers were scratch built. Tim tells me his father made the effort to keep his rigs clean, though the model is lightly weathered and looks great as such. The U-shaped tank behind the cab is a combination fuel/hydraulic tank. The tractor has no sidesaddle tanks. The Pete is a model of a tractor owned by a friend and leased to Bulk Transport. Tim also did a pair of scratchbuilt gravel trailers for this one. The kit cab was cut down to 73 inches. The real tractor has very little brightwork and lots of red paint, so the model follows suit. He does have quite a few more, but these are the ones I have pics of. Let me tell you- they look pretty good on a screen but they look even better in person!

Today must have been Dodge Day...

Nothing much to say here... it's a two-Saturday-afternoon buildup of the Revell Ford "Ranger" Pickup (even though the truck's clearly badged as a custom...), box stock other than the addition of a MAD distributor and an upper radiator hose made from electrical wire. Paint is Testors Star Spangled Blue. Not my best effort, but I know exactly how I'll tackle the improvements and enhancements on the next one I build. For one thing... looks like I forgot to paint the tailgate chains... I'll take care of that later.

Do you know what company built the tanker body?

Would have been downright stupid to pass on it for that price. Even if a ProStar's not what you want, you'd have some really nice trade fodder for somebody.