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You 're of to a good start! Very green... Kostas.

Beautiful... The first picture confused me, I thought it was the real truck lol. Kostas.

Oooooooo!!! What a nice rig!!!! Ready to roll.. Kostas.

Dave, Very nice results!! Kostas.

Matt, The bumper looks great!!! I like the way it works. Kostas.

Hey Jeff, welcome! I haven't built yet this kit, but I have already build too many ITALERI kits and I only have to say that I love the way they are builded. Be carrefull by reading again and again the instructions, always testfit the parts before glue and you will find out that all the ITALERI kits are ''build them selfs''. Don't panic with the multipiece cab. I find them more easy to build as they are builded as the actual truck is builded. The Freightliner FLC kit is a very nice kit and I suggest you to buy more than one, you know 1 out-of-the-box, 1 daycab, 1 with custom sleeper, and so goes on..... Kostas.

Bill, You have build a very nice rig!!! Very nice detailed and painted! Kostas.

Superb!!! Kostas.

Jim, Your tanker is very nice! Kostas.

Well done Tim!!!! Very nice build!! I would like also to thanks you about the tip on how to convert air cleaners... How common is to see highway 377s with external air cleaners? Looking forward for your next build! Kostas.

Ben, Looks very nice & cool!! Kostas.

Goodlooking PETE!!! Kostas.

Creative, impresive, enviroment friendly, recycling!!!!!! Nice PETE too! Paint the can same color as the cab.. Kostas.

Hello @ all, I just wanted to say that here in the EU the V8s are very common for the highway trucks. SCANIA, MAN & MERCEDES are produsing their own V8s and believe me they invest too much money because the EU polution emitions. Starting with Euro1 back in the 90s and today using the Euro5 polutioning limits from diesel engines, large V8 engines are more powerfull and more fuel eficient than even before. For example the last SCANIA R730 Euro5 (730 horse power) needs less fuel than an Euro0 or an Euro1 truck for the same job!!! You may also wonder why too much power? We need all this power because of the senery/terain profile, wich has huge mountains and trucks should climbe them fast, using less fuels, produsing less air polution and of course keeping the engine cool in order when the truck is going down a mountain after a big climbe, the driver to be able to use the intarder or retarder (name depens the make) wich is what you guys call Jakebrake. PS. Last year SCANIA was celebrate its 40 years of produsing V8 engines. PS1. PETERBILT is my favorite, but when you hear the sound of a SCANIA V8 all you want id to ride it. PS2. SCANIA is The King Of The Road. Kostas.

S U P E R B Kostas.

Of to a good start!! Kostas.

Very nice PETE and nice trailer and load! Looks like you 're a CAT maniac.. lol Kostas.

Welcome Curtis, Nice rig!! Kostas.

Very nice rig!!! Love the colors. Nice and clen build so far.. Keep us posted, Kostas.

C O O L x 2! Kostas.

Richard, The round plates (inner white & outer red / black numbers) on the back of the truck are about the speed limits for trucks in the EU. All the commercial trucks with weight over 6 tones, are allowed to travel at a maximum speet of 90 Klm per hour. There are some kind of loads (oversises, chemicals) that are allowed to travel at a maximum speed of 80 Klm per hour. As already mentioned by Chuckyr, Euro lenght laws restrict the total lenght of the tractor/trailer up to 18meters (60ft). Thats why all the European makes are COEs. Volvo in the US market is just an exeption. Scania has a legentery history on convetionals with great trucks running all over the world. The letter ''T'' is for coventionals meening torpedo. Mostly the conventionals of SCANIA where prodused for ON/OFF road usage or if you want, for the construction industry. But there where also many ON road units used form companys or owner/operators what they work hauling ship conteners (max 40ft) or tankers because those trailers are much sorter that the vans or the reefers (remember the lenght limit) SCANIA, IVECO, MERCEDES-BENZ, MAN have also a long story in other countries like Australia, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. If I am correct all this makes have their own factories and production lines in Brazil. Hope this helps you... Kostas.

Scott, If you have in mind a workhorse look, then I agree with orange/black combo. But what about a working/custom/show truck painted in metalic color(s) showing the condition of the truck after a heavy general restoration? thats from me Kostas.

Nice looking rig and nice color combo! What color is the cab painted? Kostas.

The truth is that I am afraid to do this at the moment....

Very cool! Kostas.