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I've never tried Firefox, but I would say the problem is not Internet Explorer. I use IE 8 and I have not had any problems like Steve at all. Of course, Steve, if you have not upgraded to IE8, I would suggest that first. If that doesn't help, you may have bigger problems. Also, how do you have as a service provider, that might be some of it, too, you might be losing connection and not relize it. I just changed mine, and that didn't even log me out.

Don, I have seen what you've done with Gregg's "Miss E", and I think those bodies are great and I plan on getting the 1/25 scale body for it when I have some spare cash, but I personally think not offering more to us smaller scale builders might be a HUGE mistake on your part. I personally have asked a few other resin casters for primarily some resin pickup offerings and that I think would be nice offerings and none seem interested. I know one thing many pickup modelers want and the other guys just seem to want to ignore is diesel engine conversions for the Dodge, Chevy, and Ford pickups. Also, the thread in the resin section would give you even more ideas what we smaller scale modelers want, and here's a link to it. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27906 Also, with the process you have, can you do special orders? Maybe even that for us smaller scale guys might work. Any help that the other guys just seem not to be interested in would be great!

I've seen pinstriping tape at my LHS for RC cars, some of that might work for you. I find it strange, unless it's just a matter of the scale of the kit, that it doesn't have the stripe as decals. I have the 1/24 scale kit, and I'm pretty sure it has the stripes as well as some silver on each side to hide the two tone paint split. If you can print your own decals, let me know if you want me to scan my decals so you might try to resize them to fit the 1/8 scale.

The Mack and trailer, at least from the pic of it on Revell's website, has Alcoa aluminum wheels and would be either the 22.5 or 24.5 wheels that Ben mentioned. These can be used for either the 16 inch wheels on dually pickups or pass for the 19.5 inch wheels used on medium duty trucks like the Ford F550 or GMC Topkick and also the low profile trailer wheels on stepdeck style flatbeds. The 1/32 scale wheels actually scale out at about 17 or 18 inches in 1/24(25) scale. As for aftermarket, Daniel Gailloux, who posts here, has Plaskit resin truck parts and offers 19.5 x 8 inch wheels and tires in his USA catalog. The part number in the catalog is T110 and it comes with 2 front and 4 rear wheels, among other things. These are just 4 hole Budd style wheels like the wheels found in Monogram's old Ford F350 dually kit, not the Alcoas like the Mack. Daniel does not have a website yet, but here is a link to his Photobucket where you can check his work out. Plaskit

I just don't understand what the problem is with the few members continually (CENSORED) and moaning about this rule! The fact of the matter is when you first sign up, the first thing you read is the forum REQUIRES FULL NAME be posted somewhere, either as screenname or if screenname differs from your full name, your full name must be in your post or sig line. My question to the complainers is this, if you read this when you joined and feel so strongly about having your name here, WHY DID YOU JOIN IN THE FIRST PLACE???? This has been said before in this thread, the rules are the rules, and in my opinion, if you don't want to follow the rules and have your name here, DON'T POST HERE!!!

I would say with the rest of the chassis being painted red, you would be safe with painting the springs red, too. The only difference would be if the rear suspension has air bags, then the air bags only would be semi gloss or flat black. As for the shocks, it would really depend on if you are building it as a factory fresh truck or one that has seen some miles on the road already. The shocks are usually installed before paint at the factory, so a freshly built truck would have the shocks painted the same as the frame color. On a road used truck that has been driven long enough, the shocks could have been replaced, so the replacements would be painted whatever color the replacement shock manufacture uses.

It's looking great so far, Romell.

Hey Mike, don't forget it has four tires, too!

Actually, Ed, you would be surprised how little HOS regs apply to the towing industry. Yes, on any tows over 100 air miles from the main terminal, all HOS regs apply just as any road truck, as well as carrying a log (comic ) book, but local most everything goes out the window. I've been on some calls, mostly wrecks, where I worked 20 hrs and went home for a few hour nap and back out the next morning. I drove almost everything from HAZ MAT to tankers and doubles. I even pulled a trailer that was put out of service by the DOT, it was out of service for being unsafe, but it was legal for me to pull it with one of our tractors.

I agree with Jim 100%, the trailer I posted the pic of was also done around 4 years ago and the foil hasn't lifted at all. The only place I did have a problem with that was on the roof, it has lifted slightly, but that was not the glues fault, it was mine! I didn't quite put enough glue on it to hold it, OOPS!

You really need to get a laptop, they're portable!!!! By the way, don't ask how I know this!

Wonderful tip, Jim! I actually stumbled across this about 4 years ago when I wanted to make a stainless steel style trailer for a truck and, of all people, my better half suggested this while I was working on the trailer while she just so happened to be putting foil in a pan she was putting in the oven. I thought and even told her she was crazy and it would never work, but I was glad and surprised when I tried it to humor her. It made the trailer look just the way I wanted it to and was much cheaper than doing the same thing with BMF. I even did the flip trick and used the dull side up on the roof to replicate the not as shiny aluminum roof. I guess even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then, as a friend of mine always says!! Here's a pic of that trailer.

Just call me "Technical Advisor"!!!!

Mike, actually both you and Romell are correct. I drove heavy wrecker here in WV for a couple years around 2000, and unfortunately in trucks not as nice as O'Hare's, but our workhorse of the fleet was Freightliner FLD 120 very similar to this one, except with a single rear axle. Even though I personally never took it on any long tows, it had been on a few over the road trips. If I remember correctly, around 2000 it was something like $75 or $100 an hour and something like a minimum of 2 hrs just for it to leave the lot. The over the road trips are few and far between, but it does happen. Now, of course, of the four wrecker companies in my area that have big wreckers, all but one have sleeper cabbed wreckers. The non sleeper models, like the big sister to O'Hare's truck 317, which is the sleeper cab Romell is basing his build on, is truck 903, which is the truck in my avatar and better known to all us "Wrecked" fans as the "Mistress". In the case of the company I worked for, and is probably the case with O'Hare as well, our biggest trucks were ones with no sleeper, and only went out for recoveries and rollovers. If you've ever watched "Wrecked", you'll notice that the "Mistress" is usually only out on the recoveries and rollovers, she is seldom actually towing trucks. The biggest reason and the biggest benifit of the sleeper on the wrecker is if you are towing a truck with either someone riding along with the trucker like my better half did when I drove over the road or you have a team operation where one driver sleeps as the other drives, the sleeper gives you more or less a back seat for someone to sit. I had many tows where that was the case, and if the wrecker didn't have the sleeper, someone would have been stuck along the side of the road. I even had one case where I had to tow a motorhome back to our shop, and I had a family of four in the wrecker, the mother and two kids sat on the bed for the ride. The kids justed loved riding in a big truck, by the way! Sorry for being so long winded, but at least this should help explain why big wreckers have sleepers.

I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything from you in a while. Exactly! Stay safe my friend!

Of course you had to start this thread while my internet was down, but thankfully it's finally back and I found the thread! Here are the ones I have from the online game "Project Torque" I posted in another thread that got Brian and I started talking about the screenshots. This is my 85ish Toyota Corolla AE86 (I think that's the right model number ) Mazda RX-7, my racing version: I also had my "sinister" drift version, I couldn't do regular racing with this because the ground effects hit the track on the dirt tracks! By the way, before you try to find the game, the servers for it were shut down and it is no more, that's why I took my screenshots. It has been rereleased as "Heat Online", though. It is in Beta testing and is the very same game as "Project Torque" was, but these cars are not in it as of yet, as these were cars I had to buy in the game with cash. The game is (and in the case of "Torque", was) free to download and play, but the game cars are all ficitional brands, the real cars were the only things you had to pay for if you wanted. I have some more pics I'll upload to Photobucket and share soon! Oh, the "D.S. Inc." was the name of my racing crew.

Nice work and welcome to the forum!

David, can you print your own or know someone who could do that for you? If so, I could scan my set from the new kit. I may even have a set from the 1990s issue, but I'm not 100% sure, if those would help out.

Sorry I didn't answer sooner, I'm having internet problems and "borrowing" a wireless signal right now, but thanks Jared for answering for me!

Well, it's like riding a bike, once you learn, you never forget! Seriously, though, I just wish I had skill like that, and I really don't understand why. My mother was an artist and drew and painted off and on almost until the day she passed away, but for some strange reason I just didn't get her artistic ability. Instead of paper or canvas, my talent (if you can call it that ) has always been in plastic. I do have an artist eye and can see the art and beauty in everything from cars to the world around us, but just have never been able to draw or paint it. You have true talent and you don't ever forget that!

Pm sent!

Thanks, I was going to go with a little 3x5 notebook, but I'm kinda an organization freak, so I figured the box of notecards was much easier to keep organized. Everything there was found in the office supply section of my local Walmart and was about 5 bucks total. I would suggest, at least if you divide the notecards evenly for each letter like I did, get more than the 100 card pack.

It's a very good idea. I have this box of 3x5 notecards just for that purpose. I even have plans if I ever have a bad trade, which thankfully hasn't happened, a bad trader will have their own special place in the box so I never deal with them again!