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I'm sorry, but I still say the best is the Dawn Power Dissolver, you don't need Haz-Mat protection to use it! NO FUMES!! NO GLOVES NEEDED!! SAFE FOR THE FAMILY!!

WOW! I'm always impressed by your work, but this blows my mind! Beautiful job!

Try this place Brandon. http://www.mysafetysign.com/ You can pick from signs already made or with some, make your own custom sign. You can save them to your computer and resize to whatever scale you wish. Here is one I made for the back of a custom tractor trailer and have test printed it scaled down, I just have never made the final decal yet. It started as this: Here are a few others my twisted mind made from that site!!

Interesting pic, makes me kinda wish I hadn't gotten rid of the extra 300C kit like that I had, but about 50 years too new for the Moebius late 50s era car that the kit will be.

Ok, you got my attention!! I noticed the Can Do bed in one of the previous pics, but I love that setup. What cab is that supposed to be?

Wow, so I was right on two trucks I don't like and wrong on two trucks I DO like!! Tim, with the matter of the kits aside, the real Bison and General trucks were alike, right??

Romell, glad to see you back!! The cabinets are looking great, where did you get the wood from?

I'm not 100% sure Mark, but I think the last reissue for the F-350 was maybe 2000 or 2002, it hasn't been out for a while.

HMMMMM, I wonder!?!?!

I'm still trying to figure out the "Golden Girls" tie-in with the front license plate "Blanche"!?!?

Michael, first let me say I have never had either kit, sorry I just don't like those trucks , but from the builds I've seen here and pics of the real truck, I would guess they probably would work the way you want to use them. I don't see them being much different than the hooded counterparts the Chevy Bison and GMC General, those are more or less the same trucks with different corporate badging, and also the light duty pickup trucks as well. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me!!

James, I'd better NEVER see that pull into my driveway!! That sure is one nice setup Chris, I'd love to have a desk like that.

Mike and Tommy took my answers!

Oh YEAH, and it certainly is different, I don't think I have ever seen a Z'd truck frame. Even with some of the crazy ideas I've come up with, I never thought of anything like this!!

By the way, I think this would make an awesome hood mural!! Back to jaw reassembly!

Give me a few days to pick my jaw off the floor, I think it came permanantly unhooked!!!

I don't know, but it sounds like he's had some experience at that!!!

You're welcome for what little help I could offer Chris. One other thing to keep in mind when you order the paper, know what kind of printer either you or the person printing the decals have. If you or they have an inkjet printer, you need to make sure you have the inkjet paper, and likewise the same with a laser printer.

Yes Jim, that is the paper I was talking about, because it is the EXACT SAME link I posted!!!

I can't help in the area of printing them for you, because I'm just starting to experiment with making my own decals at the moment, but I can give you one bit of advice. The white can be printed on a normal printer using a decal paper with a white carrier, that way if you have something like a number gumball, as long as it has a colored border to let you know where the edge is, the edge and number will print and the remaining white will stay white. I also found a decal paper at my LHS from a place called Evan Designs called HobbyCal decal paper that claims that you can make both white and clear decals from the same paper, but I have not tried it yet. Here's a link for that paper: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/decalpaper.html EDIT: I just checked out one of the how to videos at the link above, and the white carrier on this brand of decal paper can be made clear using Canola oil!! WOW!

Sean, are you sure you don't mean the 378? Italeri has that and a 377 A/E, and both kits have a Detroit Series 60. As for finding it, assuming you did mean the Italeri 378, does the Bridgeport Equipment and Tool (B.E.T.) Rental down by Krogers sell models? The owner of that has T&K Hobby up here in Bridgeport, and they carry Italeri trucks, and I'm almost sure there might even be one of the 378 kits up here.

One thing I did not think of in my reply and noticed in Rodney's pic was adding additional holes to the base. That will give you multiple positions for any scale or size of body.

Yeah, pretty bad early 1970s technology is better than it is in 2011!

Ok, so you guys aren't Tim, but I knew they were in some of my collection! Thanks guys! Also, that kinda got my memory fired up (that takes a while sometimes! ), and I think that the Peterbilt 352 cabover, Mack R (the one with square tanks on the box art but round tanks inside), and GMC General also have the four piece tanks. I'd look to make sure, but I'm just too lazy!

Harry, for Mark not being a truck builder, his logic is NOT stupid at all! Actually Mark, I forget which kits they are from AMT (come on Tim, help me out here! ), but there are at least a couple of the old AMT truck kits where they used the idea you mentioned. The tanks were done in four pieces, two halves and two end caps, somewhat similar to the real 1:1 units. There have been a couple of TV shows showing trucks being built, and they showed the 1:1 tanks being made from a rolled sheet of aluminum and then welded together, then the ends welded in place. If you can ever get a chance to see a tank on a 1:1 up close, you can see the weld seems on each end of them, they are rarely ever cleaned up.