KJ790

Looking good! What color are you going to go with for the tandem axle pete? PS: I'm liking your computer background

I started with two glue bombs that I had bought, one was a great dane reefer, the other was a fruehauf van trailer. I cut the ribbed sides off of the fruehauf, then cut the sides off of the great dane leaving the front, back, top side rails, and bottom side rails. I filed the ribbed fruefauf sides to fit the great dane and glued them in place. Then I painted the whole trailer "aluminum" silver. After that was dry I went over all of the parts that are supposed to be stainless with bare metal foil. That trailer wasn't quite done in those pics, but it was mostly done.

Thanks everyone! I didn't use any decals on this build at all. Everything was actually done with spray paint. I cut a very small stencil out of tape and layed it over the doors, then sprayed a few light coats of white over it to get the door lettering.

Finally, after almost 2 and a half years, I have almost finished this build. I still have a few tweaks to make (like glue the cab to the hinges), but it looks like a truck finally!

Haha thanks, I'll have to look at it when I get home. I thought there was something wrong with them. I was planning on changing them out for some different spokes anyways.

Well life seems to have happened and over 2 years has passed, but I finally busted this old model out and started working again. Got the engine finished and in the frame, and today I painted the name and number on the cab. I am also working on a great dane reefer with stainless steel sides. I bought a great dane reefer and a fruehauf box van that were both half assembled. I cut the sides out of the great dane and replaced them with the fruehauf ribbed sides (that I had cut the rails off of). I painted the whole thing silver and then put bare metal foil over the "stainless steel" parts. It's still a work in progress, but it is coming.

Nah, unfortunately I'm not going to be able to have any models at the Fulton show, but I should be wandering around looking. Maybe next year I'll have some there. Yup, he's still around and he has no idea that I am working on this. I have thought about this as a Christmas present for him, I bet he would really like that.

Alright, so I have been really busy with other stuff lately, but this week I finally had a chance to get a little work done. The two trailers are almost done, I need to finish some details like marker lights, air hoses, landing gear handles, and decals. I have the engine almost done for the KW, but other than that I haven't really worked on that at all. Here are updated pics of the two trailers.

Wow thanks! Yeah, my grandfather is still around, and so is his company, though our family sold it about 10 years ago. The new owners have downsized it a bit and it just isn't the company it was 10-20 years ago, but I guess that's the way it is. I want to make a model of my grandfather's first truck ever, a 1952 Brown, but that would have to be completely scratch built. It's hard to even find pictures of those trucks, though I have a few pics of his kicking around. I think I need some practice before trying to scratch-build a truck though.

I've been browsing here a bit, but I figured I would finally post. I grew up on a family trucking business that my grandfather started back in the 1950's. When I was little our fleet consisted mostly of Kenworth K100's, so they have always held a place in my heart. A few months ago I came across this picture of one of my grandfather's old trucks on the internet: I decided that I wanted to get into model trucks, and that a truck similar to this one would be my first one (since that is what my grandfather's first 20 or so trucks looked like). I started with a partially built glue bomb AMT K123 from ebay. I redid the chassis, added a torsion bar suspension, spoke wheels, and painted it all green. I then modified the headlights on the cab to be singles, then painted the cab green, white, and gold. The truck pictured above was the first year of the door handles at the bottom of the door. My grandfather's earlier trucks looked the same, but with the door handle up near the window, and some had the spot window in the passenger door such as the AMT kit has. For this reason I let these details slide. With this truck I am currently working on two reefer trailers. One is an Ertl Great Dane reefer that will resemble many of the trailers that were in our fleet in the early 70's. The other is an AMT Fruehauf reefer that resembles a reefer from the 60's era. I have decided to make this one stainless steel by using bare metal foil on the sides to give it the shiny look. It is currently a work in progress as well, but here is what I have so far: I made a few balsa wood pallets as well, I plan on making more when I get time: Thanks for looking guys. Take it easy on me, this is my first attempt at modeling, so I hope to do a better job with future projects.