Rockford

These are both beautiful clean builds. Well done! What a way to land on the site! You say you don't think you'll be able to catch up, you don't need to, you're doing great work, look forward to seeing more of your work.

Great save, well done. Going to look great as a whole, being able to see the radiator behind, proper depth, like the real thing.

I hate remaking a handmade part because I dropped the original and couldn't find it. Then, once the replacement is complete, finding the original one in my sock or somewhere!!!! I can't get a dog because I'd be kicking it all the time.

I was trawling the interwebs for inspiration the other night and came across a batch of long frames... I find these fascinating, they're something that could only exist in America, a real unique configuration. This is a setup I've never seen before, the reefer fuel tank is on the trailer bulkhead. They did have conventionals too but the seem really rare. I like the spare wheel mounted upright on the chassis. This K100 has one too. This sums it up really doesn't it? The truck is much longer than the trailer! So this is perfectly credible. I apologise for my digression.

Sorry to hear it took a hit. Must have been sickening for you. It looks fine now. I'm sure it will look great when it's finished.

In the song by C.W.McCall he calls it a chartreuse microbus. So there's your main colour.

The clock went back last night and I'mu all out of sorts today and we're being battered by another Atlantic low but I still did a bit at the bench. Built a pogo stick and a catwalk. Looks ok. Thought I'd take a few shots of it with a nice reefer to check if the stance is right.

The KW torsion bar was a clever design. Not many left.

I'm in awe at the quality of the work you do. There's so much skill and artistry demonstrated on this website. Fantastic stuff.

Wow! You live in a store!

Just so impressive. Beautiful work. The only part I don't understand is "bench cleaned", it's not something I've come across so far in my modelling history. 😜

It's so complete it's painful to look at 😵‍💫

I'm sorry to hear that you have been in hospital. Hopefully you get your mobility back fully and can get back to building. Sounds like they caught this one early so should have a good result.

This is going to be good to watch. Quite a close match to the film unit, certainly in the cowl but looks like a different manufacturer for the body. Will be a challenge on the exterior decoration for you. Wheels and tyres look great. Are you using a different printer? The parts appear very smooth.

This is becoming about 4 builds in one! Amazing stuff. I wouldn't know where to keep something that big. You could do be on this one forever.

It's been so busy lately with work on the house, I'm racing against winter but I managed an hour or two today. Built a rear light and licence plate bracket. Added some detail to the spring hangars on the rear tandems. Will have to add the radius arms also. Built two air tanks and mounted them on the fuel tank brackets.

We called them "greedy boards" when i was on tippers in the UK.

I must have looked at one of the earlier pictures over the air cleaner, all I saw was the hole in the hood! I am showing my age, I tell people that I'm just glad to be "upright and watertight" nowadays! I think I'm still finding my feet in my new workshop and I'm scared of ruining Caboverdose, I've put that much effort into it. My workshop is at the back of my garage and the garage is full of materials to do work on the house. It will get there though, I'm determined. Thanks for remembering the build though. I sometimes get it and sit it on the table in front of me when I'm having my breakfast, it aids digestion.

Understood Lee, thanks for the information.

Wow. The looms on the firewall look fantastic and the snow chains are just something else.

With the headache rack, I'd say flatbed.

Looks great. Just realised that I've never seen this kit before.

19 days to build that! Amazing stuff. Looks fantastic.

You only ever need half the bolts the manufacturer supplies. The rest are spares.

Great build but especially significant that it's your dad's. You must be very proud of it. Did you go on runs with him? I spent a lot of my childhood with my dad in his mobile crane, I know how much it means when you grow up and look back at that time.