Rockford

Great looking K100, love the Salem paint scheme. Well done.

Here's my stripes I drew up on Paint® for the Aircon unit.

BOOM! I'm back! Sort of. I can't find half my materials or tools so I'm struggling a bit but I've got a basic bench set up for now and I've took the leap to get back into the habit. I've really missed working on my trucks. Here's my bench setup:- I've still got boxes to empty after two months. To get myself moving again I decided to do a simple job and build an air conditioning unit for the roof. It's a Kysor unit, which seemed to be the most common in the day. I used aluminium mesh for the grille and I'll plumb the lines in once the cab is sorted. I drew up some decals for it. I also got the itch to sort the wheels on the AMT Trailmobile van I built a few years ago. I swapped the AMT pieces for Monogram ones, which sorted the familiar scale issue, but then I had the Snaptite shallow wheel dish issue. I did my usual modification of adding depth to the wheel dish using two strips. Transforms the look.

It's because I've never had one up until then so I just thought I'm not going to miss anything. If I had a presence on there then maybe I'd approach it differently but I didn't see the advantage of it.

I think ive just had the shortest Facebook membership ever. I signed up (against my better judgement) to look at Facebook Marketplace, as we've just moved house and are looking at offloading "stuff" and acquiring other "stuff". Whilst on I went looking for 1/32 trucks because I'd seen a group come up on image searches. One of the first things I see is two images of MY 1/32 Freightliner cabover being used to advertise 1/25 3D printed kits! I was incensed. I left a comment on both images stating that they were not the product being sold, and that they were being used without my permission and had been lifted from this forum. I know it's a compliment really because the person thinks that there's no difference between my 1/32 snapper and a 1/25 AMT but it's misrepresentation and very wrong. I thought "I've been on 5 minutes and im already seeing stuff that's bent, and even using my work to perpetrate their lies!" I decided i wanted no part of such a setup and deleted my account. Am I being too sensitive?

The brake chambers do the actuation, the air stops there. A bit of research on the interwebs will help you mate, and you'll be able to do it systematically. In the meantime, what you've done so far will add some good detail.

Well done, not always easy with a kit that age.

Semi Casual do some amazing stuff. I was watching them on YouTube. Don't like all of it but they have amazing attention to detail. The potential on this is endless!

Great looking job. Will be an excellent combination.

Absolute work of art that Gary. Very tidy and clean too. A show truck. I love the stacks, you can't beat real metal.

Nice job on the Cummins 855, chassis looks good too. Hope the kit isn't too vague for you, but you'll have experienced AMTs ways of doing things before, it's just a bigger version of "what goes where?"

Looks great. Well done.

That's going to be a great trailer to pair with your Mack. Great combination.

I know it's no comfort to you but I think it looks fantastic! Beyond my abilities.

That is so clever! That's worthy of Jim Wangers that is. I do love his Pontiac adverts, just so clever.

You're doing a great job on this. I like the wear on the diamond plate. The chains and pins look good too. It will look great with a load on it.

Great looking truck, would be great to have one of those around

Very clean build, great colour too. So many little touches on this rig, it's a real standout.

Very nice job with some very nice features- opening doors, double sleeper, paint scheme, well done.

When you get into fabbing stuff to the degree you have on this job you see how much work the kit makers have to put into each kit. It's a wonder anything can be built. Persevere, you'll sort it I'm sure. You can see the filter housing is too big from the kit.

Nice install on the DD. Looks factree.

Very "of its era" with the single drive and the tag axle. Love it. Like the pot belly trailer too, thinking of one myself.

Really nice workaday piece of machinery. Well done.

Well done, nice custom touches.

Great work here, I admire your scratchbuilt spring, takes some patience. I don't think I'd be able to get the wheels to sit square if I tried that.