Rockford

Looks brilliant!

Fantastic work on the trailer, it's going to look something else!,

To be honest with you, the paint lift areas look like a weathered old truck really. Maybe give it a rub down with fine wet and dry paper to fade it and make it look like sunbleaching. I say that knowing that I'd be kicking my virtual dog all over the apartment at this point, you're demonstrating excellent restraint.

Paint is my nemesis. There's so many chances for disaster, I dread it. That's why my paint schemes are so boring. So, you're not on your own but at least you're brave enough to try! I'm sure it will look great when you're done.

Incredible stuff.

How do I know this is going to turn out spot on? The tape line sounds great, doesn't have to be hi-tech to work. Bricklayers use a piece of string.

Good work around on the Kysor Air Grille.

Looks great (and very straight) to me, excellent colour combination, the off-white goes well with the burnt orange. GM really did well with the General, what a smart looking truck they were. That three stripe scheme looked good in any colour combination. You're doing a great job on this, very clean and tidy.

I'm away at the moment but once I get home I promise I will put it in front of a reefer.

Looks great. I remember the draywagons delivering beer barrels in UK had a stuffed sack that they used to throw on the floor and would drop the barrels onto the sack then roll them down the hatch in the floor to the cellar. You've got my nostalgia muscle flexing Gary!

That looks like a pick-up bed camper built to sit on the lockers. What a great idea!

Told you that you won't stop!

The fact that it happily stands next to the Pacemaker shows just how well you've done on this job. Looks great! Your chassis isn't twisted! Looking forward to the next job.

Looks great mate, you could actually build your own nowadays and sort the issues with the cab seams and suchlike. You'd be Jürgen AMT+1!

Well done, great looking rig. Are you doing a trailer for it?

Be interesting to see what you come up with for the headlights. I've just built the old Monogram Snap Tite 1/32 kit, totally unrelated, and that had the same issue with the headlamp height. they must have copied AMT's drawings! Coward that I am, I left well alone.

Very realistic work. Well done.

I always think North America had trucks, the UK had 'lorries'

I've only just managed to watch the video, yes they were a test of skill to drive well. The older ones were called Mickey Mouse Fodens because the cab was the shape of his head (without the ears, of course). They had a simple shift lever with the range change lever on the right of the dashboard, so it was a two hander job. They had 3 ranges because Foden had added an epicyclic and an overdrive to the original box over the years. A man who'd only driven Leylands got put on a Foden one day. He left the yard and returned about 20 minutes later having only managed to go around the block complaining that he couldn't get over 15 mph out of it. He didn't know about the range lever on the dash and couldn't get out of low range. The later trucks had a big red paddle on the shift lever, much more sensible. Mickey Mouse Foden (S21 really) Foden 12 speed gearbox with the leveron the dash, the gearbox was huge! They had a different pattern going up the box than coming down!

Jeff I think it was a Bray. It was replaced with a Fiat Allis about 1982, the driver thought he was dreaming. Looking at the trucks you can see the only chrome on a UK truck was in the headlight reflectors!

Engine looks great, very realistic. Having worked on English tippers in the 80s I can recall scraping oil soaked grot from engines looking for buried bolt-heads. They were built to work, not to polish. The Gardner 180LXBs we had a lot of would commonly use up to a gallon of oil a day, I swear the blocks and crankcases were made out of sponge. Then along came Cummins - bone dry. I found this picture of two of the very trucks I used to work on when I worked for Rainfords. Just to let you know what garbage I'm talking about.

Looks great. Good work. I love the brochure describing it as a "rich mahogany grained inlaid instrument panel" sounds like something from Lincoln Continental brochure. At least you could get to things and fix them.

Got my fifth wheel fitted this morning and then couldn't resist getting a trailer on it to see how it looks...

What a tidy, squared up job! Your usual standard.

Looking great! I'm not brave enough for weathering, it just another stage where I could ruin the project.