Rockford

Those colours really blend well together, especially with the stripe. I'm salivating.

Thanks lads, I'm really happy with it and the workaday appearance of it. Brian, my trucks chop and change trailers because where we live is so small that there's no room to display more than one truck at a time, the rest are stored away 99% of the time. I also come from a haulage fleet background where drivers regularly swapped trailers from day to day from flatbed to tipper to powder tank depending on the demand. Some days I'll get some out and dot them around the place but they have to go away after a while as the place looks so cluttered. We're in the proces of buying a two bedroomed house at the moment as we're both pretty much retired and our little apartment is proving somewhat claustrophobic with both of us here all the time. In the new place we have a garage with windows and power but we're not there yet and the amount of garbage you accrue living somewhere for 25 years is just staggering! We have a lot of sorting to do but hopefully I'll have somewhere to display my trucks and a dedicated space for building.

Yes another Freightliner but a 1/32 Snaptite job. Chassis shortened, batteries relocated, cablocks scratch built, sliding fifth wheel scratch built, quarter fenders scratch built, steps opened up on the cab, bumper cut down, drive wheels deepened, scratch built exhaust stacks and framework, steering mechanism fabricated, tank brackets scratch built and air tanks added, homemade decals, and a few other things I can't recall. This could be the last thing I work on for a while because we're selling our little apartment and moving to somewhere a little bigger. I've had to hide all my trucks and tools to make the place more appealing to prospective buyers. I've had to pack my garage and the Chevy with kits. I can't work indoors anymore and it's too cold to work in the garage. I'm a spectator for a while.

Pulled the final pieces together this afternoon. Added the bracing struts for the cab steps (almost invisible), popped the bling back onto the cab and glued the Aircon unit onto the roof. Glued the cab on and that's it. I'll post it in Under Glass.

What a fantastic piece of work. Excellent paint scheme. Any Astro is a sight for sore eyes but this is a stunner.

Not all my stuff is on the bench, it usually ends up on the floor and I end up on my hands and knees looking for it!

I have learned to do what my old art teacher told us, depict what the eye sees, not what the mind knows is there. That has saved me a ton of unnecessary work. And never too many pictures!

I'm lost for words.

The amount of work that has gone into this one little component just doesn't bear thinking about. I'm glad you came up with a simpler solution.

Like a big Monte Carlo inside! Nicely done.

I missed this somehow, going to be a very interesting project.

Well done on the adjustment to the lights. Does make a difference.

Well sorted mate. Going to be a good looking piece of machinery.

Here goes lads,reefers as requested. I thought I'd include a flatbed. Here's my inspiration for this truck. Could actually be longer, should I? I have never had a good explanation for why people would run a cabover on such a long frame. This doesn't look like it's been a "drom"because of the position of the pogo stick and fifth wheel. Why so long and not a conventional? I suppose you could say Freightliner didn't make a conventional at the time but these trucks aren't alone.

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!