Rockford

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.

Master of understatement there! This is unbelievable! Brilliant stuff.

Managed some time on the Pete today. Opened the doghouse grille at the back, started some rear cab mounts so I could cut away the snap fit location. Removed all the deckplating and the slide plate for the fifth wheel and started making a functional one. Also, deepened the rear wheel dishes which spoil the look of these trucks. I should really be working on my LTL9000!

Made a grille surround for the AC unit from 0.5mm wire, it looked unfinished before. Drew up some simple graphics with a little logo on them. Looks acceptable.

Thanks lads. I worked my cuts out as the distance between the rear edge of the locker doors, about 18mm, then used a square on the roof and the lower edge making sure the lines all meet so they were square. Brand new saw blade and just allowed blind terror to ensure careful cutting. I cut to the outside of the lines then just carefully filed the edge down until they mated pretty well. Holding the seam up to a lamp let's you see the high spots.

It was just for the installation of the Cummins, any marque of truck would use the same method.

Looking at the engine, I suppose ease of building would say go for the Detroit, though saying the kit plumbing will fit is more wishful thinking with AMTstuff. Looking at the Cummins, I think the front crossmenber goes behind the front pulley which would move it forwards bit, but not enough to save altering the driveshaft. I'd say Detroit. Love the cab mods, well done.

Paint? I wouldn't know where to start. Unbelievable detail on this job.

I've already admitted I'm a trailerholic, now I'm suffering from a Caboverdose. I scored this for less than £20 off Extortionbay in August. It's a bit grotty, first job was to give it a scrub in the sink. Chrome is in poor state but we can deal with that. In the middle of about four projects I found myself stripping everything off the chassis and marking and cutting the cab down from a double to a single sleeper. The chassis is 184 inch. It's not being shortened, should I add a little to it?

I wonder what did for my decals? It's obviously different expansion rates between the clearcoat and the paper, but why this time and not on the Bison I did last? It's different paper but it shouldn't be that different. ? Can't get rid of this emoji.

So I'm boring!? You naughty boy. You've chosen an interesting subject for your first big rig! You're doing well dealing with the issues on this kit. I'm sure you're aware of the front track width issue too. Looks like it's going to be a head turner, enjoy it mate.

Thank you very much! That's why I put a mask around the area I'm doing because it leaves adhesive behind and it's a pig to get off.