Rockford

You're unstoppable! Great work.

Feel your pain there, I'd be heartbroken if that happend to one of my paint jobs. Hope you get a solution.

You've worked your printer to death! You should be used by the manufacturer for endurance testing.

Added a pressed aluminium crossmember to the chassis, two air tanks toward the rear of the chassis, a bypass oil filter and a pair of quarter fenders using aluminium wire and tube. I used aluminium mesh to cover the engine doghouse, used 0.75mm square rod to form a lip for the mesh. Fitted the battery box in between the exhaust uprights. It's looking good, just got to try and sort the cab interior out.

Great job. Like it.

Very nice. Like the cut down front bumper. I do miss Hank's Truck Pictures, I used to stare af that for hours.

Very nice, ready for work.

Great job mate, so glad to see these kits on the shelves again. Like your tractors too.

Using 1mm and 0.5mm square rod mainly, I built the cab locking mechanism. I've looked at so many trucks on the website, some have them pointing up, others down (which makes more sense, fail in safe position) but I opted for uppers. Just need to trim one little overhanging piece.

Pete68 avert your eyes! Made my exhaust stacks and mounted them provisionally. Made some tank brackets that look more like the real thing. Got one done, I'll show more when I do the other side. I'm well aware that the cab doesn't look right. One reason is that the windshield top rail is too low. I added new top "rubbers" and then filed away the original. It does look much better, needs tidying. Started a visor from aluminium sheet but needs trimming. Before... After...

Looking forward to watching this take shape.

It'll be worth the effort!

Cut the back wall of the cab open, I'll use real aluminium screen in the hole. Fabbed some brackets for the stacks in a similar setup to the AMT 1/25 kit. Relocated the battery boxes to the inside of the exhaust frame. Things are beginning to take shape.

Really clean, tidy job, well done.

Looks suitably busy and lived in, some great little details.

Great job, really impressive. Some great scratch building on this truck.

What a great looking combo. Like the cut-off bumper and the lack of the visor. Great company truck.

Shortened the chassis by cutting out the battery boxes. I'll remount them between the stacks on top of the chassis. Cut the tank mounts off too, I'll make something more in keeping with a Freightliner. One of these days I'll make a long framed cabover, but not this time.

Just put it next to a K100 and you're right, it is narrower by the same width as the rubber arch-trims, so maybe that's what caused the problem with mould limits. I've considered sectioning the cab and adding a strip each side but I'd only destroy it in the process and that would probably reveal other dimensional issues that the shrinking has caused. I'll just have try and maintain the illusion and keep it away from the other cabovers, like Smokey Yunick with his 7/8 Chevelle. You may have to avert your eyes for a while...?

I've dropped the cab slightly and it definitely looks more like a Freightliner, moved it back a fraction too. Narrowed the track on the front axle a little and added the newer style front wheels. Used the bosses that I cut off the rear wheels to make hubs on the Daytons. Opened up the cab steps and boxed them in, then added 2.5mm strip behind the kit moulding as in the real thing. Looks ok.

Just perfect!

Built a Holland fifth wheel from two layers of plastic sheet and a load of 1mm square rod. Used a set of dividers to scribe the grease grooves into the plate, all looks period correct. Also assembled a slide frame. Trimmed the rear of the chassis frame, installed a rear crossmember and added top and bottom flanges to the chassis. It's definitely too long in the chassis, I'm going to have to lose about 15-20mm. I'm not sure if I'm fitting quarter fenders.

You're right on the axle, forgot to mention that. I'll have to look at a load of reference photos for the headlamp situation.

After finishing so many projects I was in a quandary as to my next move, I have nothing half finished really. Ford LTL? 359 Pete? Then I saw my Freightshaker cabover that's been sitting patiently in the dark for about four years. Bought built off eBay, the stacks and mirrors are in a bag for safety. Someone has swapped the rear wheels for Daytons from the Fruehauf trailer and I think I'll keep them, but have started doing my adjustment to inset the spiders (passenger side done in these photos, compare them to the driver's side, much better). Will be shortening the chassis, relocating the batteries and properly mounting the stacks. I think the cab needs lowering too. Here we go again!!

I have thought about a big Chevy bowtie but it would have to be on white decal paper. The headache rack did come to mind because I've got about four from GMC General kits, but it's not bothering me as much now, I'm seeing the good bits rather than the issue. Let's see how it goes, if it ends up hurting my eyes like a left hand thread then I'll do something.