Rockford

Great job on the wheels and tyres, excellent finished appearance on the front wheels.

Good choice on the Cummins, it won't leak oil all over your bench. I don't ever recall having to address an oil leak on an 855cu in Cummins.

That's unbelievable! Fantastic stuff. Watch you don't soak your bench with LIC10 hydraulic oil!

Very nice job. I like the colour too, a nice mellow creamy colour.

Excellent work, looks fantastic!

Engines of Color In the mid 1960's through 80's Peterbilt would order engines from the engine builders to be painted white. The engines were painted white by the engine manufacturer, not at Peterbilt. The engines would arrive on a pallet in white. Due to availability, supply-chain issues or other problems there were times when the engine builder would not be able to supply enough engines in white and Peterbilt would take what was available - which meant that some engines were white, some were engine builder color. The rule: If your truck had a white engine when new, if it gets restored the engine should be white. If your truck had an engine builder color when new then when restored it should be engine builder color. Cummins was the first to stop painting them in white, then Detroit Diesel and finally Caterpillar, but Cat continued to ship white engines up until the end of the 359 family in 1986/87. Cats in the 379 Familar (Successors) were yellow. Here are various photos of new engines in various colors at the Newark, California factory from back in the day. "In the mid 1960's through 80's Peterbilt would order engines from the engine builders to be painted white. The engines were painted white by the engine manufacturer, not at Peterbilt. The engines would arrive on a pallet in white. Due to availability, supply-chain issues or other problems there were times when the engine builder would not be able to supply enough engines in white and Peterbilt would take what was available - which meant that some engines were white, some were engine builder color. The rule: If your truck had a white engine when new, if it gets restored the engine should be white. If your truck had an engine builder color when new then when restored it should be engine builder color. Cummins was the first to stop painting them in white, then Detroit Diesel and finally Caterpillar, but Cat continued to ship white engines up until the end of the 359 family in 1986/87. Cats in the 379 Familar (Successors) were yellow. Here are various photos of new engines in various colors at the Newark, California factory from back in the day" Found the above whilst randomly trawling through the interwebs about Peterbilt. Just what you need. I did post photographs from the page but I noticed I shouldn't do so without permission. Sorty.

Yeah, BP colours I think.

I've just counted 187 pieces have gone into making the engine and transmission. Still not quite finished.

Detail looks great, the end result will be brilliant.

I had a little Matchbox version of this truck when I was little. Looks great!

Fantastic scratchwork here. The finish is top notch!

Absolute work of art! Bodywork is my nemesis, hate it. Fully respect what you've achieved here.

Excellent stuff, hit the ground running as ever!

Wow! What a systematic analysis of the issues with this kit. I've never built this kit, only the later 359 with the newer cab but I remember the wheels felt small on that too. Indeed on a KW900 I built I used the ERTL wheels and tyres from the IH Transtar for a better stance. Yes the engine should be white, something I balk at with my Paccar builds. It could always have had a service replacement at some time.... 🤔 The older AMT kits are definitely an experience. You'll make a great job of it though.

Cleaned up the chassis rails, removing all the remnants of the casting of the inset oil pan etc... Fabbed up a set of engine mounts from plastic card and did a fitting - plopped into place nicely. Had to just do a little bit of an adjustment to the cab floor to clear the turbo. Shortened the driveshaft front section up to the centre bearing. Looking good, just another 30-40 things to do to make it look right: inlet and exhaust pipework, shift lever island, linkage, brake chambers, steering linkage, etc etc etc... All because I wanted something to see through hole at the back of the doghouse!!!!

Whether it appears black or green it looks spot on! Well done, nearly there.

Made a bell housing out of a inner wheel from the Revell Pontiac Firebird. Shaped it in the drill and added the top mounting lugs (not used on this truck), the inspection cover on the bottom and the clutch release fork shaft bosses. Engine and transmission mated together. I have started cleaning the chassis to accept the engine.

Brave call on the doors. It looks just as good, and you could have been drawn down a wormhole of what goes in the lockers!

James Pretty on YT has two K100s with that stripe layout. Looks great.

Love it!

Coming together nicely, this would have taken me years to get this far! Going to look very tidy when it's done.

This truck aint going nowhere without no gearbox. After successfully casting the rear causing that houses the range change and the splitter, I needed to formulate a plan to build the main casing. Looking at the Ford unit I deduced that the main casing could be sliced into three main cross sections each with their own profile. I built the rearmost sort out of shrapnel on an end plate, then made a thin middle slice out of a piece of green offcut from a KW T600. The forward section was the trickiest, I copied the layout of the real thing and placed two pieces of tube where the countershafts would be because they form dictate the shape of the casing, then built the rest of the casing around them, adding the various bulges with dtrips of card where necessary. A good session with my files, finessing the contours and I don't think it looks bad at all for an afternoon's work and a first try. Need to leave it to set properly and then finish it off and add a bell housing.

Interior looks great, just the right colour. The wrecker looks excellent, I prefer the old Holmes twin boom jobs even though the modern kit is much more capable.

Like the job you made of the fuel tanks!

Cleverly done, nice work.