Jim B

Great save! I really like it. Well done.

Nice conversion. Will you be doing a brass frame for this truck as well? What about the engine?

I've never measured the AMT 1/32 truck wheels & tires, but I have seen them & they do look small. More like car tires.

Nice looking trailer, KJ. Very well done. Hey, snow in Syracuse! Imagine that!

Not a current list, but if you email him he'll send you one.

That's pretty cool. Didn't know Gary was making LoneStar parts.

Great looking 353.

KJ, if you'd like, I can bring a tire or two to Utica for you to see.

There are none that I know of.

Nice looking rigs. I remember Turkey Point. Big nuke plant there.

In the 1970s it would have been Ford Blue, by the 1980s Caterpillar Yellow.

Doesn't surprise me. The Ford V200 & V225 were built by Caterpillar for Ford. They were essentially blue Caterpillar 3208. If you want to be really correct, the 3208 was not offered by Ford from the factory in the LNT8000. The 3208 was only offered in the LN8000. The LNT8000 had the 3208T.

This might help some: http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/model_magazine_articles/car_modeller/cm09_sept_1991_cate/ Here is a pic from a 1973 Ford L-Series brochure: http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truck_brochures/ford/ford_l-line_1973/l-line-73-08.html That's a 3208 under the hood of a LN8000. What would be nice is if you could do the red & yellow labels for the valve covers (this is from a 1973 C-Series brochure): http://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truck_brochures/ford/ford_c-series_1972/page_07a.html

Actually, it's a Caterpillar 1160 or Ford V200.

AITM has older Autocar hoods that might work out for you. Particularly the 1969 Autocar hood. I'm not sure if the 1950 Autocar hood would work out. http://www.aitruckmodels.com/pages/as3autocarhoodconv1969.html

I used Testors Model Masters Light Gray. I had a friend of mine spray it with his airbrush, & I told him to "clear coat it". Guess i wasn't specific enough. I should have applyed another coat of clear gloss before I added the decals. Oh well, live & learn!

Looks promising!

Sounds interesting. The Revell of Germany Kenworth W900 is a 1972-82 truck. If you need something more modern (like a W900B), Gary Wallace of GW Trucks has a W900B cab kit & a modern dump body. You can contact him at gwtrucks@yahoo.com. The AMT kits are all 1970s vintage trucks.

Looking really nice, Pavel. I like that little frame you have the engine in to work on.

First, your Diamond-REO looks really nice. The licenses plates should be on the front, not the back. Anyway, a dump truck? Well, there are a couple of dump truck kits out there: the AMT Autocar DC9964, International PayStar5000, & Ford LNT8000 come to mind. You might have to scour eBay to find them, though. To make one you could use the Diamond-REO that you just built (well, another kit, not that ONE), the AMT GMC General, AMT Chevrolet Bison, AMT Mack DM600, DM800, & R600. I've also seen Peterbilt 359 & Kenworth W900 dumps (Revell of Germany makes a W900 dump). Depending on what time frame, and what appeals to you just about any kit can be made in to a dump. Although the Kenworth T600 and International ProStar or LoneStar probably won't make very good dump trucks. Here is a good reference site: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/ Have fun!

I don't know about the 8 sets thing, but I have ordered from Model Truckin' in the past with no problems.

Thanks. The Italeri Volvo VN780 doesn't have an engine per say, but I just needed to know what to paint that engine looking thing that's in between the frame rails.

Ok, so here's another question: what color would a Volvo engine be in a 2002 VN780? I know these also came with the Cummins ISX, which would be red.

Green? I thought those were gray. Weren't the Mack gasoline (Thermodyne) engines green?

From what I've gathered, there were only a few manufacturers that had engines painted other that OEM colors. Kenworth & Peterbilt used white & International used red. Yes, Mack engines were gold, but only the Mack engines & transmissions. Other manufacturer engine installed into Macks were OEM color (Cummins Beige, Caterpillar Yellow, or Detroit Diesel Alpine Green).