Jim B

Nice! Tha's pretty shiney.

Kenworth stopped painting engines white around 1973-74, and I think Peterbilt stopped around 1985-86.

Check out the videos Shelf One - Shelf 20. They're a lot clearer.

Thanks for the tour! Some of your "pending projects" look quite promissing.

Nice group of trucks you've got there. A little low for my taste (looks like they'll get stuck on speed bumps), but nice job. I really like the old Chevrolet.

Looking good, Kurt. I agree with Dave; that will look good behind that Mack.

Nice Pete, and the pics are pretty good for a cell phone.

I like it. that looks really nice.

Most of the transmissions that I've seen are either semi-gloss black or red oxide. Of course, Ford had their transmissions aluminum.

Nice, Matt. Too bad I don't do 1/16. Should be popular with the Australians as they seem to do a lot of 1/16. Didn't you do a 1/25 KW "Aerocab" & W900L hood?

Wow! Great details. That interior is amazing.

The K100 that is shown is a later model than the AMT kit, but yes, it's a K100 Aerodyne.

Yes, the Home Page appears to be dead, but you can get there by using the contents page. http://timstrucks.site.aplus.net/contents.htm

Very impressive! Were these old military trucks that were converted, or were they a civilian design?

It did turn out nice. Good job.

Dave, I knew it was something like that!

Ed, That looks really nice. Nice details. What's "under the hood"? Is that the Ford gas engine?

No, the engines that comes in the AMT Peterbilt 359 is a NTC350. And I believe the one in the Revell of Germany 359 is a NTTA400 (or something like that).

Ok, so just he V800 should be blue, and the rest should be red (even the V903?). What "shade" of blue would be most correct? Is it a dark blue like Ford, or is that metalic blue on your 4300 pretty close?

Thanks for posting those pics. Glad you like the ALF.

Nice stripes!

Thanks. Glad you guys liked it.

For the Cummins in the Diamond-Reo I'd go beige. The kit is a 1970-71 C-11664DFL.

Aaron, I posted you question over on the Aussie truck board, and they said that the 3408 would eitherr be Caterpiller Yellow or white, depending on the year. Dave, Actually Rust-O-Lium (or one of their lines) offers New Caterpiller Yellow. And what actually is the difference between Old Caterpiller Yellow & New Caterpiller Yellow? When did they switch?

If it were me, I'd go New Cat Yellow, but that's me. I belong to an Board that is mostly Australians & New Zelanders, and I posted some questions about the Revell of Germany T900 kit; and the list on innacuarcies was huge. Here's what the Evan, owner of Melbourne Model Truck Accessories, had to say about it: "The Revell T-900 "Australia" truck sure is one inaccurate model overall! You're right in that it is an early to late 70's W-900 extended hood. Over here in Oz we only had a handfull of extended hoods and the bulk of those had V12 Detroits. The right hand dash is correct, and a welcome feature. The 60" flat roof sleeper of that era is one that we never really saw a lot of here, as back then we had much more stringent wheelbase regulations, which is how the Australian SAR came about. The engine range for the W-model from the 70's and 80's was the Cummins NTC and KT, Detroit 6V and 8V, and the Cat 3406 A and B. The Cat 3408 was introduced in the early 80's I think, and from memory was only available in the cabovers. The spider rims in the Revell kit are not the kind that Kenworth used either as most used the 6 spoke Malco hubs, and the closest spiders i've seen in a kit were in the ERTL Volvo N-10. The bullbar isn't exactly what we would use here either. Most aussie bullbars are a lot flatter in the front. Honestly, at the end of the day, if you really want to build a highly accurate Australian 80's W-model, I'd keep the chassis and cab and piff the rest! All the parts you'd need are available, and I personally do the Aussie length W-925 bonnet to suit this kit as well as the Detroits, the rest you can get through Auslowe I think."