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Un-frickin'-believable! Out of cardboard... It looks great Brizio! Who would have thunk!

That GMC looks sooo good with these colors, beautiful stripes on this machine!

Awesome! I never liked this truck, but this one turns it around! This is cool.

There must be someone wanting to make an alternative powered truck with one of these turbines for sure! And you never know when the cast molds for resin parts will give out, so another one would be welcome.

You're right Justin, they didn't, I got all excited and blurted stuff all over the place. Sorry... I wanted to know if he was talking about the simpler revell Aerodyne W900 or the Revell Germany K100. Which I had built like 30 years ago and I'll build later too... 'cause I got another brand new, in the box, unbuilt one.

Man, I like the stripes on this thing! I know it's BJ's truck, but I can't get over this paint scheme, whatever the colors used. That is a really nice build.

No, I think he was talking about that little yellow medication bottle (with actual nuts in it) right beside the paint bottle in this picture here! It really was a joke!

Well if the engine's power is not badass, it's sound will be! Are you planning to put this big ol'girl back together again??

So i guess these DD's were actually good for something! So I'll stand my ground defending them even if I don't know what the heck I'm talking about!! The basic design of those engines must have been outstanding, because thy've been around since the late 1930's until pollution laws put most of them away. I still see some older city buses driving around with their Detroit V6's, an old Louisville dump truck with an inline 6-71 and of course all the people posting videos of Detroit powered trucks and what not on U-tube...

Haha! good thing she doesn't read this! You'd be in a heap'a trouble boy!

Which kit is that Bill? The cabover Kenworth or the conventional? I remember building the cabover way back when it first came out as part of the "trucks of the world" series. At the time I had built a ton of AMT truck and some ERTL Internationals and I thought the Revell was one of the best kits I had built. Is your kit one of the latest issues? 'Cause when the actual molds get old and used up, they tend to yield less than perfect products. I agree that with the price they charge today, the quality should be up there. I mean, look at what Round2 AMT can dish out nowadays, their castings are really top notch, and they are using old molds.

Thought this one would go under the radar did ya? Well it didn't, I like what you did with the Seminole paint, purple and white, nice gold pinstriping, painted fuel tanks, very,very nice, really neat, clean build you have there, well detailed.

Old Albion, aka Dave scratch built a beautiful big 1:16 scale 12V71. That is one nice piece of scale engineering! He has pictures of it in his site http://public.fotki.com/oldalbion/ Hope you don't mind Dave, I'm pretty sure some people haven't seen that beautiful green monster yet...

Simply amazing! I'd like to see how many parts compose the mold itself... It's a work of art, especially in this scale... Wow!

Don't mind if I do, Ben!

Up to now it sounds pretty good. Speaking of sound, I think that is one of the best features of any 2 stroke DD, from the smallest to the biggest. Thanks for the insight Scott, that is really interesting. Speaking of the leaks, were they easy to repair, did they happen like really often? You have one?! What is it running in? gimme details Gordon!

Tough looking A-car!

Has anybody driven these machines way back when? How were the old DD's, really. I keep reading they didn't have much torque, others that they were leakers and all kinds of more or less good things. So give your honest opinion, I'd like to know more about these beasts. My personal favorites: 12V71 and 8V92.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, since the 12V71 is actually like 2 six cylinder banks in a v shape, so it can't that much longer than a big Cummins or Cat 6. Maybe it would be the combination of lenght and width that would be the problem. Anyways, Craig doesn't have the 12. About the 8V71, what I read about it aften, is that it didn't have much torque... So you know, if I had big heavy duty stuff to pull I would have used the 12V71 or a Caterpillar 3408 or a Cummins KT.

No. His truck is a Topkick. The front end looks a lot like the Brigadier but it was one size smaller than the Brigadier. The heaviest Top kick was a 7500, the Brigadier actually replaced or rather was an upgraded 8500-9500 series GMC. Looking at Andrew's picture carefully the headlights are 4 square units mounted directly below the radiator grill, unlike the Brigadier which has two round units mounted on the fender assembly. So that is one way to differentiate them. As well notice the cab side creases on both cabs, they are deeper on the Topkick. The Brigadier did not share it's cab with any other model than the Chevrolet Kodiak. The Top Kick on the other hand shared it's cab sheetmetal with all the GM pickup trucks from the 1973-1987 era.

Man! You don't have anough of one life to build these! Nice stash you have there Jack!

You're all set! But as much as I like these 2 stroke Detroits, I think if you're going to do some heavy lifting with this truck you might want to use another engine than the 8V71 unless it's heavily boosted and customized. There you go, make it a twin turbo 8V71! The 12 probably wouldn't have fitted under the hood anyway. Have fun with it! Oh, and spokes look tough!

You have a taste for White products! That is another nice R-Boss!

Andy, that truck you were driving was a GMC Topkick. As far as I am concerned, I haven't seen any of these produced as a kit but... I think there is a hood that was produced in resin by Plaskit. I'm just not sure they still produce it and I don't think it's the same model year as yours. Maybe somebody else could input here... So you could start with a Ford Louisville Tractor or dump truck for the frame and suspension, the Chevrolet Titan 90 for the frame as well and for the correct wheels. You could use a kit for any 1973 up to 1987 chevy or GMC pickup truck for the cab at the same scale, the fenders and front grill could be reworked to look like the Topkick. For the engine I think it gets more difficult because the Topkicks were not class 8 trucks, they used smaller engines from Detroit Diesel and Caterpillar. Come to think of it, you might be able to use the ones off a Ford Louisville and adapt it to look like a 3208 Caterpillar. That's for the tractor, somebody here sure has an answer for the tanker trailer.There is work to be done for sure, it's far from impossible and it would be a worthy project! Anybody could correct me on this.

daycab 3 rear axle, heavy hauler... With a custom twin turbo 12V71 Detroit and straight pipes!