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They also have that without script. Just in case you're making a W900L...

Thanks Mr. Persson! That's what I needed confirmation.

looks great! Nice weathering.

Excellent paint job!

That is very good work on this truck, I like it!

well, the stripes didn't go as planned. The paint scheme was the pretty much the best looking Ford had at the time, but it seems my material was not up to the task, or rather I'm not experienced enough for it yet. So I went with the next best thing, a set from Modeltruckin'. Not exactly the Ford stripes but something similar that will look not too bad. Well either that or no stripes... So I'll see how that works. Now, to finish the interior, and build the rest of the frame. I might add some tool boxes on the sides. That's an option though. Also working on the headache rack. Photos soon.

Thanks for the comments! Terry, the cab back panel is an item from Auslowe. So i made some progress today, i detailed the wheels, added baby moons in the back and the front ones are installed on the frame. The rear ones are ready to install as well as I fashioned some axles from aluminum tubing for them. All wheels rotate freely, and the front ones steer. I'll have to adjust the lenght of the drive shaft as the detroit engine and the transmission are much shorter than the kit items. I'm pretty happy with the paint, it came out nice. I don't think I'll have to polish and wax. I'll do the BMF on the fuel tank straps, and on some cab details, but there surprisingly not much chrome on these cabs. It doesn't matter 'cause these trucks were more work than show. I have to paint the interior of the cab to match the seats. paint the sun visor, chrome paint the headache rack and modify the drive shaft and also make some diamond plate panels for the frame. Then apply the cab decals. Then it's assembly time. Now for the next pics:

LOL!

Hey, hey! get in line Doug!

Nice color combo on this Pete! One thing is for sure, you'll have enough green paint for a pretty good fleet!

By the way, what happened to this epic build?

Thanks man! Some day I'll get to do some weathering on my rigs. I'm still into the "brand new" or perfectly restored stage of things for the moment. I know there is a rust imitaion that is very convincing on models but I can't remember the name. I've trying to find it but even at Michael's they don,t know what I'm talking about. By the way Sean, I was thinking an 8V92 put out about 445-475HP stock, is this correct? As for Ford big rigs, I have a soft spot for the LTL 9000 and the CL 9000 cabover and also the W9000. To me the LTL is the best looking Ford truck and definitely one of the best looking trucks ever made. And the 8V92 is my favorite sounding truck engine too. I remember those old CL9000 leaning into corners as they looked like their cab was going to flip over! Thay were pretty awesome trucks as well. I have a CL 9000 transkit from KFS that I'll build once I get more experience with resin parts. AND I also have a twin turbo DD12V92 that might end up under that cab... That sounds pretty awesome, doesn't it?

Mockup pics here: The rear tires are from Auslowe by the way.

I used white primer from Alclad, the cab has been painted directly from the rattle can with Tamiya bright white and the frame is again Tamiya, Italian red. The seats and interior is Tamiya wooden deck tan. I made the decals for the engine using Testors clear decal material and stuff I picked-up from the web and copied to tinker on with 'paint' and then transfered to Word to scale down to the size I needed. The colors are really "in your face!" but they look good together. Once detailed and striped, the truck is going to look pretty good i think. i had ModelTruckin' decals for a Ford LTL, but I can't find the folder i put them in... I might have to make some on the old computer... We'll see. I'll get more pictures up sometime today.

Other pics: others still...

Pics...

Hi guys, I don't know if I should post this here or elsewhere, but here goes... I've been posting all sorts of pictures and picture links from photo hosting sites with the photo adress from sites like Imageshack and Windows7 and XP without any problems before. It was just a 'Copy-Paste' thing and everything went relatively smoothly. My old XP computer having enough is getting pretty ill and I thought it was time to get a newer one. So I got a Windows 8 equipped laptop. Also Imageshack went money-money so I went with Tinypic (free). Now, I just cannot Copy-Paste anymore, it just will not copy from either the photo host to this forum at all. I even copied the photo address to the computer 'notepad' and then copy-paste to this forum, still nothing. Need help!

I have to figure out how to upload from photobucket now... Man, can't wait, it is starting to look pretty good, bare with me! i'll get some pictures up!

This is my annual summer project. Well actually I had started a Kenworth W900L but got tired of working on it as there are all kinds of little détails to work out... I'll post something of it later. Anyhoo, for now, this is it, It's an Italeri LTL9000 wrecker that I am building as a restored daycab work tractor for shows. So there will be some things that might look out of whack for some of you, such as the frame that will look a bit long. I'm not bothering with cutting the frame as I scrapped the orginal kit frame once I found I put it together skewed and I don't want to screw up this one. So I used the frame off of the Freightliner FLC instead. It's a pretty nice fit, thanks to the members who helped me out on this. Now, this truck is going to have a white cab with red and black stripes with a Tamiya italian red painted frame, fuel tanks and battery boxes. I swapped the wheels for some 6 spoke wheels all around with wide super single tires and wide rims in front. The wheels will be the classic red spider with white rims and chrome baby moons in the back. The wheels are resin parts from KFS and are looking pretty good, are very nicely cast and fit just right on the kit axles with some adjustments. They are made so they can rotate on the kit front axle. I modified the rear axles so the rears can rotate too. The kit's front axle was too wide to allow the wider rims so I swapped it for a shorter KFS 1:25 scale item. I will change the exhaust system to have muffler stacks from a Revell Kenworth instead of the skinny stock pipes. I also swapped the Cummins for a Detroit Diesel Silver 8V92T from Auslowe. This resin casting is pretty good, although I had to do some trimming and sanding here and there, but it IS a very good kit compared to kits from another source. It is based on the AMT Kenworth Aerodyne kits engine and goes together well. This engine fits pretty nicely in the Cummins place. (It's smaller, I did notice.) I will install a headache rack also and probably a hydraulic oil tank for either a future dumper or who knows, a gooseneck lowboy? So I will try to upload some pics soon.

That is one heck of a nice project!

Alright guys! Thanks for the info. Now the frame is ready for paint! I'll try to get pictures of the build to show here soon. trying to figure out how to upload pictures with a new photo host...

This is a very cool, very good looking conversion Mike! Pas mal sharp la Mustang! Nice color combination, good clean build. J'aime ca!

I'll take the track bars off the old frame and add them to the new one. Unfortunately the ramps will have to stay on the old frame as they are quite stuck there forever, that's too bad because I really like that feature. I'll scratch build another set. By the way, I might be wrong but, aren't the larger brake air chamber supposed to be on the front drive axle instead of the rear one one a ten wheel truck? Idealy I thought they would all be the same size back there but...

Good gawd Clayton! You dream BIG!

Thierry, your RC trucks are very nice! I just love that Cascadia, I might be tempted to get one of these later! Chuck, those trailers are drop dead gorgeus, they really look like the real thing. When I decide on building a Tamiya RC, this guy is building the trailer to put behind it! So, to go back to Redneckrodder's question, how easy or difficult are these thing to build? And what other Equipment do you need to buy to get these running?