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Hi Tim, You know I always love to build Peterbilt models since years....You can do so much variations and those Italeri Kits are always nince to built... Thanks for the compliments for the decals and stripes.I made several company logos before but never made some stripes.Don´t know why but it´s going nice.Have to wait how they will look when they are printed out on the decalpaper with my alps...If it works good it opens new possibilitys on making stripes on the models.... Regards,Chris

Hi there, some people may say we are crazy and they are right...Uwe (oldstyle) and me just started a new project.When he visited me last week we went to my haoobyroom and surfed through Hanks Truckpictures and found some nice trucks we wanted to build... That´s the rig I decided to build: while uwe sets his eye on this one: both pictures are taken from Hanks Truckpictures.Always a great inspiration for truck-loving modelbuilders. 10 minutes after we found the pictures I pulled of two of the reissued Italeri Peterbilt 378 kits and we started planing the builds.I went back to the PC and drawed the decals for our trucks...It took me about an hour and the are ready for the first testprints on normal paper,cutted them out and put them on the cab and hood.... I shortened the frame about 1,2 inch,grabbed some of those Revell Candowrecker front wheels out of my partsbox and put some Italeri trailer tires on them.For the rear wheels we will use some KFS two-holes.I made a rack for the rear of the cab on my machine and have a rolling chassis after 4 days of work on it. And here are some progress pics of my truck with the longer wheelbase: Paint will be Tamiya Camel Yellow for the Cab,Hood,Rack and rear wheels and semigloss black for the frame.Chrome will be painted with Alclad High polished aluminium. Oldstyle will post pictures of his truck on this thread...He has also started with his shorter wheelbase truck ...... Thanks for looking, Regards,Chris

Hi there, thanks for the comments.I made no progress on this one,want to finish my Willig Freight Lines Ford first.... @ Dan,yes,that machine was worth the costs...It´s great to make all those parts and kits.And it´s coming out better and better from day to day. Regards,Chris

Hi, didn´t know if I had posted this one before. It´s an older build of mine. I converted an AMT Peterbilt 359 into an little Window cab.I got a lot of tips from Tim for that truck.The frame was shortened,the tires came from an old RoG Peterbilt.The trailer was scratchbuilt from palsticsheet.It was all aged and weathered.The hood was also converted into an needlenose hood.The inspiration for that model was taken from an Peterbilt book. Thanks for looking, Regards,Chris

Hi, Thanks for the comments. Now it´s time for an update. The frame is wired,painted and weathered,also the engine.The wheels are painted,too.I have to do some samll details on the frame and engine. Next step will be the interior.Does someone have some good interior shots of that Ford model? More progress will follow,soon. Thanks for looking, Chris

Hi Uwe, Your Astro is going to be great.The engine and frame are fantastic.So i think you will finish this one,soon.... Keep up the nice work, Regards,Chris

Hi, That rig is awesome.Great color combo and nice detailing on the Ken and also the trailer. Regards,Chris

Hi, Nice looking Kenworth. Cheers,Chris

Hi Dave, I made those decals with corel draw and printed them out on my Alps printer as Uwe said.I bought it from ebay some years ago.... For my Willig Freightlines Ford I also made the decals. Regards,Chris

Hi, Kurt,your Fld is an masterpiece of modelbuilding.Such an ammount of details and fine paintwork it´s great. Regards,Chris

Hi, thanks for the info and the link, Regards;Chris

Hi there, I want to build an single axle Mack R model and an single axle Cruisliner but have no idea where I could get the single springs for that project.Is there anyone who made that spring or where I could get one?Does anyone have goods pictures of it? Any help would be appreciatet I decided to use the single springs from the Ford snowplow kit but they aren´t looking right for that. Thanks,Chris

Hi Uwe, that´s awesome.Fantastic looking dash.As I konw your other models in person I could say this will be an amazing build again.I have to start with my saveway truck,soon...but those Freightliner cabs will get a lot of attention before you could do some paint on it.You know what I mean Keep up the great work, Cheers,Chris

Hi Ryan, That´s coming out nice.I have do redo my cab because the sheet I added wasn´t straight... If you take aclose look to the picture you could see what I mean I started this in 2003....than put the cab back to the kitbox.....I think I´ll take another kit to build it new.I also thought about making a frame from scratch with my cnc milling machine. Added some pics to my Fotki Keep up the good work, Regards,Chris

Hi there, thanks for the lot of compliments. Yes,the paint is hugger orange. Regards,Chris

Hi there, the Mr.Salt himself is on the works First I thought oh very bright colors on the coupe but I saw the grain and that makes it clear to me what those two willys will be. Great work so far and I´m awaiting the coming progress on them. Kind regards from Germany, Chris

Hi, Ryan,thanks. I made some progress on the ford.My friend Uwe(Oldstyle) and me made some new two holes yesterday and I put them on the truck.Looking way better than the old ones. And here are some progress shots.Frame wired and painted with an extra box on the passenger side. "only" have to do the engine and the interior...details and light weathering. More will follow,soon. Thanks for looking, Cheers Chris

Hi Tim, this Truck is really awesome.Great scratchbuilding work on the bed and all the other things. Great Work Regards,Chris

Hi Uwe, Like I ever said this is one of your best builds...I love this one and your second bird,too....Lol we have to photograph our birds on our next meeting.... Great....those enginebay is always a reference for my models.... Cheers,Chris

Hi there, I finished this one just before the 32 Ford.I shaved all the molded emblems etc and added some MCG photoetched parts on it,hubcaps from Modelhaus and some wireing and detailing to the engine.Painted with automotive paint. Thas the picture from a book for reference for my build Thanks for looking, Regards,Chris

Hi there, raeally a lot of great moels here. So here is my picture: Cheers,Chris

Hi there, finally I finished my ´32 Ford.It was a long way with ups and downs.But finally here it is.Frame is one of my CNC milled Z-frames,painted with testors paint.A lot of parts came from the partsbox.The engine is basically wired... You can see more from the building progress here Thanks for looking, Regards,Chris

Hi Bryan, Thanks for the compliments. The milling machine is an CNC machine.I use Coreldraw for the drawings,the controller software is called WinPC-NC Economy and works with Windows XP.I could also use Autocad but I´m not so familiar with the than with Corel. Take a look at My Fotki site or my Homepage to see more of the parts and kits I have made with that machine.Makes a lot of fun working with it...To make the drawings is time expensive but the results are great... Thnaks for your interest, Regards,Chris

I build an steptoolbox for the frame.Parts are again milled out on my machine. Thanks for looking, Regards,Chris

Hi there, while I´m working on my 32ft Flatbed I´ve started or better restarted the building process on my Pete 377.I shortened the wheelbase,added some wide resin rims and wide Italerie trailer tires to the front.I also made an daycab panel on my machine with a window and windowframe.I also want to build a trailer for the truck and a headrack with a short deck.For the trailer I used the plans from my dropframe-platform trailer and rework it for a longer trailer.The beams are splitted into two pieces because of the maximum workspace on my machine from about 39 cm.It worked fine and now I have to do the rest of the crossmembers and all the other parts. I attached some pictures of the daycab-panel and also the trailer with truck. It´s painted with automotive colors,the decals are selfmade and printed out with my alps.The grey parts will be Allclad Aluminium and the frame will be semigloss black.But first I have to wire the frame.... Here are the pictures....