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Fat Brian

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  1. If you're not committed to the Aerodyne sleeper I'd make it worth your while to trade me for the more modern one.
  2. I'd take another General, the one I've got is the warpy 90s reissue.
  3. The top torsion bar is molded into the chassis pan on the new 68 Beetle kit so it kind of limits how low you can go with the stock pieces. To get really low the easiest thing to do will be to cut the wheel mounting pins off the kit spindles and make new spindles where you can reattach the mounting pins higher up. The rear is pretty much the same, the piece that is the rear torsion bar and swing arms mounts solidly to the chassis plate with no real way to lower it other than cutting the wheel mounting pins off and relocating them. It's not as bad as it sounds, I did the same thing to raise a beetle I'm working on.
  4. Which version of the T600 did you get?
  5. From what I could tell that's the truck kit they had the most of. I want a few more myself if they stick around until next week. The IH kits have the best modern ringless 10 holes AMT offered.
  6. I was there at lunch today, the stack looked pretty fresh.
  7. The Ollie's in Mattews NC has the Kenworth and IH trucks, the chrome Texaco tanker, the 72 GTO, Der Beetle bus, a few 05 300C's, a couple different modern Corvettes, and a snap MPC 49 Merc police car along with a few odds and ends still left over from other sales.
  8. It's a Cat diesel but it's a bit big for a pickup.
  9. That is the first release of that kit, there is a second release that has a flat top sleeper with a great big fairing on top. I have the second version, it's very similar to the W900 and K100 kits and shares most of the same chassis parts. I'm pretty certain it has the twin turbo Cummins motor. I'd love to have that Aerodyne roof.
  10. The Freightliner FLD is also a 90s to early 2000s truck.
  11. Revell offers two snap tite trucks that are very good kits despite their simplified nature. Unfortunately both of these kits are too modern to be a donor for your truck. Personally I would use the AMT Diamond Reo or Autocar kits as a donor, these are closer to the year of your truck and have a suspension closer to what would be used on a logging truck at that time.
  12. Here is the main panel of the instructions for the rear suspension of the Super Boss. The kit had the cranks on the outside of the frame toward the rear so you'll have to swap them to the inside and sand off the mounting tab. The axle is also round so finding a match for it with a power divider will be tough. Overall it looks pretty simple to do the conversion, you'll just need a spare set of matching axles or at least a leftover power divider and a driveshaft for the rear axle.
  13. Does it have the painted windows like the SS kit? That is a huge bonus that will get me to pick up this issue even though I've got one of the last issues already.
  14. I've been thinking about doing the very same thing so this thread has been very helpful to me. I bought several kits for the engines and was wondering if it was possible to replicate the tandem torsion bar setup. Thanks for the info.
  15. I noticed the same thing with Squadron white, the most recent batch is too wet and dries much harder that it used too. I tried mixing the tube with a bamboo skewer but it didn't get much better.
  16. I was looking at getting the SMH body, what exactly is wrong with it?
  17. As much as I would love an obscure old Dodge or International I have to agree with Mike that the most bang for their tooling buck would be a 67-72 Chevy kit. It's an incredibly popular body style and the current kit is dated and surprisingly hard to find given said popularity.
  18. As a relative youngster around here I had never worked on a truly old original issue kit until fairly recently so I had no idea how bad modern plastic is but man, the difference is incredible.
  19. I've seen this truck running around for a while and finally found it sitting to snap some pics. It's a Ford Louisville cab that's been narrowed to a single seater. This truck is used to haul telephone poles offroad for installation, you just stack them up on either or both sides of the cab and offload them with the crane. The cab has a rear exit door so you can block both sides if you want.
  20. I can count on one hand the number of builds I've finished without having to strip something, it's one of the reasons I buy two of almost everything now. On the L9000 truck l did I couldn't even get a flat black paint job to turn out right, in my younger days I'd have taken it out back and set it on fire. Sometimes you've just got to wait on your mojo to come back. I usually go play a video game or try to figure out the guitar for the 500th time and come back to it with fresh eyes. I try to plan my projects more carefully too to make sure I have enough steam to finish them.
  21. Yeah, I guess that normal does belong in quotation marks doesn't it.
  22. Take the money and hire a hit man, totally worth it.
  23. Nope, that's the earliest version of Bigfoot 5. When Bigfoots 1 through 4 ran the 10 foot tires they rode between them and looked like a giant roller skate. Here's a picture of 1 on the 10 footers with 4 on normal tires and then a pic of 4 on the 10 footers.
  24. The land train is where the tires for Bigdoot 5 came from.
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