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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.