B.R.B.O. Entry 84" CLASSIC XL TOP CHOP

[purepmd]

First off, I want to wish all my fellow entrants the best of luck. May the Styrene Gods smile on us all.

Second, there are some terrific ideas thrown in the ring. I cannot wait to see where all these builds go.

For my entry, I am going with the Italeri FLD120, and some resin that is in need of some serious reworking, to make something along these lines. This is the truck that is my inspiration. I will post pictures of the building blocks this weekend. I need to find my memory card. If you could see my work bench, you would understand. Here is the picture that set my course.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w491/mbotzki/image_zpspgnb4h0f.jpeg

Not crazy about the graphics, but the black is here to stay. Will work up a different set of graphics for go round.

Edited January 5, 2016 by purepmd

[jacobus]

lookin forward mark how it go,s

jacobus 

[Old Buckaroo]

Mark - It is Great to see you

Wow   -  your going to have to place a protective wrap over your work table as not to scratch the bottom of this build up !

[Tesla]

Nice model subject Mark! Can't wait to see this progress.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Cool Project! Looking forward to seeing more!

[gatorincebu]

 

   Cool inspiration truck ! And  now Clayton has some direct Custom truck competition !! lol Looking forward to watching this build.

 

 

   Be Well

    Gator

[gino]

lookin forward to this !

[Petetrucker07]

Dammit boy, guess great minds think alike, LOL. This will be a nice build. Lookin forward to seeing this come together.

[Mopar - D]

This is going to be a cool build. 

[Olskoolrodder]

This will be sweet!!!

 

[Pavel A.]

Very interesant, Mark.... I will follow.

[rctruk]

That is a sleek truck. Quite a project.

[bandit1]

I'm hooked... not on freightshaker stuff but Pete myself...lol

[tbill]

i like it! might better engineer some skid plates on this one

[Canso65]

That is a very cool looking truck. Can't wait to see more.

 

Rob

[purepmd]

Here are a couple of pictures of what I have managed to bet done so far. I got a bunch of Freightliner resin parts off of ebay a few years ago. They were pretty rough, and I never intended to use them. Along comes the B.R.B.O, and I finally have a use for some of them. In the side by side pic, you can see the before and after, so to speak. Just about everything was wrong, the grille height, the taper of the hood, the fenders, the blister on the top, and headlights. I also found out, that used fabric softener dryer sheets make great matting to reinforce super glue just like the matting used for fiberglass. Makes it very strong. With lots of sheet styrene, super glue and mat, and sand paper galore, these are the changes so far.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my pics, and thanks to Clayton for getting this going, it has been a lot of fun already.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 11, 2016 by purepmd

[gino]

very nice !  looks great !

[Petetrucker07]

Nice work man. 

No thanks needed. It's really cool to see the diversity of the projects and basically bring us all together on a project, from around the world.

[Superpeterbilt]

Nice work

[Olskoolrodder]

WOW

[Muncie]

wow! - nice save and a big improvement from the original part - it really looks like an FLD Classic hood

[Canso65]

Nice work Mark.

I second the thanks to Clayton for getting this build going. I've had a lot of fun with it.

[kilrathy10]

Oh, I like this idea.....She's a beauty.....

[SpreadAxle]

You put a lot of work into that hood and it came out looking nice.

[purepmd]

Just doing the monthly post. Have made some progress on the cab/sleeper unit, and hope to have some pictures to post next weekend.

Edited March 7, 2016 by purepmd