Ack! Ack-ack! Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 This is one of my early conversions. I built it still without the www only with a limited number of pictures from books, therefore I think the model is more than 15 years old. I used at least three different kits from AMT, Revell and Italeri and many parts of my spares box. The dump box is scratch built.
WolfmanJedd Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 Oh man, that's one nice looking dump truck! Awesome fabrication work!
DRIPTROIT 71 Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 It looks Awesome!! The color is perfect!! Excellent work on the bed too!! Top notch all around!!! Were did you get the drive tires?
Warren D Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 That's sweet! I saw a Mack B81X with a similar dump body several years ago. Great job
Rick315-8 Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 Beautiful beautiful job !! you captured the look perfectly of a typical heavy mine/quarry/off road truck....great job on the dump body...love the tire and wheel combo you have chosen for it.
Ack! Ack-ack! Posted January 7, 2018 Author Posted January 7, 2018 Thank you all for your replies, much appreciated! On 6.1.2018 at 12:53 AM, DRIPTROIT 71 said: It looks Awesome!! The color is perfect!! Excellent work on the bed too!! Top notch all around!!! Were did you get the drive tires? When I built the model some older Italeri truck kits still had styrene tires. My rear tires came from one of these old kits. I "regrooved" them to replicate off-road treads.
mikemodeler Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 Absolutely beautiful and great scratch building that dump body! Love it, that must be the picture of it before it showed up for work! LOL
disabled modeler Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Stunning..! I love the tires they are perfect for it.
extmcdriver Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Excellent work, looks ready to head to the quarry right now.
Leonidas Posted January 11, 2018 Posted January 11, 2018 Wow, what a beautiful old dump truck! Great work.
Chariots of Fire Posted February 12, 2018 Posted February 12, 2018 What they all said! Pretty nice! Color is outstanding and the execution of the build is first class.
stavanzer Posted February 13, 2018 Posted February 13, 2018 Just a Great Build! Leaves me speechless.
BlackDragon Posted February 16, 2018 Posted February 16, 2018 Fantastic work Thomas! Cool Idea to regroove these tyres from Italeri.
Casey429 Posted February 23, 2018 Posted February 23, 2018 Sharp rig! It reinforces the want I have to build a 353.
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