Diamond Reo

[Semi Trailer Mechanic]

What's goin' on...

Still a work in progress...

Thanks for looking!!!

[Brizio]

Looks good!!!

[maxwell48098]

Scott,

That really looks good so far.

Thanks,

A.J.

[Steelgears13]

Sweet looking truck! Keep up the good work!

[mackinac359]

A true-to-the-look 70's truck.

Tim

[disabled modeler]

Nice truck!!!!! i love the older trucks! one of the things ive always love about the old reo kit was the sunburst side panels on the sleeper.....very nice job! nice old workhorse. mark

[studioman3]

Looks good Scott, I've always wanted to do a Reo.

Tim

[Old Albion]

Scott,

Very Nice! Where did you get the wheels from? Are the kit ones spokes? I have an original AMT kit somewhere stashed away in my pile of kits to build and cannot remember what wheels were with it.

Great work!

Dave

[Semi Trailer Mechanic]

What's goin' on...

Hey fellas here lately my on line time has been limited and what little time I've been on line I haven't followed the forums too much.

Here's a little background on this project.

From the get go this was supposed to be a quick project between projects. Simply take a Diamond Reo cab that's been in the parts box for a few years recon it swap out an Autocar cab w/ this (on the Autocar chassis). This was intended to be a day cab for a bottom dump trailer. Easier said than done. Nothing on the Autocar's chassis came apart w/out breaking. So it went from a quick weekend project to a not so quick project that began back in September and is about 85%completete.

Frame rails are the extras found in the Paystar mixer kit. The suspension front and rear are from the Autocar dump truck. Battery/Tool boxes are scratch built. The drive shaft,yokes,carrier bearing all are scratch built. The engine is an AMT Cummins Big Cam and the trans is detailed like a Fuller 10 speed both from the parts box unbuilt pieces from god knows how many kits. The fuel tank mounts are those found in the K100 kit. Quarter fenders arscratch builtlt from a spray can cap (Tamiya Bare Metal Silver). The rims are those found in the Paystar kits highly modified. I used .060 rivets colored w/ a silveSharpepe marker to look like old acorlug nutut covers. On the steering axle I used .025 rivets to look like hub cap bolts. (at 25th scale the hex on a 1:1 5/16 bolt isn't going to be that obvious! The air tanks/mounts and u bolts arscratch builtlt. On the fifth wheel assembly I used angle styrene for the fifth wheel mounting flanges and added scale bolts. The mirrors arscratch builtlt. On the bumper scale rivets were added to look like bumper bolts. The seats too were from the parts box w/ black flocking. On the shifter (from the Revell snap tite 359) I used fine nylon wire to replicate the air lines going from the high/low range on the trans and the tires are the 10.00.20's from the parts box as well. I must have spent at least 20 mins sanding each one to look like they had road wear. The bunk is from the White Western Star kit modified. When I startemodifyingng it I was doing it for the hell of it. Even though the interior can't be seen now I wish I had detailed it to be mid 1970's period correct.

That's about it.

Here's a set of photos taken from the beginning of this project to-date.

Thanks for looking...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9495602@N02/s...57622276811406/

Scott <DIV><STRONG>

[Semi Trailer Mechanic]

What's goin' on...

So much for the spell check working!!!

[SpreadAxle]

This is a cool truck.