Weyerhaeuser Macks in Progress

[Juneau125]

Working on a couple of Macks in Weyerhaeuser livery. DM800 will have a scratchbuilt 100-ton lowbed trailer, cab guarding, etc, and the R-Series is pretty well box stock. Have just the usual details to add to it yet. I also collect alot of 1/25 diecast and these loggers go nicely with the First Gear items such as these IH 560 Pay-Loader log handlers. Weyerhauser actally had a bunch of them in the 70's.

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Edited October 17, 2010 by Juneau125

[cam]

The trucks look great. nice work on the DM-800 the cab and fenders came out really nice, I know how bad the kit fit is as I'm working on one now.

[Juneau125]

The trucks look great. nice work on the DM-800 the cab and fenders came out really nice, I know how bad the kit fit is as I'm working on one now.

Thanks! I'm working on a matched set of 5 DM-800 dump trucks, so this was my trial unit. The kit/fit is dissapointing, to say the least. We got through it OK, and learned alot- that's the main thing. On this one I also went with the big 10' wide Clark planetaries, but stuck with the camelback suspension- call it 'modeler's license' I guess. I have a cab-guard/water tank going, as well as a big trailer/2 D8H's that will live with this one. A ways to go, but getting there slowly. Weyerhaueser used to move 2 D8H's together on the big trailers, I have pics somwhere of that.

They also used KW fuel tanks and battery-boxes on thier R-Series trucks at Longview, so I went that route on the highway logger. Alot of them were just gliders that got whetever was available that day!

[Paul B]

Very nice! I was wondering about the use of the KW parts.

[cam]

They look great, I hope to have some WIP pics to post soon. My DM800 is going to to be a off road heavy haul, Iv'e scratch built a front drive axle, and have it setting on 12x24 off road tires from AITM. Living on the coast of Maine, I get to see a lot of large boats being moved over the road. I would like to build a boat hauling trailer and a jeep for the DM800. It needs a jeep because the frame sits so high.

[chuckyr]

Excellent models.

Assist

[bitner]

Excellent work, I've always thought Weyerhaeuser had some of the best looking fleet trucks. Nothing fancy just down and dirty trucks. I've built two, with more to come in the future.

Cheers:

Bill

[RyanSilva]

Awesome work Eric! Those budds look good too ;P