Chad Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 So with the up and coming deployment I wanted to clear my head of its reality so I sank myself into some trucks. I recently picked up an amt dd freightliner, amt peerless logger, rvg alaskan hauler peterbilt( not built like that ), an italeri 48' american reefer and an amt canepa t600( not built like your average canepa either )..... The freightliner is the logger and ill post some pics later The rvg pete is a semi custom using P&P louvered grille,j bracket headlights, turbo wing set, different front wheels, P&P texas bumper, P&P resin stand up sleeper roof, P&P hot rod fenders, P&P RF2 fenders( still need to get them, redesigned for a triaxle truck ), and also resin sleeper skirts, I am thinking about pulling it apart when I get home from deployment and adding a P&P resin long hood, 1 piece breathers and light bars.....ill post some pics later tonight as well. I just need to get some custom stacks built for it( I'm thinking about taking some plastic with me to the desert and designing some 10"ers and sending them, the grille, the headlights and the bumper to be chromed. As for the kw well its now got no side skirts, I added about 2 scale feet to the frame, steps and tanks from the snap tite kw.....ill post some more later as well. Sorry for the long post just wanted to kinda get my ideas out there for you guys to use. Chad
mackinac359 Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Ideas are always good to share - they can inspire others. Tim
Kostas Parchas Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Chad, The Peterbilt project sounds very promising and I can't wait to see your pictures. With all these resin parts from Porky, this model should be very heavy lol. Kostas.
butchey Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Ya go 4 it all good kits but freight shaker cab sucks.doing one now more i work on it more i mess it up.so just going to paint it like it is.
Chad Posted June 24, 2011 Author Posted June 24, 2011 Kostas, the pete is actually quite heavy, especially as a triaxle!, and I'm thinking about adding more resin..... As for the freightliner, I used a little bit of glue at the very bottom of the cab and accelerated it and than worked the cab seam, it came out great! Taking pictures right now. Chad
69A-CAR Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Kostas, the pete is actually quite heavy, especially as a triaxle!, and I'm thinking about adding more resin..... As for the freightliner, I used a little bit of glue at the very bottom of the cab and accelerated it and than worked the cab seam, it came out great! Taking pictures right now. Chad Thanks, that sounds like a good way to handel that one! I have one on that back burner myself. Mark
clayton Posted June 25, 2011 Posted June 25, 2011 Chad can't get into the Photobucket here are a few photos(hope I got the rite ones). With my PC acting up along with the bucket site going to link the photo's.Maybe this will work,have not used it in so long forgot how.
Chad Posted June 25, 2011 Author Posted June 25, 2011 Chad can't get into the Photobucket here are a few photos(hope I got the rite ones). With my PC acting up along with the bucket site going to link the photo's.Maybe this will work,have not used it in so long forgot how. Clayton thanks for the help bud, I'm gonna add the rest tomorrow when my computer gets here. Here's the run down on the freightliner..... Its built far from right out of the box as you can see. The front tires were swapped for a set of italeri road style tires mounted on the stock wheels, the rear drive tires are box stock but the rear drive rims were swapped out for the white 5 hole style from the amt cornflake tandems. The headache rack is right out of the peerless box with the addition of the rotating bubble gum warning lights and a TON of chain because the frame is too short for the chain box that goes in the frame.the side toolbox is an rvg pete stepbox with the step cut off so that it looks more like a toolbox. The fenders are the diamond plate fenders from the snap kw as well as the mirrors..... The front bumper is the front bumper from the pete kit, I am modifying the winter front grille to work on the freightliner right now. The motor is going to be a cat from the snap kw kits with a turbo and all, I'm working on the motor now. As for the trailer well its bone stock with the exception of scratchbuilding a rear warning light bar and brake light bar. I also used evergreen to build a longer scratchbuilt stinger, now the truck and trailer combo is a little over a scale 40' in length.....and all the suspension works on the trailer too its pretty cool!
Chad Posted June 26, 2011 Author Posted June 26, 2011 well guys as promised here are pictures I finally got a working computer LOL... here's the lonestar with the italeri 48' american reefer spread to a 10' spread axle....still in progress on the trailer...this picture shows some chains I added and a set of train horns I built for it. here's the frieghtliner in full view with the extended stinger on the trailer. here's the T600 I have in the works right now, just need a few more things to get it finished....ok alot more...the frame was stretched and I added another set of toolboxes behind the tanks. here's a builtup 378 I got from Eric at P&P and just needed to be put back together....it has Jamie from M'oluminums front wide floats on it... here's the 359 that I've got in the works with both the resin top and the other top....
blue logger Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 hey chad, just lookin at the pics an man the trucks have turned out great lookin..for the fenders on my gold&red 378 Pete i took the crome fenders that come in the RVG pete an used 2 sets an sliced a peice of plastic in the middle 2 get my lenght over the fenders i needed then puddyed them wit Automotive filler ..the trailer looks great behined the lonestar an spreadaxle looks good glad it worked for yea man ..im still waitin on the Pete cause of the mail strike we waz talkin about last time...keep up the great work bro ..brad
Kostas Parchas Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Nice trucks and superb Peterbilts you have there! I like very much the Italeri 48ft trailer hooked on the Lonestar. It is inacurate for 1/24 trucks buck hooked on the Lonestar looks somehow good.... Kostas.
Chad Posted June 27, 2011 Author Posted June 27, 2011 Thanks for the compliments guys I'm really going to miss building for the deployment time. Chad
Chad Posted June 28, 2011 Author Posted June 28, 2011 I leave tonight for 6 months to a place were not allowed to say but quilts are like these lol. I have a cool idea for a working suspension I'm going to do when I get home. Chad
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