I was busy for the few days that the site was down....I'm still working away on the Ford/Garwood trash truck, just needed a change of scenery.   In 1976, the Bi-Centennial year, I was 11 years old.  I was building a variety of kits, thanks in part to subscribing to a model of the month club through the mail.  My skills , if you want to call them that, where typical 11 year old.  I've improved some what in the last 50 years...I think???  I remember seeing the first release of this kit and wanting it, but I knew that I did not posses the skills that it would take to build it...may be when I get older.   I got this kit earlier this year, thanks to family at Christmas time.  Thought that I would be deeper into the build than I am, but sometimes life gets in the way.   My goal is to at least have a curbside build by the 4th of July .....I'm not building it as a tractor.....I have other plans for it in mind, so it will be just a truck with no body on it as you might see at a Mack dealership.  This is what the color will look like for the most part...some of the chrome pieces will be painted as there seemed to be an excessive amount in this kit.   Got some of the sub assemblies put together....every thing pictured will be Blue.  Got some more sub assemblies to put together as I am going to airbrush all of the exterior Blue assembled and attached to the frame sub assemblies, then the Red grill, hood and cab areas      

Just wanted to say thanks to who ever fixed the issue and got the site back up and running again....

Thanks Gary 

That’s a great looking build, love the tire/wheel choices, adds to the timely look of the truck. 

Sweet looking 

Gary thanks for sharing looks good over here. 

After about 10 years I finally got the Rig off the bench. I added many custom parts to the truck and swapped the wheels on the trailer for some 6 hole steelies. The front 5 hole Alcoas I made from Don Mills and adding the AMT snap ring to it. Truck and Trailer decals were made by “ Goochie” many years ago. 

Gary. Glad to see you post it here. I say  again very nice build. 

Thanks so much for checking in. I’ve been working on it here and there the past few months, doing more body work, mostly fixing small blemishes. In between, I built a Volvo VN 670, which I’ll post here soon. It gets a little tedious just doing body prep on a scratchbuilding project, so it’s nice to do a “quicker” kit project to break it up. I’ve done at least two more rounds of filling/sanding/primer on the stacker since the last post. I’m hoping that I’m nearing the end of the prep process and I can start paint soon. I’ll do an update when I’m ready for paint. Thanks again.

Any progress on this build?