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why do you guys build model trucks?My interest in truck modeling started from being in a trucking family,watching my dad build them when I was real young.I started building cars,got my first truck model (a diamond reo) at age 11.Stoped building as teen ager.Picked it back up with cars.Got back into the trucks again when they reissued the reo again in the late ninety's,other than a few cars its been exclusively the big rigs.

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Nice! I just made a flat panel for mine- since I planned on using a headache rack all along, it wouldn't have been worth the effort for me to make it look realistic, or buy an aftermarket one.

Yet another nice build.

Very nice

I definitely prefer the black frame for that truck. Nice Job.

Very nice. The headache rack looks real good.

I like the paint/striping color choices. Where did you pick-up the Cummins logos?

I'll ad to the above comments about versatility.You can build a truck pretty much as you like.Different engines, colour ,wheels, seats, wheelbase, what ever.You can only build a stock 85 mustang a few ways and keep it correct

I build a variety of model types- everything from HO scale buildings to RMS Titanic. But my favorite thing about the big truck kits is variation. There aren't too many other genres you can build in so many ways. Take the AMT Diamond REO. Right out of the box it makes a decent day cab or sleeper tractor. Or you can modify the hood (or get the hood from GW Trucks) and do it with a set back front axle. You could make up the steel butterfly hood and pit fenders for it. Or rework the existing grille to the earlier style... or even built it as a Diamond T or REO. You can leave it a tractor, or put a wrecker body on it. Or a cement mixer. Or a dump box... That's just one example, but you see what I mean. You can name pretty much any one truck kit out there, and then go on to come up with at least 20 or 30 different ways you could build it.