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Looking good.

Thanks for sharing Earl. It is nice to see a set on a truck. Maybe I will get something built of my own to throw them on one day.

Welcome to the site guys. If you have any suggestions to improve the place, please let me know.

Very nice. Nice weathering.

Looking good. I love that color.

Who am I and why have I created MTB.com? I guess the first thing you need to know is that I am not a skilled writer/blogger so please forgive me if what follows is a bit clumsy. Second, I am not an expert model builder. In fact, over the past 20 years, I have only completed two model trucks but I have just recently started two new builds. Third, I am not a truck expert but I am a huge truck fan. My uncle is an owner operator and from an early age until I joined the Air Force at age 18, I spent every moment I could on the road with him or at the garage helping him work on his trucks. He has owned many makes; Mack, GMC, International, Autocar, Ford, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth, and multiple models of most of those makes. I was bit early and I have never lost my love for trucks. I picked up some truck knowledge along the way but that knowledge is fairly limited. I know enough to sound smart to the complete novice and little enough to sound stupid to the experts, so I will spend a lot of time in the "Tips, Tricks and Help" forum. Early in my career, I learned that models do not fair well during military moves and thus, I decided to save model building for a later date. However, thanks to the internet, I have been able to keep up with hobby and with the works of builders like Kuenn McClinton and Tim Ahlborn, I remain inspired to built my own model truck fleet. I completed what is likely my last cross-country move earlier this year and now it's time to get started! I obviously don't need to operate a truck modeling website to build my fleet but having picked up some webmaster skills during my 8 years running C-130Hercules.net, I thought I would try to build a site for the model truck community. A site where builders can have their own photo album(s) to display their work, find reference photos, chronicle their builds (blog), download kit instructions, share their WIPs, get feedback on their completed builds, and get tips, help and more. Wish me luck! Thank you for stopping by, please join and contribute to the community, and let me know if there is anything I can do to improve your MTB experience. --Casey

Thanks! I haven't worked on it in a while but plan to get back after it soon.

That is awesome. I look forward to following its progress.

Instructions 3.pdf

Another one to follow. That will be a neat build. What is the purpose of the pipe in front of the rear tires in the image of #69?

Looking good. Can you share some detail pics of the lift axel?

Done! They now fit snug on the ROG Peterbilt wheels and tires so I am happy. Light sanding and possibly a little (very little filler) will be need but I think that is almost impossible to avoid.

I appreciate the kind words. Unfortunately, as I began to tinker with them I discovered that they were about 1/10th of an inch to wide. I have reworked them and I have poured the first half of the mold. I hope the this attempt turns out as well as the previous one.

The mold was cured today and I was finally able to cast my fenders. There are very few bubbles and they have all been on the underside. They will require a little sanding and possibly a little filler. I think they turned out pretty damn good!

I added the center portion of the fender a couple of days ago and I have poured half of the mold for the fender. Waiting for it to cure so I can make the second half. Wish me luck!

As I mentioned in my previous post I decided to build a new fender to resin cast. I thought it would be easier to build one side (center), resin cast it to make the other side and then add the center. This was my first attempt at resin casting but after several failed attempts (left) at both making the mold and casting the part, I think I finally have results that I can work with (right). I just had a couple of small air bubbles that can be easily filled.

I thought I had replied to this but looks like I didn't. On the one above I just used flat sheet styrene and beveled the corner. However, I wanted to round the corners more and thus decided to build a new one to resin cast.

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Italeri 377 AE Instructions.pdf View full record

Any updates on this one?

At $177 plus a donor, plus extras...I can see why.

Impressive looking conversion. I look forward to seeing what you do with it. --Casey