vincen47

Thanks! Yes, the trans was sourced from a Lonestar, along with the 11-bladed fan. It’ll find a home in the next RV conversion, built on a Pete 379.

Exactly. Just like with real trucks, I enjoy hearing the story behind why something looks, or could look, the way it does. Every dent, scrape, or odd part adds history and life. Makes builds unique.

Great job with this one, as expected. It has that elusive balance of looking realistically used, but not overdone. I like the fact that it has the holes in the bumper for the fog lamps, but being a no-frills fleet truck, they left them out.

Nice. I don’t have any flats, looking forward to the Moebius release. Your build is a huge improvement over the original AMT kit.

Thanks again, everybody. I’m about to start another conversion, it’ll be fun.

Hi Jeff, hope you enjoy the forum.

I’d love to see the engine, take more pics when you get it home.

Wow you’re a lucky guy! What a cool truck.

That boat is huge!

Nice looking wrecker

I took a couple pictures when I was putting the straps together

Glad you like it. The tie-downs were one of the most tedious parts of the build, but they are cool. But, I can’t take full credit for those, they are from Czech Truck Model. CTM offers them in orange and yellow, and the photo etched ratchet goes together well, except the tiny styrene rods for the ratchet crossmembers supplied are too large to fit through the side holes, but you could just cut them to width and glue. I instead used smaller diameter rod and fit them through the holes. Minor issue. The strap material is easily wrapped around the parts and secured in place with a bit of CA. I placed tiny magnets on the ends and hidden underneath the car to make them removable to switch out the load in case I’m ever not in a Plymouth kind of mood.

Thanks everyone!

Excellent work, that’s a mean looking truck. The subtle weathering looks great, especially the road grime spraying up and back towards the sleeper.

Beautiful model, nice craftsmanship.

Welcome back

That’s something you don’t see often, indeed.

That’s a neat build.

Here’s a 359 I built about 18 months ago, but never posted here. Representing a modern day version of a truck that is still serving it’s owner well after all the years. I posted it on the MCM forum, so some of you may have seen it already. It was an enjoyable build, and my second venture into weathering, which I now find to be much easier to build than a showroom clean model - it’s harder to screw it up, mistakes can be disguised. Thanks for checking it out.

They are all great builds, but if I had to rank them, I’d put the Freightliner and tanker at the top. That one really catches the eye. The Pete looks nice with the auto carrier. Of course, the Charmin rig really captures the era and circumstances during which it was built. That one will serve as a representative time piece and conversation starter for years to come.

Thanks guys! The missing/chipped hood paint is the plain white portion of a leftover decal, torn up. Simple and effective.

That’s coming together nicely. The finish looks great, it has a very period-correct sheen to it.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, I’m glad you like the build. Here’s a few WIP shots.

This will be another good one.

Well, that explains it. A properly modified/factory equipped truck, it was not. Thanks for the info, I was really wondering about this one.