Jetdriver69

I was going to ask where did you get such a fine scaled model kit? Would have never guessed it was a scratch build. I know your pain with the hours invested doing a one off scratch, but my stuff is no where of your quality. Great job!

Very nice! I know how much work scratch building can involve. Looks like it came out of a box, well done!

I rode on the back of a garbage truck for our local organized crime figure during the summer when I was 15 and 16. Man was that some hard ass work, but the dregs that I worked with could always be talked into buying beer for a teenager. One was based on a Mercedes Benz and the other a big Mack of some sort. What did I know, I was a kid. But I remember the sickening smell of sour milk and crappy diapers. Oh yeah, manual labor!

Just finished this as a birthday gift for the vineyard/winery owner. 1/18 scale Entex kit off of eBay with scratch built trailer. Decals are custom on Testors paper. Case by Specialty Plastics. Painted to match the colors off the wine bottle label on the barrel. Just a few non kit touches. Substituted a wooden door step and added a wood platform and scratch wine cases on the roof.

Thanks! Fills the void of what do you give someone who can literally buy anything for themselves?

Nice work! Did you use Alclad for the chrome pieces?

Very nice! Excellent paint and details. Personal project or a commission piece?

Just finished a scratch built 1925 Model T honey barrel hauler for a friend of mine who has a honey business. Not really an accurate scale depiction but probably around 1/15 to 1/18 scale. It is quite large at 13 inches long. Anyway I modeled the lines after the rat rod below using sheet styrene for the cab, a left over Peterbilt 378 frame, wheels, radiator, engine and part of the frame from a 1/18 scale Muscle machine die cast car and the barrel from the Barrel of Monkeys kids game. I added thin basswood to the barrel to make it look more authentic and poly'ed it 4 coats. The decals are printed on Testor's clear decal paper. The paint/clear was wet sanded down to 12000 grit and polished out.

Thanks! Pretty much everything was leftovers from my two previous truck hot rods. Extra engine, radiator, tires, paint, sheet plastic. Just had to buy the display case and invest the hours. The barrel took some time but a fun build.

Finally finished the pretty much scratch built C Cab hot rod for a rabid Chiefs fan friend of mine. The cab is all sheet styrene with the frame from a left over Pete 378 parts box and the rest from a 1/18 scale Muscle machine die cast toy car. The seat was craved balsa with plastic half rod inserts heavily poly'ed and shot with gloss black. The headers are bent aluminum tube and the fuel tank is 2 Pete 378 air cleaners cut and spliced together. The decals are custom printed off Testor's paper and the large Chiefs decal is a car window sticker. It is pretty big at almost 14 inches with a scale of about 1/15 or so. Not super accurate to any particular scale as I modeled if off the football helmet and ball on the roof and the Lombardi trophy near the front tires. It is so much easier to scratch build a unique truck then trying to replicate a real semi down to the proper hose placement on the engine. The acrylic case is from Cases for Collectibles. A bit pricey, but they can make any size width or height.

In progress with a 1929 C Cab panel truck. Highly modified from the original and in about 1/15 scale so it is quite large. About the only thing that came from a kit was some left over Pete 378 frame from the Revell kit. The rest was scratch built using sheet styrene and parts off a Muscle Machine 1/18 scale die cast car. Decals are custom printed on Testors paper with the white parts left in white gloss primer to let the brightness pop through the decals. I will post some more once I get the engine, fuel tank and radiator installed.

Must have one big case as that bad boy is long... Nicely done!

Nice weathering. Have you built armor before? Just the right amount of rust and wear is an art form.

Started this 1/18 scale 1929 C cab panel truck hot rod a few weeks ago. It will be over 13 inches long when finished and painted in KC Chiefs colors. Use the left over frame from a Peterbilt 378 kit and the rear end section of a 1/18 scale Muscle Machine coupe die cast toy. Also using the Hemi engine, rear and front clip and tires from the Muscle Machine coupe. Eventually I will bend aluminum tube headers for the engine, build a front glass frame and install the roof. The body is completely scratch using sheet styrene and the bench seat is craved from balsa with plastic half round inserts to simulate a tuck and roll. I will coat the balsa with many coats of gloss poly before shooting it gloss black. Anyway, will post more as I work on it.

Very cool, a great start for your project.

Im in the middle of a 1920's C Cab panel truck that is almost all custom. Just using part of the frame from the 378 Pete and some chrome parts from another 1/18 scale Muscle Machine die cast toy. Although not a big rig, would it be kosher to post in progress pictures?

Since I had almost an entire Revell 378 kit left over from my last project (due to my wife's dachshund puppy eating the left cab door), I decided to make a hot rod based on the front cab clip from the 378 but upscaled to 1/18 scale. The cab was chopped, channeled, lowered, sectioned and lengthened. The body work alone took about 3 months of on and off design and fabrication. The truck is a fantasy hot rod team hauler for the FC Dallas pro soccer team, which a friend is part owner. I used parts off a Muscle Machine 57 Chevy and fabricated everything else from sheet styrene. The paint has a gloss white primer coat with multiple coats of team red and blue. I cleared it 4 times, wet sanding between coats. I plan on mounting the model on a piece of railroad grass with a soccer penalty half circle painted on to the grass and topped with an acrylic cover. Anyway, below is some before and after photos.

About as much body work as on a real car...

Finally done with this project. I had to stretch the frame, customize the sleeper roof, build the APU, right side auxiliary step and fire extinguisher holder. Cut out the grill screen and glue in 19 separate louvers, make the chrome trim around the cab and sleeper. Find and install the 4 bugle horns below the left air cleaner, modify the the cab entrance steps, wire the engine and customize the cab interior. Not to mention the hours it took to fit the resin 379 long hood to a Revell 378 kit. It took quite a bit longer than I thought it would. I also made the the base out of trim from Lowes and a piece of white poplar as the base, strained to the same color as the wood floors in the cab. There is an acrylic cover that I had made to protect the whole thing. As this is my first truck model, I'm sure there are plenty of flaws and some parts aren't strictly to scale. But what do you expect for no labor costs, you gets what you pay for. 😁

Although this might not be the best forum for these models, they are trucks. Hopefully it is ok to post these pictures. I completed a line of Marathon Oil (used to be an employee) models a few years back and I forgot they were sitting on a shelf in my son's room. Anyway there are six different models. The first installment will be a Marathon Oil company armored car which I envisioned would protect the oil facilities in Africa. Yeah I had a lot of time on my hands at one time... The model's suspension is from a 1980's 1/24 scale monster truck with the body scratch built from sheet styrene. The plans for the body are from a 1930's Russian armored truck, the BA-64. The gun turret is a trimmed top off of a spray paint can. All the decals are custom printed.

I've seen many vehicles that are in worse shape in Africa, including aircraft.

The last one is an aviation crew transport truck based on a 1930's C cab. This one was my first model so modifications were kept to a minimum. Just a resin blown V8 substituted for the sorry engine that came with the kit.

The fifth truck is an aviation fire truck based on a 1920's fire truck called the Fire Iron. I heavily bodied this truck making it 4 wheel drive, adding a cab over the drivers seat and adding the water tank and fire hoses.

The fourth truck is an aviation maintenance truck based on a 1926 Mack Bulldog. The kit was called the Beer Wagon. I made the wood bed and fence rails, added the aviation parts and tool box and made the trailer with Jet Oil barrel.

The third truck is based on a 1930's fuel truck called the Li'l Gasser. I heavily modified this truck with different engine, metal fenders, gas tank, old time gas pump at the rear and fuel hose.