To all, Hello and hope everyone is well. I have two AMT KW Conventional kits both bought within the last year. One purchased last May is the Alaskan Hauler, and the other is the W900 Challenge mixer. I know of the traditional issues involving the windows, and the rear suspension so that being said if anyone has built either, or both I could use pictures for reference on both of these kits. For the Alaskan I have already removed the left side air cleaner port, and filled in the holes for the left side exhaust stack. Have assembled the butterfly hood. Obviously I am going with the Hill & Hill livery. Just have to score the Green paint, and the Red paint. As far as the Challenge mixer goes I am unsure if I am building it as the mixer, or as an over the road tractor. If I go the tractor route I do have all the parts for a Mercury sleeper box. These in addition to the two AMT CO4070A's, and the Peterbilt 359 California Hauler in the stash should keep me busy. For a while. The true test is to avoid going on websites, or into Hobby Shops and picking anymore kits that I have no time to build. LOL. Thank you for looking. Kind regards, Jersee Jerry 55

That’s a fantastic build, well done

Sharp looking truck, like the single axle flat bed. 

That looks really good, well done. 

Another build from early this year. Mostly box stock except for the log bunks and some engine details. The engine is reman gray, I can't stand the gold lol  

Finished this one early this year. I started with the Revell/Monogram snapper. Shortened the frame and scratchbuilt a bed.  

Thanks Gary...wish I had more time in the hobby room to devote to this project, but it is what it is.  I think I might have enough for another update post soon

...Impressive build.  I've got a wrecker in the pipe line, getting all the parts and pieces rounded up.  Bought an early 60's I.H DCO 405 Emeryville resin cab before the prices went insanely high from Spaulding trading a couple of years ago, Picked up a 3-D print Holmes 750 minus body a year or so ago and picked up a derelict Transtar cab over for $20.00 at a model show a couple years ago that will donate its chassis....building a 1:1 wrecker that I remember as a kid growing up. 

Another beautiful wrecker build!

Sometime back in the early 1980's I started to build a Holmes 1801. Nobody knew then that the 1801 was not going to sell well due to cost and how much it weighed. You could buy three 750's for the cost of an 1801, I read. I believe only 11 or 12 1801's were actually sold. I usually begin a build with the wrecker unit itself before moving on to the wrecker body, then building the truck chassis to fit the already done wrecker/body combination. I never finished the build when I lost interest so put all my completed work into a box and put it on a shelf...then into a closet...then into my backyard shed where I store my stash...of models, nothing else! Anyway, I went out to that shed and started rummaging through things last fall and found a box which I opened there it was patiently waiting on me to get off my...butt and decided this needs to be finished. I was looking to use some super singles I had crafted from those plastic Italeri tires. Here in my rural neck of the woods farmers are always getting their equipment stuck in their fields and calling a local wrecker company to pull them out. The company kept an old 750 around for that purpose because it was light and didn't sink too badly into a wet field. My pea brain thought maybe my fantasy wrecker company could do better so since I had that half-done 1801, a resin KW C500 hood laying around, and a KW kit also not doing anything I ordered me a front drive axle from STS Supply and got to work. I also read this..."if you think a 750 pulls hard, you should see an 1801 at work". I decided a 6 by 6 Holmes 1801 equipped wrecker on flotation tires would be just the ticket for a wet farm field. I say it's an 1801/kinda because I chose not to use the sheaves that would allow the wrecker to make 90 degree pulls off the mast. The 1801 did use a mast similar to the Holmes 750 and since I can build a 750 mast blindfolded that was easy. I made a few mistakes doing this only because I didn't research eras correctly but I will own up to them. I modified the doors of the cab to resmble more modern cabs but that modification would not have been available with that C500 hood. Also, since I am a dyed in the wool fan of those 8V92 Detroits I scarfed one from another kit, which also is wrong on this build for several reasons...but as they say "it's my build".