March 09 Gallery

            Transtar56

  Revell Pete 359 and modified Revell gravel trailer.     Paul Bernard

                    Tim Ahlborn

    This was an e-bay rebuild.  Truck was in very poor shape when I got it and to completely redo whole truck, added some griffen design fenders, scratch built a correct western star battery box, pulled a new heritage sleeper, all chrome pieces and other parts out of the parts box, scratch built a bumper, added kfs marker light kit to it, put bare metal foil on trim, the truck had so much glue on it, I had to grind a lot of the glue off with a dremel tool in places, anyway I am working on a trailer for it.      Allen Smith

          Don Parrish

                      International Emeryville, totally scratch built.  White 9000 I custom built for my friend Lou, I scratch built the cab, hood, fenders, battery box, quarter fenders, radiator, and mudflaps. It sets on a AMT autocar chassis.     Gary Akers

            "Duel"  I used an old AMT Pete 359, with a resin 351 conversion from Griffen Designs. Trailer was modified from an IMC Milk tanker.     Mark Appleyard - England UK

        Plaskit resin front wheels and tires, plus 6 spoke rear wheels, modified and relocated fuel tanks, Revell exhaust stacks and computer generated mud flap and license plates.     Claude Boulais

                            U.S. Army M916A1 6x6 tractor and a M870A1 lowbed trailer, together called a Light Equipment Transporter.  It is 1:24 scale, based on an Italeri Freightliner FLD120, the trailer is 100% scratch built.     Rolf Mulder

           Sam Poston

                 Mario St-Cyr - Quebec

               Mario Beland mostly builds scratch built fire apparatus related models.      From Quebec

       Mack LT with pup trailer, loaded with California red wood.     Dave Natale

       Autocar dumptruck     Dave Natale

      Blue Cruiseliner.     Kenny Garcia

            Just completed a heavy equipment tag along trailer, it is my first scratch built project. The only bought items are tires, wheels, suspension and detail item such as lights, slam locks and chain.  Took 3 weeks.     Chuck Paterka

                                     These 2 trucks are the 1st that I have ever built from scratch, more or less, here are pics of a 700 mack that I got from A.I.T.M. the western star twin steer I got from spaulding about 4 yrs ago, the twin steer is owned by my own co decals on it.     Pete

            The truck has a resin KTA 600 engine, has scratch built exhaust, bumpers front and rear, with lights in the rear, has resin rear fenders, scratch built day cab conversion, scratch built tanks, filled holes for horns, lights, and door handles, scratch built visors over headlights, fills the frame from the cab to the rear, and added hub caps. Painted with Testors one coat lacquers, fiery orange.     Jim Brown

                       KW k123 converted to single drive day cab, scratch built air start tank, later model door handles custom built grab bars, scratch built license plate holders, cut down front bumper, scratch built mud flaps, trailers are the reissued doubles, one has been converted to the round dolly legs, with bar doors on the rear, and the other is basically stock, both have had the wheels moved rearward a bit, with custom mudflap hangers and mudflaps added. I also did some scratch building on the dolly adding the legs to prevent it from kicking up, this is something that P.I.E. did on many of their dolly's.