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Sweeeeett! :jump:

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Love those nice curves on cab, amazing skills to make that out of a sheet!
Dan

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that truck is to old for Alcoa's I love it!!!!!

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Thanks a lot Dan!

Haha, well we'll have to see. I don't really like the stock wheels but I do like the chrome.

I have been working on this for an hour or so in the evening the last couple of days. I made some headlight bezels but I did them freehand so they aren't totally identical. It's hard to tell so I will call it good enough. I made my own lenses too but gave up trying to get a domed shape. I'm not in love with having flat, perfetly clear lenses but the size is odd so what's a guy to do. I also added grab handles to the cab. Tonight I started making the rad guard. I used sheet copper and made up my own angle pieces and then milled them all to the same size. I've never soldered this type of stuff before but it went OK. I wish I had a smaller torch though...

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Like always, amazing job Reg, keep the pics coming!

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Thanks a lot Brian.

Working with this small stuff is SO much easier using copper rather than aluminum:eek:! It still takes some patience but solder is way more forgiving. Anyway, I was in the shop at 6:30am today so that I could work on this before I started on customer stuff. I think the guard turned out looking good and I am looking forward to using the copper sheet again when I do the shutters.:D

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I would almost pay to watch you work, truely great stuff

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I'm with Joe, second to none Reg. Amaising!

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Thanks very much guys. I think it would be pretty boring watching me work... Unless you like colorful language!

I couldn't resist taking these shots before this box got packaged up. I still don't know what direction I am heading with this truck but this does look pretty fine!:cool:

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Nothing wrong with another dump truck.:D
I like the water tank in the dump box idea. A detachable tailgate, drop in water tank self contained with pump and spray jets. Just drop in, plug in and play.:)
And better yet, if you build a pond in the compound, you could draw water into the tank RC style! :D

All kidding aside, that truck would look great as a dump truck but I can see this becoming the 1/14th scale version in honour of your 850 complete with a scratch reg built lowboy behind it.:D. Or maybe a end dump trailer?:rolleyes:

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Hey reg, if you want to bend the light lenses, if they are plastic,,, find or make a dome, ball bearing, ect the shape you want, metal, glass, marble, something that will take heat, put them in the oven for a bit. Place them in cold oven take up to temp until they lay down. Doesn't matter how fast the cool just how fast they heat up, sometimes plastics boil, internal air bubbles if heated too fast. I've made a few contoured windshields that way. Usually using acrilic or plexi, but plastics heat form easily.

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That truck reminds me of the old HO scale Ulrich truck my dad had on his rr when I was a kid , I drove it every where . It's a great truck . Mike

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Very Niceeeeee truck great job

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Great build Reg. Shinny parts look right on that truck, will make a nice update rebuild of a old KW.....


Wayne...

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Yes it almost seems like a dump truck would be the most practical but I already have three. I really like building them though and they are all a little different looking:thinking: I don't think an end dump trailer would be much good given the steepness of the terrain on my roads but I did kinda wanna keep the one I built for Alex and I could build a water tanker as well if I keep a fifth wheel on the truck. Too many options....

Thanks RW, I will have to try that. I made a piece of aluminum with the curve I wanted but using a heat gun just curled the edges even when heating it inside a tube. After trying that I just gave up for now. I was thinking about the oven but was worried about it stinking up the house. I guess I should have taken that lightly used toaster oven I was offered a month ago and put it in my shop....

Sounds like that was fun!

Thank you sir!

Thanks Wayne. We'll see where it goes but I like them right now.

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That's looking incredible as always reg. It reminds of a truck I seen with a crane that had a clam shell bucket on it.:bounce::D

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You might have found lenses already, if not, I remember that PLASTRUCT had some in different sizes. Couldn't find part no on their homepage.
/Dan

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I checked out their catalog Dan. Wow! What a ton of stuff. I didn't find what I was looking for but I did find a bunch of stuff I didn't know I needed.lol Kinda like shopping at Costco. You go with a list but come out with $200 worth of different stuff.haha!

I spent more hours of the day today working on my shutters than I'd like to admit. What a pain and they aren't even done yet! Oh well, at least they are in their positions. Now just to get them working...

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Thanks for looking.

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its a shame your going to paint the truck!! aluminum and brass look real nice polished

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I may not paint it for a while. I would like to take to a few shows in raw state. Everyone assumes that all trucks are plastic bodied and I would like them to see that most of mine aren't without having to tell them. It will most likely see paint eventually though as I don't have the energy to polish it after every time I touch it.lol I see old pictures of my KW850 and Hayes HD right before they were stripped down for paint and I always think about how cool they looked raw(especially the 850 since it really was all aluminum). I had a vision for both of those trucks though so they needed to be painted in their "company" colors to be full on tributes. "Scrappy" is just a hoarder's special so it can be whatever I want.:)