King Hauler Long Pete-Style

[kaipi0070]

Hey all,
in this thread I want to show you my second tractor. It´s a King Hauler, built with some left over parts.
First of all, I extendedthe frame by one tank-length.
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This was just right to extend the sleeper by just cutting away the rear on one and the front on the other one!
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After the sleeper was glued together and finished, I started to paint the whole cabin. First I liked the blue, but I´a m thinking about a different paint-scheme. I got some good Ideas here, let´s see!
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The most important change on the boby was cutting away the original Tamiya frontlights and closing them with some plastic.
I replaced them with some frontlights from the Wedico Pete 359.
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Then I built some mirror-holders by myself. Used some thin brass.tube, fatened at the ends, so I could drill the holes for the screws. The mirrors themselves are the original Tamiya ones.
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[Tamiya Cowboy]

Great looking Job you have done.. Any plans for for more details.

[dsm4g63punk]

Nice job on your mirror-holders.

[Brian in PA]

Cool build! What are you using for mirrors?

[CustomClod]

Looks good stretched out and painted. Nice work
Scott

[SWAGGER]

Is it just me, or do I spy a line of TINY little LEDs along the top of the sleeper? Nice and neat.

[sneaky-pete]

Nice truck.....it looks great stretched out!

[Espeefan]

I think the paint looks good. I was going ask about the LEDs on the sleeper too. There are quite a few of them! The mirror mounts look good too. I've got to try something like for my own trucks. It makes a huge difference!

[kaipi0070]

You´re right, theres some LED´s along the sleeper. Add some power and they look like this:
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Together with the headlights:
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[CustomClod]

Sweet. Lights and truck look great. Nice work
Scott

[Diesel Demond]

that is one great looking truck!

[SWAGGER]

Now that is really looking great kaipi, nice work! Looks fantastic finished and lit up.

[FabOne]

Looks GREAT! I didn't catch the mirrors until someone mentioned it. And the lights are AWESOME1

-Terry

[kaipi0070]

The Truck is in pieces again. I will do a new paintscheme, before that correct some small scratches in the body. Pics will follow!

[Radiowave Trucking]

The truck and all the lights look really good!!

[kaipi0070]

All right, started to repaint the Tractor. The red stripes will follow in a few days!!
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[glorydays24]

Scott, you're really doing a fantastic job.:D I love the mirror brackets, what size of tubing did you use? This is going to be a beauty.;):):cool:

Big John

[SWAGGER]

That will be a popular paint scheme on here! Very neat work!

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Yep!! I like it great looking truck and all the lights very nice touch..

[kaipi0070]

Just got back from the cellar after the 3rd paint-session! Now some small corrections, probably some decals and then clear-cote and I´am done with painting:):)!!
What do you think???
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[kaipi0070]

Well, clear-cote is applied and the truck looks very good with some chrome-parts on it:):)!!
Now I will do all the re-wirging for the lights and change some LED´s. I will also change the rear-fenders, don´t like `em anymore. Will look for some polished single-fenders, they will look much better!
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[petermoblin]

Looks really good. There used to be a really great thread on how to construct your own Half radius fenders. Not sure it made it to this forum, but I think it was Espeefan who had posted the thread:confused:.

[Brian in PA]

Your truck came out real nice!

[tc1cat]

Truck looks GREAT:D:D I do agree that the rear fenders do not match the rest of the truck. Needs more bling in my opinion.

[gun]

you should get some drive fenders off of S&P in the vendor section and paint them to match the rest of the truck. just a thought !

[kaipi0070]

@Gun:

Thanks for the idea, but I think it will be too expensive to get the parts shipped over to north atlantic!!
And I will keep it like that: paint above frame level, frame level or lower: chrome or polished parts! Got a set of polished single-fenders from fechtner here in germany at a good price, they will be here next week!

[Ogar]

Looks very nice,
Good job keep up the good work.

Paul

[kaipi0070]

Did a little bit of work on the tractor today, now the lights are back on!
I´am still waiting for the rear-fenders to finish the rear of the truck.
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[kaipi0070]

Got the rear-fenders on friday and started to attach them to the truck yesterday.
The mirror-holders from tamiya are very helpful....!!
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[sneaky-pete]

Sweet truck....I like the paint job!

[kaipi0070]

After some absence I finally got a little bit forward! The rear-fenders are finally aatached to the frame!
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I also found some mudflaps and attached them as well!
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[plow jockey]

Great looking build! Nice paint job!

[1985 kenworth]

very impressive truck!!:cool:

[Izzy]

much better choice of rear covers!

[tbtrucking104customs]

how did you get rid of the headlight off the fenders? you just shave it off or how can I do that to get my fenders like yours?

[kaipi0070]

Yes, Ijust cut the away and then put some plastic on the inside of the fender. Finally I filled some plastic in the hole, the remaining gaps got filled with some putty.