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 My First Truck Model
« Thread Started on Jan 4, 2008, 9:15am »

Hello All,

Here is my first truck model that I have ever built. I have been building NASCAR Stock cars for the past 16 years and as a Christmas Present to my father-in-law this year, decided to build him a model of his dump truck that he bought new in 1987. It is a Mack R Series (he has been driving a dump truck for 35 years and has always owned a Mack). This project combined the Ertl/Matchbox Mack R Series Kit with the AMT Autocar Dump Truck Kit. I also added several parts from Dave @ American Industrial Truck Models (awesome guy, awesome company) to make it as authentic as possible. The decals were custom printed by Les Smirle of "Three Amigos" in Canada (PM me for contact information). His specializes in custom NASCAR Decals but as you can see, he can do a great job with anything. I scratch-built the ladder out of styrene plastic strips. I learned a lot about trucks building this model and met a lot of nice people on this board (a huge thank you to Rustycab who provided me with the dump bed for this project). Thanks again to everyone and enjoy!

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« Reply #1 on Jan 4, 2008, 9:26am »

Nice Mack. I like the detail.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 4, 2008, 1:27pm »

What did you make the fender mirrors from.A far cry from my first one even getting back into it as an audult .
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« Reply #3 on Jan 4, 2008, 2:07pm »

Very, very nice.
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« Reply #4 on Jan 4, 2008, 2:56pm »

you sure thats a model and not a 1:1!
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« Reply #5 on Jan 4, 2008, 4:10pm »

The mirrors are made of pewter and were purchased from American Industrial Truck Models (aitruckmodels.com). They were $1 each and really added a lot of realism to the model...
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« Reply #6 on Jan 4, 2008, 5:46pm »

great job on the Mack. amazing detail.
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« Reply #7 on Jan 4, 2008, 10:55pm »

Your first truck? That looks great!
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« Reply #8 on Jan 4, 2008, 11:16pm »

Wonderful looking Mack, Great Job on it being Your first Big Truck..
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« Reply #9 on Jan 5, 2008, 7:03pm »

What a beautiful truck... What do you have for wheels and rubber on that? Great work, -Pat Would it be too much trouble to ask to see head on shots of the truck, front and rear? -Pat
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« Reply #10 on Jan 6, 2008, 12:30am »

Lovely clean and very detailed build. It would seem a shame to take these real trucks out and get them stuck on a building site somewhere and then fill them full of dirt.

Very real and nice looking truck with a fair bit of grunt!!!!!!

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« Reply #11 on Jan 6, 2008, 3:09pm »

Very hard to tell that was your first model truck. Fantastic work. I hope your father in law enjoys it as much as we like looking at it. Keep up the great work and keep building trucks.
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« Reply #12 on Jan 8, 2008, 9:17am »

Pat,

The wheels/rubber are from American Industrial Truck Models. They are actually resin. They were molded in tan. I sprayed them with Testors Flat Black and then painted them by hand with Testor's Silver. As far as pictures of the front and back go, I don't have one of the back straight on but I do have one of the front which I attached below.

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« Reply #13 on Sept 13, 2010, 10:39pm »


Super nice build! I bet your dad Liked it!


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