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Truck build Campaign proposal ideas-
grubbyfingers
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Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010 - 08:34 PM UTC
... and today the trailer arrived!. I'll get some pics together and post shortly.

Grubby.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 09:25 AM UTC
Got my truck kit for the build. Is it May yet???
old-dragon
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 12:09 PM UTC
...not yet{may}.
Shoot, just remembered I need to come up with a ribbon...time to find some gif's or something!!!
grubbyfingers
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 12:43 PM UTC
Hi Bob,

Here's a couple of ideas for you. They are meant to look like truck radiator grilles.

See what you think.

Grubby.



old-dragon
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 04:19 PM UTC
What do you folks think about this one...{1st time rookie ribbon maker}-

Be honest..you'll be owning one when you complete the build...
grubbyfingers
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 04:23 PM UTC
Hi Bob,

What's OTR stand for?

Grubby.
old-dragon
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 11:24 PM UTC

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Hi Bob,

What's OTR stand for?

Grubby.

..."Over The Road".
jimb
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Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 01:13 AM UTC
Grubby,

Nice job on the ribbons. They look a little like railraod tracks to me. I get what you were trying to do, though.

Bob,

Nice Mack. I like it. Kind of looks like the Peterbilt I picked for my "Keep On Truckin'" ribbon, except I couldn't figure out how to write o the trailer:


Jim
old-dragon
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Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 11:59 AM UTC

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Grubby,

Nice job on the ribbons. They look a little like railraod tracks to me. I get what you were trying to do, though.

Bob,

Nice Mack. I like it. Kind of looks like the Peterbilt I picked for my "Keep On Truckin'" ribbon, except I couldn't figure out how to write o the trailer:


Jim

Once I found a free one I liked{yeah, I'm cheap} I downloaded it to my file, then shipped it to MS paint and fired up the "elipse" for the "O", then the straight line for the "T" and then the elipse again for the "R"s top and then finished with lines.....basic black was the color for the day. I then resized to roughly 70x50 and viola. Changing the jpeg to a gif distorted the image's colors so back I went and redid it all and saved it as a jpeg. I got lucky with the letters on that trailer.
old-dragon
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 06:15 AM UTC
Hey, can you guys go to the campaign section and see if the ribbon shows other than a "red X"...I've uploaded it twice now and I see nothing but the dreaded red x. Maybe it's just me- so long as you guys can see it is all I'm worried about.
outback
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:17 AM UTC
I see the Red X.
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:49 AM UTC
Red X for me too, might be the sizing Bob, it should be 50x20, it's showing as 28x30
old-dragon
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 04:25 PM UTC

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Red X for me too, it's showing as 28x30

Son of a gun, your right! I just went and right clicked it and that's what it said but when I uploaded it it said it was 50x20..just checked the properties on it in my file and it's 50x20 yet when I uploaded it again it's still coming in at 28x30...why is it getting distorted?
c5flies
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 05:04 PM UTC
Working on it, Bob. Send me the original jpeg if you can, thanks.
old-dragon
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Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 01:52 AM UTC

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Working on it, Bob. Send me the original jpeg if you can, thanks.

Just sent the origonal sans lettering....maybe that was what was messing it up.
VonCuda
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Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:21 PM UTC
I've cleaned off workbench #2 (the one I spray on) in preperation for the truck build. I've decided to go with the Chevy Titan. I'll use the directions and rear springs Jim B sent me and make her a yard bird truck.


Hermon
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Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 - 01:54 PM UTC
Good luck on the build, Hermon, Should be interesting. Lot's of fleets used single axle COE tractors in the 1970s as their main line trucks, too.

Jim
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Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 - 02:57 PM UTC
Nearly a week to go folks...the ribbon will happen somewhere along the line{I agree James, it has to be a glitch in the new server}....anyway, I'm set with some pics, paints, resin cab and donar kit for my early '60s Mack H-67 coe in Roadway livery and will try my hand at a '50s round front trailer to match. Shy of that, I have plenty of other things to play catchup on as well!
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 09:09 AM UTC
Be opening me box tonight and start the build in the morning
outback
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 09:31 AM UTC
Finally. Got up at 5:30am and started the build. My wife is highly amused at this. I only have the engine block so far but it's time for brekky.
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 12:56 PM UTC

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Finally. Got up at 5:30am and started the build. My wife is highly amused at this. I only have the engine block so far but it's time for brekky.


PROTEST! PROTEST! PROTEST!
TOTALLY UNFAIR!

I have another 12 hour wait ahead of me while you're diving into your kit Shane




Hermon
outback
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 01:16 PM UTC
Hermon, it's killing me knowing that I've upset you. I shall immediately pack up my kit, say three hail marys, light a candle for you and wait......only joking.

This is the first group build that I've ever started on the start date and not three months after. It's my little moment of joy and I may not get another. Anyway, I may have started but I haven't finished yet.

Cheers
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 01:34 PM UTC

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Finally. Got up at 5:30am and started the build. My wife is highly amused at this. I only have the engine block so far but it's time for brekky.


PROTEST! PROTEST! PROTEST!
TOTALLY UNFAIR!

I have another 12 hour wait ahead of me while you're diving into your kit Shane




Hermon


Remember Hermon, we have to finish ahead of you, unless we bend the rules and start on our date and finish on yours. But we wouldn't do something like that now, would we Shane ???
VonCuda
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 01:51 PM UTC
Hey, only 3 hail Marys?
Build on my man. And may the force be with you!


Hermon
outback
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 - 01:51 PM UTC

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Finally. Got up at 5:30am and started the build. My wife is highly amused at this. I only have the engine block so far but it's time for brekky.


PROTEST! PROTEST! PROTEST!
TOTALLY UNFAIR!

I have another 12 hour wait ahead of me while you're diving into your kit Shane




Hermon


Remember Hermon, we have to finish ahead of you, unless we bend the rules and start on our date and finish on yours. But we wouldn't do something like that now, would we Shane ???


Of course not. May 1st is the start date and we must play by the rules. I do feel sorry for those of us that are time zone impaired though.
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