I finally found the time and inspiration to finish this one up and I thought I'd share. The truck cab and chassis is the ancient IMC kit believe it or not and the stake bed is scratched with a wooden bed as well....I relocated the rear axle and stretched the frame to accomodate the 15' bed. I also cut out the 2 extra pieces for the 3 piece rear window and glazed that with flat sheet clear.






I really wanted to button this one up for my truck campaign but it just wasn't in the cards - better late then never I guess.
Hope you injoy-

Figured I add afew more while everything is here in front of me....
Here's the bottom where you can see the balsa wood decking..and some bar code{oops- good thing it's underneith}.

I did the 3 seat option and dirtied them up..nothing major.

The engine is the stocker and painted...my main effort was the rest of the kit- maybe I'll have to to back in there and detail it someday.

The rear window was easy to cut out but a minor pain to get that sheet stock to curve inside the cab and not craze{turn whitish and show teeny lil stress cracks}


To do it all over again{noooooo....not starting all over from 2 years ago!!!}, I would have done the mirror brackets in brass rod, flattened the actual mirrors, made it a 17' bed, alittle shorter height stakes and done up the rims in red though some trucks rolled out in black rims too. I still like it and hope you do too...and I'm glad she's finally done.

That's wicked, Bob. I really like it. Great job!

Jim

Beautiful job O-D, very nice build indeed. I'm very jealous as well because I'm getting precious little time at the bench right now.

Cheers, D

Thanks guys...I've been meaning to button this one up for a while now and finally got to it.
Left to go now ;
-mack tow truck
-mack rescue rig
-DAF XT extra cab
-Dodge L1000 daycab

Bob,
Just noticed this thread. Very nice work as usual. Cool, off-beat subject done really well. Sure the mirror brackets could be thinner, but no biggy. And with that bar-code exposed, you could try to take it back for a refund later, if you ever need more space on your shelf.
thanks for posting!
-Sean.