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 Posted - October 27 2010 : 11:56:44 PM
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Any ideas for customs based on the dump truck chassis?
I was looking at my 5 semi trucks and trailers and realized I only have one built off the dump truck frame.
As it turns out, I have two spare dump trucks sitting around...
Here's what I've come up with so far...
--- Power & utilities cherry picker (not very exciting- but different)
--- Roll back tow truck (could roll off cars perhaps?)
--- Straight truck (box truck- verrry easy)
--- Logging truck (use the splines from the dump bed as the stakes)
--- Seriously customized centurion style auto transport (use a heavily kit bashed auto trailer and extend carrying cars over the cab too)
--- Tanker truck (another similar to a box truck- verrry easy)
--- Soda truck (another similar to a box truck- verrry easy)
My custom cement truck & cement factory (a la IHC)-
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Posted - October 28 2010 : 06:58:07 AM
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Nice work JK - Like it
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Posted - October 28 2010 : 07:15:09 AM
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cherry picker Caused I'd have you do one like the Nebraska Public Power trucks 
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Posted - October 28 2010 : 11:48:55 PM
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Make the Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile!! ...that's probably not a dump truck frame though Or do a quick Google image search for trucks. I did one and there's some pretty neat stuff.
Edited by - DaCheez on October 28 2010 11:49:29 PM
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Posted - October 29 2010 : 12:18:04 AM
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| hey I got it! Do one up in a container with either Bekins North American or some moving company except Allied as there's one already made by Tyco once
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Posted - October 29 2010 : 12:36:09 AM
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Not familiar with what all US-1 offered, but is there a "heavy Tow Truck" avalible?
Walt
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Posted - October 29 2010 : 12:55:35 AM
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quote:| Not familiar with what all US-1 offered, but is there a "heavy Tow Truck" avalible? |
do you even LOOK at Tony Cook's train site??
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/tycous1trucking/ Like that one for example?
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Posted - November 14 2010 : 11:19:53 PM
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Thanks for the ideas, gents! I do like the cherry picker though. Perhaps that I'll make one out of a Boley piece (why not- that's where my cement tumbler came!).
Well... it is taking shape.
I've settled on a delivery truck for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. FWIW- Krispy Kreme is based out of North Carolina as well.
I purchased a Union City Body (aka UPS Truck) custom off of Ebay a few years ago. It is a bit small for the US-1 chassis... but nothing that 1/8 inch sections of styrene wouldn't fix.
In all, I had to section the body into four parts and then add 1/8 of styrene to the length and width. So, I cut it along the center and right behind the doors to expand it out to fit. It is a wide beast now! Any wider and the tailgate would strike the trucks on the other side of the road!
I also had to develop a means in which to get it to clip onto the US-1 chassis. For this I used the center channel groove located between the OEM tabs and then the bottom chassis rail below it. I did have to add rocker extensions (silver) and then the pieces to slide into the groove (green).
Next up... high build primer for the roof. I need something to work like body filler. Then- white paint and custom DECALS.
Here's the progress so far. Thought I'd let y'all see some of the "in progress" images. Enjoy!
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