I always loved the movie. It is spielberg masterpiece. Not so easy at all to make a good thriller in the 70s with such plot. he did.
The scary guy is a peterbilt 281 from the 50s. Pete are always cool. I noted the round lights are making incredibly more scary looking.
as probably everybody here knows the guy is this one:
there is no complete models around of this pete. There is a resin conversion for the cab, but I am lazy and I will make my own reworking some parts from the pile of pete I achieved for my other projects. Mostly here I will use parts (cabin) from italeri and revell petes, as well as I think for now I will start only with the tractor and then see what to do with trailer.
In the movie they used a 281 and a 351 pete. very similar in look, think differences were mostly around engone and filters. I just want to do a static replica ugly dusty and rusty, as from the original movie.
Of course looking carefilly the difference between what I use as a started part (cab of the later pete 359) it is a little more bigger and surely comfy for the driver. As said I will mostly focus on the overall look of the flammable guy using the leftovers, many, of the big guys around me sitting in the spare box.
Basically the main difference is about the engine cover. It is slimmer and narrow and of course radiator grille is different. This takes also the 2 wheel fenders to have a different design
here 351
the resin conversion around is this one:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mu...=w1100-h747-no
available also as separate engine cover and fenders, probably the hardest part to scratch
as I said it looks nice but I am lazy with post now and wanna use what I already got (mostly I acheive those parts cause I need to use the hendrickson double at the rear, as used in many european trucks from fiat in the 70s after original hendrickson license..)