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Old 04-16-2010, 08:53 PM   #16
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Nice work with the modifications and casting. Looking forward to more progress. How did you make the rivets on the wing? That detail really adds a lot of life to the project.
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Old 04-18-2010, 12:55 PM   #17
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Nice work with the modifications and casting. Looking forward to more progress. How did you make the rivets on the wing? That detail really adds a lot of life to the project.
Thank you, Les.
Well, I drilled 84 microholes and inserted/glued 0,5mm resin rivets.
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Old 04-27-2010, 01:59 AM   #18
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Re: Custombilt 379

Hello, friends.

When I had built "Can Do" wrecker, I noticed "Peterbilt" logo on rear axle brackets, which doesn't exist on Italeri's one:

To copy that I used technique recently described by one of the members. Here are materials needed:

Take a piece of foil and fix it over the detail to copy:

Using rounded toothpick smoothing the foil down. Very small details (my case) can be picked out with sharp end of toothpick later:

Our mould:

Casting the resin:

Here are our billets after an hour:

A little sanding from back side and we have a logo. It turned out so thin, that can be glued on curve surface:

Now I'm asking my self: to glue the logo on axle bracket or on air balloon?
Actually the logo is so small (about 3mm whide), that details are hard to see (and hard to reproduce in fact) Even in "Macro" I couldn't focus my camera well. Here is another example of this technique with bigger part:

Feel free to ask questiones.

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Old 10-17-2010, 04:30 AM   #19
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Let's continue
I was have to lengthen the cardan shaft. The best thing found was brass tube 4mm.

As the shaft was lengthen and Angle of slope changed, I was have to make a crosspiece movable to simplify the assembling.

Tell me guys: should I repeat this thing with the rest 4 crosspieces or should I leave them as is?
It is great feature, but time consuming.
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Old 10-18-2010, 04:19 PM   #20
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Re: Custombilt 379

Wow, I love this build! You don't see this level work on a truck often, certainly not around here! Very, very cool! I don't know what you should do with the other u-joints. I would do them all since I'd done one, but it's up to you. It will be hard to see, but with all the other detail you're doing... I'd go for it. Gorgeous!
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Old 10-23-2010, 04:18 PM   #21
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Re: Custombilt 379

Sweet work on this one. I did some similar work to the Peterbilt suspension I used to duplicate the Hendrickson rears for the Ford Aeromax I'm now working: it was just too high.
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Old 12-07-2010, 06:50 AM   #22
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Re: Custombilt 379

Hi, friends. It's me again. Much time passed since my last update and I have nothing to boast of …
New cab mount brackets were made:

For new hood I was have to lower the cab about 3-4mm. It was easier to scratch build one, then adopt existing brackets. Here the cab on original mount:

Here - on new one:

Extended frame:

The front half:

Cab to hood adjustment:

I was have to tear away right front fender and glue it to the hood again 4 times (!), until everything was truth and level. So resin parts without markings are evil things.
Filled up hollow chassis parts:

There is a fail, I guess. When the hood is lowered, fenders look bigger then on picture of original (the last photo of this thread):

Can anyone explain: the front fenders for custom, lowered Peterbilts have smaller radius then originals? I tried to put super singles on front discs, but they look wrong here, though the gap between wheel and fender became smaller:

Looks like I should tear fenders off again to bend them slightly and reduce radius. I see the beginning of depression...
Can anyone help me to find more photos of this rig?:

I know there was a galery somewhere, but I've forgot to save it.
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Old 12-07-2010, 10:46 AM   #23
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What a neat work of yours, You really doing great. Nice one. Hope to see more photos of it
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Old 12-07-2010, 01:04 PM   #24
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Re: Custombilt 379

Love the thread. It brings back a flood of memories. Some of the suspension mounts have Peterbilt logo's and some don't so either way could be correct. Generally, if it was a Pete suspension designed in-house it has the logo, if it's another manufacturers unit (like a Hendrickson) then it doesn't.

I got a kick out of your Front-Air suspension mod. Peterbilt actually had that as an option for a while in the late '80s. Unfortunately the high lateral forces in turns wore the bushings out pretty fast resulting in wacky steering and front-end wandering all over the road. We wound up replacing every one of them with standard leaf springs under a huge recall campaign! Yours will actually work though because it has a hanger at both ends of each spring. The Pete version only used one hanger!

Personally, I think the fender radius looks fine. If you try to reduce them with warm water I'd use a jig of some kind and even then your taking a risk that they come out warped or uneven. If it were mine I'd leave 'em. After the bumper and battery box go on the fender isn't as pronounced anyway. Try mocking it up with the bumper etc temporarily attached. Tightening the radius might leave a weird gap between fender and bumper.
Whats important to me are the headlights. They are the personality of the truck in my mind. To me a 379 just isn't a 379 without the dual beams in each pod. Those single lights remind me too much of a construction truck, not a 'long haul'.

Try to substitute polished aluminum wherever there is sheet metal like the sunvisor, bumper, exhaust stacks, even aluminum wire in place of the molded plastic on the air tanks. You'd be surprised how much "brightwork" on these trucks is actually polished aluminum!

Sorry to be trying to help so much. I just love the thread!
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Love the thread. ...
...To me a 379 just isn't a 379 without the dual beams in each pod. Those single lights remind me too much of a construction truck, not a 'long haul'. Love the thread!
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Old 12-08-2010, 04:05 AM   #26
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Re: Custombilt 379

Fantastic updates. I really like how you reproduced the Peterbilt logo. The universal joint is a great upgrade too, well done.
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Old 12-08-2010, 07:25 AM   #27
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Re: Custombilt 379

Thank you,guys for your comments.
Mike, I very appreciate your help. But I love single lights. They look cool without turn signals.
By the way: guys from Model Car Magazine Forum helped me to find more photos of original and it's front fenders look just like mine.
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Re: Custombilt 379

Hello, friends!
Long time I was out of here.
Let's shake off the dust from this WIP!
Here is under hood reinforcment

Altered Headlights with 0,8mm brass tube for LED's wire

The engine: compressor cut out. The compressor hole was filled with pieces of tube & sheet. Compressor, turbine, alternater and pulleys replaced by Czech Truck Model's one.

Power steering and its shaft was detailed too

Cut out cab door

Here are flanges glued inside the cab. Air filter brackets remade here too

Next door were hinged, pockets got back wall, windows got inner frame
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As the engine compartment has grown, I had ability to make flat firewall. It was drilled along the hood joint line and cut out by a saw. A piece of styrene took its place

Later Hood brackets and wire compartment box were made.
Cab floor was treated same maner. After painting it was covered with a piece of wood patern adhesive wallpaper

Cab rooth & door trim replaced with resin buttoned leather
Exterrior rooth got windows for Running lights LEDs

Cab rear wall got new trim too

Chairs replaced by old KFS resin one. They look better, then stock
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I don't like stock dashboard. So it was cut out. Also cut out radiator fan

Here is new dash

Gauge decal & wood deck dash decal were printed on white decal paper. Then sandwiched with a piece of acetate in a middle.

Furthermore PE gauge visors and tumbler frames were eatched and glued.

Here is painted interrior. Note etched pedals

And this is how dash glow in dark time. It's a pitty that gear shift ball glow is visible only on this photo. Steering wheel spikes is custom PE set too

New cab brackets (soldered cooper sheet) marked with arrow
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