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Thanks for the welcome Rob. Jasons truck has takin me away from my rock crawlers. I just got a King hauler kit yesterday. Will get into it as soon as I get jason truck out of the shop.

Mike

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Sweet! There might be a local get together yet! It's nice to see another builder on the south island. You guys aren't allowed to get me into scale crawling though.lol

Reg

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oh come on Reg it is way too much fun ;)

between Mike and I we probably have 15 or more scale crawlers so we could always let you use one.

doesn't it look fun Reg ? ;)
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...IMAG1078-1.jpg

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Haha noooooo! I've wanted one for a long time, that's the problem. Every time I go into see Jeff at the hobby shop I glance at them but I have irons in too many fires already. Maybe when we get together we can do some crawling too. I have a lot of good space for that outside.

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Its alot of fun and not at all addictive. Not all of these are mine. The tan jeep is jasons, thats an old pic and doesn't have my ford...or gray yota in it. come to thick of it, I may have a problem after all. I hope this trucking thing isint the same.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG0438.jpg

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Haha, you guys need to cut that out. If you seen my garage you would understand why I don't need another obsession...

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Mike and Know Jeff well (especally Mike) and crawl with him too he lives up the street from me.

lol too funny Mike, I guess I better recount. you have 14 yourself not counting my ten. ok enough hijacking my thread and back to the autocar

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Jeff pointed me to your build and this forum back when I started my Euc. I guess its you and Jeff's fault that I'm on here everyday...

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So Mike, will it be a tractor or a dump?

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Gee Reg, maybe some trail building, then crawling!
Cheer's, Neil.

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Me and jason keep talking about it. Latest thought is a tracktor with a dump trailer... maybe.

Heres the short version for the back center caps.

Start first with some food and a drink.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1533.jpg

Same as the front, the snout has to go.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1527.jpg

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1529.jpg

A bunch of back half done caps.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1532.jpg

Some detail work.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1535.jpg

Good thing for spares as i went a little deep on the first one.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1538.jpg

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1539.jpg

All done my project. time to get this truck home.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/IMAG1540.jpg

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Do you have a cnc mill?

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No CNC mill. Kickin old school.

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Is this thing back together yet or what? I need to move some dirt!

How bout that shinny new king? Out of the box yet?

Reg

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Yes it is out of the box, but I'm sure no one here wants to see some newbbie build a king. If I make some cool parts them ill post some up.

As for Jason's truck, I can't wait to see it get loaded

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Come on man we love pics, now start a build thread so we can watch.

Travis

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I kinda wanna see it because I've never seen a brand new out of the box king:confused:.... So start a thread:mad:....please.:D ...and we can all stop hijacking Jason's thread...;)

Reg

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Mike dropped off my new caps (thanks ) sunday.. and I was busy on the weekend , with a few more details to the body and box. and my new esc is in too so just have to add a couple more details and take some pics and its ready for you to load Reg ;) cant wait .... also cant wait to see what Mike comes up with for his kit.. I will hope to have some input on this one lol

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Sounds good! Maybe I should let you put the first couple scratches, er I mean loads in it...:D

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just a few more pics added a couple more details over weekend .. still Have to paint wheels.. and then ready for its first load .

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMAG1364.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0068.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0069.jpg

thanks for looking

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Looks Great!!! truck looks perfect!!!

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Wow it doesn't get any better than this! Nice Autocar!

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Very cool pics. I can't beleave its almost done. :D

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Nice truck Jason. Boy that thing going to hold a huge pile of wood pellets at the Feb Campbell River show. I really hope you guys can make it, Greg already practising!
Rob

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Nicely done Jason. :cool:

Painting the wheels white?

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Very nice! I love the rims!

Kerst

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wow thanks guys for the Nice comments :o... the rims will be painted two tone like truck outside ring will be white and the center spoke hub will be blue..

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That truck looks really sweet! It's almost too pretty to use...

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This really came out nice! It really reminds me of the AMT 1/25 model kit. Keep up the great work.

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Thanks Brian .. it should remind you of it as rhat is what I based most of the build on . As I have the model kit and took a lot of measurements and ideas from it ..also the decal are scanned and resized and some altered from the original 1/25 kit

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wheels painted and back together ready to go to work... here are some new photos.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0007.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0006.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0005.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0004.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0003.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0013.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0012.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0011.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0010.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...i/IMG_0008.jpg

thanks for looking

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and a quick video of its first load

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...h_MVI_0024.jpg

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Good job. The truck looks great. Very nice pics.

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Absolutely great job!

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Hey Jason. For some reason your video and my phone don't want to play together. But it does work on the iPad.
Just so ya know. Mike

Ps. I wanted that load by the shop and not the rock wall. Go build a loader and move it please.

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Wicked! I wanna play too!

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WOW That truck is toooo nice to get dirty... Thanks for the photo's

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Thank you Greg it's definitely not too pretty to get dirty I need the dirt to hide all the flaws in the body can't wait to get it covered in dirt and dust

Thanks reg can't wait to get to get some loads from the Volvo ..there is lots of work at my house to do too after we move some dirt at yours ;)


It is complete enough to do work but there still a few things left to do to it

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:D Good job Jason ..Another steller build ..now we will get you hooked on running these things this summer :D..Hey how did you make the rubber latches for the hood ..I like that ..may put some on the pacific
Thanks for sharing all the great pics

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Very nice truck, I like the paint scheme and the wheels look great.