Peterbilt 6x6 Medium Hauler

[frizzen]

Snow pics look great

Soda can or aluminum disposable oven cookware (tooling foil) can make pretty good license plate backing.
Commercial rig with Vanity plates? (The LA plate took me a second to get.)

[Tommy R]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Snow pics look great

Soda can or aluminum disposable oven cookware (tooling foil) can make pretty good license plate backing.
Commercial rig with Vanity plates? (The LA plate took me a second to get.)

What can I say? The owner/operator is a vain guy! Great idea on the can for an aluminum source! I'll give that a try soon. Thanks!

I popped some holes in the dash today in preparation for backlighting the dash similar to how Bob at Hobby Concepts does it.


And with paint and my marker job it came out looking like wood grain. Perfect!!


Primed/painted some other bits today, too. Ignore Cletus. I think he sniffed too much spray paint today.

[Tommy R]

I picked up a pair of super single Michelins from RC4WD in hopes of maybe running them up front. Holy crapola, they're gigantic!


I mean....sure, technically they fit, but that wheel is way too narrow so these will be used another time. It's a bummer because they look amazing and are so much softer than the rock hard Lesus.


I also started working on painting the driver. Never painted a person before so it'll be interesting to see how this dude turns out! But how do I mount him into the seat?


Not gonna lie. This felt a bit awkward.


But I had my reasons to violate poor Cletus the way I did!


See? I told ya. This wasn't just for my own personal enjoyment!


Finally getting around to doing some detailing of the cab, too. Rolled the windows down to make it easier to see the interior.


Got the orange lenses fitted to the cab clearance lights and painted the visor.


I also painted the wipers and some window trim.


Lastly, I picked up a Gear Jammer fifth wheel slider and a Lesu fifth wheel and did some painting along the way.

[Bo Wallen]

Lookin' good over there. I did shorten the front axle 19 mm. and moved the springs further in, a little tight for the gearbox. It looks pretty cool.

[IMG]IMG_5576 by Bo Wallen, on Flickr[/IMG]