dodge durango

yea make it look like a small circus !

And yet in some cases it would be realistic in a way.

yea im sure about that. any thing going on yet with those pics? i'm getting nervous waiting to see if your friend can scan them or not.

I was going to try to get up with him this sat while i was down near his house at the contest but he had a wedding that he had to go to and did'nt get time to get up with me. If nothing else I am hopefully going to have scanner sometime soon if a paticular insurance co. can get motivated to settle with me. Most of my friends around here are afraid to even turn on computer so they don't even know what a scanner is.

ok, thats cool. i appreciate all your doing for me on this. i 've been working on the ford f350 over the weekend, had a bad experience with the paint on the rescue body though, so it had to go into the stripping box. got it all sanded last night and shot 2 thin coats on it this afternoon(monday),so ill try to get some pics of it this coming weekend and send them your way.

Yea painting, my most favorite part of doing autos, Don't think I have ever gotten one to come out like I wanted. Look forward to seeing what you have so far. We got word of our new tankers today and from the sound of it I might try to one of them since it may be a it easier to scratchbuild most of it.

cool, i've wanted to do the tanker before but always got stuck on what to make the tank out of? i've though of using cut up pop bottles, cans, anything that had that eliptical shape?what do you think you will use? i caught one of your posts about the show you went to. i cant beleive you didnt win anything on your jeep. go figure. thats why i dont enter contests,to affraid i guess? ok, i'll keep you posted on the ford,also looks like the dio is on the back burner again, i cant seem to make up my mind on what to do?

Well the tankers we have right now and the ones that we are getting are box shaped. Probally just be able to take some sheet styrenne and make the box and do some weld seams around the edges and be about right. The box tanks are better cause you can store stuff on top and they are more low profile and easier to drive. I'll try to email you a pic of the ones we have now to give you an idea. The jeep did'nt suprise me, there were some very good dios there. The one that did suprise me was the Bradley, it was mainly a learning experience. I'm sure you could do well with some of your trucks not really anything at the one I was at that would have been close in the truck catagory.

yea that will work. the thought of the box type tanker really never crossed my mind for some reason? thats about all you see on new rigs today.do you guys have pumper tankers or just straight tankers? i'll be looking forward to the pics.

Our tankers double as pumpers, mainly because a volunteer dept. there is no telling which truck is going to get there first. The tankers we have now have the pumps mounted on the front bumper, that would probally be the hardest thing to scratch build.

hi cris , hope you had a nice weekend? nice pic in your signature block!. got the photos of the ford on sunday. i'm going to try to get them in the mail one day this week, i've still got some stripping to do on the rescue body, as you will see in the pics, but all in all i think it came out ok. no prize winner thats for sure.

Thats great can't wait to see them. Can't complain about the weekend, got through with a build and started the next head to head build round with my wife earlier. I hope to be able to try a truck soon, got a few things ahead of it though for chrsitmas.

ok so its friday and i still dont have the pics sent off yet! i've told myself all week to go get stamps, but with four kids and a night shift job, need i say more.but then again i'm planning an going by the post office again in the morning. maybe i'll have better luck this time? p.s. i included a couple of pics off my models in the cabinets i have them all in. dont know if you will be able to tell much of what i got in them, but maybe you'll get a sence of what i do have? also took a photo of my code 3 trucks. hope you like, ( that is if i ever get to the post office ).

Thats cool,look forward to seeing them. Still working on getting those others scanned, pretty much waiting on an insurance settlement so i can get me one. I know most of the photo places down here can put pics on a disc to when you get them developed, that could be something to look into so you can have some on hand to put here.