Lee Drennen’s Alaskan Hauler Kenworth Conventional.

[Jim R]

By coincidence Convoy is on TV tonight. Legend channel at 9.00.

[Lee Drennen]

it is on tv tonight on one of the freeview channels.

I’ll bring the popcorn 10/4 Good Buddy

[langy71]

Lee, are you giving her a good winter dusting of snow ?, she'd look awesome with a smattering of the elements over her..

[Mickc1440]

The film you are thinking of is Convoy and the truck driven by Rubber Duck was a Mack, strangely it is on tv tonight on one of the freeview channels.

Andy.

The model came with a big duck to make

[Lee Drennen]

Lee, are you giving her a good winter dusting of snow ?, she'd look awesome with a smattering of the elements over her..

I thought about it but I never liked weathering my 1/25 scale trucks so this guy will be clean and green sorry.

Lee,
I will follow along.

Thanks for stopping by Scottie.

The model came with a big duck to make

Yes I remember having that model it was made buy Ertl and totally wrong truck compared to the real one in the movie.

Another monster. Just been looking at Andy's Aussie beast. It will make an eye-catching model.

Thanks Jim though it would be a good subject instead of your average 10 wheeler. Those Aussie trucks like Andy is building are very neat my oldest brother really likes them and has all kinds of 1/25 resin aftermarket truck parts and 1/25 Aussie trucks as well in 1/25 scale. I may have to build one some day

[JR]

Seat please Lee. Should be a good build esp in that scale , loads of detail ?
Ice road truckers was a great show over here , a few years back now.

[Lee Drennen]

Seat please Lee. Should be a good build esp in that scale , loads of detail ?
Ice road truckers was a great show over here , a few years back now.

Have a Seat Good Buddy we’ll get you some groceries in a minute meanwhile have a cup of 100 mile coffee 10/4.

[Lee Drennen]

Engine has been painted. Next up is the frame work when it’s done I’ll go back and do some details on the Engine.

[Lee Drennen]

Here’s the parts layout for the frame there’s lots of them. Time to start cleaning them up and get it together

[Mini Me]

Way too many parts for me old eyes to take in.....I'm quite the fan of the one piece frames I'm used to playing with. Keep it coming Lee.....these older kits do seem to collect a little more flash than one likes to deal with.

[Jim R]

That's a lot of parts to work with to get a nice, square chassis. Good luck.

[Lee Drennen]

That's a lot of parts to work with to get a nice, square chassis. Good luck.

Yes it is but building these for over 40 years and before that watching my older brother build these and getting tips from him I’ve think I’ve mastered the dark secrets of these 40+ years kits.

Keep it coming

Will do.

[Lee Drennen]

Well today I managed to get a lot of the frame done. I added the front wheels for now there not glued so I can insure the stance of the truck and placement of the fenders after removing the pins on the axle and leveling both the springs and axle up with a file for a much better look than going by the instructions. I place the cab on to the frame after I installed the cab mounts making sure all cab mounts are in line the manufacturer instruction's are wrong where they show you to mount your front cab mounts. I’m glad my brother owns the real 1.1 Kenworth w900A truck for a good reference. Here’s my update pics and a picture of my Brothers 1967 Kenworth W925 A model in front of his house in Kansas City Missouri

[Lee Drennen]

Frame is done for now and ready for paint

[JR]

Lee is that the truck I've seen you drive in the video ?
In that scale detailing on that engine should be great , loads of cables and pipe work .

A beautiful house as well !