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Built a model or part from your own materials lately?
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m978 hemtt heavy fire truck tanker 8x8
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Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 01:25 PM UTC
That's an award-winning construction job right there!
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Posted: Friday, June 29, 2012 - 08:24 AM UTC
ive installed the steering wheel and left/right cab sides and door jams





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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 09:49 AM UTC
ive added the front plate, ct the all the holes out, drill the holes for the rivots, made the mounting for the plate to be removable, added the light out buckets . theres alot more going on with this face then you would think







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Posted: Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 12:29 PM UTC
what can i say,your build is simply great.
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Posted: Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 05:52 PM UTC
This is one incredible project. I love what you are doing here.

Mike
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Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:10 AM UTC
today ive added the top top skin and drilled all the rivot hole. also added the door hinges and head light buckets










semijoe
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Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 10:40 AM UTC
i made the grill cover, added the screne , neaxt is the face plate and rivots





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Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 12:31 PM UTC
Joe,your build is great,i have been folling the build
since you started,i have to ask if you are following a set of plans?
anyway it is a great build.thanks for shareing.
semijoe
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 09:44 AM UTC
hey thnx man. i bought hemtt 1/25 kit and i do have the build manual with like 10,000 pages of great pictures and info
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 10:15 AM UTC

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hey thnx man. i bought hemtt 1/25 kit and i do have the build manual with like 10,000 pages of great pictures and info



Is there a 1/25 scale kit ?????????????????
semijoe
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 11:00 AM UTC
oops 1/35
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Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 08:02 AM UTC
today i made the turn signals, oshkosh badge,added the trim on the grill and drilled the holes for the trim



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Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 08:19 AM UTC
Really great work....
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Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 11:24 AM UTC
Joe the is a reely great build,and thanks for the info.
semijoe
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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 - 12:14 AM UTC
had to make some changes to the engine compartment. the cage has to be 21mm shorter, the exhaust has to be changed and i went with black for the cage


at 1st i want to be an open engine compartment but i seen some pictures of a newer type hemtt. the exhaust has to come out of the rear of the compartment. so i cut the old one off and added some long pipes to it. later i will make the exhaust stacks.


heres a before and after picture







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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 - 12:22 AM UTC
semijoe
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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 - 04:34 AM UTC
i was going to do a single exhaust, but i want this to look meaner, so i had some tractor exhaust here, so i cut them in half and made into like a stubby stack.



bat-213
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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 - 10:13 AM UTC
Joe,what can i say,this is a very cool build.
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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2012 - 02:07 PM UTC

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hey thnx man. i bought hemtt 1/25 kit and i do have the build manual with like 10,000 pages of great pictures and info



Is there a 1/25 scale kit ?????????????????



That's what I was about to ask too !

ok, you meant 1/35

Outstanding progress, semijoe




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Posted: Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 04:56 PM UTC
Nice progress Joe Any new updates for us?

Mike
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