White 3000 series

Hi again, here's a current project. Cab is from the Backyard shed.

This is how the cab came, but I wanted to build the extended sleeper cab version.


Firstly I filled in the guards & mocked up on the chassis. Guards were filled as cab is raised to accomadate V6 Detroit; chassis is amt Autocar.




Dissected cab & put back together.


Chassis painted, cab bogged-up.


Cab primered, fuel tanks & rear guards fitted.



Cab painted, exhaust & air cleaner fitted.

Okay, started on lines & scrolls, & have marker lights, airhorns & mirrors fitted. Have to completely rework interior tub as the one that came with the cab does'nt allow for an engine to be fitted; plus sleeper modification throws the bunk configuration out completely. More to come soon!

Thanks for the heads-up on the old White 3000. I'd almost forgotten about this truck. Saw one or two around in the 50's when I was a young boy. I really am enjoying watching this one progress - please keep on posting.

Cheers,

Tezza

Nice sleeper conversion job.

That's one cool old White.

Looking good Gary, see you in April mate.

G'day all, made a little progress; finished line & scroll work on cab. Will be making a start on interior tub & engine soon.

wow quite the production line you have going the cab came up a treat and looks the goods on the new chassi ,,oh where do you get your pinstripes, scrolls from...??????????

jamie wrote:wow quite the production line you have going the cab came up a treat and looks the goods on the new chassi ,,oh where do you get your pinstripes, scrolls from...??????????

Hi Jamie, get all my pinstriping & scrolls from Auslowe. Yeah, I have got a bit of a production line going, got about a dozen on the go at the moment!

so is this hes new stuff or the old kangaroo'decals stuff ,

This is new stuff from KFS thru Auslowe. I think Nigel did the designs & KFS do the printing. Nigel's wife, Renee can also print any company names or logo's in any colour to scale.

ahh thats good to know i need clevelands mack muncher decals made up heres hoping

I reckon she'll be able to do that no problem's.

thanks for that,,thats good to hear was wondering where i was going to get them done ..............can you post some better pics of the above... looks like you need another cabinet the one in the background s full

I'll try & get some better shots on the weekend & post. I've got another empty cabinet just waiting to be filled; was the wife's china cabinet, so she's just thrilled!

are those back rims aluminum


hey you wouldnt have a spare revell k100 laying about ,???

Yeah, they're aluminium as well as the fronts. Sorry mate, don't have any revell K100's; Checkmate may have one. Burnsie any chance you have one?

sorry for all the questions mate been out of the hobby to long ,trucks anyway, so who does the rims??they look so good ..i sent nigel some photos of one of clevelands so hope to hear from him soon..thanks again.................. now where to find that cabover..

Gary Walker wrote:Yeah, they're aluminium as well as the fronts. Sorry mate, don't have any revell K100's; Checkmate may have one. Burnsie any chance you have one?

Nar sorry Gaz, got 123's, Alaskan KW's, Australian KW's and W models but no K100's!
Might need to buy me one!

ya might get a shock over 200 AUD on e,bay

Hey Jamie, the rims are thru auslowe as well

no worries thanks for that , they do look the goods

jamie wrote:ya might get a shock over 200 AUD on e,bay

Just buy the later aerodyne issue and get a resin flat roof mate, pretty sure Andy at Scaleautomobilia in Grafton has the Aerodynes for around the $80-100 mark, look up scaleautomobilia.com. Think he's even got the resin roofs or Auslowe sells them.

looking great.