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Old 05-04-2017, 08:47 PM   #1
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Been working on an Awesome Kong II clod based truck. I have not seen to many people make a version of this truck and I loved it when I was a kid. Using a hard body blackfoot shell. The blackfoot has a lot shorter wheel base than a clod so I shortened the stock clod trailing arms to fit the blackfoot wheel base.


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Body is not exactly like the real 1:1 as I intend to bash this thing.


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Old 05-04-2017, 08:50 PM   #3
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Made up all the graphics at work and they are turning out pretty good.



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Old 05-04-2017, 08:52 PM   #4
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I found a guy making a scale Allison engine and I placed an order for one so the bed will be cut out and modified to make it look like the real truck if Tamiya had made it.
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Love the look of this truck!
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I found a guy making a scale Allison engine and I placed an order for one so the bed will be cut out and modified to make it look like the real truck if Tamiya had made it.
I started one some time ago, That's the one thing that has been holding me back. Do you mind my asking, who is the guy that makes a scale Allison engine ?
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Old 05-07-2017, 04:22 AM   #7
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not my truck, but a friend of mine made one a while back...was even used as a giveaway at one of our "world finals" championships a while back. he made the motor himself as well.













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Your buddies is good. I saw pics of it before I started mine and thought I could get a more realistic look with a hardbody. Today I modified the clodbuster roll bar and moved the ends out towards the bed sides as the real truck has it mounting on the bed sides. It will provide more room for the Allison as well. Also started on my hubs. So far I am happy with how it is turning out. I added some black covers to the headlights as well. Still a lot more to do.

Also you might notice the honeycomb pieces of styrene on the table. Those are for my neighbor that is building King Krunch. The wheels on that truck are crazy but I think we will have them looking spot on. We are going to run them side by side. Should be a good throw back to our youth.





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Old 05-12-2017, 09:43 AM   #9
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Bug guard is done.

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Great looking truck! Nice work so far.
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Didn't like the shocks so painted them all black to make them disappear.

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Old 06-07-2017, 08:57 AM   #14
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Again, WOW!!! Such an awesome truck!!!!
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Old 06-07-2017, 09:43 AM   #15
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Thanks for the compliments. Working on a monster beetle figure for the truck. Modified his arm to make it look like he is resting it on the door.

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So awesome!
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Painted Jeff Dane up like he was in "return of the monster trucks"

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Thanks photobucket for holding my pics ransom. Much appreciated you pieces of garbage.
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Thanks photobucket for holding my pics ransom. Much appreciated you pieces of garbage.
I stopped using them years ago and switched to imgur.
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