Model of our 1975 C65 Chevy dump truck

[jpage]

Referring back to the previous thread on working antique commercial vehicles, I decided to build a model for son of his work truck. It was the first big purchase he made when starting his construction business and he's rather proud of it, mainly I guess because it is an antique. this is mostly a scratch built job and I tried to capture the worked but not worn out look. Of coarse, I'm no Roger Zimmerman, but it came out fairly well. There is a lot of work to convert a standard square body into a short nosed medium duty!  The bed and hydraulic lift is totally scratch built. I was fortunate to have found a guy building the same type of model who 3 D printed the grille, which really looks realistic and makes the model! Here's some photos. The last two are from the real truck. Sadly, I have no way to make the white decals! Enjoy!

[kevin1221]

Great job! 
I’m  sure your son will treasure it .

 

Kevin

[8E45E]

Here's the GMC version from the same year:

 

 

[jpage]

I see a good many of these in the mid west.

[junkyardjeff]

Great work.

[Billy Kingsley]

Very nice work! I'm surprised these don't exist in kit form, they are popular trucks. If you are on Facebook search for Dynomite Decals, he mostly does race cars but I bet he could whip them up pretty easily. 

[ryan95]

I don't have experience them yet, but for decals look into having some rub on transfers made. They look popular with model makers and have very good detail. I was looking for a solution for reproducing the artwork on a gauge face and these look like a good, affordable solution for my situation. You need to have the image in a vector file format. Basically that means the image is made mathematically, not with pixels. I'm going to try using inkscape, a free program, to create it. For the decal service, customrubontransfers.com is the most affordable place I have found. White decals start at $25.

[TAKerry]

Having owned a few working dump trucks, you nailed the inside of the bed. Just about perfect! Except for the one or two small punctures from a piece of concrete dropped from too high, LOL.

[jpage]

The wavy bed floor is the result of the cement on the crossbraces acting on the thin plastic. I did not expect that at all! With a little weathering it did look realistic!  Thanks!  shortly after getting the truck, my son converted the end gate to a barn door swing out type, to prevent demolition material from getting hung up on the gate. i didn't feel like getting into all that!

And Biily K., there was a company, now defunct, that had a resin cab unit available for a time, but it had the front lift hood and, from what I had gleaned from the internet, not very nice! I think I'm happier with my version!