Boy how I miss building these wonderful models, the prices for these great models are so high that my budget can't handle it, hopefully someday I can get back into building these great/wonderful classic modles
Boyd I am sure Carey Loftin would be very proud of you for building a replication of the Peterbilt truck that he drove in the movie Duel, when he chased Dennis Weavers Plymouth valiant.
Absolutely love this! This is one of my favorite movies and you are doing an incredible job on replicating that truck. Can't wait to see how it's all going to look when it's complete. Another great job Boyd!!!!
Wow! Steven Spielberg would get a major kick out of this model tanker not knowing how many Duel fans love his first suspense movie including myself. Great job! :)
Absolutely a mesmerizing subject & challenge. That truck is a good one all grimy & such. I like your set up. It looks super used with all your history. Your pretty good & put out nice shows. This show is special for the subject.
Excellent work on the truck. I have just started making my own 'Duel' truck using the Revell 359 conventional in 1:25. It's coming along pretty nicely.
Nice weathering job. The engine on the real truck was a 6 cylinders Cummins. On your kit,you put a v8 series 71 Detroit. Maybe someone can ship you the scale Cummins engine to fit there.
Great video, your timing is perfect, we were just discussing that movie 2 days ago, got my son to watch it, and I was researching that truck yesterday, now I know what I need to build it. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!!! I never been able to define the color on the truck. The “swamp cooler” on the truck was actually a camera box. That’s how they took the in cab shots.
Great movie..... Watched it as a Sunday night movie of the week I belive ! Well done and very well filmed ✌😎 Very cool idea to do a movie recreation The look will be the toughest part , Can't wait to see it come together!
This is really beautiful work! A really great movie. I think some of the truck drivers here in France are influenced by the 'Duel' truck judging on the way the ride my little VW's tail!
They filmed one part of this in an area on Sierra Highway in Santa Clarita, CA that wasn't far from me. The restaurant that the guy stops in in the beginning was still there last I checked. This road you have probably seen in quite a few movies. I used to see movie lights and trailers and stuff around there all the time
Great build Boyd, looks authentic. Are you going to build the Dodge/Plymouth also that Dennis Weaver drove. There are 4 movies where the vehicle was the star that are my favorites 1 thunder road, with Robert Mitchem, 2, Bullet with Steve McQueen 3, vanishing point, with Berry Newman. 4 Duel with Dennis Wever
I found a 1/64 scale on ebay, which I painted for my layout. my layout will be a alterative world where everything that happens, or happened in my hometown!
After watching the movie intro that is provided, I think you should try to fabricate the passenger side fuel tank step up, does not look that hard. The grimey finish on the cab is superb, cheers.
Hi Boyd. I forgot to mention that when I was researching doing this build myself a while back I did find a kit that had this trailer....if my memory is correct it was nearly exact to the Duel tanker. It was a European style vintage tanker....Shell Oil I believe (white & yellow, not the red and yellow one). I will keep an eye out and if I can find it again I will let you know.
Very impressive work, I must say. However, before I even started watching, I already suspected that there would have to be a lot of fabrication involved, requiring use of resin moldings and other scratch-building tricks of career model-builders. After all, as the author indicated, nobody ever saw fit to make a model of the Peterbilt 281/351 narrow-nose tractors, much less the low-slung tank-trailer, which was a fairly-common thing on roads in the '50s and '60s and even used by many Army units to this day (ask me how I know that last part). I don't have the equipment or the patience to try and scratch-build parts, so to satisfy my own obsession with having the "Duel" rig in my model collection, I went with kits that were as close as possible to the actual rig(s). I opted for AMT's Autocar A64B tractor model, which aside from the badge bears a striking resemblance to the Petey 281/351 tractor (and even so, from a distance, an untrained eye won't see much difference between the Autocar badge and Peterbilt badge on the grille, though the side badges are obviously different). Even Kenworth came out with its own narrow-nose tractors many decades ago, but that's beside the point because I have only seen one model of such a Kenworth, and it was of a much-smaller scale. The A64B model was an immediate qualification in my opinion, especially since my whole life I always found Autocar trucks to be perfectly ugly, even intimidating, built more for heavy-duty function than aesthetics. Despite the surprising degree of accurate resemblance to the Peteys, I still had to do some fabrication. First, the optional overhead air conditioner that came in the kit was too modern-looking, so I had to mold an A/C unit out of modeling clay to go in the back window (although it turned out to more resemble a house-window A/C unit than a swamp-cooler); I recycled the kit's A/C unit by installing it on the roof of a Kenworth W925 model (themed to the TV show "Movin' On") I bought shortly after I got the Autocar model. Second fabrication I did was to the front bumper: The kit only had the standard Autocar wrap bumper, which is good but not quite enough without the effect of a reinforced I-beam-type overlay. For that effect, I had to make one out of the kit's leftover parts trees, with attachments placed to fit in the holes molded already into the stock bumper. That turned out excellent, especially when combined with the optional brush-deflector grille that fits in front of the radiator grill of the truck. It's been about 10 years since I did that model up; and although I'm still adding details I notice now that I didn't then (e.g., the faded-lavender paint of the front fenders), I think it turned out very good. The first layer of paint I added tended to wear off at spots where I would handle the model, as the paint reacted with my skin oils...but that actually added a fortuitous weathering effect where it was needed, so that was a stroke of luck. I have to say, if I wanted to try to produce a remake of "Duel" (a proper remake, not another of those rip-off movies that have followed since), I'd probably scrounge semi junkyards across the country to find a couple of Autocar A64B hulks to salvage and restore for use in my movie. The trailer was also very tricky, trying to find a model with the closest resemblance to that design being like looking for the Holy Grail. After months of searching E-Bay for anything close to that design, I settled on a generic tank-trailer from Testor's, which had a low-profile look to it and even some degree of skirting at the wheels. The overall orientation of the trailer is noticeably different, but I was able to make it work with the Autocar tractor. It does have a pretty low profile to it, and the skirting the kit offered adds some degree of resemblance. I do, however, consider it an ongoing project, so in the future I may consider fabricating more skirting around the wheels to give it more resemblance.
I would like to see you build the rubber duck Mack truck from the movie convoy and the tanker trailer which would have to be scratch built the truck is available in resin from American industrial truck.com
Excellent work, your weathering techniques are awesome! I'm not criticizing your work, but if you are wanting to make it exactly like the movie truck, you should remove the inter-axle driveshaft and the rearmost driven axle on the tandem and add a non-driven tag axle instead. The original truck was a 281(single drive) not a 351(dual drive). Other than that and the 5 hole wheels, it is the best Duel truck replica I've seen.
Thanks, that's some great info about the truck that I'll try and remember. There were not a lot of those specifics available about it in my internet research when I built it. Mostly facts about the 3 movie trucks used for the original film and for the reshoot they did for the longer theater release version a year later. I actually heard from the guy who owns the only surviving truck which was pretty cool.
Transition Modeller That would be neat but like the trailer for this truck I have not found a 4 door Valiant kit that was made. I did find where one guy had taken an old duster kit and made it into the 4 door Valient and he had it looking exact with the right grill and tail lights and all. Pretty sweet.
this is the v8 two stroke detroit diesel block.original block is twinturbos caterpillar 1674 inline 6.rear susp original is reyco leafspring with one rear diff and tag axle....
have any idea why a company did not create a kit for the Duel truck..copyright law? anyways..just stumbled upon your channel..you do fantastic work..great stuff...
I remember see a photo of in aviation magazine of the same peterbuilt tanker they had in the flim Duel , It was a ex U.S.A.F aircraft fuelling tanker. The photo showed a group of them in front a U.S.A.F aircraft unfortunately I can't remember exactly aircraft they were in front of possibly a Boeing B-47.
It's craft acrylic paint from Folk Art. I think it was antique gold to which I added a a little basic black to darken it a bit. I find that most metallic model car paints have flake that is too big for the scale which is why I don't use them.
Would you consider building the ‘ MFP Kawasaki from the first MAD MAX Movie. I’d pay you a good price for it. I happen to be disabled, and I physically wouldn’t be able to build one myself. I’ve been after this Motorcycle as a model for ages but there’s none on the market to buy. Thank you John
Theory : Stephen King saw 'Duel' and imagined the truck as a ghost >that had been caused to slide off the road killing it, and the driver. It was looking for an orange Valiant Thus we get 'Christine' in 1983
In an interview many years ago Stephen Spielberg mentioned that the license plates across the front suggested the many other cars this truck had "killed" on the road in the past. Hope that helps...
+cody ammon Yes, that's where I bought the hood conversion kit from and the wheels were out of stock. I haven't looked back there for awhile to see if they have them again.
That's cool. These videos are to try and help out people to learn about building models. Nothing here states it's a video about perfect public speaking. I'm sure those kind of videos are on you tube somewhere though if that's what you were looking for and found this video by mistake.
Boy how I miss building these wonderful models, the prices for these great models are so high that my budget can't handle it, hopefully someday I can get back into building these great/wonderful classic modles
Boyd I am sure Carey Loftin would be very proud of you for building a replication of the Peterbilt truck that he drove in the movie Duel, when he chased Dennis Weavers Plymouth valiant.
Absolutely love this! This is one of my favorite movies and you are doing an incredible job on replicating that truck. Can't wait to see how it's all going to look when it's complete. Another great job Boyd!!!!
Wow! Steven Spielberg would get a major kick out of this model tanker not knowing how many Duel fans love his first suspense movie including myself. Great job! :)
Absolutely a mesmerizing subject & challenge. That truck is a good one all grimy & such. I like your set up. It looks super used with all your history. Your pretty good & put out nice shows. This show is special for the subject.
Wow! What a great project. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Look forward to updates.
Excellent work on the truck. I have just started making my own 'Duel' truck using the Revell 359 conventional in 1:25. It's coming along pretty nicely.
amazing! People like you counter all knobs
Nice weathering job. The engine on the real truck was a 6 cylinders Cummins. On your kit,you put a v8 series 71 Detroit. Maybe someone can ship you the scale Cummins engine to fit there.
you do really great work to weather didn't realize you could use chalk to do it love this truck will have to try this project awesome job on the rig
Thanks for sharing Boyd. Now I know how to do weathering and damage on my fleet.
Great video, your timing is perfect, we were just discussing that movie 2 days ago, got my son to watch it, and I was researching that truck yesterday, now I know what I need to build it. Thanks for sharing.
Bad Man Scale Customs Cool, What was your son's reaction to the movie?
TrekWorks He thought is was a great movie, says it's one of those movies that makes you cringe, cause it's not so unrealistic that it could happen.
Bad Man Scale Customs Glad he liked it and that it still leaves an impression on the younger crowd :)
What a great idea for a build!
Man that's awesome. Loved the movie and seeing this made my weekend. Kudos to you
A great start on this build Boyd! Nice work on the weathering of the framework as well as the detailing.
great job on The Car..would like to see the sound of the evil horn added
Awesome!!! I never been able to define the color on the truck. The “swamp cooler” on the truck was actually a camera box. That’s how they took the in cab shots.
Your detailing is second to none sir! Well done👍
Great movie.....
Watched it as a Sunday night movie of the week I belive !
Well done and very well filmed ✌😎
Very cool idea to do a movie recreation
The look will be the toughest part ,
Can't wait to see it come together!
Fantastic job Boyd, the truck is looking really beat up. Looks like a fun build to do too!
Looks great and loved the movie
Fantastic weathering!,this is going to look amazing,well done!!
Thank you so much for sharing, excellent job.
great job building that truck it looks great
This is really beautiful work! A really great movie. I think some of the truck drivers here in France are influenced by the 'Duel' truck judging on the way the ride my little VW's tail!
Being from New Mexico, I love the license plate!
Beautiful Job!
They filmed one part of this in an area on Sierra Highway in Santa Clarita, CA that wasn't far from me. The restaurant that the guy stops in in the beginning was still there last I checked. This road you have probably seen in quite a few movies. I used to see movie lights and trailers and stuff around there all the time
Great build Boyd, looks authentic. Are you going to build the Dodge/Plymouth also that Dennis Weaver drove.
There are 4 movies where the vehicle was the star that are my favorites 1 thunder road, with Robert
Mitchem,
2, Bullet with Steve McQueen
3, vanishing point, with Berry Newman.
4 Duel with Dennis Wever
I did end up building the Plymouth Valient from the movie as well. It's in my video playlist.
The truck in the movie had an Inline -6
love this. ever thought about creating the car from the 1977 movie "The Car"?
Amazing! love the movie and this build.
Awesome job Boyd. Nicely done!
Really like it, fantastic job ,more info please on the after market hood and trailer plans,many thanks
Love to have that duel truck! ... And the tanker! I will pay good money for it!
So how much would you pay? If price is right you can buy mine.
You have mad skills! Love this!
"Duel" Thumbs Up!
Very nice!!
I love the movie also, Wonderful styrene Rigamortis!!!
Donnie your right I like to see the Rubber duck truck all so convoy was a great movie I wish they would show both those movies like Duel
That's awesome 👍
I found a 1/64 scale on ebay, which I painted for my layout. my layout will be a alterative world where everything that happens, or happened in my hometown!
Lovely model. I wondered if the resin conversion kit was still available as i would like to do the same as yourself. Thanks
It should be. They also have the correct wheels for it there. I wanted to use them but they were out of stock at the time.
After watching the movie intro that is provided, I think you should try to fabricate the passenger side fuel tank step up, does not look that hard. The grimey finish on the cab is superb, cheers.
Hi Boyd. I forgot to mention that when I was researching doing this build myself a while back I did find a kit that had this trailer....if my memory is correct it was nearly exact to the Duel tanker. It was a European style vintage tanker....Shell Oil I believe (white & yellow, not the red and yellow one). I will keep an eye out and if I can find it again I will let you know.
Transition Modeller That's cool and thanks! So maybe it's true that the original was a European import.
All I know is it sure was cool looking.
Very impressive work, I must say. However, before I even started watching, I already suspected that there would have to be a lot of fabrication involved, requiring use of resin moldings and other scratch-building tricks of career model-builders. After all, as the author indicated, nobody ever saw fit to make a model of the Peterbilt 281/351 narrow-nose tractors, much less the low-slung tank-trailer, which was a fairly-common thing on roads in the '50s and '60s and even used by many Army units to this day (ask me how I know that last part). I don't have the equipment or the patience to try and scratch-build parts, so to satisfy my own obsession with having the "Duel" rig in my model collection, I went with kits that were as close as possible to the actual rig(s). I opted for AMT's Autocar A64B tractor model, which aside from the badge bears a striking resemblance to the Petey 281/351 tractor (and even so, from a distance, an untrained eye won't see much difference between the Autocar badge and Peterbilt badge on the grille, though the side badges are obviously different). Even Kenworth came out with its own narrow-nose tractors many decades ago, but that's beside the point because I have only seen one model of such a Kenworth, and it was of a much-smaller scale. The A64B model was an immediate qualification in my opinion, especially since my whole life I always found Autocar trucks to be perfectly ugly, even intimidating, built more for heavy-duty function than aesthetics. Despite the surprising degree of accurate resemblance to the Peteys, I still had to do some fabrication. First, the optional overhead air conditioner that came in the kit was too modern-looking, so I had to mold an A/C unit out of modeling clay to go in the back window (although it turned out to more resemble a house-window A/C unit than a swamp-cooler); I recycled the kit's A/C unit by installing it on the roof of a Kenworth W925 model (themed to the TV show "Movin' On") I bought shortly after I got the Autocar model. Second fabrication I did was to the front bumper: The kit only had the standard Autocar wrap bumper, which is good but not quite enough without the effect of a reinforced I-beam-type overlay. For that effect, I had to make one out of the kit's leftover parts trees, with attachments placed to fit in the holes molded already into the stock bumper. That turned out excellent, especially when combined with the optional brush-deflector grille that fits in front of the radiator grill of the truck. It's been about 10 years since I did that model up; and although I'm still adding details I notice now that I didn't then (e.g., the faded-lavender paint of the front fenders), I think it turned out very good. The first layer of paint I added tended to wear off at spots where I would handle the model, as the paint reacted with my skin oils...but that actually added a fortuitous weathering effect where it was needed, so that was a stroke of luck. I have to say, if I wanted to try to produce a remake of "Duel" (a proper remake, not another of those rip-off movies that have followed since), I'd probably scrounge semi junkyards across the country to find a couple of Autocar A64B hulks to salvage and restore for use in my movie.
The trailer was also very tricky, trying to find a model with the closest resemblance to that design being like looking for the Holy Grail. After months of searching E-Bay for anything close to that design, I settled on a generic tank-trailer from Testor's, which had a low-profile look to it and even some degree of skirting at the wheels. The overall orientation of the trailer is noticeably different, but I was able to make it work with the Autocar tractor. It does have a pretty low profile to it, and the skirting the kit offered adds some degree of resemblance. I do, however, consider it an ongoing project, so in the future I may consider fabricating more skirting around the wheels to give it more resemblance.
looks awesome
I would like to see you build the rubber duck Mack truck from the movie convoy and the tanker trailer which would have to be scratch built the truck is available in resin from American industrial truck.com
I wish they would release those truck modles
Excellent work, your weathering techniques are awesome! I'm not criticizing your work, but if you are wanting to make it exactly like the movie truck, you should remove the inter-axle driveshaft and the rearmost driven axle on the tandem and add a non-driven tag axle instead. The original truck was a 281(single drive) not a 351(dual drive). Other than that and the 5 hole wheels, it is the best Duel truck replica I've seen.
Thanks, that's some great info about the truck that I'll try and remember. There were not a lot of those specifics available about it in my internet research when I built it. Mostly facts about the 3 movie trucks used for the original film and for the reshoot they did for the longer theater release version a year later. I actually heard from the guy who owns the only surviving truck which was pretty cool.
This is awesome. Its a build I have been wanting to do for a really long time.
You going to throw the Valiant in there too LOL
Transition Modeller That would be neat but like the trailer for this truck I have not found a 4 door Valiant kit that was made. I did find where one guy had taken an old duster kit and made it into the 4 door Valient and he had it looking exact with the right grill and tail lights and all. Pretty sweet.
Would give Dennis Weaver nightmares!!
Damn, it almost looks better than the real 'Dual' truck!
this is the v8 two stroke detroit diesel block.original block is twinturbos caterpillar 1674 inline 6.rear susp original is reyco leafspring with one rear diff and tag axle....
The box behind the back window was where a camera actually sat to capture the in cab shots
they picked out 25 miles of road and went back and forth and had a truck mounted camera for some scenes
What's cool. Theres an episode of the TV show Incredible Hulk that has scenes of the Truck in it. A lady is a Truck Driver and owns the Truck .
Cool I’m building a die-cast duel in my first animation
thanks, great job!
have any idea why a company did not create a kit for the Duel truck..copyright law? anyways..just stumbled upon your channel..you do fantastic work..great stuff...
absolute Spitze
Cara que dimais sensacional.
Brad Wike has the last full scale in Lincolnton N.C. I heard
I want to do the Convoy, Rubber Duck truck next!
I have seen somewhere on the net that you can get scale castings of the rubber duck hood ornament.
I remember see a photo of in aviation magazine of the same peterbuilt tanker they had in the flim Duel , It was a ex U.S.A.F aircraft fuelling tanker. The photo showed a group of them in front a U.S.A.F aircraft unfortunately I can't remember exactly aircraft they were in front of possibly a Boeing B-47.
Its pretty good but the truck in the move is a Pete 351
I think the inside of the brake hubs should have rusting also the leaf springs.
That looks amazing! Do you mind me asking what metallic gold you used for the cab? Most of the Rustoleum,etc..have to much flake
It's craft acrylic paint from Folk Art. I think it was antique gold to which I added a a little basic black to darken it a bit. I find that most metallic model car paints have flake that is too big for the scale which is why I don't use them.
@@TrekWorks Oh cool.Funny I was just looking through their paints on Hobbylobby..Thanks for the info.Much appreciated.
I love that movie
Didn't mind the 'shortcut' at all. Filling us i on the missing piece(s) was fine. no time. gotta see pt. 2 .
hello what material and what color is the color wand you use to smudge of mud on the frame
hi, the steps of the truck with which color you have them "consumed"? thanks
I only have one question does the weels turn
NICE!!
'58 peterblits didn't have airride & clearcoat is available in dullcote
Have you done the truck rubber duck from movie convoy
Will a hair dryer work for sealer
Would you consider building the ‘ MFP Kawasaki from the first MAD MAX Movie. I’d pay you a good price for it. I happen to be disabled, and I physically wouldn’t be able to build one myself.
I’ve been after this Motorcycle as a model for ages but there’s none on the market to buy.
Thank you
John
You should do a companion Dodge Dart to go with this. Oh - at 30:30 I thought your power supply was a model Winnebago!!
Here ya go :) ua-cam.com/video/0qOpGeazaN8/v-deo.html
the tubes see are tempera? acrylic colors?
i wonder if all them licence plates on the bumper are from other vehicals that the tanker driver totaled.
I read somewhere that they are.
hello explain to me how dirty the glass?
What colors do I mix to paint the entire truck?
I painted the truck and trailer in a medium gold and then weathered the whole thing up with lot's of different shades like rust, black and dark brown.
idon't remember the Duel peterbilt having air suspenision??????
is this for sale?
Lindo
Theory : Stephen King saw 'Duel' and imagined the truck as a ghost >that had been caused to slide off the road killing it, and the driver. It was looking for an orange Valiant
Thus we get 'Christine' in 1983
Yes I have the Ho Version of a truck but it’s not as detailed as that.
you should try CHRISTINE
I built the AMT Christine kit and lighted it. Theres some pics of it on my TrekWorks facebook page.
Too bad the correct truck isn't available a 281/351
And 289. Also the 351 is getting sold but its not a kit.
why the Peterbilt has cars license plates?
In an interview many years ago Stephen Spielberg mentioned that the license plates across the front suggested the many other cars this truck had "killed" on the road in the past. Hope that helps...
great job but thers one thing you missed the wheels are wrong need to be 5 whole wheels
+cody ammon I tried to find some but couldn't. I can always add them later when they are back available in resin.
did you try aitm but the truck looks great
+cody ammon Yes, that's where I bought the hood conversion kit from and the wheels were out of stock.
I haven't looked back there for awhile to see if they have them again.
+TrekWorks ok looks great was it hard making the trailer sides
Are you related to BOB ROSS in any way lol
I didn't see him add in a "happy little tree" for no reason, so I don't think so.
What is a dool?
Not dool, "duel", a controlled fight between 2 persons,..........pistols at dawn.
V8 engine ??????
Essa trilha sonora dá medo.
Why just go buy a couple bottles of testors rust color paint
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I would have gave you a thumbs up but you say ahh too much.
That's cool. These videos are to try and help out people to learn about building models. Nothing here states it's a video about perfect public speaking. I'm sure those kind of videos are on you tube somewhere though if that's what you were looking for and found this video by mistake.