Building a Fleet; Robertson's Transport **Photo Intense**

[Trucklover]

Here are a few shots of one of the Kenworth dump trucks that will also be in my Robertson's Fleet. I plan to have 4 of these trucks

I started with a off the shelf Kenworth dump truck from Herpa. I removed the herpa dump bed and took the bed from a Model Power Kenworth Dump truck and mounted it to the chassis. I still need to lightly weather and install decals and a load.

The trailer started off as the regular trailer that came with the kenworth dump truck. I removed the bed as I did not like the look of it and instead will install a different herpa bed that in my opinion looks much better. The trailer is a 3-axle dump trailer and the bed still needs to be painted silver. Light weathering and safety striping decals along with a load still need to be added











Now to the Peterbilt 389 "Half-Pipe" Dumps. I plan to make at least 2 more of these for my fleet, both with lift axles. Just like the Peterbilt Transfer Dumps, I started with Trucks N' Stuff 389 Sleepers and cut the sleepers off. I then cut the chassis of the one with the lift axle behind the cab and spliced it together with the chassis of the dump bed and installed the lift axle. The one without the lift axle was not as heavily modified and I took the dump bed off of its chassis and mounted it on the back of the 389 Chassis.

Both will need the cab guards installed to close off the holes on the back of the cab where the sleeper was removed, some light weathering, decals and safety striping to finish them off.





















Lastly we have the massive "Super Dump". I think I am only going to have one of these in my fleet, but may make another just to have two since I am liking how it is turning out so far. I stated with the normal TNS 389 and cut the sleeper off. I cut the chassis just behind the cab and took a Herpa Peterbilt "Super Dump" truck and cut the chassis just in front of the bed and spliced it up with the chassis of the 389. The Herpa Super Dump came with 3 lift axles, but I thought it looked better with only 2 so I left the 3rd off. Cab Guard, light weathering, safety striping, and decals still need to be applied as well.