Allis- Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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I must tell you, that I love this build! You have done a great job with your research, planning and build of this, one of my favorite US Vehicles. Bravo!
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Hi,
Just been checking my build threads, just realised i left this one incomplete for whatever reason..quite a while ago now and totally forgot about it...Doh!
So...
Here are some pics of the finished article, hope you like it.
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Well that has changed a bit since your last picture! Very nice.
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Hi Eric,
Thx, just think i got carried away building other stuff and totally forgot about the thread.
Thx for looking. :thumbup:
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Very cool. That is one great looking build. Like I said in the other thread I picked up a Nitto 1/35 scale model to scratch build on of these...some day anyway. :)
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Fantastic build, incredible details, love it!
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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The M8 sure looks good to me! If it needs a home near its prototype home, just let me know.

I have tried to hold off, but I just cannot control myself. It's ALLIS-Chalmers. Sorry...I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and "West Allis" (nmed after Edward P. Allis) is an ninetheenth-century working-class suburb where, on 70th and Greenfield Avenue once stood the proud Allis-Chalmers factory, birthplace of everything from the Allis-Chalmers WC to the Allis-Chalmers 8050 farm tractors and so many more; home of eye-bogglingly massive equipment for mining, each built one-at-a-time on an immense erecting floor, broken down again, shipped, and re-assembled on site.

Forty years ago I had a prized Allis-Chalmers jeans jacket with the wheat-sheaf combine logo on the back. Once, just once, I wore it on the bus, on my way to work in Los Angeles. I heard two women behind me talking. One asked "Alee-Chalmay? I've never heard of that designer!"

OK, I'll shut up.
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Re: Alice Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Hi Herr Dr.
Thx,
You are absolutely correct, i noticed my mistake as soon as i posted it WAY,WAY,WAY back in 2018...BUT cannot find any way what so ever to alter / amend the title spelling despite months of trying so thought !@#$#@, and got on with my life !!
P.s. try getting out more.... :haha: :haha: (just kidding).

Love the Foghorn Leghorn, I SAY, WELL I SAY.....one of my favourite cartoon characters back in the day
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Sub wrote:Hi Herr Dr.
Thx,
You are absolutely correct, i noticed my mistake as soon as i posted it WAY,WAY,WAY back in 2018...BUT cannot find any way what so ever to alter / amend the title spelling despite months of trying so thought !@#$#@, and got on with my life !!
P.s. try getting out more.... :haha: :haha: (just kidding)
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I'm pretty sure if you "edit" the original (first) post, the title is accessible for editing.
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Re: Allis- Chalmers M8 High speed tractor scratch build

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Ecam

You Sir are an absolute star.....thank you, duly ammended, its been bugging the life out of me for months.
Thank you, Eric.
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