AMT 1/25 CONSTRUCTION BULLDOZER MODEL KIT BUILD REVIEW AMT1086 CATERPILLAR D8H
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- AMT 1/25 CONSTRUCTION BULLDOZER MODEL KIT BUILD REVIEW AMT1086 CATERPILLAR D8H and Weathering
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I missed out 4 yrs ago staying busy as a lowboy driver and I don't think I've seen a closer match to the real world daily used equipment, excellent work on your weathering details, you nailed it
Built one of these back when they first came out. The glue gave up over time, now it's in a spare parts box with a AMT Autocar and a bunch of other stuff. Some day I'm gonna do a Mad Max kit bash.
I did one of these when I was about 14 then after I got out of the military , I was a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees, I got one of these and did it in camo and i built a full roll cage on it . I ran a public's work yellow Cat D9 in the Philippines when I was in the Seabees. It had a ripper and it leaked so much radiator liquid that we kept a water truck with us. It had a pony motor and it took all legs and hands to operate, unlike the dozers of today.
Hey was just at model store Friday looking for my next build and they had about 10 of those D 8 model setting there for a great price, only 42 dollars...after watching your video I just went and bought one ! Your work is the best I've seen. I want to thank u for the tips Chirs and keep building my brother. 👌
Thanks John, you'll enjoy it!
I always enjoy going back and watching your builds. Your understanding of proper weathering and placement is outstanding. Your skill in taking a plastic model and creating a realistic representation of the 1:1 is excellent. Thank you for the time and thought you always put into your review and builds.
Excellent in all ways! I like your laid back approach to building , the less whining is a breath of fresh air , some guys constantly complain and nit pick , just roll with it 👍🏼Again bravo glad I was turned on to this series.
Yeah none of that here. I just want to have fun and build models.
just watched this again. you sir are the wizard of weathering. so many tips in 1 video. keep them coming.
Thanks George!
I built this cat back in the mid70s when it was ertle, fantastic kit, nephew walked off with it, need to build it again gotta get one
A real masterpiece of weathering, starting with an authentic colour. I miss the time you spent actually assembling it but the finish is superb.
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it, Chris. Bravo!
Thanks. These older videos were much shorter with fewer things included.
I sho do enjoy your videos! Been building for about 40 years, never been brave enough to try weathering. Afraid it will look like an infant painted it. You Sir, have inspired me to try it. Thank you!!!
Your best teaching video yet! You did a fine job describing the kit and the steps necessary to weather this hard working machine. I learned a lot and you convinced me that I really need to build this kit. Thank you, Chris!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
I built this kit last month using your methods and won a blue ribbon at the county fair :). It's a great kit to build, it was a whole lotta fun!
Wonderful!
Chris, I wish I had your videos when I was building models circa 1960 thru 1990. Absolutely love your builds plus the reasons for detailing the way you do. I learned that not all vehicles look like they came out of the showroom.
Thanks for watching Charles, appreciated!
Thank you for this video! I used to work on the real thing and you've nailed the weathering. I have this kit in my stash as well. Your tips and tricks are going to be applied to my build! Thanks again!
I built this kit over 40 years ago, before I got into 1/87 (HO) model railroading. Back then I never thought of weathering, and built all my kits as "showroom" models. Nice work!
Very cool!
Great review and build Chris! Awesome paint and weathering and that rust wash technique is cool. Man, you can just hear this beast clanking away on those tracks and belching smoke!
For sure! Thanks!
I received this kit for Christmas this past year. I have been worried about missing parts due to the box not being sealed. This is a great kit. I'm a day into it now. They have more chrome on it now than in your build. I want no chrome. I can't get it all off. It appears all the trees are here but I'm missing the grill cover. I'm going to reach out to amt and see if I can order one. I can't just fab this up idt. You did a great build on this thing. I have built models of everything since 1980. This is definitely not a first time builders kit! This really is a nice kit! I'm excited to get it done and dirty!
Very glad I clicked on this. Great tip on the rust solution, definitely going to try that. Love using stuff around the house to make weathering products rather than commercially made ones. Nice result
Thanks for the nice words!
I have always wondered about this kit. So glad you are reviewing and building it. Makes me want one now.
Thanks for watching!
You are a super awesome modeller, I'm getting back into the hobby after dealing with illness and I'll send you pics of my work. You are inspiring me, thank you!!!
Thanks for watching and Happy Thanksgiving!
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We had D8's in the Army, I saw one get Army stuck while digging a tank ditch. Took an M88 and CEV to pull it out.
Wow that looks fantasticly awesome, can't believe how real that cat looks you ARE talented dude
Two+ years later and I finally found this at a local Hobby Lobby and got it for $25!!
Awesome job. You obviously love doing this. As a teen I built many AMT kits, mainly transports, since that was my dream. Still have some of them. Thanks for your great videos.
Thanks Husky. I love making models!
great job awesome detail work. I loved the way you kept saying out doors for the steel wool rust technique and you are right don't wont to breath that in..
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely fantastic!!! The weathering details are stunning, and the completed model just begs to be put on a flatcar for my model railroading. Impressive!!! 👍
Thanks for watching!
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One of my favorite builds you have done.
Thanks for watching and taking part in the fun!
I have this on order, saving the video to favorites for later review! I really hope this is a thing to come love to see a back home, and a junkyard crawler that picks up cars for the compactor
Very cool, you'll enjoy it.
Another awesome job! I really enjoy watching your channel! Usually fix some dinner and watch your builds while eating!
Awesome! Thank you!
I've never been interested in construction machinery in my life.
After watching this video I'm hooked on them!!! I'm all about model cars and trucks but now I'm gonna have to clear a new shelf to display construction vehicles! I'm telling you Chris you're gonna make me have to take out another mortgage on my house to support my modeling habit!
Thanks for the comments Joey!
Another awesome build!!! Thanks for all the great tips. Really love your videos!!!
Thank you Brian, glad you like it!
I absolutely love your channel. I see ones you've made that I have from my dad when he made them years ago. The Cat D8, Mack truck, Peterbuilt Tow truck. They didn't have a ton of these techniques to make them look realistic. I enjoy watching you put them together as I get to put myself in maybe his perspective. Makes me miss him more. Thank you. Keep it up
Thank you very much!
Your totally fun to watch ! I really appreciate your presentation and work of putting on your review. I am.looking forward to your next show. Thanks again for your hard work. Jim
Thanks for watching Jim!
Great job by this dedicated modeller showing excellent modelling skills to this CAT bulldozer!!!
Thank you!
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Awesome build I've been wanting this kit for a while now.
Thanks! You'll like it when you get it.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very well done at schieving the effect of a weathered Dozer that has seen some serious time working
Thank you!
That's a beautiful thing right there Chris. Nicely done! It would be so much fun weathering this one too! You did such a great job. I like it! I guess I am going to have to get one. Great video Chris...Thanks for sharing your knowledge as well...
Thank you Mike, always appreciated!
Very nice. Lots of details that some people wouldn't even know to include like the fuel filter is glass so you'd see the fuel inside so you have painted it dark to represent this. Good job!
Thanks, but I had no idea, I got lucky on that one!
Hmm 2 days. I got mine in 1990 worked on it for a month, then put it away. Finally finished it in 2015! That's about 25 years! Great job Chris.
Hahahaa, better late than never!
I like to start and finish one kit before I open another. If I tried more than one kit at a time I'd go bonkers.
This is my kind of art ! Stunning well done !
Thanks!
Chris keep up all awesome work you do great tips thank you for Sharing
Another cool build congrats Christian I bought one of these and will use your video as a reference
Enjoy!
Thanks for the great weathering tips. Another great build
Glad you like them!
I built this kit, way back, lots of parts. Lots of detailing on the engine, tracks, hydraulic pistons and undercarriage. I scratchbuilt a ROPS for it out of sprue and some sheet stock.
I do everything from scratch. Presently working on a 1/18th scale Cat 60 with blade. Takes forever but well worth the effort.
I had a chance to obtain the original dozer with low boy trailer back in the '70's! I built a pete day cab for the trailer. I went through some of my "forgotten" box's that I had in the basement and found a D-8 kit that is identical except the box say's Matchbox in the upper left corner-I wonder how many of those were put out?
Just got this model about two months ago. Incentive to start building it, although it wont look like yours. Man you have some serious skill Chris. I would actually buy your finished model! I'm sure other's would too!
As always, thanks for watching and taking part in the channel!
Really appreciated!
Thanks do much for this video! I'm working on this kit now. I don't know if it will help, but I soaked the chrome overnight in LA Totally Awesome, and every bit of plating came off. I just had to rinse it off, no scraping or brushing at all.
Have this very model waiting for me to retire..a perfect model for using the weathering techniques the military builders use on tanks! You answered my question about detailing the engine separately before installation. Assembly won't be as daunting now. Thanks!
Yup, weathering is weathering. Tanks, cars, trucks, etc. Thanks!
I built this kit in 1978 and set it on a low loader hauled by a big International truck.
Nice build, you need to build another one put them side-by-side and then also build a white 1970 Dodge Challenger and replicate the final scene of Vanishing Point
Haha, that would be a lot of extra work to replicate that scene. Cool movie though!
Absolutelly fantastic ! Nice build ! Great job ! 👍😊
Thanks Henrique!
Excellent work as always! I really enjoy your videos, very informative! I will be trying your rust making recipe.
Thanks Aaron!
The rust tip is awesome. I can't wait to build this kit.
You're welcome, enjoy!
Excellent video! I'll be on the lookout for the kit.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. I built one when it first came out and started a newer kit just last week. I am denting up the blade a but and showing rust not the blade based on some photos. Also I have weathered the logo decals. They always seem to get destroyed. I will use your technique on the tracks but I am adding some muddy dirt and sand on the tracks and wheel area. Thanks.
Great! Enjoy!
Yep! I built one of those too! Still have that one! Awesome build😎👍
Thanks!
Wow, I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.
Building it now, trying to wrap my mind around building rolling track parts, got them built,now gettinging it together
The tracks snap together nicely as you have discovered by now.
Great build. So happy that AMT re-released this kit. I built this kit back when it first came out in 1972. Back then it was harder to weather kits because of the limited products. At the time you could buy this kit a a combo kit with the AMT Lowboy trailer.
Thanks Chuck!
Awesome Beast Excellent work as Always Chris So life Like Detailing
one of your best tips is the introduction of craft acrylics and rustoleum and krylon. Before those intros I would have thought they were "out of scale" but not so. Carry on . . .
Yup, they work great as long as they aren't put on too thick.
That thing is a monster, turned out wonderful !!!
😇👍🏼
Thanks a lot! Happy Thanksgiving!
You got skillz brother !! Mate that is freakin awesome, very impressed
Thanks Gary!
I built the original kit back in the mid '70's. At that time there was only one grill cover, and it contained the Caterpillar decals. Even back then, OSHA required a driver safety cage. I couldn't locate a Caterpillar paint which would have allowed me to scratch build the cage from Evergreen Plastic and painted it to match the rest of the 'dozer. Thanks for your tips: I intend to build the latest D-8 releas, add the safety cage, and weather it according to your information. I"ve been a model builder continuously since 1964, but I'm STILL learning ! Thank you !!
Thanks for watching!
I hear you about the still learning. I have been drumming for 42 years and still learn something new all the time.
I had the kit around 1974. I was in the Navy Seabees in 78 to 83 and I was stationed in the Philippines for 9 months and ran a public's work D9 dozer just like this with one ripper but the track equipment we ran didn't have ROPS
All you need now is someone in the seat! Great job, Chris!
For sure, some day I'll stick a 1/25 person up there.
Wow....this is real skills put to the test!
Great work there!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video, very well explained and photographed, thanks for the review and build.
Thanks man!
From my bench to you Loud Applause. That is a magnificent build. The rust tip, is a different formula than I've heard in the past and I like it much better (well except for the smelly part). Thanks for a great concise build show. Now excuse me, I have to go order a bulldozer, watch a bunch of hpguys Workshop videos and hit the red subscribe button
Thanks man!
Looks like she's been working for a living! Great job!
Thanks! Much appreciated!
Like how you dirtied the skid tracks awesome touch & detail.
Thank you!
Wow, that looks amazing man!! Great work!
Thank you very much!
Excellent video! Subbed and looking forward to more videos in the future.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome weathering ,nice tips too.
I too always wanted one maybe this time
Thanks Roger. I was really looking forward to this one and loved every second.
Beautiful model. I think this is your best effort yet. Nice.
Thank you!
Working on one now...as a retired operator wanted mine to look like this one been a while since I built a model thinking about getting the kit with the lowboy trailer (use to be a driver too) going to work on the next one a bit harder to get the effects going to check out your video building the trailer then going to get the Mack tractor and have a rig similar to what I use to drive
Enjoy Rick!
wow,great job on the d8 cat,i had one when i was a kid ,its ben a long time ago but i think mine came from cat back then, because my dad worked there and suprized me with that kit great work chris im going to have to get one to put on my lowboy.👍
This was a total blast.
I bet when this was released as an official CAT product that AMT or Ertl sent copies to dealers and what not for promo purposes.
Chris, you did an excellent job on this. I've built at least three of these through the years, the first being around 1975. It's a great kit and the only one of its kind. If anyone wants to build this and be a bit more accurate to the D8H, the front piece that covers the radiator should have round holes that can be drilled individually, but the supplied decal/sticker pattern is not true to the D8H so you may want to do some research. There are plenty of detail photos online, so it shouldn't be a problem. Bear in mind that Caterpillar paints each individual component yellow, assembles those components then paints them yellow again. So if you want to do a factory new machine the tracks should be yellow also. You'll have a lot of fun with this build and the finished model is large and impressive. Looks like I'll have to build another one.......
Thanks for watching!
I'm sure they can't do certain things due to licensing issues with CAT. From what I hear they want a crazy amount of money to use their logos etc.
The only way to re-release this kit and make it affordable to us common folks is to not associate it with CAT specific grill, logos, etc.
And yes, that's why I did yellow paint on the tracks before I weathered them up. You can still see yellow on the sides of the tracks a bit.
Yep, licensing can be an expensive proposition. I remember building an AFV model a few years ago (don't remember which one) that had the brand CONTINENTAL deliberately misspelled to avoid the licensing fees. As for the D8H there is a set of aftermarket water slide decals available that duplicates the design of the old glossy peel 'n stick from AMT in the '70s and includes the Caterpillar logo. I think I'll go with a factory new machine like the one I saw at a CAT dealer in Pennsylvania in the mid '60s. But your weathering job is really good.......
Super cool kit Chris, it looks amazing!! Thanks buddy!!
Thanks!
THAT BULLDOZER IS BETTER THAN THE REAL THING CARRY ON WITH THESE GREAT KITS ITS A BIG THUMBS UP FROM ME
Thanks Max!
Awesome weathering work!
Thanks Chris!
That is a very cool kit! Great build of it too!
Thank you Kenny!
Want to get this dozer and low boy trailer to hook up to my heavy haul tri drive coe Freightliner! Great job👍
Thank you, and thanks for watching the video and leaving a nice comment! Much appreciated!
Really like your builds!
Thank you!
Brilliant job this one.
Love ur videos keep up the good work bro love ur model trucks cars and tractor nice job I love it I hope you do more videos
Thanks!
Absolutely fantastic 😄
Nice kit and great build! p.s. You have a voice for radio my friend.
Thanks! I have a face for radio too!
Very cool,Chris.I built this back in the day when it first came out....
Wish it had those tracks back then....nice job.👍
Thanks Charlie, the tracks were a peach.
Too bad all tracks weren't like those.👍
Charlie Mac
The tracks in the original kit were vinyl. Some of mine were short shot where they snap together
yes,i do remember.snapping the tracks together ,and the grill was act a peel and stick decal grill and cat decals.thats all i rember back then.prob was a promo back then.but very cool to build,thanks
That's one of the cool things about these older kits, the memories and nostalgia that go with them. And, we're older now and can build and paint much nicer. Best of both worlds.
Another great build, two thumbs way up!!!
Thanks Daryl!
Whoa! I built this beast years ago. Built a tractor and lowboy trailer to display it on too.
Awesome. AMT and MPC have their big rig kits still out and the lowboy can be found as well. Sounds like you should redo the scene with your more experienced skills. :)
Revell 64 Chevy c10 fleetside built into a 4x4 shop truck put the decals on it truck is molded in white and another idea for the hauler is the mobeuis ford trucks any of them,or the Firestone 78 Ford f150 4x4 truck, and there's several options I've seen lately for building the trailer but hopefully you have a lot of space for all the area the bulldozer and the trailer and the hauling shop truck takes up lol good luck building it and you have a great channel and do nice detailing and intriguing builds sir..
Excellent video and build. Thanks!!
Glad you liked it!
This kit looks pretty great, I'll keep an eye out for one for me.
I get the feeling that if Tonka made plastic kits, this would be it ;)
It's nice!
Well done!.......very realistic finish and weathering
Thanks Dean!
OK.....I'll give it to you, great build and tutorial on the tracks.
Thanks!
That is awesome it looks real and ready to go back to work
Thanks Kenneth!
Great work on weathering!
Doubt I could even come close to that so mine will look like it just came out of the rebuild shop!LOL
Had this kit on it's very first release. My brother-in-laws (kids) found it stored in their garage and played with it until there was nothing left!LOL
Their only shortcoming on the kit was not having at least 3 ripper blades. That would have been more realistic as that is what I have seen in real world applications.
Keep up the good work, love the videos!
Thanks for the nice words!
You do awesome work with your details
Thank you!