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Cat D-11T Dozer- Todays picture shows a idea of the size of my next one of a kind model . Ever since I walked in the room at Indy at the National Truck and Construction Toy Show and saw Fred Hiem’s 1/2 scale Cat Dozer I knew one day I would be building a model similar to his. Mine is a much larger size dozer so even at five feet tall it will be a smaller scale than Fred’s . Fred is still my model building hero even though he sold his awesome wooden models and is no longer building them as far as I know. The whole time I walked around his dozer and talked with him I was just drooling over his huge model. I was just imagining one like it all out of steel sitting in my little workshop. So this Feb. I will begin the most exciting model of my whole model building hobby. The most asked question I know I will get will be ? ( Will it Run ? ) I’m thinking there is a 75% chance I make it run. This is only half of the excitement because i also plan on building a 5 foot tall model of a Cat 994F loader . Although they won’t be the same scale , they will still be two awesome models. Who knows maybe after the loader , maybe a five foot tall Cat excavator (:>). They would look great in my front yard as lawn ornaments with nice landscaping around them , ha,ha.
