Pacific cab history
Just thought i would mention, not sure if everyone is aware of this, there were three distinct cab generations used by Pacific. The cab depicted by the kit is the first generation, which is excellent, as it is by far the longest lived, which means that a modeler can build a lot of different pacific variations by printing out the cab, then mating it with lighter duty scratchbuilt frame rails, and running gear from other kits. This basic cab ran from the earliest Pacifics in the 1950's up through the seventies, when Pacific was bought by International. Starting in the mid-seventies, Pacific started using International cabs on some of their trucks, but the "Pacific" cab depicted in the kit was also used side by side with the International cab trucks, the Pacific cab was generally used through this time on the "heavier" models, like the p12-p16's. International sold pacific in 1980, at that time until they went out of business in 1988, they went back to using an in-house produced cab, but that cab is different than the kit cab. So the good news is, the kit cab can be used to depict any and all pacifics made from inception to the early seventies, an ERTL International cab, from either the ERTL Paystar or the ERTL 4300 Eagle kit can be used to depict any pacifics made through the seventies that don't use this cab. The Paystar 5000 kit is a good basis to build a Pacific 510, as both used the same 10" deep frame rails. Before I bought this kit I was working on trying to scratchbuild a pacific hood to convert a Paystar 5000 into a Pacific 500 or 510, my intent now is to try to produce a 3d printable Pacific 500/
510 front end. Between this P15 kit and the converted International a modeler can depict a wide range of Pacifics. I am attaching some P510 photos.
Here is a series of three photos depicting the differences between the three cab series