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Peterbilt 359 'needle nose' conversion
Aaronw replied to robdebie's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
I just remembered I have an old Silver State Resin Peterbilt 350 resin cab which were considered pretty good at the time. Measuring the grill I get a width of 35mm. -
Peterbilt 359 'needle nose' conversion
Aaronw replied to robdebie's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
I found my Peterbilt book, but although full of information and drawings, nothing on the width of a "narrow" nose vs "wide" nose. They do however give the frontal area of the radiators, the radiator for the 281/351 was 1050 square inches vs 1444 on the 289 / 359, so the older is about 3/4 the size, although it doesn't break it down into additional width vs height. -
Aaronw started following Roadworthy Rescues Wrecker , Peterbilt 359 'needle nose' conversion and Harrah’s auto collection.
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Peterbilt 359 'needle nose' conversion
Aaronw replied to robdebie's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Not a Peterbilt expert, but from memory the reason for the change in grill was the adoption of a larger radiator, the older radiator having 2 cores, and the new radiator 3. Now if it is as simple as the old radiator being 2/3 the width, I don't know, but I'd think likely to save on tooling costs. Why manufacture all new cores when you could just make a new radiator housing (frame? body?) to hold 3 of them. -
My parents took me to the Harrah's collection when I was a kid, and it was building after building filled with cars. It was an all day event to see it all and my parents were not even car people, so that was at a pace of seen it move on, seen it move on. I do remember that he had a reconnaissance version of the P-38 that had been used for aerial survey after the war. At the time I saw it, it was one of only a handful of P-38s on display. Several more have been recovered and restored since then, but at the time it was a very rare plane to see in person. The current museum is impressive, and worth a visit but a considerably smaller collection. According to google, Harrah owned around 1500 vehicles, the current museum has 200-300. The Hayes truck collection was donated to the museum in the 2010s, but unfortunately they have not been able to raise the money to build a companion truck museum to display that collection.
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Roadworthy Rescues Wrecker
Aaronw replied to Steamboat's topic in Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Nice job. I like the beacons, they look a lot like early Whelen strobes. -
First time resin casting question
Aaronw replied to Sledsel's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
I have wondered about syringes, but thought they would be one use only, so never tried it. I can reuse the little plastic cups I mix the resin in, and since syringes seem to be made of a similar plastic, it makes sense that the resin doesn't stick well. Investing in a pressure pot makes sense for anybody casting in volume, but there are lots of little tricks to keep things simple for the just cast a part once in a while caster. -
First time resin casting question
Aaronw replied to Sledsel's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
It will largely depend on how much of an under cut there is for the rim. If there isn't a deep undercut, maybe up to an 1/8" you will probably be fine, particularly if you are only going to make a few. Silicone is pretty stretchy, but the mold will tear more easily the greater the under cut. I'm assuming you are not pressure casting, so bubbles will be an issue but with some practice and "thinking like a bubble" you can eliminate a lot of them. Squeezing the mold and poking recesses with a tooth pick to help fill them with resin and allow bubbles to escape will help. -
Roadworthy Rescue Wrecker
Aaronw replied to Steamboat's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Nice to see you made all this. I initially expected it to be the wrecker bed from the Midnite cowboy kit with the weird mini "Peterbilt" cab. -
Acceptance of 3D printed models?
Aaronw replied to jdhog's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
It is new so you are going to see push back from some. I wasn't around to see it, but I'm sure there were those who thought the sky was falling when plastic started replacing balsa wood. I think 3D printing is great and I'm looking forward to learning to use the new tools. -
Fire investigation unit
Aaronw replied to Firebuilder's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
There is a feature within Word called Word Art that allows quite a few options, and a drop shadow is one of them. You can also use a font with a shadow which would be an easier but more limited option. I long ago switched to a more advanced drawing program (Corel Draw), so I'm a bit rusty with Word's options related to this stuff, but any word or drawing program, even the free ones can do a lot. With a little practice, printing basic decals is not much more complex than printing a document. GIMP is a free drawing program similar to Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw that some use, but there is a learning curve to it. This is another example of decals I did with either Word or Microsoft Paint, this one with shadowed lettering. Again done 2005-07-ish so I'm fuzzy on the details. -
Fire investigation unit
Aaronw replied to Firebuilder's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
That is one of the joys of light colored (white, yellow etc) fire apparatus. Decal film and a regular printer work just fine for decals. These are a couple I did close to 20 years ago just using decal film, Microsoft Word and an ink jet printer. You can even get around the darker colors by using white decal film. I printed the text on white decal film and then cut the white film into strips for the striping and door logo. On darker colors sometimes you need to double up the white film to keep the color from bleeding through. -
2021 Pierce Ascendent Tower
Aaronw replied to Chariots of Fire's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
I did not know that, a neat piece of trivia. -
Yeah, I wasn't sure on the inkjet paper. I knew it is bad news in a laser since the heat of a laser printer can / will melt the coating on the inkjet paper. I long ago switched to using a laser printer so use the same paper for both the ALPS and my laser printer. Glad this thread popped up. I'm on io groups for several other groups but had not run across the ALPS io group, so was able to join it. I agree FB is really not a great format for collecting that kind of info long term.