Jim B

You know, Mike, it doesn't look half bad.  I think you did a pretty good job with it.  I like the colors.  Engine looks good, too.

Glad to be of service!  Personally I wouldn't put any chrome on the engine, but that's me.

The huses in the hosebed are sewing elastic (the kind used for cuffs on blouses) that I picked up at Jo-Ann's Fabrics that I stained light tan using Minwax Oak Stain (don't stirr it up, just use the liquid from the top of the can).  I think I uses 2mm & 5mm.  The couplers are brass tube cut to length, and the nozzels for the 1-1/2" line & the booster reels are resin items that I got from a friend.  The fog nozzel on the tailboard & the Saimiese on the intake on the curbside pump panel are also resin items.

Isn't it a 1000 Series?  I didn't think the 900 Series had the chrome along the bottom bumper, just the chrome stripe under the windows.  But yes, the Century Series has a wider cab.

Looks like it's coming along.  I did one a couple of years ago, and this is what the American-LaFrance experts told me:

Frame - black or red (I used semi-gloss black, but that's me)

Engine - it's a Detroit Diesel 8V71 so it coule be either Detroit Diesel Alpine Green or red

Transmission - red oxide or (you guessed it) red

Pump - frame color (or red!)

Wheels - chrome or body color (more common)

Interior - body color

Seats - flat red

Dash, steering wheel - semi-gloss black

Interior floor, engine doghouse - silver (to simulate the diamond tread plating)

Tailboard & running boards - dulcoat to tone down the chrome

Ladders - either flat aluminum or wood brown with white tops

Do yourself a favor, and replace the hard suction hoses with 1/4" tubing.  It will save you a lot of headaches.  Also, you can replace the booster lines with #18 red electrical wire.  It's more to scale.

These pics might help.

Interior:

Frame:

Over all:

Hope this helps!

I thought the Revell of Germany Kenworth was 1/25?  That's what the box says.