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A little bit of progress on the interior. Another nice detail on the PE sheet for Peterbilt is a pair of the seat belt buckles and comfort latches. Unfortunately, the belt retractors and the shoulder sash guides are missing. So are the belts. I made mine out of paper painted black and scratch built the missing parts.

The wood grain patterns that you can see on the door panels are painted brown over yellow using a sponge.

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I produced the red oval logos using decals as templates and placed them to the seats and the floor mat in front of the passanger seat.

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The PE sheet brings even such a tiny detail like the shifting pattern on top of the gear stick.

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I added a CB and FM radio to the interior details of the ultra-roof.

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I did not take too much care of the sleeper interior as I won´t open it. But I did not like the molded mattress, so I covered it with a sheet and blanket.

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Hello everyone. The Long Hauler Pete is back. I left this project rest for a while and now I am kicking off with the other end of the truck. I was waiting for some items to arrive. Now the ultra roof and the coloured PE dashboard is on my work bench. So, there is no excusse for not carrying on.

After spraying the London Bus interior I have some colour left. So, I used it for the Peterbilt interior as well.

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I got me these resin seats which I attached to the kit base. The seats will be a little higher which is very desirable for the box seats sit a bit too low in the Pete cab.

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The CTM released a new set of the photo-etched parts for the Italeri Peterbilt interiors. The set includes the coloured dashboard, two kinds of steering wheel spokes, the safety belts buckles and shifting pattern for the gear stick. The dashboard is georgeous. Not completely flawless, but surely the best that you can get. I took the pictures at night under my desk-lamp. It doesn´t do the justice for the CTM work of art. Check their offer to see the better pics.

http://www.liaznavzd...pdf/04-2013.pdf

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Another step forward - the ceiling. Two ceilings, actually. It is the first time that I took a shot at preshading. I have never done that before. Those of you who master this technique at the top level will probably laugh. But I am happy that  I managed to hit  the black lines at least this way.

My effort will not be much visible on the down-facing ceilings. But I wanted to try my first preshading on something less exposed before I will dare to make it on a cab or something like that.

Cheers.

Ladies and gentlemen, on board please! The upper deck has all the seats installed. I tried to fade them and shade them so that they would lose their brand-new shine. Unfortunatelly, the pics do not show this too well. The flash reduced the effect quite a lot.

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