PierreR89

So a long time ago when i was a teen i had braces to fix my teeth being al over the place. When i had them removed after they had done their job i got 2 metal wires glued to the back of my teeth to get them to stay that way. Yesterday i bit down on something and a piece of that went up behind the wire and with a snap it had come loose, no problems it happens sometimes. But yesterday when it happend i could not get a appointment to any dentist at all to fix it. My normal would not fix it as they blamed on "material shortage" No problems i thought i can just call the denstis that are in the city i live in now.. Nope they will not accept any new patients right now because of corona... So here i am and having to bend that piece of wire out of the way a few times every hour so it will not stab my tounge. A bit annoying but i can live with that, i have no other choise anyway apparently.. Wonder how long it will take untill i can get it fixed...

Thanks. Yes they look great standing next to eachother. Thinking about buying the Gmc astro and Chevy titan and having them next to eachother to. Only thing i regrett not doing is painting the inside of the sleeper black to stop light shining through it. Did not need to do it on the General because of the blue color.

Got this done today. It had almost the same problems as the General did exept this had much more flash on the parts and way more warped hood and cab. I was surprised that the decals even worked since they were from 1979. Also found out why the hood hinges does not line up, they have flipped side on the parts in the manual so the left side should be on the right. The manual shows the pins facing the radiator but if they are flipped they will face the headlights and line up much better with the hingepart that glues on the back of the bumper. I only looked closer at it after i painted it and just left it as it is because i did not want to destroy the paint so the hood is just loose ontop as on the General.

Thanks. It was fun to build even if it had a few problems. I would build one again if i buy one of to rereleased versions. I hope they rerelease the Chevy Bison to as it is the same kit just with a different grille, logo and hood ornamnet They already have most of the molds for it with the General being out now.

Nice. I think i need to build one of these version myself

Got this done last night. Been building on it for about a week. Hood is just loose ontop as the hinges did not line up at all. Just noticed when i took the pic's that one rear wheel does not touch the ground, guessing the frame was slightly warped and i did not notice it when building. The hood, cab and a few other things were also warped but those i managed to get back to their original shape. Do anyone know where i can get just the General decal for the hood? Painted in in ultra marine blue. Engine is not the right color but the closest i had was mint green.

This irked me a bit a few nights ago... The connector for the lightswitch in my suburban decided to set itself on fire and leave me without any headlights at 1 at night... That was a interesting drive to get home with only the markerlights as a lightsource... Did not see a thing and had to guess where i was on the road that i fourtunatley enough knows exactly how it goes... A "new" connector from the junkyard fixed that and now i have headlights again. Now i just need to wire up some relays for the headlights to prevent this from happening again..

I looked at your site and found some things i want to use on mine when i build it. Do you offer international shipping? i did not find any info about that.

I will try that with the next kit that has decals that has turned yellow. I dont thing i have one that has that problem now but it has been a long time since i opend them and looked at them

I have been lokking at the Ford aeromax kits that Italeri has (106 and 120) I was starting to wonder what other differences there are in them exept for the grille? Is there any other differences or it is just the grille that is different on them? The cab and sleepers looks the same on them, are there any differences in the interior of them to or not? Only real reson i am interested in them is because i feel that i need some more modern looking trucks in my collection instead of trucks from the 60´s 70´s and early eighties. Nothing wrong with them but i feel like some more modern looking trucks would look good among the others + i already have the LTL9000 so why not continue with more Ford trucks.

Since i only work 3 days every week now thanks to the C word... I had nothing to do 2 weeks ago and started on this. It is a Italeri kit reboxed by Revell and different decals (much nicer imo then what Italeri offers in their kit) I did find out a few things, 1: If you want the hood to open when assembled do not use the provided hoodpins that goes through the hinge and in to framerails, just let it sit loose. It will not fall off and when opening the hood the hinges will catch the front bumper letting it stay in the open position. Alignment between the hood, cab and front bumper will be way off if the pins are used. 2: When mounting the exhaust between the Y pipe and stacks, do not jump ahead and mount the sideskirts first it will be almost impossible to get the pipes in place. Manual also says to mount them after the sleeper is on but it will be much better access to it without it mounted. Only problem i had with the decals was that they have started to get yellow due to their age, can bee seen on the freigtliner decals on the grille and mudflaps. Did not manage to get the stacks to stand perfectly straight up so they are slightly tilted, but if anyone asks the driver hit a low branch knocking them that way because that must have happend alot of times irl because of how far up they go compared to the roof Did also mount the sunvisors inside the cab in the down position, its har to see but it shows in the pic,s through the windows.

Thanks. The paint is called Bordeaux red

Finally done with this. The mirrors were a pain in the you know what to build. Getting the cab to line up with the hood was also interesting but i think i managed to make it look right.

Looks good. I wish i had more of them because it was fun to build.

A few things just to fill up my supplys as i was running out of everything apparently. Tamiya clear blue and yellow, tamiya putty, black tamiya panelline accent and glue. Molotow 1&2mm chromepens and molotow blackliner + a wethering set to create rust effects from vallejo. Did also order a few parts for my Mack wrecker from auslowe so it can call it done.

Any help?

Thanks everyone Here are some pic,s that shows how it looks when it has shifted to purple.

My googling skills are apparenty somewhere else today. But what are the dimensions of it when it is fully built? length, width and height. Inches or mm doesent matter.

The tires are not that great in this kit. I got lucky in my kit and got 10 tires that was somewhat round but they need to be replaced with something better

After about a year i finally decided to paint this. Its Revell,s snap kit so it was easy to disassemble. It has a gloss black basecoat and then i used an airbrush to paint it Darth Blue from greenstuffworld and a clearcoat over it. Its darkblue metallic that turns to dark purple metallic in the right light and angles, it was hard to capture the purple in these pic,s but it shows on some parts. I think the decals really fits it with this paint.

The fenders comes with the kit. The same fenders are in Revell,s kenworth K100 and K100 aerodyne as the rear end on this is from a K100 kit

Thanks. It is actually both, there are parts in the kit to build it as a left handdrive and right hand drive. Only thing is that if you want it as a left hand drive you have to paint and detail the left hand instrumentpanel yourself as the decal included is for the righthand drive.

Some outside pic,s that really shows the color now when it is sunny outside. It looks way better in reality then the pic.s show.

Started building on this truck over 10 years ago and lost interest so it was just standing collecting dust. But decided to finish it a few days ago. Only things left to do is mudflaps at the 2:nd axle, taillights and markerlights at the front fenders. The sunvisor for the cab was lost so i have to get a new one. The paint is a base coat of gloss black and then Greenstuffworlds chameleon metal paint called evil green. Was my first ever attempt at airbrushing to and i dont think i did that bad. The pic,s that looks greenish and black are taken without any extra lighting, the ones that are purple and greenish is taken with an extra light

I think i know why they never get built to. Step 1 in the manual is to cut the frame in half. After that it just goes downhill with parts that dont fit and instructions that are wrong and/or unclear and have to look at a pic of a real truck to find out how it is supposed to be. I have a thread on this truck in the workbench if you are interested in some of the problems i ran in to. Only part that was painless to build was the rearend as it is almost the same as any of the other Kenworth trucks revell has.