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Excellent work all round!!!

A really interesting project, great detailing and weathering, its going to look superb!!

Lovely work on the cab interior, and truck too, its looking great!!

You can't beat the old ones, a really great job again!!!

I think I would call it WELL DONE!!!!

Really enjoying this build, its coming along great, love the detailing.

That paint job is really something else, great work with all that masking, I never seem to be able to get a good clean finish, I always end up having problems with the rivets. The cab fans always look great and finish off the cab interior really well ( they are always out of stock when I look on the site) A great build!!!

Great work!!! really looks the part, excellent weathering and detail

Fantastic job!!! the weathering is perfect, a really inspirational piece of work.

Nice work, its looking good, cab interior looks great!!!

I am working on the Revell Aerodyne also, but it doesn't seem to have all those injection tabs that you have on your kit, maybe its because it is a later one? also everything is moulded in white where as yours is in black, the strangest thing for me was the lack of any representation of a starter motor, at least the AMT K123 has one, but then it didn't have an alternator where as the Revell engine has, you can't win sometimes. Anyway yours looks like it is coming together just fine, looking forward to more photo's.

Great paint job!!!

A small update of progress mainly on the K123, I decided to fix the fuel tanks to the chassis this time round as they will be painted the same colour as the chassis so this enabled me to finish most of the plumbing, usually it is a bit of a catch 22 situation working out where to finish adding parts when they need to be different colours. I also changed the front axle to a metal one from KFS as the one in the kit had a broken tie rod, I should have got one for the K100 at the same time I think, as it is such a good moulding and much stronger than the plastic one, this weekend I will start work on the K100 chassis to bring it up to the same level but I will not be able to fix the fuel tanks as they will be aluminium on this one.

Just to add another thought into the discussion, I presume its the same in the States as here in Europe, it is the diminishing amount of heavy truck manufactures, here in Europe now we are down to just seven major truck constructors which is bound to limit different stiles, and it is true that streamlining means that they do all look very similar, its just the way it is now.

It's looking great !!!

Thanks for the comments guys, not sure if it's all 100% correct, I checked out loads of video's of the two engine's as well as the diagrams posted on this forum, nearly every engine was different from the next so hopefully the two are somewhere close, the thing is you won't be able see hardly any of it once the cabs are on, guess I just like fiddling around with bits of wire, there's probably a cure ?

Great work, really like the old one's.

It's looking good, great work on the front axle.

Finally got started again and got round to taking some photo's of progress so far, the work on the chassis was done at the end of last year before I ran out of glue, all of the air line detail was glued with super glue but I was short of a couple of bits that I needed plastic weld for, so I was stuck ( or not as it turned out) I couldn't make much progress with the engine's either because the K100 engine kit didn't seem to have a starter motor or a alternator so I have since made the two up from plastic, I couldn't do much with the K123 engine either as I wanted to make a oil filter on the block and do away with the lubrifiner and the top oil cooler. Anyway we are now back in business, so here are a few photo's of the two so far, the last three are of the K123 And a late happy new year to everyone and have a great year modelling. Also just wanted to say that I hope nobody get's the hump if I don't post comments on their builds, there is just so many going on at the moment its mind blowing, so good luck to everybody with their project's.

This sounds like another really interesting build to follow, Kenworth K100 (what's not to like) looking forward to the build.

This is right up my street! great surgery on the cab, not a stitch in site, looks like it came in the box finished and ready use, great work, definitely watching this build.

I'm on board, I am working on a K123 at the moment, will be watching closely when you get started.

Nice one!!! great paint job!!

Excellent work and great photo's!!!

This will be a good build to follow, just a thought though, are the Ford and trailer the same scale?