Tony Bryan

Some good idea's and nice detailing............................ I love this scale....

AHHHHH so you do have a little "yellow" monster on the go, can't wait to see this come together....

Ok, I have to say this In my view you are using far far to much solder on this, and is certainly going to bite you later on there is absolutely no need to use as much as you have on the frame or suspension parts solder works by creating a bond between two surfaces, much like glue, and should be used in the same way as glue, but with the use of heat It is very easy to solder, and to use small amounts is far better than just heating and feeding the solder into the joint till it runs out the other side, this is just messy, so with that said, try this get rid of the flux solder, it is far to big for what you are doing, instead use a flux liquid, plus a plain solder, cut your self small bits of it and have handy on the bench, with a pin to pick them up, flux with the liquid, then heat till the part just starts to change colour, then add the solder, and watch it being drawn to the heat, this is a better way to produce clean even solder joints, use binding wire to hold the parts in position while this happens, but all parts MUST have a tight fit The diff looks as if you have carved it out of solder, the axle housings should have been made from the square tube and the smaller tube soldered inside it with the housing made the same way, slowly building up the shape, to do this requires using 2-3 different melt temp solders, using the highest temp to lowest, as it uses less heat to melt the other

Great idea while rummaging past all those parts, they do look great, Have you built one of your KFS kits yet.... you know, the yellow one....

That is some serious scratch building, fantastic..... I love it

Nice work on your masters so far, it's people like yourself that do more than a service to this hobby, 2 thumbs up

Thanks for all the kind words, I fitted a 3406, cut the door open, added a hydraulic tank and filter, as well as a hydraulic bank KFS do not sell any machines now,(the excavator or the michigan L190) the final run was done beginning of this year, and he will not be doing any more, which is a shame, as they are nice kits, and certainly a market for them..... Took a few pics in the sand pit, had to test the hydraulics before delivery

Finally finished this, taken awhile but it is done, This was the original Cat kit by KFS, the one that got Howard in a whole lot of trouble with copyright

And we'll deserved too

Thanks Ben as for engines .... No would have to scratch a C18 and a C15 The machine does have engine covers so I do think I will be necessary because of the size I really want to keep the weight down with that in mind the weight will be in the rims and tyres as these measure 160mmx62mm (61/2 x 21/2") and being resin..... Then add 2 resin engines on top of that The fulcrum point of the trailer may struggle with it when the scraper is loaded on this trailer in scale it will have less than 1/4" spare

But the doc said I was fine as long as I didn't touch plastic......

Folded up the grill today, the result is pretty much what I was going for, took about 3 hrs to Build the frame and fit the gril

Sergy The detail on this is just fantastic, love what you have done and how you do it

Little more work done, started on the cab, will be happy when this is done, then I can start on the scraper connection, so as it sits, most has been roughed in, ready for finishing when all the major components are finished

Thanks for all the kind comments, Thanks Kurt, but you are Far to kind, Hopefully it can be as good as Adam's stuff Good eye, it is Lampson tri drive Titan, as for building it, No, I don't build Mack's or Peterbilts Little bit more done today, finished roughing in the front, now onto the cab

I Australia we do things a little different to you guys in the States, especially when it comes to heavy haulage, this is a trailer that I am in the process of building, It is what we call a swing wing extendable, 5 rows of 8, (5 Axles with 8 wheels per axle set) with a 2 rows of 8 dolly 48 wheels and tyres in total plus spares so far the drawings are close to being finished ready to be CNC cut, so while waiting for things to happen, I was thinking of a load for it, and what better than a big lump of iron for the back, and having a interest in all things big, I decided to scratch build a cat 657 twin engine scraper, of course it is the biggest they make Problem there is only 6 in Australia according to Cat here, all in mine jobs, so what to do, ......... how about up scale from a die cast I started with the front tractor and this is where I am after 2 days roughin it in to get the shapes right, still a long long way to go here are some pics Part I have started with Total length when finished will be almost 1100mm (43inches) of just the machine, with 2 full sheets of plastic to chop up

Jarda Nice work on scratch building the DTU, truck is coming along great, look forward to more updates

Sergey Glad to see you are back onto this, look forward to seeing it all come together as there is some remarkable detail being added to your amazing build,

Maybe a little sharp on the corners but hey what a build, keep up the great work

Real nice job, like the paint as well

Great looking truck, you will do it proud

Look forward to more pics and seeing it finished

Nice work Ben, do they come with hubs at all, looking for some for a Sconia jeep and trailer (oiler hubs) for my oil field set up

Absolutely love the frame work, real nice job

Oh dear you must be kidding right? Your making a C channel out of a round pipe..... this is not really the way to tackle this, if fact it is no where near close to what this should be, for a start the wall thickness is way out of scale for this, and second when the form of a circle is changed to form a C the metal grows, and is hard to keep a uniformed shape the entire length of the frame in scale this frame would be 1 in thick The Photo I posted above shows a proper C channel frame in BRASS that frame is 0.020 and is close to being in scale with 1/16th this was also made from sheet stock, in fact it is K&S strip that is folded to a C channel with the correct radius on the bends The real chassis are Hydro formed to the correct shape, hard to do in a home environment considering the frame is 500mm long, A better way to do this would be to go to your local hardware and look for some Aluminium channel that was close to was you need and trim it to suit, or use the original frame with a sheet brass insert along the inside of the frame