Next project 90% done

[alangarber]

I have a KW Aerodyne sitting here and was looking at pics. This one really caught my eye and I was thinking thats the one to do. What do you think?

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Edited July 3, 2014 by alangarber

[Petetrucker07]

What can be wrong with that. A stretched out cabover. Its got my vote

[slusher]

Yes, that will be cool...

[tbill]

I say go for it! should be a walk in the park build after some of the stuff you have been doing

[blackbeard]

I say go for it too

[jacobus]

alan , like the guys says go for ot , its a nice one

jacobus

[truckabilly]

That´s a nice big rig to me. Why not to make a nice model out of it? Can´t wait to see it done.

[alangarber]

Already started. I notice that it's not an extended cab, it has cab farings on it.

[Truck parts]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go for it

[Force]

Yes it looks to be the 108 inch cab, it also looks like it's a K100E with square headlights and a more squareish grille.

I can't wait to see your progress with this.

[alangarber]

I got 75% of the cab done.

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[tbill]

WOW, you don't mess around! looks great so far!

[mackd]

Excellent paint job

[Superpeterbilt]

Your a pro with stripes Alan. Its off to a great start

[vincen47]

Very nice work. Could you tell us about the change to square headlights? I've always been curious about updating Aerodynes to the K100E look.

[Rob Hall]

I like that huge front bumper on the 1:1...one of the AMT kits had something like that, IIRC.

[Petetrucker07]

That is lookin really good, your stripe work is amazing, great job so far

[alangarber]

Thanks guys, First the headlights. I was lucky to have a set in my small parts box. I used putty to fill around them, took the lights out then sanded the area. The paint job wasn't the easiest. I can't find a good tape so I had paint bleeds in both colors. Thats where the homemade decals come in. I cut them straight and put them on to even it out where the paint ran under the tape, it gives that straight line look and once clear coated you can't notice unless you really look close. It's the only way I can fix these paint bleeds.

[Force]

Nice work as allways Alan.

I have tried BMF for masking when I did stripes and it works well without bleeding...a bit expensive maybe but it works fine and you get sharp fine lines.

One thing tho'..you have to use regular masking tape a bit away from the actual line, then the BMF right at the edge where you want the line to be andmake sure it's overlaping the regular masking tape some, otherwise you can get in trouble when you want to unmask, but with the overlap you pull up the masking tape and the BMF follows so you can get hold of it and it's easier to take off.
Another way is to mask as usual and first paint the stripe with the same color as the base coat, or you can even a clear coat, this is to seal the tape, when that paint has dried you paint with the color you want the stripes to be, that way the under bleed will be the same color as the base coat...or clear if you use that.

[BigBad]

So, I'm guessing this is the AMT kit? Very nice striping job, the colors go well together. I like the square headlights too, this is going to look very good.

[tbill]

as Force mentioned about bleed thru,

1 paint base color, let dry

2 tape off stripes etc, then clear coat, let dry

3 paint second color, let dry, then un mask

so far, this has worked best for me when trying two tone paint, it's how I did this cab [3 colors]

no bleed thru at all.

now back to our regularly scheduled build in progress......

[scale trucker]

i like it the paint looks great..as soon as i finish my freightliner im building the petty kw aerodyne ..

[Petetrucker07]

Thats another very useful tip about masking then paint then clear, im gonna use that idea

[kilrathy10]

This is one good looking project....Very nice.....Love the stretched out cabovers.....Awesome work.....

[Truck parts]

Thanks for the tip on using tape,and then clear coat it.