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I've got some duplicolor hunter green, still need to inquire over at hanks board. thanks for the responses.

couldn't resist,

you sir are a building mo-fo! wow that is one sweet looking rig so far!

as long as we don't forget where we left the magnifying glass......lol.

well, i'm makin progress, albeit slowly. first time working with putty. i'm using Tamiya white putty. still needs a little work, but happy so far. got the hood masked and sprayed some black on the nose, that's about it for now, still want to massage the cab a touch, can still see a little bit of a seam.

that's gonna look sweet! your a machine, I don't think the paint is dry on the freight-shaker, and here you have a trailer and 1/2 a truck done already! p.s. the car hauler shoulda been orange, you threw me off with a new color

a few months ago, I thought all models were over priced [i'm talking new, on the store shelf stuff], now, it's a whole new thought process for me. now that I have jumped off the deep end full force plastic-wise my views are different on prices. I unfortunately have a longing for kits I couldn't buy as a kid/youth, and as such, have been buying 'vintage' kits. my realm has been limited to big rigs and trailers. I do prefer sealed kits, but, if it's something I want and it's all there, good enough. I am not buying for an investment, I intend to build all I bought eventually, some I am saving until my skill set improves, but by golly, i'm building them. it's reliving my youth to an extent, and I am in the position to be able to spend a little too much on something if I think I want it bad enough. having said all that, a few months ago if you told me i'd spend $100 or more for an old kit, i'd of said you were nuts, now i'd say you were right. but at the same return, if the market holds as it is for awhile, if I needed to, I could get my money back......if the market stays the same. it's all relative.....

good looking build. love the color combo too.

welcome! I work in Chittenango, sure is funny how the world wide web makes the world really shrink sometimes. i'm just getting back into building myself, and doing big rigs as well. it's a lot of fun, and this place is really packed with info. enjoy.

well, I see what you mean now. I cleaned up the cab and that panel, and have it glued in. tomorrow night will be my first adventure with body putty..........this should be good....rotflmao.....

thanks, that's where I found the reference pic's, I never thought to ask over there about the colors.

it's a henway.

every time I drive something with a cvt in it, I think it's slipping, lol. just can't get used to the feel of them.

thanks for the tip, although I wish I would have read this about 15 minutes ago, lol. only have the first mist of paint on it, so I guess my next step is going to be assembling that before anymore paint. thanks again.

thanks. the dash was hand painted with a teeny tiny brush and a magnifying glass. i couldn't paint the needles though, maybe on the next one....

exactly, that's why i couldn't do it. but as i said, awesome car, just couldn't hit the price point to be viable for me [even with the 'tax break' originally offered.

highway, i hear ya man, i had thought of spraying some of the paint i used into a dish/bowl so i could touch up the cab attachment points, and i shoulda touched up the battery box points with something. never even thought of the tires....... i guess i was so excited to be at the finishline on this, i overlooked a few more things. as i said, i see a ton of stuff i could do better, and that's ok, now i have a base line to work off of. thanks for all the comments folks, i aspire to be as good a builder as many of you are now, this is the first step.....

thanks, looks way better in the sun than it did in my building hovel, lol.

thanks for the kind words, i am pleased with how it turned out.

that's why i said it's a great city car, range is rather limited on pure battery. i almost leased one, i took one home one day, on a full charge i got from work to home and back again [almost 40 miles]. at the time, i figured i could plug it in at work, and fuel-wise i could drive for free. just couldn't pull the trigger though

it's a shame the volt was so much money, that car was packed with so much technology, and is a great city vehicle. I don't just say this willy-nilly, I work for a chevy dealer, and took a ton of training for the service/repair of the volt. great idea, pretty good execution, just missed the price point a bit [ok, a lot]. I was like everyone else when it came out, until I drove one and took the training, it's an awesome automobile! I too am a bit set back by the e-assist set up, as it doesn't make much sense to me [makes sense, just doesn't seem practical for real world experience]. I do feel eventually electric or electric assist vehicles will be the norm, we tend to repeat history, I think it was in the early 1920's that city fleet delivery trucks were battery powered, I remember seeing pics of AA trucks with a battery of batteries under the chassis.

making progress, took a lot of casting lines off of the hood, it looks good in primer. I scribed the cab panel lines, and blackwashed [first time doing such], and after primer I can see a difference in how it stands out. I have most of the trailer parts painted, and all of them have spent about 4 hours in the dehydrator, so tomorrow will be cab/hood sanding, then maybe some color. here is where I am at now, I decided to do the cab and hood first this time around, as I feel this is the hardest part of the build, you know, trying to get the paint right. if that comes out ok, the rest seems easy. Jim B also pointed out that I will need to extend the truck frame after the rear axles, as I have only managed an OOB build so far, what are my options materials-wise? never 'scratch built' anything before, so suggestions are welcome, I don't really know what's available out there to use to dream up stuff. as always, thanks for reading, and all help is appreciated.

I have in the stash a CF tandem trailer kit, and a white-freightliner SD truck to pull it. I have found some good reference pic's on them, but i'm wondering what 'colors' would be a close match? ya, I know, green and red, but what are the actual green and red 'names'? thanks for any help you can provide. if it helps, i'm looking for the 60's/70's solid green cab paint scheme color.

rotflmao, go blue.........

that's amazing, I can hardly follow the instructions on these models, and your slinging plastic from an idea in your head, well done, well done!