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Really nice work on that, good weathering without overkill.

Breaking this up into digestible pieces, besides got to find all the photos. This is just some bits and pieces. Front axle and hub assembly, the hot bulb chamber and the wheels and tires.

Been working on this one for way too long. The prototype is a Polish license build of a German Lanz hot-bulb engine tractor. Got to the point were I was starting to paint it and decided I didn't like some stuff, so starting a rebuild of the main body parts. Remember its the journey! This was the first printed booklet one that I'd got into. The ones I'd been working on had been freebie download, so this was the next step up. The first major challenge was what few instructions there were was in Polish. So bought a Polish-English dictionary at a used book store. Them found an emulator keyboard on the web, that would let me retype the instructions so I could enter them into Google translate. Then I was ready to go. First as a backup I scanned the booklet pages and printed them out on cardstock. The advantage of this is if you screw something up, you don't have to go buy another kit or beg friends for parts, as if you have a dozen friends building Ursus tractor models. Luckily I'd already had a digital caliper to measure paper thickness with. Then it was cut, fold, score and glue. I decided didn't really like the way the rear tires were looking, so figured out using matt board to create bigger lugs for the tires. Overall for the first time, thought they came out pretty good. Would have liked more sidewall detail, but didn't find any reference photos for early 1950's era Soviet block tractor tires.

Thanks, can always use more reference photos. Guess I'll start a separate thread to show the Ursus.

To bad we can't do a 24 hour switch. Then you would have chance to dry out a bit and "we can dance, we can dance everything out control" in the rain.

Thanks.

Thanks Marcin. See you're from Poland so assume you're probably pretty familiar with card models. Will have to put some photos up on the Ursus tractor from Modelik that I'm also working on. More Stalinets.

Haven't build a Revell one yet and its been close to 50 years since I build an AMT one. The AMT goes together well from what I remember, but from eyeballing the Revell looks much better detail as you would hope from a fairly new kit, especially the chassis and engine.

3 nice 66 hardtops. One more comment on the Monogram Mustangs, They're really good, but since I've got 90 to 100 1/25 scale Mustangs and another couple of hundred Fords, I want to keep them consistent scale. My OCD.

Tom G, even I didn't want to get into that pile; but: yes.

An on-going irk for me: people who ask questions who obviously haven't bothered to do the least amount of search for the information. Try Google, Bing, Ask, etc. first; or reference books, magazines, etc.; then if you can't find it, throw it up for information.

It's a Soviet copy of a Cat 65. It is a freebie download from a Russian paper modelers site. Using a mixture of 20lb copy paper and 110lb cardstock with pieces of wire, wood, Plastruct hex rods (one of the all time great model building inventions) and anything else that I think will work. My level of sanity has been often questioned, this only brings it up more.

Hey Vince, I don't remember us going to the Truck Museum. Just the Ford, or I guess they were calling it the California Automotive Museum by then, and then up to the Railroad Museum which pretty much filled up the day. That would have had to been in 2007 or 2008. Times flies when you're getting old.

Thanks for getting me to the right place. Looks as good finished as it did in progress.

Sounds like the guy I went to auto tech school with who thought he could clean his Edelbrock manifold easily by dropping it in the hot tank. Guess people don't take Chemistry in high school anymore.

A few more things. Mainly pieces of the track links and assembly on them.

A set from several years ago from the Hays Truck and Heidrich Ag Museum. There was a split of the two a couple of years ago and the Truck Museum was supposed to be moving to Reno and become part of the National Automotive Museum (ex-Harrah's).I called them several months ago and was told that the trucks that hadn't been auctioned off for funds had been moved to warehouses in Reno, but money still needed to be raised for building at the museum site. This was an amazing collection and hope that they're able to keep it together. https://whulsey.smugmug.com/Trucks/Hays-Truck-Heidrich-Ag/i-8qDjRQB/A

Really nice, is it completely finished now?

The best band to come out of Phoenix: Sun City Girls. Space Prophet Dogon from Torch of Mystics album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfQljgzAtRE

Not having the new one, I thought the only difference it was done in 24th instead of the 22nd, 20th or whatever the original was?

I like the small top cars, but still prefer the original open cars. Which is weird since in street cars I don't really like convertibles that much.

As I asked in another thread a few weeks ago: "Why would I need a dehydrator?". Got a couple of things sitting (out of direct sunlight) on the patio curing right now. The thermometer on the patio (up high and out of sun) pegged at 120 about 1pm.

Interested in 25-24th. Having enough trouble seeing those anymore. What I'd really like to see would be a couple of the open cars from the first 2 years of the series, but figure that long ago no chance now.

Yeah, I know. It seems like normal life span for most resin aftermarket is 3 to 5 years. Was hoping maybe somebody knew if the masters migrated somewhere else.

Guess this is another aftermarket company that went to that great resin limbo?