Old Albion

Jarda, This is excellent! I'm really enjoying watching the progress on this project. I was wondering about the black primer and then I realised what you meant by it. The white plastic is opaque and if you paint it white the light shines through, so you loose all the definition and detail and it looks odd. Thanks for posting.

This is superb, a great looking truck, very well built and detailed

That is impressive, excellent work so far.

Weren't the engines painted grey after the gold?

This is a superb looking truck. The colour scheme is just perfect!

That is impressive!! Excellent build and paint work, I really like it.

Very Impressive build! The weathering is perfect, it makes it look real.

This is an excellent build, I really like it.

Very clean build! Excellent work.

I like this. Excellent build!

This looks great. The paint is perfect.

This is excellent work. Very impressive.

Excellent work so far!

I remember reading about the Kenworth with the V12 Hall Scott, I think it was a topic on the ATHS forum. Anyway if I remember rightly the truck was the only one fitted with this engine and it was by special request from the owner. It was used to haul a tanker trailer over the mountains in the western states. The owner apparently wanted a truck that would fly up the grades?? The hood was made an extra 12" long to accommodate the engine. Apparently the truck caught fire and was a complete right off. I saved some photos for a possible project in the future. The first photo shows the owner at the wheel. I believe the guy leaning against the truck was the Hall Scott Field Service Engineer and the guy in the suit well may be the Hall Scott sales rep, or Kenworth representative. Who knows?

Kurt, Those trucks are very impressive. My favourite one is the very first photo that you posted of the Kenworth W9 in green. That is excellent.

Excellent restoration and transformation. This really does look good, complemented by a superb paint finish. Well done.

A great looking pair of trucks. Excellent!

I think the engine in the Super Boss KW is a marine version and a 12V71TTA (Twin Turbocharged and After-cooled). I bought some old Hendrix resin cast ones a few years ago and put one in an Autocar and still have 2 left for possible future projects. On an 8V71 the exhaust manifolds should be above the frame rails and point towards the rear of the truck. With a 12V71 as stated the manifolds turn upwards with the outlet at the rear of the engine. There is a special "U" shaped pipe that bolts to the manifold and converts the exhaust to point downwards. Hope this makes sense.

Superb!

Excellent! The paint scheme is perfect.

Jeff, Your comment about the KW chassis being to narrow for the 8V Detroit is an interesting one. I'm sure that's why on the 1:1 Kenworth trucks the exhaust manifolds on 12V71s are turned upwards, because the frame is to narrow for the manifolds to point downwards.

That engine looks real! Excellent work.

Excellent project and you are off too a great start.

Interesting project! The kit looks quite delicate and I can imagine that getting parts to align properly is difficult. Your doing a great job of it so far.

Nice Project! Excellent start.