MINIARE DELUXE

I am sure to get beat up on this a bit painting the old cat a color not yellow can get you hung in some places but I decided to be a bit different and risk it. I always liked this color and a spray can of it has been calling my name for quite some time so apologies to purists. Also you might notice I added some detail chicken lights that will sit under cab and just above steps of cab.

I decided to do a bit of dressing up to chassis and give this truck some storage. Side boxes to fill the back of chassis out a bit and add some interesting detail

Interior is very nice with good detail and for the most part very correct to all photos and videos I had looked at for reference. I decided for a bit more modern type looking colors but still using stock parts from kit.

Rolling Chassis and was a cinch just a bit of care was needed to put together wheels and tires. Over all super fun experience so far.

Hello Everyone Thought i would start a post with one of my current builds. The Revell Peterbuilt 359. I like the thought of a very reasonably priced kit that is readily available and can be built by many skill levels and with out a doubt this kit defiantly fits the bill. I was able to capitalize on a purchase from my local Michaels Craft Store and with a 40 percent off coupon. I downloaded this on my phone and i was off to the races with this build for just over the 20 dollar mark with tax. I was weary at first of how much flash and dry fitting i would have to do to accomplish this build but was pleasantly surprised after breaking the shrink wrap and taking the trees out of bags they looked great! Detail is not to shabby i was happy to see that with some highlighting techniques and slight washing parts look very realistic and most details are present accounted for. Now i am accustom to building slightly more difficult kits (AMT/ERTL) where parts counts can be absorbent and even painstaking to put together so this was a treat to build. This kit was almost snap together but i still made sure to practice dry fitting before any glue was used and had great results. With this kit my ambitions are to use it as my test bed for some products i am designing and printing so i wanted to make sure that my parts would be dead on and perfect for customers that are building there own versions. I decided that there was indeed a few things that i did not like about this kit and the first thing being attachment from cab to chassis. There are these ugly tabs on the back of the sleeper that had to be dealt with also in my view i defiantly like the older style round double headlights rather then the rectangle type that this kit is molded with so this will be one other change that will have to be made. Lastly i figured i would concentrate on only adding small details and accessories that a 1:1 scale truck would have in the real world and try not to go over the top on this one. Thank you for taking a look and hope you enjoy i will post progress until this project is complete and then start on another for you to follow. Cheer, Miniare Deluxe

Great Work!! Thinking out of the box and so unique. Hats off to you sir!!

Hello to all! Good to be here and part of the community. I have a passion for anything scale and all models in general. I am a builder and collector of all types of models in many scales. I have many passion projects and talents that I hope to share with you and the community. I also am very excited to see and learn many new techniques that other miniaturist are using to add realism to there projects and share the knowledge and techniques that I have been able to acquire. I am also starting to release some of my own products that are designed and 3D printed for your projects in my studio! I am very excited to get your input as a community on what items you would like to see designed and printed and put on the market. Thank you very much for your time and look forward to getting to know all of you. Miniare Deluxe (Tim)