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I was very impressed with pictures my nephew was able to create - I've got my work cut out to make some that, hopefully, look as good!

Awesome to see an update, Bren! That's a lot of work to get the trailer sides straight, but will be well worth it in the end. I'm with Jeff - a tutorial on the rusting is needed! ( I know you did some explanations earlier, but sure helps to see all the steps, start to finish!)

Thanks a lot, Jeff - certainly taking my time getting this finished, and seems like always more to come!

Thanks, Ron - appreciate that! If I can’t get a handle on the polishing on the test hoods, just going to have to live with the bits of dust on the passenger side door.

Feels like progress has been, well, there hasn't been any for just about three weeks! Was able to get a few things done and or, started today. Somewhere along the way, I forgot I needed to paint the visor for the cab, so got that underway. Also made the exhaust tip for the end of the muffler, that will be chromed along with the other cab bits. And, got the final coat of colour on the hood, cab and day cab panel. Prep work on visor - first coat of primer and then laid out, and drilled, the holes for Top Studio rivets that will 'attach' the visor to the cab brackets underneath - Another neglected (forgotten?) item was the exhaust tip - took an unused exhaust piece from an old kit, cut off the clamp, and added the clamp to the exhaust tip fashioned from styrene tubing - Finally, last coat of colour on the hood/cab/panel went on today. The paint might have been ok with the previous coat, but I thought I would sand out a couple of dust bits in the hood, one on the cab and then lay down that last coat and all would be good. No such luck - never mind the lots of care cleaning the air brush when last I used it, or rinsing out the paint bottle before filling it with filtered paint, plus running some thinner through the air brush first. Started the fan in the little paint booth, began painting the cab and almost immediately a few bits of BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH found their way onto the passenger side door. This time, the pictures are forgiving - can't really see the dust bits - but I can see them when I inspect the cab - So, using just a paint can, I put a couple coats on the two used hoods I had on the bench. After a week or so of curing, I'm going to try my hand at polishing the used hoods, before I attempt anything on the cab. Never done polishing before, so that should be interesting - In the meantime, I going to concentrate on finishing the sander - remaining lights, decals, beacons front and rear, the ladder and some other little bits, all of which are long overdue being finished. Take care!

You're making quick progress, Jurgen - looks good!

That's a really handy idea using the paint to mark your drill locations - funny what bits of knowledge stick around till needed! Going to look great, Jeff.

So much detail! Looks terrific, Dom.,

Great added touches - and more to come - looks like the real deal, Victor! Love the workbench stool.

Another top drawer paint job, Gary!

Looking really good, Scott! I think I need to follow your example of cab/hood first with my next build - might make thinks a lot easier.

Hi Ron - could be a couple of choices - a Google picture search on KFS's engine 13, turns up this - (AI overview says it's a Caterpillar engine) I saved the first pic above, from KFS's web site and the saved file name says "C13TruckEngine-image3" (Caterpillar C13?) So, maybe a Cat engine?

I bought a bunch of drive tires from Jamie a couple years ago - best I’ve ever used - and thankfully still have some left for another build.

I’m confident that, if the cab fits in your digital model, the printed one will fit, too! As always, you’re making good progress.

Too funny - looks fresh poured, ready for the road (or work bench!)

Thanks, Randy - a bit more to come, then the hood should be done!

The stacker’s interior details, and detail painting, are very realistic - an expensive, custom trailer in the works! Will your lift be posable through the back doors, or will the stacker roof be removable?

Thanks a lot, Jurgen - hope I can take some pics as good as my nephew did!

I had almost the same thing happen 50 years ago, and lost six trucks - they became my first parts bin. Marvelous job repairing your treasures!

Paint booth back working, but had Brother, Niece and Nephew here for a few days. Kind of a bonus in that my Nephew is a professional photographer. I told him I was going to buy one of the Nikon cameras that has an option to do a set of focus stacked pics and assemble them all into one pic, completely in focus, front to back of the model. He told me his camera did that, too, so he did a couple test shots to show me what it could turn out like. Looking even more forward to getting my camera now! Regular shot with no focus stacking - front in focus but not much else For each of the next two pics, the camera took 40 pics to make one, all in-focus pic - Back soon with more, actual progress!

I agree with Gary, and well done, Dom - quite the build!

No doubt, the M&R wheels are pretty special!

Just an amazing build - the real deal, only in miniature!

Your photo etch work looks really good, Gary. At first, it seems like a shame to cover it with paint, but the detail seems to pop even a bit more once the paint is on!

Using printer resin as filler sure works well. Do you use any kind of guide to scribe the lower, radiused corners of your doors? Very smoothly done!