BK9300

You do amazing detail painting on your builds - more you look the more detail stands out. Great work!

Very well done, Randy - beautiful paint finish.

Was doing some last minute prep on the cab, before priming and saw I hadn't yet cut the hole in the driver side firewall apron, for the air intake tube from the air cleaner. Had to temporarily put interior back in cab, so I could set the cab and hood in place and mark the center for this hole finally. Before I put everything but the cab back in the cabinet, I set in the door cards and took a few pics - getting excited imagining it put together once and for all! door card sitting little lower than their final position - Going to give the cab a scrub down, dry it off, and give it a coat of primer later this afternoon. Hope everyone has a good weekend - take care!

Just like your Sketchbook rendering - striking colour, Ron!

Very cool to be able to print up a ‘test’ cab, to check out how things fit together. The resin printed cab Bren did for you should look great on this build!

Thanks, Francis! The interior doors are a bit of practise - not very visible, but still a challenge to see if they could be improved.

For someone like me, who doesn’t know much about machining, it is not always easy to appreciate the amount of time it must take to create these exquisite miniatures, but it’s certainly easy to appreciate the result!

Nice looking build, Pat - like your photo backdrop, too.

Another beautiful truck rolls off your bench! I’m thinking it looks good as is, far as weathering it goes - at best, maybe some road dust on the frame from the short haul gravel job!

Follow up to yesterday's work - got the headliner and door cards painted today. After a few hours, set about to finish the door card detailing - little things that they are took a good part of the afternoon. Carrying on from yesterday, I carefully cut out the window cranks from the Alaskan Hauler door cards, salvaged the speaker fronts from the tufted area of the Constellation cards, and painted them and along with the door pulls a satin black. After adding some rivets to the door panels, I'm quite happy with how they turned out - Always wanting to see a 'bigger' picture, I mocked up the passenger door card, close to its final location - On the cab, I trimmed off all the hole plugs and sanded them down a bit. I'll finish drilling the remainder of the holes in the firewall tomorrow, and then I need to primer the cab to see all the areas that will need tidying up before paint. Take care.

Turned out very well, David!

Well done! Never built a European truck before - they look like impressive rigs.

Nice work with your detail painting - looks good.

Back at it for a bit this afternoon, after a few days off taking pics for a coming project. Still forming some ideas, so going to wait a bit to say what it is, but definitely another truck for my mini YRB highway maintenance fleet! Started filling in all the holes in the cab for mounting things like the kit exhaust and mirrors. The exhaust muffler and support I made some time ago, don't mount on the cab, and I am going to try to fabricate a pair of mirror brackets based on the real truck. Also got started on some items to finish off the inside of the cab - the headliner and the door cards. I'm going with the ones from the Constellation, but modifying them, to dress them down a bit. Plugging all the cab's holes for exhaust, mirrors and handrails - hoping to make handrails and mirror brackets from Albion tubing (I can also see from this pic, that I missed the holes for the upper handrail mounts) - The Constellation cab was a bit more 'deluxe' than the one in the plow truck. The diamond tuft has to be dealt with - Using a razor saw and X-acto knife, the diamond tuft was carefully cut away from the door cards and used as patterns for 1mm replacements. I made a paper pattern to cut out a 0.2mm piece of styrene, to lay over top of the diamond tuft in the headliner - Now, a few well placed rivets and all should look good under a coat of paint - looks much more like the plain, vinyl roof of the real truck. The door cards aren't 100%, but look much better without the diamond tuft - I broke the tip of the styrene insert for the door on the right hand side of pic - will tidy up the repair tomorrow, before painting. Going to work on cleaning up the plugged holes on the cab tomorrow morning and start transferring the holes in my temporary firewall, to the actual firewall, for the fuse box, electronic modules and some wiring harness clamps - needs to be done before I can prime and paint cab. Also should be able to get some primer on the headliner and door cards. Might to get to adding arm rests, door pulls, etc., as well. Take care!

Awesome progress, Scott - the tarp is a great detail, too. The ballast load will be the icing on the cake - a show truck still earning it’s keep!

Very cool!

Looks pretty sharp, Mark - I like the added detailing, like the stain on the fuel tank.

I'll second that! Good to see your new setup taking shape, and some work underway - that's got to feel good. Always good to see updates from you!

Well done, David! I really like this view - could be the real trailer (in a really big studio!).

Yes, you did say that on the previous page - I should have remembered that! The detail will pop even more with that frame colour.

Good job with all the plumbing, Ron. Looks good with that paint choice - lots of detail still visible.

Cool build, Ron.

Got to love another company truck - like the slight rusting on exhaust manifolds and piping; subtle and very effective at same time!

Another fine build - looks very well done.

Good looking build, Jorge!