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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!

Another inspiring post of your amazing work, Randy! This last series is quite interesting to me, because I'm going to need to make Western Star frame horns for my next build, too, so very inspirational for me to see this. Just marvelously complex detail you create!

Your last mockup pic looks great, Scott! I really like the two hole wheels, too - just look right on this truck.

Very impressive, all around, Cameron, and really like your engine/firewall detailing. Looks amazing!

Fabulous work, Luke - looks like it was that way all along!

Making great progress, Jurgen!

Beautiful work, Jim

Very good idea about the guides you made for decaling your tires - excellent idea, in fact!

Awesome looking setup, Pat, and very interesting idea using the tattoos!

Now that's a beautiful truck! Fantastic workmanship - on your condo sleeper, and other customized fabrication and great paint - looks terrific! Do you have any WIP pics?

I'll say it again - amazing creations you make. Don't how you manage to work on a few at a time and still have them all turn out well!

Thanks, Jeff - should be able to start in on it, in about a month!

Looks great, Scott, and good job on covering up the joints from your frame lengthening. Did you use the CTM air valves again (or have some left over from last truck build)?

Still don't have my paint booth operational yet, so, did some work refining the slew drive bearings for the two towers on the Snooper. The outer ring gear that I had test printed needed to be modified, to include the inner portion of the bearing, so I could attempt to make the tower(s) rotate and be posable. My version of a drive bearing is not like the real deal, but should allow me to seat the outer ring between two halves of the inner ring and end up with a unit that rotates (manually!) Main tower drive on 3D model - Sample, real slew drive bearing - I plan to make the inner portion of the bearing in two halves, out of styrene, and glue (bolt?) them together around the resin, outer ring gear. For now, @Bren is test printing everything in this modified design, to see if it is workable - Still testing out other ideas in the 3D model, working out more 'how to' stuff. Should be back to the plow truck later this week!

Show stopper, for sure - wonderful to see!

Often dreamed of having an S10 like yours, back in the day. You build very cool pickups - only seen two so far - if your others are like this one, they'll be amazing, too!

Very sweet! And a very impressive interior, too - beautiful work.

One of these years, maybe I’ll get foil to turn out that nice.

Just getting to this now, Jeff - looks so good! Big improvement over the stock cab - great work!