BK9300

It would be hard to give you accurate measurements without those darn plans. Best a person might do is to scale everything off the height of your General's cab and then work out the measurements off these photos, using the cab height as the benchmark measurement.

Scott, by chance do you have this brochure? https://zips.com/docs/default-source/new-equipment-brochures/century/holmes/holmes_1801_1981.pdf?sfvrsn=c0f8eb13_4 Do you have any other good photos you might PM me?

Delicate work, Jürgen! Cool to see the working steering.

Fabulous scratch building - looks terrific.

Awesome weathering - you could do a WIP just on weathering and it would be viewed regularly! Great job.

Just an amazing creation - and a whole lot time carefully placing each bit of vegetation - beautiful!

Too funny! I'll definitely let everyone know what's coming next - I just need to be certain of which one!

Going to be off till later this week - have an opportunity to take some pics of a couple potential, 'next' projects. Definitely back at soon!

Thanks very much, Francis - very generous, indeed! I appreciate that, Scott! Also been appreciating that art work of your own - hand painted decals - not sure how you do it so accurately!

Painted wheels really stand out, Jürgen - moving ahead nicely!

Being satisfied is a well earned, and a bit modest, right, Francis! Really enjoy seeing what each update brings - amazing skills you bring to this hobby.

Awesome paint finish you laid down - beautiful!

Once you have this one wrapped up, and given how well this and your two previous builds turned out, you must surely be confident there isn’t anything you couldn’t model! Beautiful work, François

Very fine fab work going on here, Adam - just beautiful!

Safe to say, you’re going to have a very unique truck when you’re done - I think you’ll achieve the added goal of lots of detail with this one!

Well, what you produce with the program works out well - great for visualizing your project.

Sure coming together, Scott - looking forward to how your gold leaf turns out - will look impressive, I'm sure!

Ron, I like the drawings you use for your build designs. What program do you use?

Looks good! Are you adding more details into the design of this build? Your rear panel looks the most detailed yet - good stuff!

Thanks very much, Jürgen!

Yes, Sir, still plugging away, but the end is in sight! Thanks, Steve.

Terrific job of weathering on your frame!

Never mind the remarkable achievement of making something so small look so real, then it’s been painted with all the detail still showing!

Took care of a few more little bits yesterday, and this morning, before I get to painting the cab. The control tower and mast are now permanently attached to floor pan using Scale Hardware bolts. Also added the cover plate where the manual trans shifter would normally have gone. Added the four, yellow air valve vent lines from inside the control tower, and out the bottom of floor. Did some work on a steering wheel, using an O ring and the Western Star like, two spoke wheel center ribbing from CTM’s Peterbilt photo etch package, and got the steering column and steering wheel attached in place. Tower, mast and cover plate bolted in place with Scale Hardware bolts - Better visual on the cover plate - More detail on underside. I applied a bit of thin CA glue to the nuts to prevent them from backing off - So, the O ring I'm using for my steering wheel is the same outer diameter as the kit wheel, but I'll admit a bit over size in the rim width - it does remind me of the steering wheels in some of our trucks that the guys had added aftermarket, rubber covers to. Most of all, I was glad to be able to make the two spoke steering wheel arms from CTM's Peterbilt upgrade kit work. I made little slits in the inners sides of the O ring and eased the edges of the photo etch into the slits with tweezers. A little CA glue on the back side of the attachment points seems to be holding stuff in place and then I painted the ends of the photoetch flat black. The O ring is a bit oversize and the spokes a bit undersize (1/25th), but I am happy with the result - Added a couple wires, that will just tuck up under dash. I drilled out the steering column, cut the 'horn' bit off the kit wheel, and added a length of a bolt to the horn cap. I did this because, once the steering wheel is held in place by the CA glued bolt, the steering wheel will still rotate (manually!), to be in keeping with any posing of the front wheels - Steering wheel/column assembled - Steering column CA glued in place and the two seats taped in place for a mockup - Overall, I'm glad how the steering wheel turned out - you can see it has been turned a bit to the left, from the previous picture - Going to start on the remaining clean up of the cab, tomorrow, before starting to prime and paint the cab, and finish the interior through the back of the cab. One of the remaining problems is what to do with all the chrome bits that are needed to add to the cab after painting. Cleaning up sprue attachment points leaves unpainted areas, so I'm thinking of stripping the kit chrome - I just haven't decided on what to re-chrome everything with, that won't get messed up when I handle them. Thankfully, the problems are getting fewer! Take care.

Looking really fine, Dan!