BK9300

I like your interior work - the kit’s molded dash detail looks simple, but your detail painting sure enhances it! What have you used for your gauge ‘lens covers’ ?

Great progress, Steve! I don't have the imagination for a build like this, but I appreciate following along with this quality build

Another interesting build finished in fine fashion - great work, Jurgen!

You produce such well detailed, clean builds - awesome!

Crazy amount of detail work - just a beautiful, well executed build!

Once again, another great project completed, Jurgen! looking forward to your next project.

More like well stated opinions than pontification! All good thoughts about printing and its place in the hobby. For now, l need to settle for locally outsourcing the printing of my limited need for 3d parts as a first step, then who knows. Thanks, also, for your thoughts on my build.

I appreciate all the good info - not sure if I’ll ever find my way into resin printing, but I can sure see where a build could be improved by being able to print your own parts. Scratch building working for me at the moment but some parts are just too small to make! Thanks again.

I often read about shrinkage and warping occurring during the post printing, curing process. Have you had any issues related to that in your prints?

Good looking truck, Ron! Seems 3d printing will produce new build opportunities that just aren’t being offered by traditional kit manufacturers.

The hood may be giving you grief, but you sure nailed the rest of it! Tremendous detailing!

In my opinion, with your addition of the strengthening rib, and the fact that you intend to put three hinges on each door, the weight of the doors shouldn't stress the hinges enough to make them fail. I think where the hinge plate attaches to the hinge barrel will be the weakest point - even so, with three hinges, each door should work well.

Procrastination doesn't seem to have any place in your world! A 'problem encountered' very quickly turns into a 'problem solved' - great progress!

Truly masterful work - a pleasure to see it come all that way, from a basic kit, to its final, grand completion - amazing work!

Thanks, Charles- I was thinking about that too, because there should be some bits of sand left in the conveyor from the calibration process!

Geez, Jeff, had an off day from the forum and you added a page to your thread - I missed all the work you’ve added since you started the plumbing on Page 4 - looking really good!

Here's hoping - thanks!

Catching up on your build - great detail work on your engine and engine compartment - adds so much!

It's very impressive when your scale modifications look like they came out of a real life custom fab shop!

So, things are well enough for me to have spent some time in my Sketchup program the past couple days, building the 3D control console file. I've finished it to the degree that it makes no sense to put in more details, as a 1/24 version just won't show it, or even be printable. In fact, until I can talk with someone who knows what's achievable, I'm not certain the detail I do have is printable. The scale size of the metal 'box' that the controls are mounted on is 13 mm x 13mm x 16mm and the overall height from the model's floor to the top of the display monitor plus its mast, is slightly less than 1.5 inches (see an earlier post for some pics of this console in a real truck). I guess I'll find out this week what printed detail can be achieved when I talk to the university club. In the meantime, a few renders of the model control panel! This render was done with no colours or textures rendered, just a 'clay model' as I've heard it called. Same view with colours and rubber, plastic and metal textures applied to the model - if you zoom in on pic you can see lots of little detail that likely won't be able to be printed. Passenger's side view of console and monitor - a good deal of wiring comes out the back of the monitor and runs down and into the back of the metal console box - have to figure something out for that too. Its all going to be very tiny, if it can be printed anywhere near what I would like it to turn out to be. And if it does turn out ok, its going to be very difficult to detail. . .another problem to deal with! Take care.

Thanks, Steve, and likewise back at you!

Just spectacular, Randy - my magnifying desk lamp, and two pair of readers couldn't handle the scale of the fittings you are able to manipulate. Your 'Birdcage' shifter was amazing, as is this shifter - incredibly realistic overall!

Thanks, Randy - I appreciate you having a look! I may have taken way too many pics - before I started posting here, was simply making a record for myself. Should have an initial go at the digital model ready later today - sure going to be small, though. How is your truck coming along?

The 3D club is at UBC - I have to make the digital model in a manner that allows it to be exported to a printable file - never done that before, so new process for me!

Won't make console yet, for real, but should still be able to do 3D version and make a rendering of it to check out. (guy doing the stitches in emergency said he was a doctor!)