Gary Chastain

Interesting build, love the fabrication work.

For anyone doing this hood conversion. I did not glue the cab crossmember in place, that will be last. I had to slide the cab back to center the front wheels in the openings. Therefore the radiator and motor must also slide back. With the cab cross member out, the frame will flex enough to slip the engine into place. Today checking trailer fit, fitting engine, radiator then make the under chassis exhaust parts.

Lookin good

Very nice, when will you have these on your website?

Progress today

Picked up several plastic show boxes yesterday, they had the large size that fits big trucks on sale, but the selections of kits sure got downsized.

Very sharp looking rig, well done?

Second color on, next build grill and finish cab.

Watching TV with my buddy (Cooper) who does everything with me.

Slow progress, second color next

Yikes, what a mess

Great combo, well done

Really nice build and color choice

Same problem with an EBay purchase. Bought a Kenworth cab and hood from a printer in Canada, was supposed to be 1:25 scale but I can put a 1:25 cab inside of it, not even sure it is 1:24 scale. Not sure what I will do with it.

It has crossed my mind several times but not done yet, still could end up in the trash bin.

Finally got a good paint finish on, now wait a couple days to apply fender color.

Factory installed are usually the same color as the body, custom installed can be pretty much any color including polished/chrome metal.

The primer worked very well, no fish eyes or problems on the resin parts. Did a test piece to make sure I can spray Tamiya gloss paint over the primer and it looks good. Sit over night, light sand on primer then start applying base color paint

Outstanding build, well done

I will now be using a different cab, same model but there is a slight difference in the cab width. So I made four cuts, removing material so that I can refill those areas with filler. Made a spreader bar to gently encourage the hood to be a bit wider and flatter. Cuts marked with a pencil. this gives the hood and cab a better fit. we will see if this works, if not, I may use the 5000 hood and call it good, finishing this truck.

Thanks Jeff, went to the automotive paint store today and talked to them. They recommended the Duplicolor sandable primer and suggested just what you said.

Same problem with my cab, just wrinkled up and with all the molded in detail of rivets and seams, you just can’t sand it down.

Well this went from oh no, to oh BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, to worse, to junk. Managed to save and remove the paint on all the resin parts that where actually causing the paint problems but the gray cab itself is now junk. Luckily I have another white cab. Tomorrow I will start over. A setback for sure

Nice build

I need some help guys. I am trying to paint some resin cast hood and fenders. I washed the parts in hot dish soap water, paint fish eyes, I soaked the parts in the purple pond and washed, paint fish eyes. Wiped it down with lacquer thinner, paint fish eyes. Not sure what to do. Using Tamiya primer.