Gary Chastain

Finishing up the fuel tanks.

Good to know

Got these on the mail today, kinda pricey but hope they help with detailing.

Well it’s a first, never seen a graffiti paint job on a model build, ttooooo cool

Nice detail work

Cool project, watching

Ya know, PE is an experience, great for dash/gages, great small details, but for that grill, that was a problem, PE windshield wipers drive me nuts as well. I think PE is good for some things but not everything.

New grill complete, little bit of cleanup, then primer.

After some careful surgery, 😂😵‍💫🤣, I was able to remove the grill and the old grill surround from the painted hood with no damage to the hood or paint. Now to see what I can create for a grill.

Gonna be a beast

This grill thing is just OVER, it’s not fitting correctly, the center bar came out again. I am starting over with a new hood, flares and redesigned grill. Hood is prepped for primer, got another set of flares flat sanded and fitted to fenders, grill will be different, I have some custom grill material that I will experiment with. Another grill in the purple pond.

Truth be known, I bet the paint job on the 1:1 bus was done with cheap house paint and a brush, I think your paint job will represent the bus extremely well.

Outstanding, can’t wait to see the finished build

Got the exhaust on, thinking about yellow lights and a test fit to make sure trailer clears fenders.

Fuel tanks next

Good progress today, headache, frames deck, rear light panel and fenders all on.

Washed in dish soap, primer twice, light sand to clean up bugers then paint and clear. Was surprised the detail came out so well. Cool part is my mirrors rotate on the aluminum rod so I can align them like a real truck where passenger side is turned in more. Silly little detail

Had to lower the bumper (about .030) in order for the hood to rotate open correctly.

Starting to get some final assembly done, rear fender next.

Thanks Jeff, sometimes lucky sometimes another part for the “box of bad ideas”

Scratch build mirrors. Was very worried about molding (casting resin) parts in a silicone mold then trying to apply paint. The paint turned out well, now to add BMF to the mirror side now to come up with windshield wiper that looks to scale

Trying to come up with wipers, first attempt, think I will try to build a smaller set

Built up a custom set of cab marker lights with faceted lights to follow that mild custom vision. kinda wish I would have used blue lenses, little extra cool but using these.

Wow Scott, this is coming together so nicely

Not sure how much help I will be, did it once, but it worked out. Tomorrow I will get primer on…..I hope. Don’t know much about this resin and to mold in silicone makes me nervous about painting, we will see.