Jürgen M.

Wheels are finished and mounted! The spare is a plastic, 2-piece Italeri tire mounted on a printed rim. The chromed ones are printed rims with Revell soft rubber tires! Now I can mount the tank on the chassis and begin with the peripheric parts! Ladder, rear marker lights, tailgate, mud flaps, toolbox, .... !

A very handsome truck. I love the color of the cab and the nicely detailled chassis. Makes a black chassis look really fine and far from standard! 👍

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Nice rig! Love the paint scheme!

Ron, that's a real beauty! Very nice!

I can imagine! It's fun rediscovering old skills! I've printed so much in the meantime that I at first didn't even think of scratch building the tank. OK, there was a lot of printing involved too but the tank itself was a little revival. Very nice looking build! Very neat and clean work!

I'm sure this will be a fun build!

Got some small stuff done! Put the marker lights on the screws heads and "connected" them! Got the idea from my R.D. tanker! And I got a fingerprint on the front end! 🙈 Luckily I planned to put a decal there anyway! So no harm done! Could have happened some other, more critical spot!

Sorry I caused you work! 😂 To break even I'll stay with you till it's done! 😉

Lookin' good! I'm in too!

You're probably right! They do make the whole thing more authentic and give it sort of an own personality!

Thanks! It's better than on the truck tank! Still I'm not 100% satisfied but I'll leave it that way!

The chrome is on! I decided to also chrome the front end. The rear is blue! Now I have to wait till I can remove the masking tape! Can't touch the chrome for a few days and even then it's critical! The rims are primered and will be chromed soon.

Thanks Steve! Nice of you to say that! It was a spontaneous idea to use screws since glue between plastic and metall doesn't hold as secure and since it's not seen anymore after assembly I thought it would be the most solid solution!

Interesting! So this is actually a single bunk cab with an aerodyne roof? Been away from the US too long it seems! I'll be watching!

Thank you Jeff! Looking at your Hayes, just as one example, I must say your skills are not any less than mine or anyone elses. I really appreciate your words and hope this build will reach expectations!

Now it's blue: Next will be masking the ends and the underneath frame! Then chrome!

I added a support frame and a front module where the air lines will be attached. I screwed it onto the tank to stabilize it and made a cover to hide the screws. It's not after a real trailer, just my own idea!

Steve, I think it's great that you're keeping up the 1/32 fraction! I've been thinking about reducing my self designed Mack cab and hood to a 1/32 scale and building the Rubber Duck in a smaller size! Keep that up. You're doing a wonderful job on these. Having to build up the details a 1/25 truck kit already has and then exceeding that in such a professional way! I can just take a bow!

Thank you Steve! Unfortunately the rear crash guard broke off! Nothing I can't fix though! I just painted the chassis and the tank with primer. When it's dry it'll be painted the same blue as the truck. Then, when that's completely dry, the tank ends will be masked and I'll put the chrome on! I think that will lead to the best result! Same procedure as last time! No turning back now anyway!

OK, manual polishing won't work. I'd have to apply more pressure and my electric polishing machine is too big. Maybe I should try to build a smaller one for modelling. Should be an excenter polisher though to avoid hologramms! I'm thinking of putting a primer on the whole thing and then the chrome spray! That should look pretty nice! And it would look more like the truck tank!

Thanks! That sounds like a good plan! 👍 I'd be glad to give you pointers eventhough I'm not a specialist for tankers, I just did some research and tried to copy it!

Thanks guys. Glad you like the idea! Wasn't sure at First If it's the right way to go!

Thank you Jeff! I'm sure it won't matter if the trailer tank looks different than the one on the truck! Of course I could also just put chrome spray on it to make it look alike! I'll have to think about that!

I admit it, I just couldn't pause so long! I printed a few more parts of the trailer telling myself that the whole rig would look good for a while standing in the workbench till the showcase is finished! 🙈 Also I thought about how to make the tank for the trailer. The one on the truck isn't quite as I expected it so I thought of something else. I designed a structure around which I would wrap a styrene sheet. That way I would created a smooth surface. Then I found something even better than styrene sheet. 0.5 mm aluminium sheet. I cut it to size and drilled holes to be able to screws it onto the structure so it won't slip away while wrapping it around. I also screwed it on the sides to keep it in place. Unfortunately I made some dents into the sheet. Made me a bit upset at first but then I thought it doesn't matter. It's supposed to be an old rig in everyday use so why not have some traces of that? The screw heads will be the marker lights. I'll just put colored lenses on them. The front end will be covered by a piece of styrene sheet which will be painted blue together with the rear cover, just like the truck tank. I might try to polish it so it gets a chrome like surface.