Firebuilder

I have not had much time at the bench, so progress has slowed to a crawl. Here is the latest photos. Have a bunch of warning lights to make for the box, and need to put on the decals. Made some progress with vacu forming the windshield. Not as clean as I’d like it to be, but it has been and still is a learning experience. The light tower I ordered was 3D printed, not operable and took a lot of sanding to make it smooth. Still can see some of the print lines.

Wow Charlie , looks amazing, another masterpiece in the works.

Looks good, nice recovery, and it’s good you didn’t give up on it. As for the paint imperfections that you have left, you could always use the story that they were a little to close to the fire.

Great build Scott, looks amazing !

Nice work, the weathering and rust are awesome!

Nice progress Scott, paint looks nice and decals look really good!

Thank you, I have tried multiple ways of taping and agree the thinner tape has many bleed through issues. Have not been able to make any further progress, bench time has been limited. Hope to get back to it this week.

I used the amt ALF fenders. I cut them in half , lengthwise right at the spot where the chrome inserts go, then used the outer edge of the fender. It was almost a perfect fit. Just needed to do a little sanding on the body wheel opening to match the fender flare.

Nice built great color and details

Nice build choice Scott , they have so many different types of trucks/ equipment that you could spend a lifetime building their fleet and not run out of options.

Amazing attention to detail! Great looking motor, wow

I would have preferred a decal, it would have been much easier. And you are right the wheel wells made it more difficult to line things up. For the cab I didn’t glue on the fender extensions making it easier to run the tape across the opening. The box on the other hand I had glued the Fender extensions on prior to paint which made it much harder to line it all up. I should have put more thought into that ! I wish I could have done it with decals, it would have saved a lot of time, and like you said, you could take them off and re apply. With the paint it would be a project in itself to remove them. Some of the bleed through did come off with polishing compound. It is amazing that to my eye things look pretty good, but then once a photo is taken and posted here, the flaws really show up so much more! Too bad I don’t have the eyesight I had 50 years ago.

Amazing! Great detail and wood working!!

After a lot of taping , the stripes were hand painted. There was minor bleed through. The 1/64 wide tape was a real pain to keep straight.

That is huge , with a tractor you will need a big shelf! Looks good so far.

Your decals look great. It is good you have the alps printer and the skills to use it ! I don’t think I can pull off letting like that with my ink jet printer.

Thank you, it sure does take a lot of time, there is a lot of redoing things that seem right at first, then once in place………….. you see the fit is just not right. the work part is relaxing and keeps me busy. Dom

Nicely done, a great tribute to your father!

Scott, thank you. And I would not want to try this on a real rig! I leave that to professionals like you . It took a while to tape this and get it all to look even. I was worried the grey paint would bleed under the tape due to the tread plate , but luckily it was only minor in a couple of spots and a quick touch up of the red was easy enough.

Aaron , Nice looking decals, my computer skills are limited, wouldn’t even know where to start to make the stripes and emblems like you have done . Can the letters be made with a shadow effect with micro soft word?

Thank you

Nice build, great color and details

thank you, the resin casting is new for me, but it is working out great so far. Had a few issues at first, but now got the process working. I don’t have the capability to print decals, and there are very few online , so I am stuck with what I can find.

Thank you