Rockford

Well saved! Looks good.

Sorry to hear about your submarine experience, but you definitely made a great save turning it into a payload. The tidy truck looks excellent. Great job.

I'm sorry you're having such issues, these things aren't cheap either! Hope it turns out ok.

It's going to look great.

Seems a shame to put that engine under a hood, should be on display itself! Very realistic. Excellent stuff, well done.

Decided to use the cheapo white topcoat that I bought for my Trailmobile that turned pink. Mainly because the weather was kind and the can was staring me in the face. Ran over the primer with a Scotchbrite and shot the colour. I'm really pleased with the result. Laid down really smooth. Thinking of a chassis colour to work with the red plastic and maybe bring it up the cab to fender level. (I've mentioned earlier that to me, the proportions of this truck reminds me of Sonny Pruitt's Kenworth, and I did think of mimicking that and putting W.Chandler on the door, but Will would have gone for an Aerodyne wouldn't he?)

Excellent work. Very clean build indeed!

Proper old school piece of machinery!

What an excellent piece of work. It's actually a work of art! Looks like you know the real thing ?.

Clever engineering, you're thinking like AMT except your parts fit!

It's been over a year since I last touched this truck in earnest. It's never been forgotten though. The weather has been so poor this year that I need to snatch any decent days for spraying. I knew when I primed this I'd see a host of issues with the filling job on the sleeper so I wanted to get it sorted today. Primed it, reskimmed the rough bits with stopper then rubbed down with 600 and primed again. Looks ok! (Until I topcoat it). Got to think of a colour scheme now. ?

Not a lot done today because I needed to use the rare day of good weather to paint my double sleeper Bison. Applied the button VIT decal to the door panels seats and rear wall of the cab. It's quite rudimentary and it will hardly be visible but it adds to the Sundance vibe. Also polished the stacks and added the perforation decals to them, they look good.

Your pieces are looking good! If I were doing that I'd be sat in front of the printer watching every layer land! Looking forward to seeing it come together.

Jürgen Even Revell struggled with the K100 visor, so you're in good company. You might need to simplify the piece because there's so many conflicting angles in it. I only succeeded on my K100 by cutting the front brow off a spare K100 cab!

Had a bit of time last night to apply Hycote chrome effect to various parts. The battery boxes required careful masking and then the complete chassis covered. Also the bottom pan of the air filters, the fuel tanks and steps. It's not chrome, you don't expect it to be, but a sight better than I imagined when I bought it. I've learned from experience that it doesn't like being handled too much but the overall effect is worth it. The straps for the air filters are aluminium duct tape.

I had to go back and look at the first set of pictures to find the cuts in the grille. Isn't it funny that we're all in awe of a perfectly build and you're getting your vest in a knot over one tiny fault, we're all the same though, I do the same with my builds (Aerodyne!). It looked brilliant before but it looks even brillianter ? now! The only thing that would improve it is a nice old aluminium sided van trailer... ?

Interesting breakdown! Your trailer suspension looks perfectly acceptable. Leaf spring suspension is the same principle wherever it lands, just the axles it's bolted to do different things! Looking forward to seeing the trailer develop.

Fantastic! Are all these cars living in Shetland or do they make the trip across from the mainland?

I'd Google the year for Pontiac paint colours, you can actually bring up the colour chips from the original PPG catalogues. It's a factory colour by the looks of it. I do know through trying to guage the colour of the Kenworth from Movin' On that vehicles on film and TV can look drastically different from scene to scene due to lighting etc... You might already be spot on!

Fascinating to watch this come together, can't wait to see the trailer. It must be really satisfying to bring something from the drawing board to the shelf, especially in such a short time. It's a learning process too isn't it? At least that's what I find with my projects, I'm always thinking of ways I'll do something a little better next time. I suppose when you tackle something like this you realise just how much effort the model manufacturers must put in to get their kits to work. Real achievement that though Jürgen, well done.

You're very brave mate.

Tell you what, there is one advantage to being on medication. The blister packs make great little mixing pots for touching in details. Here I needed to make British Racing Green metallic so put two little pools of silver and green next to each other. Once finished put tape over the blisters and seal it in, ready for use later. Finish the tablets first of course, NOT ALL AT ONCE!

Looks great Jürgen. I've never been brave enough to clear coat decals. I don't work well with clear coat at all, always apply too much and get loads of runs.

Started bringing it all together. Started painting the interior, did a little foiling, put the mascara on the windscreen rubbers. Can't say that I'm over the moon with the colour, it does actually look better in reality but it's all I could get, it's going to have to do. On the plus side, the stance and proportions look right so not all bad.

That looks great! I do love that paint scheme and you've pulled it off very well. It's going to look excellent when it all comes together.