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Like others have stated, BSI gold, won’t fog chrome or clear parts. And the Zap A Gap glue is great for filling in gaps, and also some sink marks. After it dries, it can be sanded smooth.

Testing, or not testing, which I normally do on used sprue, has nothing to do with it. From my experience since I tried it, the spray chrome simply can’t handle certain things applied to it, as kit supplied chrome would. For me, I think I’ll just continue to use the black base under alclad.

After applying some accent, it removes the chrome. So now the rims will be stripped again. A lot of wasted money stripping $35 chrome!

I understand. I’m beginning to think I wasted over $30 on it. I stripped and spray chromed some Kenworth wheels, and stripped them again, and re sprayed them. It seems you can’t get a nice chrome finish without going with a heavy coat or two. Plus I don’t know how the chrome spray will react when I add some accent to tone down the chrome when fully dry. With the old black based alclad, I always got a nice shiny coat, with a very light mist coat. Also I never had to apply accent to tone the chrome down. I think I’m going to stay with the alclad.

Thanks Brian. The bumper, pull handles and mirrors, stacks and wheels are the only chrome. I still might remove the Revell chrom spray from the wheels, and paint those orange as well. All depends on how good I can darken the chrome. Since I never tried it on chrome spray, only kit chrome, it will be an experiment.

I’m pretty new to clearing over decals also. I only did one car, a 68 Chevelle. I plan on clearing a next gen nascar when I’m done with the decals. Mr Hobby Gloss UV Cut is what I used over Tamiya lacquers. Perhaps a bit of water remained under the decal?

Finally some color.

Man, that rig sits nice. Very cool.

Tested the gray primer and the orange paint on a piece of sprue. The color is exactly what I was looking for. Cab is all primed, and later tonight, it will have some color.

Thank Jurgen. Decided to do a tan and brown interior. Mixed it up with Light Tan, and Wooden Deck Tan. The interior tub is Red Brown. I think it should look good with an orange cab. Added some burnt rust to the exhaust side of the turbo. Touched up the wash a bit too on the engine.

Thanks Brian and Gary. I thought I kinda over did it, forgetting the “less is better than more” concept.

That’s funny. I did actually start to finish up some of my drag cars I had laying around, but then it always happens…. You start dreaming up new things.

Very nice work going on here, Gary. I’m glad the lights are gonna work out for you. Maybe I can pick up a few ideas from your build, for my next one.

I can finally say all the parts have the flash, and seams removed, are sanded, and are ready for primer and paint.

While waiting on the front spring, I started to move onto the cab and interior. Gotta double check, or even triple check everything on this ole AMT kit. Added some rust to the exhaust pipes, that lead to the stacks.

I stripped my Kenworth chrome wheels, and applied the Revell Chrom spray. I let them sit for 36 hrs, and when I handled them it left fingerprints. 91% alcohol stripped the spray chrome off easily. We shall see after it sits for 48 hrs this time. Nothing is printed on the can that I can understand. Hopefully 48 will be long enough.

I’m tuned in.

Superb paint and decals Niko. It’s on the home stretch now.

FTW

I’m so sick of all these scammers these days. It’s ridiculous that everyday I spend more time deleting and blocking BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, than I get in legitimate texts and/or calls. Some say all this hi tech stuff is great, but I beg to differ. It really sucks having a phone anymore. Not sure about other phones, but the iPhone has a feature where you can block senders that are not in your contacts, but these scumbags somehow know how to get around that? We pay our bill every month on these $900 devices to be aggravated, and I’m just so sick of it. Rant over.

Thanks Gary, and Landon. I appreciate the replies. Thanks also Steve, I always enjoy getting suggestions from my fellow modelers. The wash I used was the Mr Weathering, which I believe is oil based. I also have the Mr Solvent to do what you suggested, and blend it a bit more in certain spots. When I took the pic it was still kind of wet, as it was just applied. I’m definitely going to do some more to it before it gets lowered in.

Just waiting for the front spring to arrive from Round2. Then I can get the chassis painted, and start weathering it. Plans are to get the wheels painted and assembled next.

My first time to post a big rig WIP, but I was getting bored with some of the car projects, so here it goes. I bought this kit at Ollie’s a couple years ago, for super cheap. I’m waiting for a front spring from Round2 to arrive, (this one is molded half way) so it’s now at a stand still on the chassis at least. This kit is a bear to build. Every chrome part, except for the bumper, mirrors, cab lights, and pull handles, went into the stripper. I planned on keeping the rims chrome, and adding a little panel line accent, and/or flat clear, to tone them down, but around the visible edge, it didn’t look too smooth. So in to the stripper they went. Literally every part needed to be cleaned up, and trimmed to fit properly. I’ve built a few AMT trucks before, but this one is pretty challenging, to say the least. Still not sure on the color, but I was thinking just like the box art. I have the engine completed, and most of the chassis. Tires are weathered also. I don’t want to get ahead of myself with painting, because everything needs to be trail fitted. Can’t wait till the spring arrives. Here are a few pics. Opinions are much welcomed.

Would anyone have a left front spring assembly from this kit? I just opened the kit and started cleaning up the parts, and mine was only cast with half a spring.