Bren

Hi Mike, I have spoken to Brian in the past about putting some of his excellent designs up on Cults website to share with all truck modellers and he was all for it. So I’ll be doing that - keep watching the site and I’ll try to get to it shortly. My screen name there is ‘Heavyhaul’.

More than happy you shared the pictures of the print Jurgen. This has been a very exciting project to be involved with. I’m always anxious that guys like me don’t “oversell” 3D printing - it definitely has its challenges. This cab took about 6 tries to find the correct orientation and printer settings to print correctly - but we got there in the end. There were lots of failed prints. But I think it’s so exciting that designers like you can put together a .stl file of an unkitted subject and we can turn it into reality. Great time to be a truck modeller!

You guys are very welcome! I find the people on this forum to be such wonderful people - we’re all truck nerds and we don’t let politics or nationality or any other such garbage get in the way of the friendships. I am so much the better for the friends I’ve made here - I love being part of the team!

I think he may be talking about the hinges Ron. I’m trying to hinge my Pete 353 hood exactly as you’ve done here and haven’t been happy with my scratch built hinges. I tried the Model Car Garage ones and they are too flimsy- they distort when you open the hood. Your solution looks much sturdier, and still good in scale. Where did you source yours if you don’t mind me asking?

Now Brian - to keep this consistent with your build you are going to have to design for Jeff a 1/25 scale 3 ring binder .stl file with operating rings to go in the receptacle in the back. Go on with ya - hop to it!😆

Thanks for letting us know - I agree, very sad. Same here - don’t know him personally but dealt with him buying his extraordinary products. We are a small bunch, us truck modellers , but I think our community is tight, and we care about each other.

Firstly - it’s a blast collaborating on this kind of project. Jeff and Jurgen are fabulous to work with. Speaking for myself it forces all kinds of stretching which I wouldn’t otherwise do - and makes my skills better. I’d never resin-printed anything as big as this tank - and angling it a my usual 40 degrees distorted one end. I printed it dead on 90 degrees - it worked. I had to use Meshmixer - a .stl editing program to revise Jurgen’s files so they would print on a resin printer (Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra) - as FDM (filament) printing that Jurgen is expert at is a different beast. Steep learning curve - I don’t design or edit .stl files myself - so great opportunity to try something new. Now I have a new set of amazing files from Jurgen, I’m in my other workshop, and I’m going to try and get the Anycubic Mono 5 up and going - another chance to screw up magnificently and learn!😄 Really appreciate everyone on this forum and their open generousity. Makes the world a better place IMHO!

When life gives you lemons - make lemonade! I think it looks great Jurgen. Unfortunately water-soluble resin is quite brittle - as you just found out - not as forgiving as styrene. I think you rescued this one elegantly.

Love it ! Totally looks the part, and a nice change from yet another Cummins.

Thanks for the tip Steve. I’ll have to give that a try…..

Great idea Steve - I hadn’t thought of that. For what it’s worth I’ll try decals first - if they don’t work, no Biggu (see what I did there?) 🤣

I just don’t know if the decals would stick, and if I could kill the carrier film shine with dull coat. I thought a stencil and paint might be more doable. But I’m experimenting - so you’ll see the results here….

And the landing pad assemblies are done. So now comes the assembly of the trailer walls and mounting all the sub-assemblies. I'll post some pictures of that when they're done. I'm using @BK9300 mudflap technique with the thin vinyl and 3D printed hangers - I'm still experimenting how best to put logos on the vinyl ?paint/stencil.

Finishing up the trailer sub-frames and the dolly. Just need to plumb and wire them now.

I'm back at the bench this week so I thought I'd post some more pictures of the AMT doubles build. I never liked the simplified representation of the beams across the bottom - for simplicity AMT left the edge off them (see real trailer below) - so I cut a series of .015 x .125 Evergreen strip to correct it. Just finishing the weathering.