Sergey Posted February 28, 2019 Author Posted February 28, 2019 Hello again! Finally I've got tubes to make silencer and receivers Also bought triangles to make bevels on horizontal ribs: outside and inside Finished vertical ribs and hinged the gates Have made over cab dump dome (I guess it's right term) And worked a little over fuel tanks
mikemodeler Posted March 1, 2019 Posted March 1, 2019 13 hours ago, tbill said: Fantastic work, love the detail. x2! Love the scratch building skills you are demonstrating, very envious!
bigred63 Posted March 1, 2019 Posted March 1, 2019 Love what you have done so far, your tricks are worth stealing.
Hermann Kersten Posted March 2, 2019 Posted March 2, 2019 Hi Sergey, I like your detail work and the art of modeling. The rear tires look very good. Hermann.
Sergey Posted March 12, 2019 Author Posted March 12, 2019 Thank you Hermann! Glad you like it. So, I have came to hydraulic ram. It made out of aerial, cut to size. My aerial was stainless. So it was cut by tool, like "Dremel". Here is a jig to cut. I will use plastic tube to enlarge outer part of ram To drill new holes I used diamond boer Here is how the truck looks now Here are king pins soldered for moving parts A load I made for gate lockers
DRIPTROIT 71 Posted March 13, 2019 Posted March 13, 2019 You are truly a Craftsman!! Top notch work!!
Ben Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 Awesome job Sergey!! Very proud to see the wheels and hubs I mastered, on it! (Everything in the pic was mastered by me except the tire.)
Sergey Posted December 1, 2019 Author Posted December 1, 2019 A little more progress. Side mirrors were made out of 1,5mm plastic and 0,5mm soldering wire Mirror brackets are little complicated, then Big trucks have. PickUp doors have a slope at the top point. So I improved my old soldering device. The wire was localy flatten and drilled for rivets. Here I broken one of my 0,4 drill bits. I have got Cab roof Marker Lights from Fireball Modelworks. Thank you Joseph! But as Joseph said: "they are smallewr then Silverado's one. Compare to photo 4. I plan to use rectangular black adhesive tape as a rubber for marker lights. Visually it should make them larger. Note, that wipers were cut off. Finally I made cab handles from square styrene 1х1мм & strip 1х0,3мм.
mikemodeler Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 Glad to see you working on this, looking great!
Sergey Posted January 19, 2020 Author Posted January 19, 2020 Thank you Mike! So still working on small things: added a La brackets to fuel tanks Here I've made a crutch to front baterry box bracket becouse it interfere with front cab bracket Opened holes for reflectors. I had a big gap in left front wheel housing. So I drilled semi axis and glued 1.2mm brass wire instead of standart pin. And glued 2mm brass tube inside coresponding groove. I didn't like left fender panel line. Photo is bad, so I drawed it in photoshop Now I made a template ...filled the line. And lower wind sheeld gasget (scrached, when cut off wipoers) Sanded shooth Rescribed, but not ideal any way... Now everything is ready for priming. I have not used air brush for 2 years already Now the result has confused me. The pigment is going down too quik So first part of spraying is O-key, but the second one give me semi transparent layer. The primer is Motip aerozol merged out for air brush.
DRIPTROIT 71 Posted January 20, 2020 Posted January 20, 2020 Looks Amazing! This is one project that I've been wanting to see finished for a long time! Looking forward to more!
Sergey Posted January 20, 2020 Author Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) On 1/19/2020 at 3:18 PM, afx said: Excellent work Sergey. Thank you JC! Edited January 20, 2020 by Sergey
Sergey Posted January 20, 2020 Author Posted January 20, 2020 16 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said: Looks Amazing! This is one project that I've been wanting to see finished for a long time! Looking forward to more! Thank you Brian! Not much time left. I hope Ifinish it in couple months.
Sergey Posted February 14, 2020 Author Posted February 14, 2020 Some progress: Here is Chrome frame around headlight lenses Tried to copy with solder wire. Turn signals and tail lights were found in my spares. And future reflectors below Couple missing things. There is imitation of hood hinge environment below It is deep, under lower edge of hood. It will looks like this Here I tried to fix oblique tyres with strips of styrol, around the rim. Looks better, but not ideal Finally cut out flat windows Here is how I made an imitation of engine sump (in case it can be visable from one of angles). Used harden resin Noticed, that I missed one thing before painting: dump bed gaps I should fill with putty. Now it already filled and waiting for spraying again.
av405 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Your skills are incredible. This has been my favorite thread to follow for a while now. Keep it up!
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