Finished at last! (almost)

[CRUSADER2]

Maybe a little more weathering later when I can get to Britain for some weathering powders.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Looks like the real thing to me!

[Hermann Kersten]

Why weathering or  more weathering?

Looks great to me already, maybye some  more pictures for the nice details.

 

Hermann.

[Warren D]

Truck looks great but the diorama really makes it look real.

[olsbooks]

For those  old enough to remember...is it live or is it memorex.

Nice

Peace

[towman1271]

I agree.. needs nothing else except some more pics of her! Amazing job

[CRUSADER2]

Hi fellow modelers, thanks for the comments, I had to break off after I started putting on the photo's so here are some more, thanks for the interest in the Atkinson.

[truckabilly]

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Good old Seddon Atkinson. I like that. Never seen one though. Yours looks just fine. 

[extmcdriver]

Wow, outstanding job. I have never seen an Atkinson before.

[CRUSADER2]

Hi Jaroslav & Rick, thanks for the comments, its an Australian Atkinson, non like this one ever worked in Britain, more's the pity, the Atkinson plant in Australia was completely independent from the British Seddon Atkinson part of the company and were left to develop trucks to suite the Australian market and conditions, another marque long gone now unfortunately. But for modelling purposes what if ?????

[landman]

On 11/18/2018 at 6:25 AM, Warren D said:

Truck looks great but the diorama really makes it look real.

X2. What a beautiful background for a gorgeous rig.

[Ken Gilkeson]

very nice

[ChrisR]

Looks great!!

[drinkone2]

Excellent work on both the truck and the display, they look great together! I don't recall ever seeing an Atkinson modelled before, and I have only seen a handful of pics of the 1:1 trucks. Amazing work!

[Gramps46]

Amazing work on both the truck and the background diorama.

[JerseeJerry55]

Pretty sweet job Geoffrey. Quite nice all around.

 

[BKF]

I agree with the others. Great job on both the truck and the diorama. Well Done!

[iamsuperdan]

No need for more weathering, I think this turned out great.

And your diorama is excellent!
 

[CRUSADER2]

Thanks  everybody for the kind comments, OK I will leave it alone ( for now) anyway I am now working on the Marmon again after a long summer break, will post some pics soon, as the chassis is starting to come together now and hopefully I will get some primer on it before xmas, cheers all.

[Force]

Nice build Geoffrey.

[chuckyr]

Spot on Atki mate. Australian lorries were more similar to what the Yanks road on their Motorways.  Similar working conditions.

[Bennyg]

Very nice! My uncle drove a similar one in the 1908s.

Ben

[Sergey]

Great work, Geoffrey!

Outstanding diorama!!! I wish I could do something like that for my photosessions! It just make old Atkinson alive!

I think your weathering just fine. May be bottom of te cab need some more.

I read your article in TMW. I liked it! You asked to advise you a tool to glue plastic (half round rod) to resin (cab window frame).

If you stll need ideas, I would advise you:

1. super glue - gel

2. 1 minute epoxy glue. As I work with resin cab now, I use it very often, though my epoxy is - 5 min.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Sergey

[Rixtrux]

Looks Great. Nice background for the display of your model !

 

[CRUSADER2]

Hi folks, thanks again for kind comments, thanks for the idea's Sergey, I think I did use a combination of gel and liquid super glue for the windscreen surrounds in the end, still a pain though. I was going to have the same problem with the resin MARMON cab that I am working on at the moment, but after having had a good long look at the cab I have decided to bin it and follow in the footsteps of Hermann with is MARMON truck build and scratch build in plastic, so the windscreen surrounds should not be as big a problem this time round ( I know I am going to regret saying that, later) anyway thanks again, and by the way I have seen your models and work, so I think a diorama would be a piece of cake for you.