Western Star 4900 FA plow truck

[BK9300]

20 hours ago, redneckrigger said:

The details are amazing.  You have a real knack for it.  I think the window rubbers came out great.  On my crane, I’m going to have to make the actual rubbers and make them overlap the window opening. I then paint them black and assemble to the cab with the glass going in behind it.  Kind of a pita but it works.  I like your work better!   Looking at your build, if photographed with a realistic background it would be about  impossible to tell if it were real or a scale model.  Cant ask for much more than that!!

Thanks, Tom - generous of you as always!  Don't know what to use for a background when the time comes - have an idea, but would be a project in itself.

[BK9300]

Not big progress today, just carrying on!  Was raining today, too humid to spray the chrome test, so an opportunity to try something a bit different, from the 'list'.  (before doing that, I did brush a coat of grey enamel on the interior of the cab and day cab panel)  What I worked on today was a possible solution for the small flags that are mounted on each end of the front plow.

The front plow flags I saw were made of plastic and were a bit stiff.  I settled on using a piece of semi-transparent plastic film from a water bottle label.  I tried to CA glue it to the brass support rod, but didn't take.  Fortunately, the plastic did stick using a bit of epoxy -

 

Once the epoxy set up, I used an old hair dryer on High setting and a bit of 'flag' shape was achieved -

 

I have some experimenting to do, and think I can improve this initial flag, but the idea looks like it could work - 

 

With lots of rain for next few days, I might be a bit stalled, because I need to chrome the cab door handles before assembling the cab.  Apparently, the Easy Chrome can be brush applied, too, so I'll have a go at part of the parts tree this afternoon and see how that goes!

 

Edited 6 hours ago by BK9300