BIG Iron

[Biggu]

10 hours ago, cifenet said:

Wow, I missed this thread and now I can see you are doing some intricate work bringing out all the details!

I am thinking they never actually built the kit themselves before coming up with the instructions.

Great work so far!

Thanks , Steve. I built this kit as a kid, and somehow it turned out ‘ok’ and this time I wanted to kick it up a notch, and you're right, the instructions leave a bit to be desired…. And there is a lot of room for ‘interpretation ‘ its not a kit for a little kid.  Thanks for the kind words , Steve , still a lot of research to go. It’s going to be a long road

[Biggu]

10 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

Wow Jeff, you're putting some effort into this! Looking really good! Can't wait to see this finished! Amazing details!

Thanks , pal. It’s going to be a long road for this one and I hope I can do it justice. 

[Jürgen M.]

I'm sure you will! I have great faith in your abilities!

[ShakyCraftsman]

Okay buddy

Updates,  updates we're dying here, no seriously any further progress Jeff. 😁😁😁

Ron G 

[Biggu]

1 hour ago, ShakyCraftsman said:

Okay buddy

Updates,  updates we're dying here, no seriously any further progress Jeff. 😁😁😁

Ron G 

🤭🤣 Not a lot. Have been busy being a sounding board for a fellow who is trying not to throw his truck model against the wall and seems to be losing sleep over a build. I’m sure you know how that kind of stuff goes 😉😎

[Rockford]

Somehow lost touch with this job, much to my disadvantage because you're doing some great work here. The primer has made all the pieces you've worked on look whole, you can really See the improvement your labours have brought to the finished article. 

How much do you charge for therapy sessions? I'm suffering from de-snappifying compulsive disorder. 

[Biggu]

6 hours ago, Rockford said:

Somehow lost touch with this job, much to my disadvantage because you're doing some great work here. The primer has made all the pieces you've worked on look whole, you can really See the improvement your labours have brought to the finished article. 

How much do you charge for therapy sessions? I'm suffering from de-snappifying compulsive disorder. 

Thanks Steve, I did shoot some yellow on the frame and now the slow challenge starts, trying to figure out hydraulic lines and air. Imm still trying to suss out more info on this truck but good information is quite elusive. Thanks for the kind words, I think taking the extra time to remove the mould lines does make it a kittle keas ‘toy like’. 

[BK9300]

Good to see an update, Jeff - your prep work is really paying off, looking closely at the detail in your pics!

[Biggu]

54 minutes ago, BK9300 said:

Good to see an update, Jeff - your prep work is really paying off, looking closely at the detail in your pics!

Thanks Brian, try not to look too closely, nothing like your work, but as you can appreciate, still lots to go here.... thanks for checking in and the nice comments...

[RoninUtah]

You truly are the king of bolts! This looks great! Just out of curiosity, will the engine be Cat yellow or DD Alpine Green?

[Rockford]

I had to double check that photo of the axle to make sure it wasn't a reference photo. Honestly! Fantastic work.

[Biggu]

1 hour ago, RoninUtah said:

You truly are the king of bolts! This looks great! Just out of curiosity, will the engine be Cat yellow or DD Alpine Green?

Hey Ron, all my references which aren’t a lot, show the engine as yellow from the International factory. I would suspect replacement engines would be Alpine Green. There is a fully restored example and the engine is yellow as well. So that’s what I went with. Along with a working example in NZ also has a yellow engine. 
King of the Bolts 🤣🤣They do add a little extra eye candy as it were. Maybe I got carried away a bit ? Lol

Edited February 21 by Biggu

[TrucksMT]

Looks great Jeff!  Makes me want to start mine! 

[Biggu]

Just now, TrucksMT said:

Looks great Jeff!  Makes me want to start mine! 

That would be cool if you did,Dan. The more the merrier. If you found a spare hour or two now and again …… there are lots of small assemblies that you can putter away at and leave and come back to later …… dip in , the water’s fine 🤭😆

[Jürgen M.]

That is so cool Jeff! I've never seen one of those kits being built. You're doing a great job on this and I'm really amazed what effort you're going through with all these extra details!

Thanks for sharing this!

[Rockford]

On 2/21/2025 at 8:24 PM, TrucksMT said:

Looks great Jeff!  Makes me want to start mine! 

If you don't start it you're YELLOW, and if you do start it YELLOW is all you'll see for months. 

[Randy D]

WOW,  paint really brings out all the extra work you are doing here buddy!!!  That is a monster of a motor that was used in these things.

Randy

[Biggu]

1 hour ago, Randy D said:

WOW,  paint really brings out all the extra work you are doing here buddy!!!  That is a monster of a motor that was used in these things.

Randy

Thanks, Randy. Imm ‘hoping’ that a little weathering will make them pop a little more. That I think will be a bit of a challenge though. And yes that engine is huge and hopefully it will come a little more alive with some weathering as well, I did add some smaller bits to it and hopefully they will show, thanks for checking in , and the kind comments , Randy. 

[vincen47]

Fantastic work. Fun to watch this project.

[Biggu]

41 minutes ago, vincen47 said:

Fantastic work. Fun to watch this project.

Thanks. Progress is a bit slow. LOTS of research happening. Its a challenge to do it justice. Thanks for checking in. I appreciate that. 

[cifenet]

The paint job looks excellent!  Yellow isn't easy to paint since they are weak in color depth and you can easily overrun your paint trying to spray too much.  All the detail work showing off too. 

 

 

[Biggu]

2 hours ago, cifenet said:

The paint job looks excellent!  Yellow isn't easy to paint since they are weak in color depth and you can easily overrun your paint trying to spray too much.  All the detail work showing off too. 

 

 

Thanks Steve, I’m just playing around with some extra details. The paint wasn’t too bad actually. I used Model Master RAF Trainer Yellow enamel. I had a grey primer under it and maybe that helped. Thanks for checking in and the kind comments. 

[Gary Chastain]

Nice progress on this big rig.