Hello @ all, new here.

[Kostas Parchas]

Hello, my name is Kostas. allmost 30 years old and I leave in Athens Greece.

I started building model trucks, back in 1994, being alone because model trucks are not very popular in Greece, until before 6 years when internet came to my life. I could never thought that model trucks could be so popular in other countries.

The last 4 years I am thrue a period of not building model trucks, but I am still buying those I want to build and of course in order to get better my skills I am trying to restore some older builds. At the moment I have up to 8 trucks under restoration.

Here is my workbench

for more pictures go here: http://public.fotki.com/peterbilt-386/

Thanks for looking.

[Foxer]

Welcome to the forum and nice trucks there. That's a good looking truck shop you have there.

[mountaindewd]

Hello Kostas,

Welcome. Nice builds you have. Looks like the T2000 will need a little massaging. Is that a De Elegant conversion?

Les

Edited April 26, 2009 by mountaindewd

[airhorn]

Greece? Man, you're a few miles from me but that's ok.

Nice, smooth looking builds you have. Really like the picture of the floor fan. Welcome and it's good to have you on the forum.

Win

[MrObsessive]

Welcome to the forum! I'm not a truck type of guy, but those are lookin' pretty good!

Nice work space you have also!...............Nice and active with different things going on!

[Kostas Parchas]

Thanks you boys!!!

Whell both KW t2000 & PETE 387 are DEELEGANT kits. I am very impresed by the quality. The problem with the hood hapened probably when shiping from the DEELEGANT to me and I dont know how to fix it (my skills ). I wish I could spend some more money to get their CORONADO.

The floor fan is my fun and my best friend in the dark basement the hot days of summer.

I tryed to upload some more pictures by I could not figure out what hapents. There is a limit of upload sise about 216.71k and I cannot continue.

Anyway thanks you for your cinde words.

Kostas

[mackinac359]

Welcome !

Tim

[mountaindewd]

The problem with the hood hapened probably when shiping from the DEELEGANT to me and I dont know how to fix it (my skills ).

Kostas,

I am no expert with resin but I have heard others say they submerge the parts in warm water to adjust and reset the resin. Then, submerge in cold water to hold the shape. Although it is not resin, I did this with my Pete 378 kit hood and it worked fairly good. Do not use hot water!!

Les

Edited April 27, 2009 by mountaindewd

[Kostas Parchas]

Kostas,

I am no expert with resin but I have heard others say they submerge the parts in warm water to adjust and reset the resin. Then, submerge in cold water to hold the shape. Do not use hot water!! I did this with my Pete 378 kit hood and it worked fairly good.

Les

Les, thanks you for your tip.

I have not idea about resins and at the moment I don't touch my resin kits. When I will finish the restorations I will start to build some European trucks in order to update my skills especially painting, and then I will go on American rigs.

Kostas.

[Nova-ss]

Hello, my name is Kostas. allmost 30 years old and I leave in Athens Greece.

I started building model trucks, back in 1994, being alone because model trucks are not very popular in Greece, until before 6 years when internet came to my life. I could never thought that model trucks could be so popular in other countries.

The last 4 years I am thrue a period of not building model trucks, but I am still buying those I want to build and of course in order to get better my skills I am trying to restore some older builds. At the moment I have up to 8 trucks under restoration.

Here is my workbench

for more pictures go here: http://public.fotki.com/peterbilt-386/

Thanks for looking.

hiya Kostas,

Nice looking work.I like what I see you working on.I don't build to many outside of the states,but love looking at other peoples work and there idea's.Thank you,Chris

[SpreadAxle]

Welcome.

[SpreadAxle]

Welcome.

[Kostas Parchas]

@ all: I want to thanks you all boys for your welcome reply.

@ Chris: Thanks you for your kind words.

I like better American trucks than Europeans, especially conventional and I am planning to build many of them but I believe that it could be very fan for every one to try just for one time to build something different, from the usual, so I would like to suggest you if there is any European model truck that you like it go on it. I would like to build both the two giants of civil transportation Airbus A380 and QUEEN MARY II. I know these are not trucks but they are transportation marvels of our days.

Kostas.

Edited April 28, 2009 by Kostas

[ns4ever]

some nice looking trucks there. Welcome to the forum

andy

[chuckyr]

Welcome! A fine fleet of Scanias you have there. North Americans have seen very few Scania trucks. They did sell them in the US during the 1980s, but no more. Scania does sell in Mexico, but very few of them

[Kostas Parchas]

Thanks you Andy.

Chuckyr it is a shame for SCANIA, because the latest SCANIA T164 conventional is a very nice looking truck and in combination with the longline sleeper it could be another beautiful truck in the USA.

Also it is a shame for them because they pulled out of production all the conventional versions of their trucks because of the street limits we have here in Europe.

When someone here decides to change the street limits this happens only for the load area or in order to make longer trailers.

Kostas.