Mack Superliner

[BK9300]

Another impressive looking build, Jürgen - hope your hood arrives soon - it will be the finishing touch!

[Jürgen M.]

I'm thinking about the head lights! I'm not so convinced anymore If it really looks good! I do have rectangular doubles in the box.

What do you guys think?

[Gary Chastain]

7 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

I'm thinking about the head lights! I'm not so convinced anymore If it really looks good! I do have rectangular doubles in the box.

What do you guys think?

From a design perspective, that truck has a lot of square lines to it. Just my 2 cents, I think square headlights would look good. 

[Biggu]

Yes. I agree with Gary. Square

[Jürgen M.]

You mean like these?

Thanks for your honest opinion Guys!

Edited March 12 by Jürgen M.

[RoninUtah]

I agree with the others. Square headlights are part of the "look" of this particular truck.

[Gary Chastain]

Yes sir, fits the design well

[Rockford]

Yep, squares would look gooder. Good looking build mate, you're excelling again. 

[Jürgen M.]

Thanks everyone! I'm convinced! 👍

Squares it shall be! 

[Jürgen M.]

How's this?

Also got the end pieces of the fuel tanks:

[BK9300]

Another 3D creation has come to from the 'flat' bed of your printer - looks good, Jürgen!

[RoninUtah]

Dang, this is looking like a truck! I

like the Utah plate 👍

[Gary Chastain]

Another killer build, well done

[cifenet]

Excellent work!!!  

[Jürgen M.]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it! 

Till the new hood arrives there's not much to do.

Put the side steps on the tanks and sleeper, rear plates, chains, a bit of fine tuning here and there!

Still missing: fuel filler caps, bumper has to be glued on, ...

[Biggu]

That sure looks like a heavy duty tractor, JM.  Great job ! And, you make your own decals. Way ahead of me buddy. Can’t wait to see the new hood !

[Jürgen M.]

Thanks Jeff!

Concerning the decals, I created them on the computer, mostly Powerpoint or something and then I print them on decal paper, either white or transparent.

On white you get deeper colors but you have to cut them out very precisely. In this case I used a transparent sheet. The colors didn't come out as deep as I hoped but it was easy to cut them out! 

The hood tilts pretty well!

And here's a birds eye view! 

 

[Jürgen M.]

Hi everyone!

Been a while since I last posted to this thread!

I'm waiting for the resin hood Bren printed for me. It's on its way across the ocean!

Meanwhile I thought about a possible trailer and decided to make a lowboy!

Something like this:

This is the first shot of a virtual mock-up:

Still a lot missing but I guess it'll be OK! 

[Rockford]

That's going to be a great trailer to pair with your Mack. Great combination. 

[Jürgen M.]

Thanks Steve!

I thought a lot about it till I finally decided what to pair it with.

I want to put two other Mack trucks on the lowboy, sort of a Mack family thing! 

 

[Biggu]

JM , you come up with some really cool ideas. This is one of them …. Your talents abound buddy !

[Gary Chastain]

Sweet, I’ll be watching your trailer build. 

[Jürgen M.]

This is the "making of" of the trailer chassis:

Tires are also printed cause I didn't have any small ones in the box!

Assembled chassis with axles and brake drums! The white "stoppers" we're box parts.

Assembled wheels:

Chassis almost complete!

I chose smaller wheels because as far as I know lowboys mostly do have smaller ones. 

Here you can see the difference in size compared to the truck wheels:

Edited March 21 by Jürgen M.

[BK9300]

Jürgen, it is very interesting to watch the endless ideas you have come to life - the trailer will look great with a couple of Mack's on it!

[Jürgen M.]

Thank you very much! Very nice of you to say that! 

I'm glad my ideas find approval ! 😊