Kenworth W-925 (mild custom)

[ShakyCraftsman]

Anything to help Pal.

Ron G 

[Gary Chastain]

Fitting resin cast flares to the hood and cleaning up. Removed the fake windshield wipers, air horn bosses on the roof, filling non utilized holes and cleaning up molding lines. 

[Gary Chastain]

Got the grill cut out and PE grill installed, headlights need a lot of work (don’t fit in fender holes. Looks better that kit grill  

[Randy D]

Gary,  The grill upgrade looks terrific!!!

Randy

[Gary Chastain]

The CTM grill fits the AMT KW 925 grill shell acceptable, spent a lot of time recorrecting the radius and removing the molded in KW emblem, but going with this. Headlights now fitted, and turn signal holes filled. All edges cleaned up and sanded. Grill surround will be painted body color with silver screen insert. Now to find cool turn signals and a place to mount them. 

[BK9300]

Your photo etch work looks really good, Gary.  At first, it seems like a shame to cover it with paint, but the detail seems to pop even a bit more once the paint is on!

[Gary Chastain]

1 hour ago, BK9300 said:

Your photo etch work looks really good, Gary.  At first, it seems like a shame to cover it with paint, but the detail seems to pop even a bit more once the paint is on!

Brian, I will just paint grill surround, the PE stuff will remain silver. I saw a 900 done like that and liked the look. It also fits the mild custom vision. I have seen a full custom where the entire grill was painted, just didn’t care for that look. 

[Gary Chastain]

Weather is still not worthy of painting yet so on to the interior. I have one set of high back bucket seat from Auslowe again the mild custom vision. I did pick up a PE dash/gage set, so I need to remove all the molded in stuff and check fit. 

[Gary Chastain]

One thing about attaching a visor, it makes me have stress, they slip when glueing, gotta scratch paint off and I hate when they slip. This is my second time pinning the visor with .047 pins. This allows me to paint everything separately then add a dab of glue with a toothpick to the holes and just snap the visor on during assembly. I will glue pins to the visor, sand flush, allow pins to only be as long as the cab thickness so to not interfere with glass. 

[Gary Chastain]

Finally a day that I can lay some paint down, 4 coats, tomorrow, a light sand then two more coats, then clear. 

[Biggu]

That Mica blue is sure a beautiful color, this is going to be as good as the AC ! You have a knack to put these custom trucks together with a great vision, and, that if in real life , any truck driver would be proud to drive or own. I’m really lookin forward to your updates.  

[Gary Chastain]

Cab, hood and visor all painted up.