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. 

[Gary Chastain]

Paint work complete on headache rack, let these sit for a few days before any handling. 

[BK9300]

Another top drawer paint job, Gary!

Edited August 18 by BK9300

[meechum68]

Beautiful paint! Love the clean look on the cab! 

[Gary Chastain]

Little update. Got the battery boxes modified per Ron’s advice and chromed. Polished the aluminum exhaust tubes, interior paint (want it to look like brown leather), dash is about ready to apply gage panels. Air canisters are painted, let dry for a few days then paint chrome clamp rings and detail them out. 

[ShakyCraftsman]

Hey Gary 

 What did you use for the chrome paint on the battery boxes?

Ron G 

[Gary Chastain]

Revell chrome paint, I wanted to use my Krylon chrome (ish) paint but my spray nozzle broke and got paint everywhere. I like the Krylon because it is a little more polished aluminum look rather than a bright shiny chrome and secondly it doesn’t finger print so bad. 

4 minutes ago, ShakyCraftsman said:

Hey Gary 

 What did you use for the chrome paint on the battery boxes?

Ron G 

 

[ShakyCraftsman]

Thanks Gary 

[Biggu]

That paint job is just killer !!! I LOVE what you’re doing with this one ……. What a cool idea and build. …… can’t wait for more

[Gary Chastain]

To correct the hood to cab clearance/fit, I added a .020 shim to the bottom of the rear cab mount, which raised the cab crossmember to .187 thickness. You can also see the mount could not be attached by kit locating holes in the frame (sits slightly forward). 

[Gary Chastain]

Another problem I was concerned with was flexing the hood and frame to align the pins behind the grill. After engine cross member, radiator and bumper the frame becomes very rigid. With the removal of the grill center section and addition of PE grill, I was afraid that I might bend or break those parts. I slotted the hinge pin holes leaving them slightly snug as an easy snap fit, but allow hood to rotate open without falling off. So far it works very well. 

[Biggu]

Excellent fix !!

[BK9300]

Good ideas, Gary - got to love those 'problems' - keeps the grey matter active!

[Gary Chastain]

23 minutes ago, Biggu said:

Excellent fix !!

 

17 minutes ago, BK9300 said:

Good ideas, Gary - got to love those 'problems' - keeps the grey matter active!

Thanks guys, but I do believe that my gray matter is getting foggy (er)🤪