Paulie Hauling's "Love Machine"

[Kostas Parchas]

You know, the only language I can't read or understand is Greek. So I understand english and french, all the rest is Greek to me...

Robert its OK with you,

The Greek language is very nice but also very difficult and thats because of grammar.

I am speaking Greek as a mother tongue, english (I believe at a very good point) and I am about to start learning Swedish.

Kostas.

[Sergey]

Sorry for the delay, friends.

Denis just said that he fond of "Convoy" movie too and now he is working on a Rat's 352 Peterbilt. So soon we will see more Convoy trucks.

[Sergey]

O-key, let's continue:

Now I finished to scratch silencers and air filter inlet pipe:

Cut out cab doors:

Here is my way to make piano hinges. I used brass angles and 0,8mm brass tubes:

Here is my jig to solder tubes & angles. Don't care about blue knob. It was made for rear springs scrach. Pieces of angle are holded in place by stepler pins:

Cooper wire (twisted revers side of the jig) is holding the tubes:

Edited October 29, 2014 by Sergey

[Sergey]

The result:

The spare tube pieces (dark pieces on a previous pic) are filed down:

The bullbar:

Rear mud flaps will be made of this:

Here we can see: abowe - uder cab part of gear shift slot, in a midle - steering linkage cardan between steering column and power steering, on the right - there are vent door handles:

Thank you for interest

Edited October 29, 2014 by Sergey

[Old Albion]

Sergey,

The attention to details especially those hinges are increadible.

Dave

[catd11rpusher]

My compliments, you have taken it to the next level, you put a lot of detail into it. NICE JOB, I love doing the reseach on the truck I'm working on. Its a learning experience.

[Tony Bryan]

Sergey

Those parts are getting smaller and smaller, nice work on the detail,

Are you using vanish coated wire ?

[Sergey]

Thank you, friends!

Hey, Tony, I was thinking (scratching my head) about COE clach system and still can't figure out - how mechanic clach could work here? So I desided to make it pnevmatic.

[Tony Bryan]

Sergey

I don't think that it would be mechanical, and would more likely be air over hydraulic, I will do a bit of researching for you, I do have some old FR700 photo's to have a look through

[catd11rpusher]

I think you have done a very beautiful job, You have done the footwork to a tee, I can't wait until done. You are a very skilled modeler. KUDOS TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sergey]

Are you using vanish coated wire ?

Forgot to say - Yes Tony, all cooper wires are varnish coated.

Thank you, Mike!

[cowboysevens]

Still doing an outstandng job sergey!! Your skills and atention to detail are really off the charts

[catd11rpusher]

I keep waiting to see more picks, I can'twait to see when it is done, Details are great!!!! keep the picks coming, oh model god!!!!!!! Ha Ha

[Tony Bryan]

Sergey

Any updates ???

[cowboysevens]

any updates on this one ?

[Bowtienutz]

I started using a similiar technique for the piano hinges only I used stainless wire to hold the tube in place while I soldered in place. I works much better than any finicky piano hinges from MCG.

[truckabilly]

Great work on the tiny details, Sergey. It´s a pleasure to watch the progress of this build.

[cavejohnson]

I wish I was half as good as you Sergey. Watching your progress really facinates me!

[Sergey]

Thank you guys. Very kind of you.

A little progress.

I decided to alter hand rails, steps and mirror arms because of seams they have:

Here is the jig to solder steps

There are hand-rails of cooper wire below and kit part above:

Mirror arms:

Finally all the parts (which should be) were chromed:

Thank you for yuor interest.

Edited October 29, 2014 by Sergey

[Jim B]

Excellent job. Did you chrome them with Alclad?

[MoparWoman Jamie]

Lovin it so far man! Keep up the good work. You got my attention.

[camaro68]

Your detail is awsome very nice keep it going

[BigBad]

I'm blown away... Can't believe this guy! Top notch work Sergey!

[catd11rpusher]

SERGURY YOU LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME A VERY SKILLED MODEL SERGIN. GREAT WORK GUY

[CharlieBravo]

You're a freak man!! Unbelievable Mate