Aero Kit Pete

[jacobus]

the colour looks nice and see him also on a kenworth of the same company

its seems the same name to my

and the building is just great,great

jacobus

[Dingo5162]

Jaroslav those R nice seat belts I luv 'em, makes me want to spend more time on my builds and get things right maybe I'm going to have to hey anyway thanks for the Tuts.

Dingo

Edited March 4, 2012 by Dingo5162

[BigBad]

Great work Jarda, the 377 is not my favorite Peterbilt, but you are making something really good out of this one! Actually you're inspiring me for my Pete 379 out of a 378. I might use a similar paint scheme as your 377. Keep it up!

[truckabilly]

Thank you guys for your kind words. I sprayed a few layers of clear coat and this is how it looks now. Not very shiny but I didn´t even want it that way. But still I think I could have done better. The skin isn´t very smooth. Is it possible to polish clear coat?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2017 by truckabilly

[bandit1]

wow...really nice job on the paint work so far......i dont know about polishing clear...but i do know why dont you do a light wet sanding before...that will even everything out for final polish and wax???....

BUT HEY KILLER PAINT....I WISH MINE LOOKED THAT GOOD!

[BigBad]

Oh yeah! That's what I'm talking about, told you this paint job would make that truck pop! Good Job!

[mackinac359]

I polish all of my clear coats using a mild rubbing compound followed up with a carnuba type car wax. Be very careful around the raised details (rivets, panel seams, etc).

Tim

[truckabilly]

I working on the details for this build. Right now I think I can show some pics of the firewall. I added a few details and plumbing. The firewall is not perfectly accurate. Italeri mirrored some of the elements on the firewall and I have noticed that after it was painted. I will take care of that on my future builds.

 

 

 

 

 

I will add a beeper under the windshield center post and maybe a few more tiny wires. Unfortunatelly, I do not have a complete knowledge of all the wiring and plumbing so the wires and hoses will end up in some hidden spot under the cab.

 

Edited July 25, 2017 by truckabilly

[mackinac359]

Nice firewall plumbing! You are correct, Italeri mirror-imaged most of the firewall, almost as if they were thinking right hand drive.

Tim

[Kostas Parchas]

So far so good!!!

Nice detailed firewall.

Kostas.

[popcan]

fantastic work and patience to do that kind of work pure artistic work

[bandit1]

Nice firewall plumbing! You are correct, Italeri mirror-imaged most of the firewall, almost as if they were thinking right hand drive.

Tim

geez! ...Another problem i just have to fix...you wouldnt happen to have ref material needed that tells or shows how i have to correct it would you tim?

[drinkone2]

Excellent detail work!!

Jim

[mackinac359]

Reference material such as photos of the firewalls?

Tim

geez! ...Another problem i just have to fix...you wouldnt happen to have ref material needed that tells or shows how i have to correct it would you tim?

[catd11rpusher]

Being a novice modeler I have a lot of respect for you, your work is very nice. How do you make the exhaust coming off the turbo look so real!!!! I mean the rust look is very beautiful Kudos to you,

[bandit1]

Reference material such as photos of the firewalls?

Tim

Reference material such as photos of the firewalls?

Tim

that and anything else tim THANKS

[mackinac359]

Try here plus any of the "Peterbilt vacation" fotki pages off my site www.timstrucks.com - if you can't find what you are looking for, drop me an email and I can dig through more pics.

Tim

http://timstrucks.site.aplus.net/PB_detail.htm

that and anything else tim THANKS

[mikelo]

Wow! I would offer to take some detail pics from the assembly line, but it looks like you have the details down. Amazing job. Please keep us posted.

Mike

[truckabilly]

Some details are easy to find. Some others not. I didn´t want to have the bottom of the cab with no details so I put some lines in there. You can see they end nowhere... for the lack of details of this part.

 

 

 

The cab and sleeper are glued to the frame. The hood can still be removed. The air filter just sits on the engine. I will glue it later.

Edited July 26, 2017 by truckabilly

[Jim B]

Very nicely done. Great details.

[truckabilly]

So far I didn´t have any serious problems with parts fitting. But now I had to deal with a geometry issue. It was probably my fault but the under cab fairings didn´t fit quite right. Everything was okay on the passenger side but the driver side... oh, Lord!

 

 

Also, the upper edge of the fairings was supposed to be glued to the cab lower edge. But there´s a gap between these parts on the real truck. I wanted to keep this gap on my model too. So I´ve done these channels to keep the distance and make a solid joint.

 

 

Still the gap was different on each side. I did some adjustments and accepted this compromise.

 

 

 

But... another problem occured when I test fitted the roof horns and the aero shield...

 

 

The pic is no good but the horns and the aero shield didn´t fit right. I had to drill new holes to the sleeper roof.

Edited July 25, 2017 by truckabilly

[truckabilly]

Now it fits a lot better. But what do I do with the extra holes? I am not sure if I can fill in the extra holes and repaint the spots without a trace. Someone advised me to install another horns in there. I don´t know. I´ve never seen it this way. Before I make the decision, there is a progress on another parts. I finished the coil cables for the trailer connection.

 

 

I installed them onto the truck. The spring is a lead wire 0,4 mm winded around another wire. The loop holding the coil cables is an adhesive tape. I joined two layers with the sticky sides facing each other. The black hose is an electric line. The glad hands are scratch built.

 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2017 by truckabilly

[truckabilly]

Also in place are the fuel tanks. The Alclad chrome should look better but some tricks I have yet to learn. The stripes are photo etched and have natural nickel finish.

 

 

 

The rear fenders are in the kit´s chrome. They come from RoG 359.

 

 

The wipers and sun visor:

 

 

That´s all for now. Any ideas how to get rid off the extra holes?

Edited July 25, 2017 by truckabilly

[mackinac359]

Very nice detail work!

Tim

[truckabilly]

Thank you Leo. I was thinking about something like this myself. The question was... do I have the guts? Well, here is what have done. I superglued the styrene rods in the holes and cut the flush with the roof, just like you suggested. Then I tried to smooth sand the spots but the superglue was not willing to cooperate too much. So I used a bit rougher sand paper and I never got rid off the marks. My fault, I shouldn´t have worry too much about the size of the sanded spots.

I used a darkened shade of the original colour for the first few layers. I needed that dark shade for better coverage of the white ends of the rods and the light spots from the sand paper work. I sparayed a few thin layers and smooth polished them with the GT31 finishing cloth of GSI. Then I lightened the shade again to prevent too much dark spots from building up. Again, I polished each layer with the GT31 cloth. Finally I added one layer of paint over the whole roof. This will be wax-polished after the paint cures. Here is a few pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2017 by truckabilly