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Assembled and in primer.
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Alf connolly joined the community
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She’s a beauty. I like the added details like the hood ornament and stacks. Nice.
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Very nice. Love the rear mud flap treatment 😎 Johnny
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Finished this one up yesterday. Well, almost, needs horns and a couple of other things. Stretched frame, scratch built headache rack, mtb swan dual stacks, and ford pickup cab lights. I actually managed to use the kit mirrors. I always have trouble with them and end up building new ones.
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lee.nelms.2015 joined the community
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True, what comes with it is a Traxon ZF 12 speed, not available in North America, so I’m going to use the Eaton 10 speed that comes in the A&N W990 chassis kit. If I didn’t have that transmission, I’d use the Eaton 13/18 from Moebius (with or without the autoshift components, depending on the build) or the Eaton from the Italeri Peterbilt Series 60 (looks pretty close to a Eaton RT Series 13 speed).
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What transmission are you going to use on your W990 behind the MX13? I heard the one that comes with the MX13 is a European unit, not used in the states.
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I’d think it would fit, but curious to see for sure. I ordered one myself, I plan to use it in the A&N W990 kit. It’s a good choice for your T800. Looking forward to seeing it.
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Ordered a MX 13 engine from A&N, yes it is 1:24 scale, but I am going to see if it will fit……..or I just spent some money on nothing.
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Making some progress on the trailer. Using a new height gage to get all the axles set correctly so I don’t have one wheel hanging in the air when I finish.
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My cab and hood have arrived. I will be using the short hood, removing the air filter cans and remounting to the cab, removing turn signals, removing grill and building a more detailed grill. Bumper and interior are up in the air at this point. Quality is good, thickness is about .010 to .020 thicker than AMT, but very nice finish. Karl does a good job building these.
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Matthew Schwenderman joined the community
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Weather is cold and raining so I am able to get some bench time. Cleaned up the bench and selected a trailer to build and started assembling. Must of bought this one a long time ago, plastic wrap turned yellow and it sold for 25 bucks.
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Thank you. I appreciate it. It's a great kit lots of opportunities to expand on a number of different levels of building it your way.
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Look’s really good, I have a couple kits sitting boxes that I have just not started on. I hear it’s a good kit.
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Well done
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The start of my "Orange Crate" 1980 KW W900 Aerodyne. The frame color is Testors One Coat Lacquer Flaming Orange. Interior is Krylon Leather Brown, with Craft Acrylic Burnt Orange for the seat Inserts and the sleeper blanket, and pillow. I will post more as I progress. Hoping for a completion tomorrow (or as close as I can get her). I have weathered the engine, and parts of the frame.
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Basic kitbash of the Dodge L700 and Ford C900 Garwood, lovingly tossed together and weathered. There's a very brief build chronicle in the workbench section.
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Nice touch with the truck numbers ! Skilzzz 😳 Johnny
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Found some more ugly green. Decided why not use it for the engine 🤣 Here it is tucked into place. Work has begun on the interior. Basic cab will be weathered off white.
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It was much easier and quicker to use the PE part above than cutting out the grill detail on this cab. This experience will certainly make me think twice before trying to do a whole radiator. The third window is added to a short cab. PE window gaskets applied. Using a sanding sheet taped to a flat surface greatly improved the problematic cab seam.
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You are correct, color really works , weathering adds to it nicely.
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Looks really good
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I used the white number decals, didn't like them so added the black ones over the top to look like shadow lettering.
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The frame gets some weathering. Added headlight bezels, which was a mistake to do so after paint. I tried to remove the orange peel on the cab with Tamiya compound paste. It is well hidden if the lighting and camera angle are right.
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A few days ago I started piddling around with the Garwood 900 packer from the AMT. The inspiration began with finding a can of Rust-Oleum Satin Moss Green in the garage. It was a rather nasty shade of green and I thought it would look good in a garbage truck. Obviously it needed a little corrosion and grime. To that end, I attacked it with Vallejo acrylics and Doc O'Brien weathering powder. I also used some old Line-O reflective tape, though unfortunately the dull clear coat kinda diminished the reflectivity. Here you see the flasher, and the winch cable made from leader line, a 1:35 scale block, and a couple of parts box hooks. This afternoon I dug out the Dodge kit, and stretched the wheelbase by cutting the Dodge chassis and grafting on the rear portion of the Ford chassis.
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Okay so this project was put away for awhile but I just pulled her out again, this morning. Paint was laid down last year. This build is an outside my normal box that I do with truck kits. Should have maybe 80% of her done by EOD on Sunday. Will post pics at that point on my progress. Going out on a limb as I believe this may be the best "snap together" I've ever done. I love these kits.
