A minor setback.....   I never was quite happy with the position of the smoke stack, so I removed the smoke stack and the battery box.  While I was at it, I made some cab locating pieces....now the cab sits where it is suppose to. The cab sits on the four vertical pieces that are part of the frame. The kit locating bosses leave a lot to be desired..they are pretty small.  I had some Evergreen styrene angle pieces laying around, so I made taller locating bosses...still a small bit of wiggle room left for final cab alignment. I think what I am going to do, unless someone has a better idea, is to attach the completed interior tub to the frame and then lower the completed cab shell over the tub.     Edited just now by Brian Conn

Necessity is the Mother of invention   I was having issues with my latest build and getting the outside tires to look like they are seated to the wheel while having the proper gap between the tires...here's what I came up with.....   These are the old laces out of my work boots.  The first thing you do is mount the outside tire.  I used canopy glue on the outside (visible) part of the tire/wheel since it dries clear...I plan on entering this rig in future model shows and cant have dried CA glue showing anywhere.  The parts of the tire/wheel that are not visible, I use CA glue.  Mount the inner tire.  Wrap the shoe lace around the area between the two tires...snug it down until the tires are seated to the wheels..you will still have to move the tire back and forth across the wheel to get everything set perfect.   

..........DESPITE procrastination, busy season at work, life and recently being a storm refugee I have made some decent progress.     As I have stated before my goal is to have this a box art , curbside build (no engine or transmission) by the 4th of July.  I will come back to this one later and assemble the engine and transmission, stretch the frame and add the milk tank and additional decals.  Got some sticky tape residue to deal with on the hood....used scotch clear tape to mask off the area dividing the red and blue, no problem...used Tamiya tape in other places no problem( great stuff!!),,,,used some expensive blue painters tape...leaves a sticky residue ☹️ The white stripe decals just barely wrapped around the backside of the cab..didn't like the way it looked...so I taped off the the backside of the cab since it was molded white to create white stripes.  I do need to go back and do some touch up work with some white paint.    Need to put some heat to the smoke stack and straighten it out.

I had some one inquire about the International Harvester milk tanker,,,here's what I have been able to find out about it. It is an ERTL kit from the late 70's    But the kit is of a tractor and not a milk tanker...I still have no clue where the milk tank came from....other than that it is the same truck....a late 70's International Harvester S series 2575

Thanks for asking ...my first post to the web since Sunday.                    Unfortunately bad news...This past Monday we here in Topeka were hit with 70+ M.P.H winds.  I now have a tree on my house and power was just restored with in the past hour to my home.  I plan on getting back to it A.S.A.P as I still have the goal of having ,at least, a curbside build by the 4th of July.  I did manage to get the frame/chassis done paint wise..still have some touch up work on the cab and hood to do.      

Any progress on this build? Just checking in and watching. I have this kit and looking for ideas. 

Very cool.

This is gonna be good, watching. 

Thanks, and yes , I like that motor build. Planning another road truck with sleeper using the long hood and a V12 again. Will do better with the plumbing. 

Thank you