Thanks!!! Just about got the cab wrapped up and have started on the packer,hopefully posting some progress pictures soon. 

The Ad Astra Modeling Club here in Topeka, Ks. had its annual show today......got a few truck pictures.... Fellow forum member and member of the Ad Astra Modeling Club, Paul, built this diorama along with fellow Ad Astra member Lamar Johnson.      Along with the logging truck diorama, Paul also built this fine looking combo.   A lot of scratch building went into this wrecker  

Thank you for the links my friend.  I completey understand your stance on youtube and agree that sometimes energy's are spent better on projects that count and also not disturbing workflow or area where this takes place.. I Also agree that Ads seem to have gone crazy on this platform and is very unfortunate for a lot of us as viewers that are just trying to gain knowledge and insight on the subject at hand and not filled with interruptions or pure rubbish that we are forced to intake.  Your Quote "I would much rather have a million friends than a million views."  is spot on!!  Thank you for your posts and insights and techniques and will be watching further progress with an eagle eye.

Shot this first light coat of color with the air brush....turns out there was cracks in the pick up tube...will have to sand out the areas of splatter and re shoot, other than that I'm o.k with it.  

I shoot a Paasche VL airbrush w/the 1 oz. glass jar.  After my last session, I went to clean the air brush and discovered cracks in the vinyl pick up tube that is in the glass jar.  
 1/8" I.D X 1/4" O.D micro fuel line (Red) One foot of fuel line cost me $2.00...enough to last me a long time.  
  As it turns out,the inside dia. of micro fuel line (gas powered weed eaters as an example) is a perfect fit over the fitting on the glass jar lid.  Instead of trying to clean the pick up tube every time I use the air brush,I will just simply replace the used pick up tube with a new, clean one.   

Mock-up for fuel tanks and battery boxes. 

Wow nice stuff!

I went to the annual Prison City Model show in Leavenworth, Ks. ...did'nt show a truck, rather a dirt track Gran Torino that garnered me a 3rd place finish in the competition class....enough of the car stuff.        This American La France 900 series pumper that pays homage to the 343 New York City firefighters that lost their lives in the line of duty on 9-11 won an award in the truck category...built by Brian Gauthier of the Show Me State Modelers....plenty of after market and scratch building.       One clean cab over.

Some progress

Can’t wait to see this finished, like where this is going.