Models for a Movie

[Out2gtcha]

Lovely!

[Greg W]

14 hours ago, dodgem37 said:

With rain gutter!  Kick ass.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

 

I have been wondering if Hobby Boss/Trumpeter do the photoetch design work in house. Whoever designed and produced the metal details did a stellar job.

 

 

3 hours ago, Michael931080 said:

WOW!  I was just thinking about your builds today.  So glad you posted this update!!!  

 

Speaking of those builds, I really want to clear the deck of this one so I can pick them up again. I feel the mojo man!

 

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen, as always great to have you check in.

[Greg W]

3 hours ago, Out2gtcha said:

Lovely!

 

Many thanks Brian!

[Greg W]

A few more additions, have been prepared and dry fitted after work tonight.

 

The roof has a hood that extends over the windshield. Attached to the underside is a light bar, which will have clear plastic lights mounted to it after paint.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Greg W]

With all of the major cab parts checked for fit and the necessary tweeks made, it was time to add the smaller details and paint.

 

Hobby Boss provides preformed metal grab handles for the exterior of the cab. Really nice for scale effect and you don't have to clean up any flash/seam lines, on fragile parts. A couple more PE parts, plastic lifting rings on top, roof extention (sun visor/hood?) and a PE shroud for the exhaust completed the list of things to paint for this session.

 

 

In the past, I have found, painting the rubber seals around windows a challenge. On this kit, the seals are a part of the window frame, not the clear parts. My solution was to paint the seal with a Sharpie marker, then glue the window in place. I had on hand the Eduard mask set and used the windscreen (black) masks first. 

 

Here is the important bit: I wanted to protect the inside portion of the seal, "painted" with Sharpie since this is the area I find hard to do with a brush or mask without getting excessive paint build up or black paint on the clear plastic. So, with the interior of the seal black, I only needed to place tape on the top of the seal around the windows, the outside of which I will paint after the masks are removed.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below, the masking tape has been removed showing the black Eduard vinyl mask (too small for a perfect fit). 

 

 

See how the inside of the seals, where they meet the glass are super clean and sharp? The outsides will be painted by brush and touch ups can be made with grey paint, unlike where the seal meets the clear plastic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, all that's left to do are the little things like lights, reflectors, side mirrors, mud flaps, etc. The heavy lifting is done!

Edited November 22, 2021 by Greg W

[Greg W]

Time to start attaching the multitude of small external details to the model.  

 

The fine photoetch brackets that anchor the mud flaps to the frame are just to tiny to keep them secure (at least for a movie miniature). The contact area for glue is much smaller than the head of a pin. I did bend to shape and attach the PE kit parts but my hunch was correct. The slightest bump and they pinged right off. Solution was simply to glue styrene strip to the model and drill a #74 (.0225) hole in the top. A much sturdier mount for these exposed and vulnerable PE parts.  

 

 

I snapped the pictures below, right after gluing the straps that the flaps hang from, to the rods extending out from the mounts. When the super glue dries, I will fold over the other sides of the straps and glue them to the front of the mud flaps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next up, more fiddly stuff.

[dodgem37]

Good show.  Was the spiral done by you or by 'them'?  How many parts in this kit?

 

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mark

[Greg W]

Hi Mark

 

The springy rods the mud flaps hang from, come pre formed in the kit.

 

There are 1447 tan plastic parts on 35 sprues.

 

• 89 clear plastic parts on 3 sprues

 

• 51 Rubber tires

 

• 6 Rubber suspension air bags

 

• 157 Photoetch parts on 11 frets

 

• 31 Metal parts

 

• Various metal springs

 

• String for the cable on the winches

 

• Metal chain

 

• Metal pins for movable steering parts

 

• Different sizes and lengths of vinyl tube

 

The kit has roughly 1800 parts in total.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Greg W

[Michael931080]

Incredible attention to detail on this kit!  Also, incredible workmanship on your part Greg!  

[Michael931080]

Hi Greg,

 

Any updates you can share with us??

[Greg W]

On 1/23/2022 at 6:49 PM, Michael931080 said:

Hi Greg,

 

Any updates you can share with us??

 

Michael, hello and yes very soon!

 

Took some time off over the holidays, back at it now.

 

Will have pictures to post in a day or two. Working on another batch of red/yellow lights plus things like side mirrors for the cab, windshield wipers and various small details I left to do at the end of the project.

[Greg W]

Work continues, getting the last of the smaller details in grey paint. Mostly, parts for the cab. 

 

Each of the side mirrors are made up of four plastic and three photoetch parts, which look good when put together.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photoetch hood over the windshield is now permanently attached to the roof. The cab and winch platform are glued to the frame as well.   

 

 

 

 

Things are coming together quickly now, more pictures tomorrow...

[Michael931080]

"more pictures tomorrow..."

 

Looking better and better each post! 

 

Can hardly wait for the next installment!

[Greg W]

Here you go Michael! Thank you for all of your comments, questions and encouragement as you've followed along! 

 

Well... this is the project of 10,000 "one mores". I went back through the instructions and found several photoetch and plastic parts that I forgot about, after deciding to attach them later in the build. Below is a paint pallet dish with the current batch of stuff I'm adding to the model. Three or four more sessions like this are probably in order before everything is all said and done. Each time, paint a little/glue a little, paint a little/glue a little, all the while hoping and praying I don't feed the carpet monster (always happens) or fudge the paint touch ups (careful Gregory...) 

 

 

Today, managed to attach the hood, along with the windshield wipers and spotlights on the back of the cab. The front mud flaps have been painted and some touching up has been accomplished. Lots more of this kind of work to do but the project has a kind of momentum going, now that I am inside of the five yard line.

 

 

 

 

My cutting mat is a little over 24" wide. Check out the truck and trailer together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting there my friends. More soon.

 

Greg

Edited February 5, 2022 by Greg W

[Greg W]

Double checking the runners left in the box to see if I had missed any do dads, I found two parts that I needed to identify and fix to the model. This turned out to be a lengthy search through the instructions in order to figure out where to put them. Whoever wrote the instructions forgot to mention these parts! The drawing on the left shows the parts uninstalled. The drawing on the right, shows the part magically appearing without any indication to install them or identifying part numbers.

 

 

The unidentified parts are: Q 29 (×2)