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Guys, thanks for all the comments, much appreciated!! It sits nice and happy on the Scania shelf 🙂

That's excellent progress on this big unit. Very nice work on that suspension, that's tricky!

Man, Nick, this is one of my favourite builds on the entire forum. What a fantastic rig. I can't believe how fast you got this together too! Can't have been because of The Dude helping, as he was just lounging about, drinking white russians. Awesome work.

Scribing is my least favourite part! That primer I used was Mr Surfacer 500, it's a filler primer, thick stuff. I'm currently out, but don't need it as much anymore.

Welcome back to the hobby, with a nice project. I'll be tagging along, good progress so far!

Holy cr*p, that's rough.

Right, IPA of course! Typo. Well, I'm a programmer so API comes naturally 🙂 But, a good tip about losing the filler, I hadn't thought of that. No soaking then!

We're back. More small and tedious corrections. Done some filling as well. More sanding and scribing after that. The poor thing is a mess. I think what I'll do is let her soak in API for a bit, strip the primer. Then do a wet sanding and spray a nice new layer of primer. Surely the end of this must be in sight, somewhere.

@DevinYI had the same thing, a couple of months ago. I bought this (not on that site though, but it's the same drill): https://www.tme.com/in/en/details/d-0400/electric-power-tools/donau-elektronik/0400/ I run it off an old 12V train transformer so I can vary the speed, it's awesome. You can use all the Dremel bits and such on it.

That looks perfect Steve, what a nice build.

Doing good work here Anteater. Not to mention the right amount of humour.

Nice subject Bosse, that's pretty cool. Boy, aren't you going to have fun painting all those dials and switches

Nice, have fun!

The next time I'm building a chicken coop I will make a poster out of it for the ladies to look at.

It's done. Finally! Thanks all, for tagging along and commenting.

Well, this has been quite the project. I started building Italeri's 6x2 tractor kit three and a half years ago. I love these long nosed trucks. Let me recap the build quickly. The full build log is here if you're interested. My initial plan was to build the tractor as it came from the box, but in a nice and shiny colour. After painting, I put the build away, and when I took it out of its box months later, I was faced with this: Yeah, mildly annoying, that. Something went wrong, obviously. However, I had developed some new ideas in the meantime, so I stripped the paint and chopped the cab to turn it into a low roof day cab. Which worked out quite well, I scratchbuilt the roof for it. Anyway, the plan was to turn it into a tipper, which I did, although the build was put back on the shelf a couple of times. But, I always meant to finish it and I finally did. So here we are. The cab was converted and partly scratchbuilt, there's a scratchbuilt front bumper and lastly, the tipper subframe and body were scratchbuilt as well. There's a set of KFS wheels and hubs on the rig, which always improve the look. The PE badges are from CTM. I didn't do any wiring and/or plumbing, I wanted to finish the build and was afraid it would stall again. It wasn't so easy to photograph, it's a big unit! The hydraulic ram was made from a telescoping magnetic "pen". I liked this design with the tipping tube on the front of the body. The mud flaps are made from thin rubber sheet. Thanks for watching!

I like fiddling with white plastic, but that's not saying I'll never get a 3D printer, I'd love to have one. But for now, I'm spending the time I have on building stuff, rather than learning to use the design software. That's a whole new hobby 🙂 But some day... And yes, the big units take up a lot of space, I need more shelves. This is a photo of about a year ago, it's fuller now. The time is about right to get some glass shelves so I can double up on space in some of the compartments, but still be able to see what's in there.

Whoops, guilty as charged your honour (or honor). My excuse is that in my own language, the apostrophe is actually used for the plural form. Foto --> foto's. Well, that's me off to read all of my previous posts and correct them.

Awesome collection Rich.

I'm happy to say this is the final WIP post, after three and a half years. Well, it's been in stasis on multiple occasions for a good length of time, but this has been quite the project. Today I spent almost the full day on all the small stuff that comes with finishing a build. Now, just some minor touch ups and final bit of weathering on the cab. I had this very nice 3 series PE set from CTM, it comes with all the badges and mirrors. I used a set for my 142 build, and I have another set for a 141 that's in the stash. Great stuff. I didn't take any other pics during the day, I was all about finishing the build. But here she is, just about all done. Like I said, minor touches and some weathering, and also air horns for the roof which are painted and currently drying. It will be a challenge to take proper photo's, she's big. Later this week I'll get her finished, I'm too tired now and I would rush things. Just one more session and then RFI.

Thanks HP, I'm glad I was apparently able to inspire you to mess around with some white plastic 🙂 .... I had a look at your microphone, that's looking rather sweet.

Well, I picture myself driving this thing, surely I would be the world's most careful tipper driver 😀

It could be more bashed, but... We have a very careful driver 😉

The rear of the truck is done. These mudflaps are from a thin sheet of rubbery material I had left over from another build, it makes pretty realistic flaps. I just added a thin strip with bolts. Just the cab left now.

Well that's rather high praise Pete, there are much better "plumbers" on here than I am, but this RFI here, I don't mind sharing @Dougie b76. The build itself is here, it may contain some more pointers. I use various stuff in various thicknesses, either aftermarket rubber hose, low voltage electrical wire, brass rod, stuff like that. I once bought a collection of air valve thingies, and I use / modify those from time to time. Otherwise I just make something box like up and connect wires through it. What I do is just make it look busy, most of my lines are not really going anywhere, the ends are usually just hidden in some strategic place. It's quite difficult to be true to life so I don't even try, it would frustrate me to no end. I have some air connectors but I don't use them, they're too small for me. I have a hexagon punch and I sometimes use that to make a connector, or a small piece of alu tube. Or nothing at all, just a hole for the wire to go in. What definitely helps is a fast drying glue like Loctite so your ends will stay put right away. If you use hollow tube you can pin it using small brass rod. If you really want to see a master at work check this build out, it's on a Dutch forum but as far as I'm concerned this is as good as it's going to get. Good luck!