COE Kenworth (NZ Replica)

You're a master craftsman, cbfido!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Cheers m8.
(I think), I'm the guy who hasnt yet figured out the 'easy way' to do stuff. : (I mean), "adding tyre tread", (by cutting out & gluing each individual piece)?
(progress this week)..."Days off", & the weather turned to..."PERFECT Modelling weather".
Got to work on the 3 deck steel stock crate for the truck, (& cut out panels) for the trailer crate.

Adding the ribs to the panels,...(is as time consuming as adding tyre tread)....

There must be an "Easy Way"....(still thinking)- while having 'quiet beerzies'.

Adding the ribs to the panels,...(is as time consuming as adding tyre tread)....

There must be an "Easy Way"....(still thinking)- while having 'quiet beerzies'.

cbfido, it's the ribs on the panels and the tread on the tyres that make the truck look absolutely real. Don't compromise on this detail, as perfection takes time. After all it took Michelangelo about five years just to paint the chapel ceiling!!

(they say) "Good things take time" eh?
Bit more progress (after night shifts)...Got to work on the trailer crate....

((the other side))...

She's looking really good. I'm still amazed at how good of job you do of turning cardboard into trucks...

Cheers mate.
(I'm thinking) I'm becoming "Obsessed"...
(after each Nighshift this week), got the trailer & crate ready for the Paint Shop.... (I hear most people sleep)

Back on 'Arvo shift' next week...(might be "slow progress") :

(slow progress)= Trailer "primed"...

Also got truck crate primed. (felt I'd earned a beer)

Card board ol mate,

Top stuff with your modelling talents.

Next ya moight jist like ta challenge yer self with a frauline.

Mercedes 1418 ta be exact, with a single wheel pusher and a bogie trailer.

Now that would be one ta admire.

Take me back a year or two.

Regards, Buc.

Cheers Buc.
Only "Fraulines" I've done are like this one.

A wee bit of 'progress'...
(on the Cab floor plan)..

(with thanks to the 'Restoration' thread here).

(some colour added to the Stock Crates)...

(need a few 'Days Off" to complete this Beast) :