This one I teased this one over the weekend, and it's been a while since I posted a vehicle build, so here it is! This will be a "quick and dirty" build thread, because a lot of the cleaning of the castings and tools I use are pretty much the same as my Sylvan builds.
All the pieces and parts...
The master for the cab was made by the person that does Sheepscot's cabs, except these are done as a hollow cab similar to a Sylvan. The flash is thin, and the cab cleaned up quickly.
There's a lot of detail molded into the chassis. I cleaned most of it up with an Exacto #11, and small sanding sticks. There was a sprue nub on the fuel tank that had a good size air bubble under it. I opened it up and filled it with the Bondo spot putty.
I opened up the bag with the wheels and tires. The tires are made by A-Line and needed no clean up. The wheels are resin and are the period correct 10 hole Budds. They needed very little clean up.
Next up was the detail parts. They just needed a little sanding and scraping for clean up. I was a bit befuddled about the piece in the upper right of the first photo. It isn't shown on the simple directions, so I Googled images of the kit and I'm pretty sure it's a frame mounted exhaust support. It's not needed for this version so into the parts box it will go..
The muffler and stack got cleaned up and bent following the instructions
Holes were drilled in the cab for the horns and mirrors.
Those parts were ACC'ed in place.
I glued the 5th wheel in place in line with a cross member on the frame. I also glued the axles in at this time.
And here's all the sub-assembly's together. Now for a bath, primer and paint.
Very cool Danny!
Love it.
Nice!
Thanx Thom...
Quote from: Raymo on July 23, 2018, 07:14:07 PM
And here's all the sub-assembly's together. Now for a bath, primer and paint.
You're talking about the truck, right?
Yup! Although I needed a shower after work yesterday.... :o
Neat truck Dan.....I'll be looking in. :)
Another Dan build! Yippee! I'm in. :D
Just want to give a quick update to my build for my follower's and thanks for following. My choice for cleaning up the castings is a product named Superclean. It's also sold at Home Depot by ZEP called Purple Power. I do about 6-8 vehicles at a time, so I throw 'em in a plastic tray and spray the Superclean on them. I use gloves I buy at Harbor (Horror) Freight to protect my hands because it will take a layer of flesh off. Scrub 'em with an old tooth brush, then wash 'em good with clean water and let 'em air dry over night.
I use a tea strainer to hold the little bits like wheels and tires so the don't get lost while cleaning. I'll just soak everything down with the cleaner and wash the strainer out under the faucet till the cleaner foam is gone.
I've been holding off on priming for about a week because of high humidity and was able to get it done yesterday. My new choice of gray (grey) primer is Scalecoat II primer...
My choice of colors will be Tru Coat Conrail Blue and White. Chassis and cab will be blue and wheels and two tone on cab will be white. That's it till the next break in humidity... :o
Thanks for posting this build! Can you airbrush the Scalecoat primer right out of the bottle or are you adding anything to it?
Bob, I use their thinner to thin it out a bit...
Dan,
Thanks for the thread, it's very informative. I'm gong to try my hand at building four Sylvan vehicles from the stash. I'll be following this thread and your suggestions.
Tom ;D
Quote from: ACL1504 on August 01, 2018, 07:50:47 AM
Dan,
Thanks for the thread, it's very informative. I'm gong to try my hand at building four Sylvan vehicles from the stash. I'll be following this thread and your suggestions.
Tom ;D
I'll send you my phone number incase you need help
Dan - thanks for the thread. Wondered how to clean castings. Will leave the assembly to you. Keep on trucking. Jim
Dan
Great to see another build thread - I will be following along.
OK, I am just figuring out how to make the Jorden vehicles and started reading this well done thread and then the sound of crickets. Dan can you add to this post, I can use all the help I can get.
Jim D
I've had good luck with SuperClean for cleaning both castings (resin, styrene, and metal), and household use. I got some spousal brownie points when this stuff worked great for cleaning the oven hood.
dave
Quote from: Jim Donovan on November 13, 2018, 07:14:17 PM
OK, I am just figuring out how to make the Jorden vehicles and started reading this well done thread and then the sound of crickets. Dan can you add to this post, I can use all the help I can get.
Jim D
Jim,
Here is a link to a build thread for a Jordan truck on another forum that you might find helpful.
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45661
Quote from: Jim Donovan on November 13, 2018, 07:14:17 PM
OK, I am just figuring out how to make the Jorden vehicles and started reading this well done thread and then the sound of crickets. Dan can you add to this post, I can use all the help I can get.
Jim D
Yeah, I need to finish it. I have it 1/2 painted...
Thanks Dan;
Looking forward to finding out how the story ends!
As I am scheduled to clean grime off of cabinets in garage SuperClean is definitely on must gets today, thanks Dave.
Jerry thanks for the great link to the Jordan build, it looks fantastic and is bookmarked. Between it and Dan's directions I think I can get started on the kits I have.
Jim D
So it's had to believe it's been a year since I've posted any photos to this thread. I've been working on it and figured I would do an update. Sometime in the fall of 2018 I painted the cab and wheels with the white. I never took any photos of the cab but I did with the wheels.
At the same time, I painted the interior with some Vallejo Gray Metallic. Trucks of this era were spartan with the creature comforts, and I figured the gray would work well.
So after drying a few days, I masked off the roof and lower part of the cab
I then painted the cab and chassis with the Conrail Blue
I also painted the seats with some waterbase brown paint.
I attached the tires to the wheels and did a little detail painting to the wheels. I also gave the wheels with The Detailer, which is a black wash I use for grilles on the vehicles.
I did some touch up on the wheels with white paint to hide the overflow from the Detailer. I painted the chrome work on the cab and started decaling the cab. I bought a huge lot of decals at a local show and these thin gold stripes were in the lot. The Buzzy's Trucking decal was a custom one I paid to have made.
I attached the wheels and tires onto the chassis. The front bumper would have been aluminum on the prototype, so that was painted silver. It has a prototype bend to it. :D
I added a 3rd stripe on the upper door and did some more detail painting. In researching some prototype photos, I found that the amber lights above the headlights were an afterthought added by one trucking company. Kenworth's did have marker lights in that area, but they were a 3rd of the size. I also added the Detailer to the grille area
That's it for now. It's close to being finished..
Nice work as always Dan.
I'm always picking up little tricks from these vehicle build threads. I'm almost ready to do a simple build of my own. If it comes out half as good as one of yours I'll be happy.
And thanks for your help.
--Rich
Hey Raymo:
Just beautifully done so far. Looking forward to the finished product.
Karl
Thanks!
That's amazing Dan! :o I really appreciate you sharing these builds with us. :D
Dan
Great to see you finishing this one up and completing the thread. Fantastic work as always.
Looking really great Dan!
Gents......
I hope I don't steal this thread but.......
I built a bunch of Don Mills refer and box car kits nearly 50 years ago.
They were the:
Barf beer refer
Lostand foundry box
Foney baloney refer kits...
they are all still rolling around on my pike here in downtown Idaho.
See ya
Bob
Dan,
Amazing my friend, fantastic build.
Tom ;D
Well it's been over a year since I've been on this thread but I did finish up this build and am ready to show off the final product. But first the last few steps of the build.
This little piece was one that I cleaned in the beginning, but thought it was a exhaust stack bracket for the non-sleeper cab version of this kit. Turns out it is a rear cab support. I found it out while looking at an online review of the kit when it first came out.
I attached it to the frame just behind the engine block, but then realized it must not have been cast right because it was to short. I added a short piece of 1/16 angle styrene and a short piece of 1/32 square .
I painted the styrene pieces Grimy Black and let that dry. I installed the interior to the cab casting.
While that dried, I started to do some weathering with some Dark Gray chalk to the frame.
At this point I need to back track and note before the interior was installed, I used Gallery Glass to fill the windshield and vent windows on the doors. You can see the result in the photo below. I also added some Sylvan Scale Models windshield wipers I had on hand. The photo also shows the cab secured to the frame with some 5 minute epoxy. Some light brown chalk was added to the bottom edges of the cab.
This photo shows the location of the stack when installed.
I made a crossover plate from a piece of Alloy Forms diamond plate cut roughly 1/4" by 3/8"
This was attached to the frame behind the cab.
And it finally is ready to hook up to a trailer and travel across the layout.
It feels good to finish up this thread. Now to find some others I've never finished and finish them! Thanks for checking in... Raymo
Beautiful job sir!!!!....Dennis
Nice!
Jeff
My hero
Great truck, great modeling.
Dan,
I like the extras that give your truck an authentic look, the two tone paint, silver stripes, and the deck plate. Great job!
Great job on this one Raymo
Doug
She's another beauty Dan! Well done. Well done indeed! ;)
Thank you.. ;)
Dan
Great modeling and great thread! Thank you for sharing this build with us.