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Post by Beekster on May 13, 2019 14:18:06 GMT -6
I'll need more than a red flag, Duke! I think I also need yellow & black "Oversize Load" banners tied to the front bumper of the tractor and the back end of the trailer. Those will also provide the additional benefit of hiding the traditional license plate locations, since getting decals for proper Oregon truck plates is problematic. Commercial vehicles don't use the same plate colors or alphanumeric sequences as cars do.
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Post by BUCKY on May 13, 2019 18:13:05 GMT -6
If you do "Oversize Load", will ya hafta built an escort vehicle?
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Post by Beekster on May 14, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -6
If you do "Oversize Load", will ya hafta built an escort vehicle? If I intended to do a highway diorama ten feet long, then I guess the answer would be yes. But I don't have room for a ten-foot stretch of highway anywhere in the house, so that's out. Figuring out how to display these big trucks will be daunting enough, though cases made for 1/350 ships might work. That being said, an escort vehicle is theoretically possible. Meng, I believe, has a Ford F350 Super Duty in 1/35 that would do just fine. Wouldn't be hard to build a headache rack for the bed which could mount the usual amber beacons, which are available from Accurate Armour across the pond in Scotland. They also do that sheet of brass treadplate that I'm using on the trailer, and more of that would be needed to cover the ubiquitous extra diesel fuel tank that all such rigs seem to have at the front of the bed. Sometimes I think you people are a bad influence....  |
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Post by JCON on May 14, 2019 9:54:40 GMT -6
Bad influence, ya think???  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on May 14, 2019 13:05:23 GMT -6
Yes we are! LOL! You don't really need a ten-foot length of highway to display such a thing. You could always have them shown as parked somewhere on the side of a road or in a rest stop, with the two escort trucks sitting just in front and behind the rig. That would be so cool to see!
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Post by JED on May 14, 2019 14:08:02 GMT -6
Where will it end!!? 😬😬
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Post by Beekster on May 14, 2019 17:22:54 GMT -6
Where will it end!!? 😬😬 My thoughts exactly! I think a pair of pilot trucks is a bit much perhaps. Getting these projects across the finish line (along with others) will be daunting enough. |
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Post by JED on May 15, 2019 4:48:03 GMT -6
Where will it end!!? 😬😬 My thoughts exactly! I think a pair of pilot trucks is a bit much perhaps. Getting these projects across the finish line (along with others) will be daunting enough. IT sure would look pretty cool though!! |
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Post by BUCKY on May 15, 2019 18:54:16 GMT -6
If you do "Oversize Load", will ya hafta built an escort vehicle? Sometimes I think you people are a bad influence.... We're just trying to help out a fellow modeler!  |
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Post by Beekster on May 16, 2019 8:53:19 GMT -6
I'll consider a pilot vehicle for the future, but not until the transporter and Madill are both finished. Both of those are on hiatus for a few days, but not for long. I'm finally getting around to weathering a MAZ-537G with trailer that has been nearly finished for years, and getting camo paint on the Chilean Mack this week. Also talking with a custom decal producer about a sheet for the M911 which would give me artwork for a fictional timber products company, the Oversize Load banners, and mundane markings like GVW 120,000. The quote is for $68, which is not exactly cheap, but I think well designed markings will really make the finished model. The sheet will probably have enough markings to do both the M911 tractor and a pilot truck sometime.
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Post by BUCKY on May 17, 2019 6:52:28 GMT -6
The decals don't sound like a bad deal to me. Surely, there will be a bunch on the sheet.
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Post by Beekster on Jun 13, 2019 10:15:10 GMT -6
I mentioned in another thread that this one has been fighting me this week. It's my own fault, really, for paying attention to the instructions. All I've been trying to do is get the exhaust stack on, which is supposed to be secured by two etched brass straps. Said straps have three little holes, and attach to the back wall of the cab over three little nubbins molded there, flush on the back of the cab. Bend around the pipe, secure to the angle bracket on the side of the cab, and superglue all together. Riiiiiight...   In the foreground you see the mangled straps. The problem is that the instructions have you gluing the exhaust pipe to the frame much earlier in the assembly sequence. Much later you attach the stack as described, and it has to line up with the pipe. The problem is simple and inevitable: Slop in how things go together. There's a few thousandths of up/down movement possible in the brass burn guard despite the molded plastic button and corresponding hole in the brass part. There is also a couple of thousandths of an inch of slop in the position of the lower pipe if you glue it to the frame. The straps don't like to flex as you find the location for the cab and the lower exhaust pipe, which is why mine are mangled. So, I had to figure out what to do and so back to the reference photos. Turns out the kit isn't quite right anyway. Those three nubbins for the straps? The ought to be rubber spacers, about an inch thick. Easily solved with punched discs. The pipe needs to stand off a bit from the cab wall, so I made a little spacer for that. The difficult part was getting the straps to wrap properly from the angle bracket to the spacers without breaking. I started with .010"x.040" strip and finally settled on .015"x.060" strip. Even that broke going around the pipe, and had to be forced into position with superglue and tape, then sanded smooth. I might have been able to get by with .015'x.040" strip, but I wasn't all that confident in my positioning and needed enough surface area for that grab handle. I think the proper way to do this is to replace the nubbins with discs as I have done, position the pipe, and still use the brass straps if you can. Then attach the lower pipe during final assembly and not worry about whether or not it touches the frame as the instructions specify. It doesn't sit right on the frame on the real truck anyway. |
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Post by JCON on Jun 13, 2019 10:19:32 GMT -6
Interesting but not surprised... |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Jun 15, 2019 10:47:30 GMT -6
Great fix man! Looks like you nailed it.
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Post by JED on Jun 15, 2019 12:26:21 GMT -6
Looks great to me
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Post by MARCO on Jun 17, 2019 4:57:03 GMT -6
And me!  |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jun 20, 2019 8:54:31 GMT -6
And US.
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Post by Beekster on Aug 30, 2019 7:37:57 GMT -6
OK, so this one is still dormant while I've been finishing the Sherman ARV and will now start weathering the Chilean Mack. But one aspect is getting closer, and that's the custom decals. This is the proof art from Bedlam Creations:  The blue background is actually clear. I've asked for the "OVERSIZE LOAD" banners to be made a bit larger before this goes to print, but what you see here is what the sheet will look like. There's enough there for a fleet of logging equipment. |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Aug 30, 2019 7:45:24 GMT -6
Excellent.
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Post by JCON on Aug 30, 2019 8:07:20 GMT -6
Looking good!!! |
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