Kenworth T900 Australia

[popeye]

Rightio then! now i got this photobucket thing sorted here are some up dated pics, i am now useing three gravel trailers instead of the flatbed in the pic, these are base painted and i'm trying to sort out how to make my own decals before adding laquer,
laquering the wheel rims made the bright silver turn light grey but they look ok so no prob,
still trying to work out how to use adobe illustrator cs3 and a free download of gimp 2.8, bloody nightmare, i might have to get someone else to resize the logo images for me, it just aint working when i try it!! hope everyone well and for gods sake someone post summat ;D i still keep looking in








and so far on the 3 axel dollys







and the resin wheel production line ;D
the center spyders

with bmf added

the rims csanded and glued together and sprayed in bright silver

spyders added and lug nuts fitted

[popeye]

Well!!!!!!! looks like i aint got pb sorted then, screw it, i had enought of it

[tgabreu]

Nice looking wheels! You must have more work in those than I had in all the models I did last year combined!

Tom

[popeye]

Cheer's Tom, yeah they were a bit of a paint in the butt, once the castings were sanded and cleaned up though it was straightforward enough, certainly worked out much cheaper than buying one pair (1 x axel) for £8.59) and i needed 48 of em

[monaro]

Wow that is a lot of work there. But the rims look great.

[popeye]

Apr 15, 2013 4:19:02 GMT -6 monaro said:

Wow that is a lot of work there. But the rims look great.

Cheer's mate, it's all comeing on ok, gradually guying sets of italeri tyres for them, right now i'm trying to get my head round a graphic program (Inkscape) for making some decals for the trailers, i have managed most of em but tiny terxt is proveing a right bstd, looks fine on inkscape but when i print it it's slightly blured, may be a printer issue but it's a good printer, (HP color laserjetCP1515n) the lad got it for me, an unclaimed order from one of his customers, they didn't claim it and it's been over two years, just sat there in it's box, "lucky me" ;D

[popeye]

Hi all (?) just a few pics of one of the three trailers, got the decals done (myself useing inkscape) didn't turn out too bad for a first attempt, still getting the tyres a pack at a time ;D just starting on the lights so a few more pics when their done, just hopeing someones still looking in now and then

[monaro]

Wow looks great. Top work on this kit.

[popeye]

Thanks mate, it's nearing completion (thank christ) ;D it'll be nice to make a start on something else, i'm not sure what to do next, either an extreme Peterbilt all wheel drive or another road train with NTFS trailers!
there seems to be no one else building on here!

[tgabreu]

Looking real good! I'd think your next project needs to be a garage to park those models-that road train's got to be huge!

Tom

[popeye]

;D Yeah it is a bit long! i haven't measured it or worked out exactly how long it will be but i'm hopeing the spare wall in the spare room will do, failing that and as you say i'll need to build on!
Whats worring me is paying for a plexiglass to make the case with!