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Finn
Will follow, best of luck!

Ben M
👀

Bohrmann
👀 Thanks for sharing lots of high quality,work in progress pictures. Enjoying your project 😃. I'm observing and learning. here

Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat, of course!

gorby
Welcome to the (occasionally fictional) Show Robert. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
se non è vero, è molto ben trovato 😉

Neil
Make me an early attende along with Robert also mate! 👍 🙂

gorby
Muchas grassy arse Robert (see! I speak foreign perfectly. 🙂 )
Welcome Neil!

Robert Podkoński
LM(grassy)AO! 😄 😄 😄

Landlubber Mike
Great details gorby! Nicely done!

David Taylor
You like most of us waste our lives fiddling away on our own little projects only you do it better than most.I try and resist building OOB to make it more challenging and interesting,sometimes OOB.LOL

Bohrmann
👀 aking a seat

Spanjaard
not to be missed, no doubt 🙂

Rui S
What a beautiful scratch you're doing in such a small kit. This is Unbelievable 😮 at least for a person with tired eyes like me. Do you use a microscope? 😄

gorby
Rui, these days I can barely find my work bench without my optivisor. 😄 😄
David, I do it because I like the challenge as well...and I can't write symphonies. Scratch-building in 1/72 also gives me a chance to practice swearing. I'm getting quite good at it now. 😳

Thanks all for tagging along. 🙂

Pepe
😳😳😳

Kesa Tiho
Glad to see your working on another project. Intrested to see how this will come along, or what it even is.. anyways following with interest 👍

gorby
Thanks Kesa, welcome to the show. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see you back with another lorry contraption 👍

gorby
Thanks Lukasz. 🙂
The original intention was to do a quick out of the box build...then I saw what was missing and I've sort of got carried away. 🙂

Mr D
Nice model, l remember seeing a video on simulator truck...used to deliver coal.
Nice 👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. 🙂

Alec K
Another scratch project? I am of course in 👍. A wee bit of a depressing preamble (lots of which I identify with), hope you are ok mate 👍.
Excellent progress btw.

Mr D
Nice to see scratch build 😃👍
Always inspires and helps to learn new skills.
Looking great so far... Good work 😁👍

Ben M
Interesting vehicle and I appreciate reworking a kit like this.

gorby
Sorry Alex, I thought I'd attached the (very basic) kit to the project, and I'm fine - thanks mate.
Thanks all, I'm enjoying adding a few bits to this thing and glad you like it. 🙂

David Goodchild
I feel like I'm a bit late to this party, but this is really fantastic; not just the effort you're putting into it gorby, but the history, the humour and the imagination and research too. It's your model, you make it your way and it's a pleasure to see so much experience and skill put to such satisfying effect. 👍👍😎

Łukasz Gliński
X-4, my fav colour! 😄 I have to admit this colour setup looks very die-cast-Matchboxish 😄

gorby
Better late than never David. Thanks for the lovely comment. I think some people take this hobby a bit too seriously so I like to do the exact opposite. 🙂

You're right Lukasz, the colour does look a bit die-cast doesn't it? 😄
I need to drag myself away from using X-4 – even if I think it suits oldie-worldie vehicles. I don't want to be thought of as a one trick pony. I'm at least a two trick pony. 😄 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Nah, X-4 fits much more than that: Blue Jetstream (SP-KWN) | Project by Woody (1:72)

gorby
Oooh that does look good. 🙂

David Goodchild
People always like to take things seriously, even when they possibly shouldn't! Really look forward to the next update! 👍

gorby
👍

Mr D
It happens sometimes! I've had this alot with brush painting, l think the brush would push paint under.
I use a masking fluid on top of any awkward masks now.
You will get it tidied ok.
👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. Repairs are going well. 🙂

bughunter
Cool 👍 I like your scratched additions!

gorby
Thanks Bugs, good to see you back again. 🙂

gorby
I completed the build yesterday and other than the headlights being a bit too big I'm happy with how it turned out. I ended up really enjoying the build and thanks to every one for following. 👍

John Hughes
Keep on like this and we'll have to start calling you Zsolt II!

Rui S
Impressive work, indeed. Very Well done Gorby 👍

bughunter
What a nice little lorry! I hear some sound of the steam engine ...
A nice street too. That might be a good idea to seal it with thinned PVA, I'll have to remember that for the future.

Alec K
Very nicely done Gorby! The colors are apropo I think, and I like that photo booth (nice dual purpose set up) 👍

Alex K
Love this! What a cutie!!! 👍 👍

Mr D
Wonderful Gorby.... Cracking little model 😁👌👍

David Taylor
Lovely little build Gorby.

David Goodchild
Fantastic result, looks so good! Really impressed with this! 👍😎

Kesa Tiho
Very nice result mate, it was worth the wait. You make the base yourself?

Ben M
You made this plain old kit very special.

Łukasz Gliński
Exqusite job! Looks like a bigger scale, 43rd at least 👍
And dat colours and weathering, like Matchbox Yesteryear series taken out of storage after all these years 😄
@John: will do, but only when we start seeing these bigly huge matchsticks 😄

Robert Podkoński
Awesome (anid quick) job, Gorby! Chapeau bas!

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful and incredible work, congrats!

Michael Kohl
That came out nicely.

Kesa Tiho
I love that Gorby's builds comment section became like a little scalemates get together 😂

gorby
WOW! That's a very nice surprise to find in the morning. 🙂
I'm amazed that such a tiny model has had such a big response. Thanks you everyone for taking the time to comment. 👍
John: My 1/72 vehicle fixation was a Zsolt's fault….thanks Zsolt. 🙂
Bugs: What's this? Has the world turned upside down? Me teaching Bughunter something. 😄
Alec: It's also because I'm too tight to buy a photo tent, did I forget to mention that bit. 😄
Kesa: Photo 28 explains how I made the base – it's as quick, simple and cheap as it's possible to make a reasonably decent base.
Lukasz: I'm stttiiilll looking for those huge matches. 😄

Thanks again to everyone who commented or liked. 👍

Moreno Baruffini
👍👍👍 Chapeau!!!

gorby
Thank you Moreno. 🙂

Bohrmann
Beautiful model sir !!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 In the pictures the model doesn't look that small, certainly not 1/72 scale. Only in slide #34 where you can make the comparison with the match does it dawn on me that this really is a small model. Unless the matches in the Uk are a lot bigger than on the continent. 😉

Finn
Beautiful indeed!

gorby
Thanks you very much Bohrmann and Finn! 🙂
It really is a tiny little thing - only 9cm long. I did wonder what I was doing with my life when I spent several days detailing the minuscule cab area. 😄

Spanjaard
fantastic details gorby, amazing result

gorby
Thanks very much Spanjaard! 🙂

Mr D
I like the wheels.... They have that heavy cast look, the red looks period too.

👍👍

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
J'aime beaucoup.

gorby
Thanks mates, I'm glad you like it. 👍
Nice to 'see' you a again Jean Pierre. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Hah, there's the matchstick! Welcome, Zsolt the 2nd 😄

gorby
Notice how I've cunningly managed to avoid the Zsolt match patent by using a brown match. 😄 😄

Neuling
Lovely work. From a devoted modeler.

gorby
Thanks Neuling. 🙂

Landlubber Mike
That came out amazing Gorby!! Nice job!

Bernhard Schrock
Very rare subject & nice build. Txt for sharing. 🙂

Simon SW
Very nice, you've really made a lot out of a little! 👍
I've got a Keil Kraft /Davric Thornycroft A1 lorry lurking in my stash that I have an 'idea of an idea' for. But the kit itself looks more like something that should have come free in a Cornflakes packet! You've set a rather high bar here...

Mr James
Wow, that's one bloody big match 😉
Lovely work Gorby.

gorby
Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Simon: You're right, they are very basic but I quite enjoyed the challenge. Mind you, I've got three similar quality kits in the stash at the moment and I'm not sure if I can face them yet. 😄
Thanks again, and to everyone who has 'liked'. 👍

Alex K
Well, I, for one, would love to see you tackle the other Keilkraft kits in your stash... not to mention that Roland's new endeavour made me think what Gorby could have done with Airfix "Stephenson's Rocket"...

gorby
Not sure if wanting me to tackle the other Keilkraft kits means you have sadistic tendencies Alex. 😄 😄
I love the Rocket so I wouldn't rule that out if I can find one for a price good enough for a cheapskate like me. 🙂
Thanks Alex. 👍

Mel
Very cool project. The steam lorry is quite charming and very well built.
May i say that i like your sense of humor 🙂

gorby
Thanks Mel, I'm glad you like it. 🙂