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Martin Oostrom
This I a really nice one. I've had my eye on this kit for a long time, but it being a Heller kit has kept me at bay.
Looks like you have conquered it!

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful! Congrats!

Goldman
Thank you.

It did give a fight 😄

The plastic was very soft and most of the parts were badly wrapped. Used hot water to straighten them as much as I could and a lot of Tamiya Extra Thin and Revell Contacta to force everything together. The fit was actually quite good

Martin Oostrom
That background hurts my eyes 😎 but it does provide a good contrast.
How were the extra goodies working out for you? The truck looks great.

Goldman
Hello Martin,

Thank you!

I did change my background in later projects...

The dashboard was nice but being just 2D painted PE it didn't add a lot on top of the kit decals. The PE set was very nice. The steps, radiator mesh, deck plate and the stacks heat shields looks so much better (to my eyes) over the plastics parts. The stack heat shields were a challenge to bend and mount but I managed to coerce them into place.
Didn't bother to replace the bars on the radiator shroud though. Seems like a lot of work for very little improvement over the plastics ones.

Martin Oostrom
Now I know where to look, those parts do look really good.

Goldman
Hello Christian,

Your FLD looks really good. Love the color you chose.

I built the chassis over 25 years ago before putting the kit back in the box and storing it until couple of weeks ago when I started working on it again. I will try to add photos once I had some bench time and figure out how Scalemates works...

Christian W
Thank you!

Awesome 🙂 I'll keep on watching. I think you'll figure out fast, how it works with projects in adition with albums. Some words are written in the FAQ (part "Project management").
I used to create projects first and adding albums to it. So the album can be found in connection with the used kit through the project (each project is listed at the bottom of teh detail page of a model kit). When you creat an album only, the connection to the kit doesn't lead from the kit to the album. Hope you understand what I mean.

Bozzer
Any pictures of your trucks, mate?

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Goldman
Thank you!

Adding my stash. It will take a while...