Wow that truck looks excellent
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Hello everybody!
Sorry for taking so long to answer you!
@HeavyArty - thanks, I’m looking forward to you starting that project!
@SableLiger - thanks a lot! Please note that this one would be a “gasser”, with a Golden Comet gasoline powered engine.
@metalhead85 - thank you very much!
And I have another update:
I’m done applying my custom decals:
I have also painted the headlights:
I was also working on the cab - I painted the convertible top and built the windshield with new wiper motors and the vacuum line supplying them:
After the windshield was installed (but no roof yet), the cab interior looks like this:
After installing the grille the front looks like on the photo below:
Looong time ago I designed this PE fret:
It is supplemented by the tools from the kit:
After adding the straps and painting everything it turned out like this:
Let’s hope it won’t be long now until this one is finished.
Thanks for looking and have a nice day!
Paweł
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Gość - that rocks!
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Hello everybody!
@18bravo - thanks - dziękuję!
It took me so long to reply, because I was fighting with the mirrors. You see I bought this kit on discount from @Quartercav , precisely because he used up the mirrors and was selling the kit without them. So first I made this, patterned on the mirrors from the M54 kit:
But then I took a look at my reference photo and it had different mirrors! I aslked around and found out “my” truck had mirrors taken off an M123 10 ton! So I took my soldering iron again and I cranked out another set. These were harder to do and if you look at them you’ll see I was struggling, partly because my Chinese soldering iron turned out to be sh!tty… Here’s what I got:
Fortunately after painting them, they don’t look so bad I hope:
As it turned out, I didn’t need the kit mirrors after all…
So let’s see how fitting them is going to go…
Thanks for looking and have a nice day!
Paweł
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Hello everybody!
Those mirrors fought me some, but now they are finally done and lok like this:
Thanks for looking and have a nice day
Paweł
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Props.
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@18bravo - thanks a lot!
And my baby is now finished. Here’s my reference photo again:
And you can judge yourselves if I got it right:
Thanks for looking and have a nice day!
Paweł
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Awesome job.
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Superb looking Pawel- both the shape and the markings make it an eye catching truck. I like your weathering too- just right to make it look like it’s being used but still letting all the painting and details sing.
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Great finish to another Nam vehicle. They kept the fuel moving and were everywhere. Wayne
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It came out looking awesome. Great job on it. I need to the M50 Water Truck I have planned as well.
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Outstanding fuel delivery! 
—mike
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Very nice finish.
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We had a water truck in our motor pool. One day a couple of guys thought they would climb in and cool off. Naturally someone saw them and decided to be helpful. One guy sat on the lid while another jumped in and made a couple of laps around the motor pool. Those poor guys were beat up and half drowned and never tried that again! Fun and games!!! Wayne
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That’s a great model, perfect shade of green and weathering 
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Hello everybody!
Thanks a lot for your comments and for your kind words - they mean a lot to me! I’m glad you like my work.
Have a nice day!
Paweł
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