Italari American wrecker truck

[kpnuts]

Hey I know I said I was going to do some of my stalled builds but this has been calling me since I bought it, probably as I've not built a truck before (you get a lot of plastic for your money) 

I know a lot of people don't like it but I'm doing it as an old and tired truck, in the past I've got a lot of flack for doing this type of stuff, well it's my model and I like doing old. (I've ordered some inkjet decal paper so hopefully I can make my own decals)

I may get another truck or bus for it to be towing.

Made a start on weathering it.

[kpnuts]

Hi all well I've redone the bodywork so no rust but staining and sun bleaching (Still more to do but that will have to wait till I've made and added my decals)

Done some to the chassis (boy are they complicated) and started on the engine.

[kpnuts]

Hi all well I've corrected the instructions callout and stared weathering the engine, added another colour to the rear boxes still lots of chipping and washes to ad yet.

[kpnuts]

Hi all did some more work on the chassis and differentials

[mrmetallic]

Why would someone give you a hard time for building a weathered model??? It's your model, build it how you want

You're off to a good start here.

[kpnuts]

On a couple of forums i was told i should be ashamed of myself ruining great kits like that.
Hi all finished the engine (Still got the ancillary devices and what not to add)did some more weathering on the chassis.

[fordrodnkustom]

Looks great KP. Your weathering and overall "usage" is spot on.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here's another update, loads more to do in the interior. I tried to get the steam from the hot cup of coffee on the windscreen (not particularly sucessfull but I tried) I feel I need to add a lot more rubbish in the cab I also need to dirty up the side windows as well, I'm getting there slowly.

[kpnuts]

More work on the wrecker. Its a great kit but the instructions are really bad, soooooo confusing, moved those fuel tanks twice.

[kpnuts]

Hi all well I was given an idea for displaying this which I thought would be quite fun (and as you all know I like doing "out there" stuff) sooo, this was going to be a robot but I thought it lent itself better to this so I stripped it all down and will be using it for the dio, what's the dio going to be? Well I'm sure you will work it out.




And there's this little guy. I'm calling him ted.





Maybe I will give him a few warts or something.

[fordrodnkustom]

Well this is taking an interesting turn! Looking forward to seeing where you end up. Outstanding detail there in the interior. I like the "steam" coming out of the cup on the dash. How'd you do that?

[kpnuts]

Hi all another update, well this bit is never going to fit.

So with some heating and a little extension ted helped me fix it.




Hope the rest fits ok.
Cotton wool sprayed grey glued to the cup then teased out then put the cup on the dash laid the windscreen in then put blue tac where the cup was masked round the blue tac then sprayed Matt round the edges of the blue tac (tbh I didn't think it noticed in the photos)

[kpnuts]

Hi all bit more done on this one.

[fordrodnkustom]

Looks like it's coming along quite well KP. Ted appears to be a good helper and good help is hard to find these days!

[kpnuts]

Hi all made a start on the dio