This truck has featured in the blog before but today it is in for repairs! The door mirror and the ballast weight mirror had both come off. As I was just after a quick Man Cave job in between Mrs. Woody's never ending Christmas preparation chores for me this seemed just the job!
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Monday, December 23, 2024
A quick Man Cave job in between Mrs. Woody's never ending Christmas preparation chores for me!
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Two steps forward, one step back!
Step one forward. As it was a bright sunny dry day with increased temperatures it was almost ideal to try to spray the Heller Scania 141LB cab in gloss yellow. Following Mondays disaster which I was pleased that the paint went on well and dried to a gloss finish as you can see with the reflected light in the photo below.
It just needs to harden off for a few days before I started get my hands on it otherwise I risk putting finger marks in softish paint. Guess how I know that!
Step two forward. Flush with the success of painting I thought I would have an hour on the other Scania model. Having started the engine yesterday I decided I would get the chassis started just to see what it would be like. I have actually built this chassis before for another model Scania back in 2008. This is the bonneted Scania that is popular in Scandinavia and this model represents a wrecker.
It is a beast of a model and the chassis is exactly the same as the one I am building apart from the fact that the truck I am now building is a flat fronted cab over engine rather than a bonneted truck. To cut costs I guess, Italeri use the same chassis kit for both kits. However the one I am building now needs to be cut down in length by taking a 44mm section out of the middle to suit the rest of the truck. It says so in the instructions. Guess who thought he knew it all and missed that part? I was reminded that back in July I wrote about the importance of sticking to the instructions when I was building the Kamaz Russian truck and if you want to see the problems I stepped into then click here.
I only thought about the fact that the chassis did look very long once I leaned back to admire the basic chassis on my workbench having put the cross members in and joined the chassis rails thinking that looks just like the one I built back in 2008 for the bonneted Scania. DOH!
One step back! Luckily the glued joints were not set so I had the opportunity to pull it all apart.