1/72 Chevrolet CMP C60L GS, steel body No.13 cab, an IBG kitbash

[Mini Me]

Press on Nick.... she's looking good

 

[Niho]

While i was on one i finished the unseen bit of the body .......mmmmmm


As you do lol
Nick

 

[Mini Me]

Nice bit 'o scratchery

 

[Niho]

Press on Nick.... she's looking good

Nice bit 'o scratchery

Mini Me,
Imma well enjoying this, after 2 1/2 yr hiatus, browsing n buying.... i feel the Styrene Mistress returning lmao
This eves progress, i made the rear body panel as per sides, cut all off sheet, 100% flat So I'm a happy builder boy.... I cleaned up apertures in tailgate, sorta lol more refining coming, feel good with 'my kit' parts.....

Added a 5thou shim on wheelarch? boxings.... some do have a wee bit 'bigger' look.... so i went with it....
Out loud.... for myself, "this is a lesser cast member"

Here's where I'm at, 4pts me 1 pt kit...."?".....
Will ponder
Nick

 

[Jim R]

Scratchy bits are looking good. Still got one kit part so IBG is still in there.

 

[Jakko]

Nice

Am I right in thinking you made the half-round steps in the tail gate by punching out a full circle, then glueing half of it back in?

 

[Niho]

Last nights fun, drilling 28 x 0.4mm holes for fine wire, as in hooks for tarpaulin.... and i fabricated the spare wheel mount

Hopefully this eve i can assemble
Nick

 

[Niho]

The little things, added a Lee Enfield .303 rifle to cab and did the 24 tiedowns for tarpaulin

Off out to buy some XF58 now....
Nick

 

[adt70hk]

Coming on very nicely Nick!

ATB

Andrew

 

[Niho]

Coming on very nicely Nick!

ATB

Andrew

Andrew
All 90% of my DTMW buy up came in, i emailed him added another order to outstanding so his postage is worth it.
Hope to have body asswmbled today
Nick

 

[Mini Me]

Nice add to the cab Nick........keep it coming

 

[Niho]

Nice add to the cab Nick........keep it coming

Had a blitz this afternoon.... i went for it..... using a smol engineers block and an ancient adjustable square setting it together.....
So i present...... 90% me 10% IBG LOL coz i was lazy....




So that where i am, and as said some ol' skool scratchery, hmmmmmmm....... the force is strong in this one
Nick

 

[Mini Me]

Indeed it is Nick!......PCO!

 

[Jakko]

That black plastic card and strip, where is that from?

 

[Niho]

That black plastic card and strip, where is that from?

Okies re black styrene my LHS has stocked this for a few yrs now.....not sure of origins Jadlam?
Not good for pics but great to work with on bright days lol

 

[Tim Marlow]

Nice scratchery Nick. Coming along well.

 

[scottie3158]

Nick,
Keep it coming.

 

[Jakko]

Okies re black styrene my LHS has stocked this for a few yrs now.....not sure of origins Jadlam?

I wondered because all I’ve ever been able to find is white … I kind of wonder if black (or some other colour) might stand up better over time? (Old styrene on a model gets brittle, is my experience, bit I don’t know if this is limited to the white kind.)

Not good for pics but great to work with on bright days lol

Which reminds me I need to put some tape on my roof window again. (There is a sunshade on it, but it leaves a few centimetres open on each side, so on sunny days I used to have two bright stripes of light across my work surface. Not exactly great, but some opaque tape solved the problem. Except, of course, that over a few years, the tape deteriorates in that same sunlight and comes loose.)

 

[Mini Me]

Jokko, I have Evergreen sheet and strip styrene that I have been using for well over 30 years.....rest assured that it is not brittle and models just as well as the day I bought it back in the late 70's. Mind it has discolored a little but if painted, on a model, who cares. Rick H.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Evergreen seems to last the best in my experience as well. I too have some that is at least thirty years old and as good as the day it was bought. Slaters is not so good. It gets a bit brittle, probably because the plasticisers gas off over time. I have some in a mixed pack of strip that is about fifty years old and still usable, but cracks if you bend it too much. The evergreen strip is also far better in other ways. It is absolutely square and appears to have a sawn, rather than guillotined, edge. Slaters rod lasts much better, but god knows what is is. It is completely different in texture….evergreen Rod is just like the sheet….
Slaters, on the other hand, used to make sheet in an absolute rainbow of colours. I have used white, cream, red, and black myself, but know brown, green, light and dark blue, and yellow were also available. It’s trade name was Bextrene, by the way. Apparently Slaters just bought in eight by four sheets and clipped it down and repacked it for sale. At one time they would do large sizes to special order.