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Dash looks spot on pal. She's looking good. Ron G

Hey pal You know all you have to do is ask. I'm there for you pal. Ron G

So, your going to try acrylic lacquers. I told you Tamiya acrylics are great to spray paint. If you use there lacquer thinner on there standard acrylics they spray fantastic. Tamiya doesn't brush paint the greatest, but it can be done. I usually use Vallejo for brush painting details. Model color is best for brush painting, it's thicker. Ron G

Hey all Got more work done on the skidder. I made the front blade from peices of black and white styrene. 100% scratch built. Ron G

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Hey all More work done on the skidder. I have the cab pretty much done, build wise that is. The white square tubing are the covers for the front blade cylinders. The front is to the right. White tubes are the covers for the blade cylinders. The open area at the left is were the log grapple and cylinders for it will go. Ron G

She's looking good Jeff. Keep going. Ron G

Okay, so now your trying to out detail me! Ha ha ha, just messing with you pal. This will be another proper truck from the Master trucker. And you need to post more of your stuff.😎😂🤣 Ron G

More than likely my friend. Ron G

It's in the box along with the turret. And that's were It's going to stay. Ron G

I'm not sure Jeff. I think I would like to make them the same, but that means custom decals and I don't have that ability right now. Ron G

Hey all More work done on the skidder. View looking rearward of hull and tracks View of the bottom of the skidder. This is a partial mock up of the skidder. I cut the top of the tanks rear upper hull into peices and reassembled it into this. The engine cover for the skidder. Here's were I'm at with this build. There will be screened engine hatches on the sides and for the front radiator opening. I still have a lot of scratch building to do before this is finished. These are the engine access openings. Well that's it for now be back with more updates soon. Ron G

Hey all The tracks were a real pain in the ~☆# you know what! They are made out of a rubbery plastic kinda like nylon, but not. You have to force them together link by link. It reminded me why I'm not fond of tank kits. These are the two different links that come in the kit As you can see they are going to be hard to assemble And this is how they go together. 33 of each type per side. I had to narrow the kit hull by a scale 17" (0.68") or 17.3mm. Inorder to make it 8' 10" wide across the tracks. Hull sides glued together and wheels attached. Some more work on the hull. One set of tracks installed. Both sets of tracks installed. They are just tight enough to work, but loose enough to remove for painting. Ron G

Hey all And now on to this build. It is my representation of a KMC 2600 log skidder. It's made right up there by were Jeff lives in British Columbia, Canada. I've never seen one of these other then pictures. So all I have to go on is pictures and Jeff. It started out as a OLD Tamiya 1/25 scale T-85 tank kit. It's not a bad kit for It's age. It has individual link tracks and working suspension. These are the pictures I'm using to build this. This is the kit I'm using. And this is what's in the kit. This is all you get to figure out how the tracks go together. Springs and axles. Track peices. Some of the track assembled. Ron G

Hey all Yeah, it's me again. This is another build tread that Jeff said I had to post. So here we go. Jeff has had me on this logging kick for awhile. The DM800 with Peerless logging trailer, a scratch built IH Paystar 5000 with scratch built logging loader mounted on it, Italeri 1/24 timber trailer converted from European version to modern Peerless logging trailer and this build. Mack 1/25 DM800 offroad logging truck. Same thing before paint. 1/25 Peerless logging trailer with modifications. Scratch built logs for trailer. 1/25 International Harvester Paystar 5000 with custom log loader mounted on the rear. 1/24 Italeri timber trailer modified into an American Peerless modern logging trailer. This is a rendering of what it will look like when done. Scratch building logs for this to. Ron G

I like them. Maybe because I build them.😁🤔 Ron G

Hey all I have the interior all painted. Also I painted the cab lights, turn signals and marker lights with Tamiya clear amber & red. Interior tub with the seats. The seats are actually darker but it doesn't show. Dashboard and clutch pedal. I still need to paint all the gauges and knobs. Steering wheel and column. Twin stick shifters, hand brake, brake & throttle pedal, Steering shaft and luberfiner. cab lights, turn signals and marker lights. This view shows the red side of the turn signals. These are the intake pipes. Veiw through the drivers side window. Veiw through the rear window. Veiw through the front windows. interior tub showing the twin sticks. Another view of the interior tub. Well that's it for now be back soon with more updates. Ron G

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Hey all Not a big update, but I did get the black painted. My eyes 👀 😩 just weren't cooperating. Well that's it for now. Ron G

Thanks everyone

Hey all I thought I would show how I do my logs. This is what I started with. 2" x 2" square by 12" long balsa wood peices. I carved off the corners in order to get it round. I then glued the corners back on were I wanted them. Another veiw of the log. Once the corners were glued back on I carved them to shape the bottom of the log. Bottom of the log. This is it covered with brown creape paper. This veiw shows my log against the AMT Peerless logging trailers plastic log. Veiw shows the creape paper bark effect. Another veiw of the log. Another veiw of the log. To make the growth rings I took a stainless steel brush and placed it on the end and twisted it till it formed the rings. View of the other end of the log. Well that's how it's done, pretty simple and easy to do. And it gives a great look. Thanks Ron G