Pig Pen's "Love Machine" from "Convoy" movie

[robrex]

Wow! This is really good...I'm looking forward to more updates

[willimo]

Looking fantastic! Great detail!!

[CifeNet]

Interesting techniques to watch! Nice progress, I can't wait till it finishes. It is going to be awesome!

[Serioga]

Thank you, guys for your compliments.
Here is up date:
Here I bought auto paint which more or less match my cab decal set. This paint is for the chassis:


At last the primer on the chassis ...


... engine...

...and other staff.

I haven't spray enything since Augest And some semi gloss black:

[gasdriverca]

Excellent...I see your putting on KFS wheel hubs on it?,good job.

[Marianitem]

May I say insane? Or maybe I'm still short. All those replacements to moving parts is fine work.
Suscribed to this sick build.

[Serioga]

Started to alter air inlet pipe. It has pan cake top in the kit (on the left), but there is ram inlet in the movie. I used styrene:

After glue and putty:

Replacing the kit silencer (below) for plastic pipe. Pieces of aluminium pipes will play exhaust pipes role. The mech abowe will make the shield:

Silencers and air inlet pipe almost done:

Kit headlights (below) should be replaced with styrene one. They were different in the movie:

The reflectors building technology shown here: http://www.autoinscale.com/?section=article&id=350
The kit chrome headlights were reduced in depth and drilled. Turn signals were moved closer to the grill:

Here is the result:


Spare holes were putted.

The bull bar billet:

The chassis painted:

Here is the bare engine:

These Bulldog emblems, printed on a clear decal paper are for fuel filters:

Found suit rear quorter fendert in reissued WhiteFreightliner kit. Pieces of aluminium tube, inserted in a frame will hold fenders:

Fuel tank steps are from КFS

Thank you for interest.

[gasdriverca]

You are truely 'The Man' Sergio & you can't go wrong with parts from KFS

[white_R34]

Love this type of work, keep at it my friend!

[Serioga]

Originally Posted by white_R34

Love this type of work, keep at it my friend!

Glad to see you here too. Saw yur 07's Ford on SA forum. Well done for that time limit.

[Serioga]

I have finaly printed cab art decals. Unfortunately I can't print white permits in the back bottom corner of the cab, using my jet printer. So I can't figure out another way to safe authenticity here.
BUT, here is the result:

As you can see, the decal suit the cab well, but main probleme here are air bubbles, sticking between cab and decal. I coulden't release them all. They are marked with red.


I already wash the decal off and will ask Jim Botatis to make the decal separate for easy to use and print white symbols on ALP printer. Perhaps everyone can buy the set soon.

[hirg]

Amazing work!!!

[Marianitem]

Looks like some fine work with the PS and printer. It looks like you had not only bubbles, but also some tears/scratches, specially over the purple. Did water made contact with a scratch or cut on the decal? I had similar problems with self-printed, that if I made any minor scratch/puncture/cut and did no re-seal with clear, water gets under the decal and ruin the ink. Just to know if this was the same issue.

This build is really interesting not to follow. I´m in.

[Serioga]

Originally Posted by Marianitem

Looks like some fine work with the PS and printer. It looks like you had not only bubbles, but also some tears/scratches, specially over the purple. Did water made contact with a scratch or cut on the decal? I had similar problems with self-printed, that if I made any minor scratch/puncture/cut and did no re-seal with clear, water gets under the decal and ruin the ink. Just to know if this was the same issue.

Thank you, my friend. You are completely right about those scratches. Unfortunately some scratches hapen during decal seting.

[Serioga]

A litle progress on the engine: