I finished the cabin by adding the back doors, wipers, beacons, flash- and headlights, and some first weathering attempts.
Thanks to excessive dry fitting ahead of glueing everything together the cabin fits quite well to the frame and so does the platform. The entire thing together is obviously not 100% sound but it's okay for me that way. It's a very complex thing this model, so I'm happy that it seems to work out eventually.
Now only the road wheels and front doors are missing, also some minor details to add, then after some more weathering the whole thing comes to an end
retiredyank
Arkansas, United States Joined: June 29, 2009
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Great job on sticking with this build, I was a little worried that it wouldn't be finished for a while. She's looking wonderful. I just wish you could add some transparent lenses for the rear lights, they're they only thing distracting from your build. I would love to have one of these on my shelf
Thanks for the kind words Jeremy. Concerning the rear lights: you are probably right, they don't look great in the pics... and I'm not so sure, if they do look better in real (means the "model-real" )
But if you have a look to the real (means "real-real") things, you see, that it isn't much more than some colored plastic cover. What you can't really see in my pictures: the rear lights are made from colored clear-plastic sheets... they lokk okay in the model-reality... still I'm not sure, if there GREAT... so will think about them once more I guess...
bison126
Correze, France Joined: June 10, 2004
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To me, the only thing with the rear lights is the border between the red and orange that is not really vertical. For a more realistic look you could add some gloss varnish over them.
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Gloss varnish sounds good... maybe I'll rework the whole things, trying to manage a proper vertical line between colors and make them look more realistic .
The wheels are also on now and the trailer is "dry-fit" to it... the whole thing (Tatra + Trailer) looks... well... huge! Will post some pics asap!