Great work Marco !!

No more loud guitar at Marco's house...
I will follow this build carefully, I'm planning to get Bronco Slat's Buffalo in a few weeks...

Cool! I want one too but...


... too many others already purchased so watching your will have to do! For now.






Jeff

I wanted to get it last month but I got a new government tax for house owners ( they keep inventing taxes ) so all the money I was saving for plastic ( New Trumpy T-80's ).. well it's gone.

I'm hoping to get it before the Summer, let's see if they don't invent a Summer Tax or End of Spring Tax..

My Wishlist can't keep up with my wallet, or is it the other way around !?

John just hoe they don't bring in a model owners tax lol

Pete

Just enlisted with Revell's Kenworth T900 'Australia' truck. Got an 'Ice Road Truckers' rig in mind for this, with the long range tanks etc on the Aussie version.

Open box, with start date:


First job will be stripping chrome from parts I want to paint.

:D you bet.. hope they're not checking this site...

Thank you John!

I'm want one Bufallo w/ slat too. THis is a great model.

About the loud guitar, it's not stopping anytime soon. He just changed the old strings

Cheers!

Marco

Hello everybody,
My name is Vittorio, I'm from Firenze Italy, and this is my first post for my first campaign.
Just to add the link to my Extreme Trucks! Campaign gallery: https://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/29124

This is the subject I'll try do do:

The truck is a Zis-6 Truck by PST (Kit 72019), the gun is 10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze 18 le.F.H.18/18M by Ace (Kit 72216), which I added a German 105mm barrel for LeFH 18 & "Wespe" by Aber (Kit 72L055).
1/72 naturally ;o)

Any suggestion is welcome.

Have good time
Vittorio

Welcome Vittorio to the Truck Campaign! Thanks for choosing mine as your first here!

Don't forget to ENLIST here http://armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Campaigns&file=index&req=showcontent&id=706 so at the end of the Campaign I can place your award/ribbon to you.

Have fun and let me know if you have any questions.






Jeff

Hello Jeff,
I'm already in the list with my preferite nickname: rebeccagin.

Vittorio

Great! Good deal then and welcome aboard!

I need to get back on my truck... the BM-21 GRAD.




Jeff

Welcome Vittorio!

Here another update of my Buffalo.

I finished the interior assembly and painted most of the base colors. I used Vallejo Nato Green, that I will use to paint the exterior part, light ruber, red and deck tan automotive paint to fabric part.

Now, lots of little detais to paint and after that, I'll start the weathering.

Here the pics, hope you like.











Cheers!

Marco

Looks great Marco!

Man... that is a lot of seats!





Jeff

Nice work Marco!

Thank you guys!

The problem with all those seats is paint all the seat belts

Cheers!

Marco

Chassis complete and engine in place:



Start on the cab and bodywork over the weekend.

Jeff, I'm anxious to see some of your truck. I like the way it looks and am really curious to see and get your opinion on how it builds up.

Nice work Marco.

Dave, looks nice.

Were you referring to me Alex? I finally decided to use the tires/wheels I got from ET Models. At first I wasn't too happy with them but realized they were not too bad.

I'm just sold on the whole sagged tire look but I convinced myself that fully inflated these tires didn't have too much sidewall flex. I will get some for my MAZ 543 Scud Launcher though. Now that is an EXTREME TRUCK! LOL

So, this weekend I hope to get back at it. If I can quit drooling over everybody's elses work that is!







Jeff

Ordered the Kinetic Maxx Pro yesterday. As soon as it arrives I'll be starting my build for this campaign. About 2 weeks I reckon

I was curious about that Jeff. Are the kit's tires that bad? I assume they are standard Trumpy vinyl types. Anyway, I'm curious about the BM21 as a build so I'm kind of keeping an eye on how yours goes.

Alex, it's just my opinion that if there is a resin replacement tire/wheel combo... GET 'EM!

Resin (or even styrene tires) are so much easier to paint and weather.

I am a BIG supporter of the sagged look, vinyl tires cannot do that.

I WAS hoping that the ET Model product I bought was like this, but according to some of the Grad pictures on the Net there isn't a whole lot of sagging going on there.

So they will do for this vehicle.






Jeff

Oh boy. Sniped the pour blocks off and used a coarse rat tailed file to clean them up.

I chose 5 minute epoxy to glue them to the axles... man, watching the toe and camber was a choir in itself! After they dried I saw the need to weigh the back end down and heat the suspension some so that ALL tires touched the surface!



And after all the chit-chat on sagged tires, when these were installed I did finally notice one thing...



... THESE ARE SAGGED with BULGED SIDEWALLS! LOL! (oh well, my bad)








Jeff

Kenny is complete.....a bit different from my usual muscle cars. Even SWMBO likes this one!
Photos in the campaign gallery:







BTW- I know I've painted it a different colour from the kit instructions, but I prefer blue (Ford, from a rattlecan) to the mud colour in Revell's kit.

Nice Dave!

I like these bigs trucks.

Cheers!

Marco