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Hello to all members,

3 months ago I began making up the Italeri 1/24 Freightliner FLD 120 model kit and finished it last week. I did not use the decals. For the paint I used Tamiya TS-18 Metallic Red Spray, for the chassis I used DUPLI color matt black and for the undercoat DUPLI color coating spray.
When I was trying to glue the windshield vipers one of them felt from my hand on the hood of the truck
Glue sticked on the hood and looked bad. I took out the entire paint and re painted it.
Hope you like it.
Here are the pictures

Thank your for your nice comments. Because I have 2 boxes of same kit I decided to paint this one to a metallic red color and after all work I saw that its better than a dark blue color.
When I finished painting of the hood, I applied the flame decals on it. Usually I dont apply but this time I tried to do it. I used microsol and applied it carefully. When they dried entirely I did not like the view so decided to take them out for a simple look.
It was not that easy. I applied detergent, a little warm water but nothing changed. Most of the pieces stayed on the paint.
I applied a sandpaper on the paint to make a 2. coat of spray.
It was ok.
I painted all other details, engine, chasis, cabin parts.........
Time came for assembling. All parts came together but when I looked up to the entire truck I saw that the color tone of the hood was different then other parts
I said I will do nothing and finish it like that. I tried to glue the windshiled vipers to their place. Suddenly the part escaped from the tweezers and felt on the hood with the glue on it.
It was really horrible.... The tone was not same and the glue stucked on it.
Again I took the hood out, threw it in hydraulic to take the paint of for a 3. paint work.
It took 1 week of me.
Also the hood did not fit on the truck well from both sides.There was app. 2 mm space between the driver cabin and the hood.
I found a great solution for it. On most American truck I see that the hoods never fit perfectly to driver cabins. Either on the left or rgiht side mostly they have space 1-2 mm.
Once upon a time I bought very small but powerful magnets to use somewhere.
I decided to use them on this truck. I put 2 small magnets under the hood on the left and right side. also I put 2 small ones under the right and left panels where the chrome parts are attached.
To make sure, I drilled the holes located on front side of the hood.
They were small and preventing hood to fit its place. They were big enough and I used small metal pins to make the hood go back more then usual.
With this solution the hood gone back for 2 mm and the magnets pulled the hood down to its original place
I have a great truck collection of 1/24 ITALERI kits. Colleciton includes unopened 100 quantity boxes.
Making them will take about 50 years. Hope I never give up and my wife in the future will not say anything about my hobby.

Best wishes to all.......

Hello

After a long time I will try to finish my scratch work triple axle Scania + effer crane by the end of this week. This time it will be different because I cloned most of the parts by myself
Take care