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Time flies but I haven´t forgotten the second truck, the brother of this one


It had been ready for quite a while, but the guy it was made for had spilt nail - polish - remover over it... You can imagine the result.
So there was nothing else for it but painting it a second time. It was not easy to remove the oil that is mixed into the polish - remover from the surface.

Well, here it is, as promised.





Roland

Can you show us the drive train?

Very nice!

Very nice Roland. Too bad photo etch mirrors weren't available for this truck in this scale. Although this is a slot car so perhaps they would be damaged too quickly.

Regardless nice job on the truck and the paint. I would like to see the drive train as well. Front duallys are powered with a drive shaft to the motor up front?

Cheers


Dan

And again - a matter of taste, Dan.

Photoetched parts are highly praised as a kind of non - plus - ultra, a "must - have"...

By no means.
Photoetched parts are a bit finer, that´s all. But they are always more or less two - dimensional. Spokes ? I have never seen flat spokes on a real car. Truck mirrors so flat ? Never. Wipers 0,3 mm thick ????? Where ?

There are some places where PE parts provide a kind of upgrade, such as static models. But on slotcars ?
I am always amazed by the contradiction between poor casting/workmanship, painting and decalling, and on the other hand photoetched parts...pearls before swines. If I´m not able to build real good models, I don´t need PE parts at all.
Not my cup of tea, unless I build a slotcar in such a high scale model quality that such fine detail is necessary to enhance realism.

Roland

I can´t show the chassis because I don´t have the model. As I wrote, this was an order.

Great looking sibling!
Thanks for sharing the pics! :D