The Scratkiller

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The Scratkiller

Postby walker » Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:46 am

I was asked to copy the cabin of a real 143rd scale Kenworth truck in resin.
It was a lot of work because of the sharp, straight and rectangular edges which complicated removing the cast resin shell from the mould as well as the inner core from the shell very much. A second problem was the wall thickness which partially is 0.5 mm. Try to get it out without breaking it...
Well, this would become a longer photo story...

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When the cabins were ready he asked me if I could help him with paint and decals.
One for his wife, one for him.
So I suggested a few schemes, and the scratkiller was pleased best. So the guy who ordered the cabins made the first raw design with my pictures, I refined everything and made waterslides from the design. On an inkjet printer.
Last but not least the cabin was painted inside and outside, the decals were applied and the first of the two trucks is ready.
The second one, still to come, is totally different in design.

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I learned a lot of tricks during the making, despite the problems it was a lot of fun.

Roland
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby TuscoTodd » Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:14 am

WOW!!!!
That turned out AWESOME!!!!
Congrats on the great looking resin casts as well!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby strangebrew » Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:33 am

GREAT WORK................. :dance:
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby manchvegasracer » Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:22 pm

Love it. Another way for Scrat to die. :dance:

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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby LloydL » Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:23 pm

Lovely job Roland, I know just how difficult those trucks were to do. The end result was well worth the effort though!

Regards, Lloyd.
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby Beast Lee » Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:39 pm

Well done...!!!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:06 pm

Yes sir, nice effort all around.
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby MichiganCur » Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:59 pm

That looks awesome, great job Roland!

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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby Broman62 » Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:53 pm

Ditto on all that has been said!!!! :text-bravo:
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby taskak » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:09 am

:clap: Nice one Roland!!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby Audi1 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:00 am

The word "Unreal!" comes to mind............ that is a phenomenal build/detail!

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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby jhrico » Wed Jun 22, 2016 8:31 pm

Very nice! My children and I loved it!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby dreinecke » Wed Jun 22, 2016 10:03 pm

That is fantastic!!!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby pfuetze » Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:50 am

great work, Roland!
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Re: The Scratkiller

Postby CrockettNZ » Mon Jun 27, 2016 3:41 am

awesome effort there
that rig come out fantastic :clap:
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