The cab is back together just a bit more sanding and then the morrow will get some 2000 wet and dry and sand it a again and then ready for primer and paint 
I’ve been getting a bit carried away with my thoughts today, I was thinking about where I’m going to display my models.
Now I did say I got a bit carried away and you’ll no doubt agree. I’m thinking of getting an 8x4 sheet and making a yard scene. If I build all the ones I want then I will have quite a few and sticking them on shelves will not do them justice.
I know you can get all kinds of bits and bobs, 20’ boxes, 45gal drums and workshop equipment etc, so I thought a box sat on the floor with the name blacked out, old tyres leaning against it and a workshop with a trailer backed half in with a pair of wheels off as a wheel bearing is changed. Next to the workshop would be an old retired F88 with no wheels and a door missing, maybe even minus its gearbox, no fuel tank, front grille, windscreen etc.
A line up of units under trailers, the F12, a 141 or 142, a Globetrotter, an NG Merc with the stack up the front, maybe another F12 or 142, or even both.
A trailer for each unit and a couple of extras, a hired in tilt and a skelly or flatbed.
This is a scene from many a transport firm’s yard and familiar to most of us, my skills need to improve significantly to do it, especially to get the old wreck looking realistic, but that will be a long way down the road yet, so I may gain the necessary skills.
Only stumbling block is that I wanted to do a 143 Streamline and it is unlikely to be in a yard full of old snotters, then it hit me, I can paint it up as a demonstrater (or a free lorry for a week or two, as we used to call them)
All I need now is the time and a pile of cash 
You need to go and see the Amish and get one of them big wooden barns that they’re always knocking up in half a day. You could have it in 3 levels, one for the 70’s/80’s one for the 80’s 90’s and one for every thing else.
Many years ago a was planning something similar, the problem is when it comes to storage, then you start changing things about. I have a mate that has 00 model railway, it’s 4 sheets of 8x4 and hangs form the ceiling in his garage on a pulley system.
There was a thing that turned up on TMW forum a few years ago I think Wolfie put the link to it about a Swedish bloke ( Avatar "Junior " ) that put an !!! amazing ( and I don’t use that term lightly ) scrap yard together. Any one that saw it would remember it…
Have a look at a company called Vectra cut that do scale plants, weeds gravel etc, also 180 grit sand paper is very good at scale road surface.
That’s a good looking Scania Gerry, What colours?
Jeff…
That would look well newmercman did you ever do the weathering on the engine
Jeff, the space thing is both the problem and the solution. I have a home office that I could fit a display cabinet in, but that restricts the number of models I can do. Or I have a 1200sqft basement that I can set up a diorama in.
I’m just thinking out loud, but I enjoyed doing what I’ve done so far and I’m really looking forward to the next stages, which I know will mean a lot of time and effort, so sticking the finished article on a shelf won’t be doing it justice.
If I use the basement I can, as you say, have different 8x4 sheets for different eras. I could do the “Bombsite Haulage” theme for the 70s/80s stuff and then do a tidier set up for more modern stuff, which reflects how things have moved on in the industry.
My wife is on board with the idea, well she made a coffee bean hand gesture and said I need to grow up, so it wasn’t a no!
Irish lorries, no I haven’t done any weathering yet, I’m going to get the accessories on first and build the trailer before I start on that. I don’t want to rush and try to do too many things at once, I may be full of big ideas, but I’m still only a beginner…
You could make that basement into your own man cave
That’s the plan, I already have my mobile man cave, next on the list is a static one
An excellent hobby you found there NMM wouldn’t mind taking up myself oneday as I did a lot of Airfix tanks and planes as a kid. The detail on some is mind blowing. Do you have to get the kits from Europe as I’d have thought if the yanks did have model shops they’d only do their own bonneted contraptions? Keep up the good work and photos!
Got the engine painted the day just have to sand it and weather it a bit the engine is a difference colour to the chassis Will I just paint the chassis parts and then just glue them together
Newmercman how did you upload your pics
I took them on my phone, I use the Tapatalk app for forums and it has an icon for attachments, I touch that, choose the pic and then a load of magic happens and my pics appear on here.
Short walk, I got my local model shop to order the kits for me, as you say all they have in stock are yank tanks.
I L when your ready, just drop the engine and box in, then resume the build as per the instruction. Remember to put the prop shaft in at the same time.
Short Walk go onto Ebay and put in 1/24 …(Volvo, Scania, Merc, Daf, etc ) you could use Ebay DK but Ebay .com has a better selection.
Jeff…
Thanks for that . Jelliot will be doing the weathering on the engine and maybe a bit of the chassis today
Anyone know the best way to make a cab look rusty I was going to spay the cab a rust colour and then black and then sand the black flat and sand it through to the rust around the doors and roofs
Best off with a brush for that from what I’ve learned from the experts here, you can get it just where you want it and the brushwork also gives it a bit of texture.
how do people,does anybody do siku 1 55 scale siku trucks■■?
One of my mates collects farm models and has a siki man Tga there not very detailed
not very detailed but I like them,ive got afew in my cabinet f10 f12 f7 scania142 plus acouple of playart 142 141
Do you ever respay them
newmercman:
Best off with a brush for that from what I’ve learned from the experts here, you can get it just where you want it and the brushwork also gives it a bit of texture.
Yes seen that but I was looking at a old Massey ferguson 35 unrestored I drive sometimes and that’s what give me the idea anyway the rust was under the paint well the paint that was left anyway and throught it wouldn’t look right I know that’s a stupid reason but I love that old 35 and I would be very happy if I could get the paint the same on my f12 will get a pic with them together if it turns out right hopefully