Hi all another that has come to a finish ! 
Regards Jimski
Excellent work jimski, looks great. I’ve got one of these to build soon, nearly finished the globie (I keep sayIng that).
My son wants me to make a maersk one so I’ll see if I’m up to it!
Cheers, harryvr6.
harryvr6:
Excellent work jimski, looks great. I’ve got one of these to build soon, nearly finished the globie (I keep sayIng that).
My son wants me to make a maersk one so I’ll see if I’m up to it!Cheers, harryvr6.
Hi mate many thanks , course your up to it !!! Go for it !
R Jimmer
Jimski, you are a bleedin genius!
David
David Miller:
Jimski, you are a bleedin genius!David
Hi David thank you ! I bet you’ve done a few miles in that 89 !!
Got a couple of tractor units only to do and then I’m on Kenny’s 141 !! I still haven’t herd from him ?
Regards Jim.
Jimmer, that is superb. I wanted to do a TurboStar as I owned a 190-48, not so sure I will now that I’ve seen what I’ve got to live up to. I might have to get some Photoshop tips from TORUN
Are you going to go for the realistic IVECO experience and paint more rust on it each week
Fantastic paint finish how’s your f12 going newmercman mine is ■■■■■■
newmercman:
Jimmer, that is superb. I wanted to do a TurboStar as I owned a 190-48, not so sure I will now that I’ve seen what I’ve got to live up to. I might have to get some Photoshop tips from TORUNAre you going to go for the realistic IVECO experience and paint more rust on it each week
Thanks NMM nah no more rust it will be in the care of its old driver Chippy !!
R Jim
turned out excellent jimski well done
Thank you all !
Hi all, I’m just posting this up as a test really, I can’t paste into the truckmodelworld website any more despite using the same trusted method from flickr?
I have had a great tip off a chap on there about making the standard italeri f series volvo grill more realistic without spending big bucks!
I think it looks rather good considering! Basically sand the back of the standard grill until the ‘cut outs’ start to pop out!
Thanks, harryvr6
Nice one, I have a spare grille so I’m going to have a go at that. 
My only effort at a model truck. All scratchbuilt about 10 years ago. I could see then without the help of specsavers
Cheers Phil.
Jimski:
Hi all another that has come to a finish !
Regards Jimski
Love the Iveco Jimski. Nice kit to build u have done a cracking job. 
gazzad:
Jimski:
Hi all another that has come to a finish !
Regards JimskiLove the Iveco Jimski. Nice kit to build u have done a cracking job.
Thanks Gazzard the Iveco is a great kit to put together ! And as a plastic kit they don’t rust ! 
R Jim
Nice result Jim…
That came up well Phil, did you do the wheels and tires as well or are they cast/ attained from another source■■?
Jeff…
Hi Numbum The Bristol looks terrific being of an age where I used to see them nearly every day you have captured every last detail. Eddie.
Jelliot:
Nice result Jim…That came up well Phil, did you do the wheels and tires as well or are they cast/ attained from another source■■?
Jeff…
Hello Jeff,
This model is 12 inches long and I do not know what the scale is as I made it to the double page chassis diagram in the workshop manual. The wheels are made from a short length of plastic pipe for the outer wheel. A thin piece of plasticard is glued around this slightly overlapping the edge to give the lip of the rim. The centre is a round piece of thin aluminium drilled with the necessary holes and then beaten into a dish and glued into the end of the plastic pipe. Wheel nuts are made from a length of round plastic rod with some flats filed down it and then bits cut off. The tyres are made from balsa wood cut out with a fine blade fret saw and shaped with sandpaper. The grooves around the edge are done with the edge of a narrow file.I had to paint the tread on with black gloss paint but I suppose a computer geek today could print the tread on paper and glue it on.
I have made many bus models since this Bristol but I have used thin aluminium which glues well if the jointed edges are notched a bit with a blade. The joy of aluminium is that the front of a borderer cab could be beaten out in one piece with a bit of filler to tidy it up.
I have added a photo of the wheel parts and a 12 inch bus model made from aluminium.
Cheers Phil.
Reading that last post makes makes the wheels even more commendable I thought they were cast in resin from the look of them but that is true model engineering when it is explained like that. I have never tried metal for the cabs but the finish you achieve is brilliant Phill all I can say now is KEEP ON TRUCKING. Eddie.
Phil, that explanation of how you made the wheels is mind boggling!!
To say I’m impressed doesn’t even begin to describe it