Muminvaters F250 scale 1:13

[Gary Lewis]

That is absolutely amazing!  It looks so real!  

[muminvater]

Now, the clear-glass windows...

the hardest first - that is the frontscreen. Two curvatures on the surface will be difficult to built only with a hairdryer as tool. I tried with a water bath (for the screen ) for even heat distribution, but that didn´t work. So the hairdryer...
























The curvature along Y is not as it should be. I couldn´t get the pane warm enough for an easy deformation. So, first I formed Y cuvature, a R250 and than the X curvature, across the car. Of course, the R250 wasn´t longer R250... But it fits in the body and it looks quite good.
























The windscreen is dirtier than I wished. It should be the the dirt from street and rain and not more. But I can remove it and try again.  ... and again.

The clear-glass door-windows are also made.



























  greetings, Tobias

[ArdWrknTrk]

Amazing work Tobias!

I'm always looking forward to your Wednesday updates... and I am never disappointed.

[Gary Lewis]

Simply amazing!  I am at a loss for words to describe your work, but I can say that it is inventive and amazing!  

[muminvater]

Hi guys,
I´m not satisfied with the windscreen  I had a look to my unwashed car - I guess about half a year - but the windscreen is not approximately so dirty like the rest.

So I had the next try. The same color, the same amount of water but I took a piece cleaning cloth that have a special structur and soak up the water by pressing it in the wet color.

 




You can see the pattern of the cloth on the windsreen, that´s ok. But its still too dark. Less color is barely possyble and a lighter grey looks























This morning, I asked my wife if she got something like hairspray. She doesn´t use hairspray  that´s the good news...but she got a fixativ for her illustrations I could use.




















Yes, this is what I wanted hit. So I did it with the door windows, too.






























Of course not the whole pane. The water flows on the front edge from the waistline up to the upper edge and in a radius than along to the back.
Now I´m ok with it

  greetings Tobias

[Gary Lewis]

Yes!  That's what dirty windows look like!  

[muminvater]

Hi guys,

some thursdays are gone since my last post  and the coating is meanwhile done. Not in the way I prefer, but acceptable. I waited for warm weather for to spray the coating. So it was done, but the result was disillusioning. It shows mercilessly the bugs of sanding.
To avoid this, I did several drawdowns to check the sanding but what I forget was the spraying shows much more than the drawdown with a brush.

And so, I did the basic coloring in anthrazit with a brush and sprayed the matt clear coat.

In the moment, I havn´t any pics for you but I will catch up next days


 greetings, Tobias

[Gary Lewis]

Now that is downright mean!  Tell us what you've done, get us anxious to see it, and don't post pics????  

Ok, ok.  I'll wait..........  

[muminvater]

Now, the waiting will have an end
























The basic color is anthracite for the body and black for the loading bed, both with a matt clear coating. The trimlines in alumium with gloss clear coating. The inlay of the trimline is an EPDM sponge rubber with a adhesive tape. The gap of the backlight to the body will be sealed with a thin butyl string.

To get the decals was a desaster  Selfprinting was no option, cause my printer was to old for accepteble quality and worse you cant´t get single sheets to print on and what should I do with an amount of unused sheets?? So well, easy decision: a copy shop  but back in reality, there were no copy shop in our surrounding that was able to print a DIN A4 self adhesive in white and clear background. And the one who printed it for me not self adhesive in excellent colors - in the end I realized he modified the scale

Meanwhile, my old printer had stopped work altogether so I had to order a new one. At least it was possible to print the decals on white self adhesive paper. But it is not so thin as it should be.





























































































The assebled door sealing


















In the follwing days I will assemble the model and make some pics for you and my book. The petrol pump ist alraedy done and it fits quite well to the truck






































left: nozzle hangs in petrol pump, gear for the counter is blocked
right: nozzle released, gear is free










































 greetings, Tobias

[Gary Lewis]

Wow!  Just WOW!  I am continually amazed at the attention to detail.  So very good.  I LOVE IT!  

[muminvater]

Hi to you,

it finally comes to an end  and after all these years it is time to.
I aks myself: what happens to the parts while lying in the shelf and waiting for assembling?  Before parking in the shelf, the parts all fit together. Now, after coating (no heat input) there were some parts, which have a complete different shape or contour. The right door for exaple, had to be deformed under heat  til it fits to the body shape. I don´t understand

That were the days, when I rather like to push it into the trash can.

However, the rubber in outer trimline is applied and I changed the decals. In the last post, I told you from the deasaster with the copy shops and that at last, I printed them by myself. But they weren´t convincing: they looked too papery. So I took the one of the copy shop which was in a too large scale.







































































For to finish complete, I have marry the body with the chassis frame. An easy task, you should say. But the devil is a squirrel!! I´m sure something unplanned will happen


 greetings, Tobias

[Gary Lewis]

It looks GREAT!  You’ve done a super job.

Can’t wait to see it complete, but agree that something always comes up at the last moment. Good luck!

[BigBrother-84]

Amazing job Tobias!

muminvater wrote

I´m sure something unplanned will happen

Well, accordingly to Murphy (and following my own experience), that is always the case.


Looking to read you about the next steps!

[81-F150-Explorer]

I love it!  Very good work!  Makes the models I've done look cheap.

[muminvater]

81-F150-Explorer wrote

... Makes the models I've done look cheap.

don´t worry  and think of the time it took to build it in this way. It´s about 9 years or so. But now, it was time for finishing.

Finally, I´m uploading up some pics of the completed truck, taken in  my garden.

[Gary Lewis]

That is just incredible!!!  The attention to detail is far beyond anything I've seen or done.  The decals, the Pennsylvania tag, the spray on the windows, etc.  It looks like it is fresh from a trip with rain & spray from the road.

WELL DONE!!!!  

[muminvater]

LOL...

 (the smileys)

thank you all for your support (!!) without that it was not finished in that way. And your excellent website.
greetings, Tobias

[muminvater]

hello to you on this sunny and warm Friday!!

FOR SALE

Here is a ´82er Pickup for sale in very good condition. The mileage is unkown, but it´s recently completely restored with a repaint and new electrics





The petrol pump and Beth are included.
If wanted, it can completed with a book about the construction (336 pages). In this case I only have to translate it.


free insured shipping



basis for negotiation:

$ 3000,-

greetings Tobias