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AVRR-PA
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 Posted - 01/17/2012 : 06:31:09 AM
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Hi, everyone --
I'm feeling a bit more Jordan-friendly today, after a fairly quick and somewhat successful build of the Mack tank truck.
I did manage to achieve one more screwup due to CRS. I was weathering the undercarriage with a sludge wash (a dab of artist's Mars Black oil and a lot of odorless mineral spirits) and I was having so much fun that I decided to add oil streak to the tank body. Oops! I forgot I was planning to decal it. Oh, well - I didn't like the decal choice very much.
[There are two sets of decals - one for a New York gasoline company and one for a milk company. Since I'm kind of getting to like this model I may buy another ([:-crazy]) and paint it for a milk company.]
Anyhow - here are a couple of pictures:
Jordan Mack tanker rh side before retouching
One of the nice things about oil washes is that they take a long time to cure so you can adjust. After looking at this picture, I went back with a Q-tip and removed a fair amount of the wash on the tank and removed all of it from the radiator. Today, I'll work on it a bit more - I'll do the radiator again, maybe with acrylic this time since it's easier to keep it within the lines. Might also add a little chalk. I'll photograph it one more time.
Jordan Mack truck rear qtr view
Oh, yeah - there was one other screwup:
Jordan Mack tankers Oops
More this evening.
The next Jordan-o-phobia project will be the schoolbus.[:-propeller]
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 08:41:29 AM
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It looks good, Don. If you can't flip that front bumper, you could always hang a few wraps of chain over it. |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 08:56:32 AM
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slimjerkins
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 09:18:42 AM
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Don - don't worry about the front bumper. Take a look at the front of any ambulance and you'll find the word ECNALUBMA on it with the letters all wacky.
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djdutch
Crew Chief
Netherlands
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 09:19:15 AM
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Don it looks great, and do you want to make some pictures from the build of the schoolbus.
there are not many building pictures about jordans at the forum
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slimjerkins
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 09:53:00 AM
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For what it's worth, I found a couple of paint chip samples that were being auctioned on eBay a while ago:
This one was for 1930 Oldsmobile:
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jschumaker
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USA
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 11:52:08 AM
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The color chips are helpful. Thanks for posting them.
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AVRR-PA
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 4:36:32 PM
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Originally posted by Dutchman
It looks good, Don. If you can't flip that front bumper, you could always hang a few wraps of chain over it.
Good idea, Bruce. I was just going to make up a story about the mechanics having installed it wrong. I have plenty of tiny chain left over from other projects.
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AVRR-PA
Fireman
USA
4659 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2012 : 4:39:27 PM
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Originally posted by jschumaker
The color chips are helpful. Thanks for posting them.
Jeff S.
Hi, Bill -- add my thanks to Jeff. Very helpful. Not that I will freakin' EVER do that 1923 Packard again. Really. I'm serious. Never ever. Babble, drool...
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slimjerkins
Fireman
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 5:00:40 PM
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If you search on color chips in eBay's automotive section there's usually someone selling chip charts for various years. I hate choosing colors.
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AVRR-PA
Fireman
USA
4659 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2012 : 5:53:23 PM
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OK, here's a pretty darn final picture of the Tank Truck. I may do still more touching up but won't bother you with any more micro-photographs:
Jordan Mack tanker rh side final resized
Jordan Mack truck rear qtr view final
And here's the next project, laid out and ready to cause craziness. This puppy is definitely getting the patented KarlO we-don't-need-no-steenkin'-glazing treatment.
More later.
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djdutch
Crew Chief
Netherlands
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Posted - 01/17/2012 : 6:00:04 PM
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I like this kit for sure, you can put al lot of detail inside childeren or making a mobile home.
can't wait to see what you do with this one.
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AVRR-PA
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2012 : 5:03:06 PM
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Hi, everyone --
I've finished the schoolbus - at least for the moment. It can only operate during the day - no headlights - and it's faintly possible that I will get motivated to do something about that - but not for a while.
Why no headlights? Well, the headlight assembly is just impossibly delicate - at least for me. No doubt it would be a mere bagatelle for KarlO. Here's a picture of it after painting but before I attempted to install it:
School bus headlights
Let's see - one of the headlights broke off the bar. I glued it back on. Then the bar broke in the center. I glued it back together, which was no fun. Then I discovered that the hole locations in the front fenders were wrong and it would never fit unless I figured out new locations and drilled new recesses. At that point, I decided to store the pieces until I was ready to make a new bar from brass wire and do the job right.
In my opinion, this kit is a pretty mixed bag even by Jordan standards. Some parts - like the main body - fit together very nicely. Here are a couple of finished pictures:
School bus completed lh side view
School bus completed rh side view
As you can see, the seams fitted together nicely.
On the other hand(s) - the wheels have stupidly-designed attachments to the axles. The wheel-axle assemblies are badly engineered and won't fit in the wheel wells (front or rear) unless you add styrene bits at the attachment points. The radiator shell won't fit without a lot of filing - which, of course, I discovered after painting it.
The interior detail, on the other hand, is quite cleverly designed and goes together easily and looks good:
School bus interior
But...the decals pretty much fell apart. The kit appeared to be quite new - bright white box and plans - so I didn't expect problems with the decals. Silly me. That's why it has different names on each side. The "school bus" decals on the front had to be pieced together in spite of having pretty much disintegrated because I didn't have any substitutes.
The doors are posed open because (1) it looks cool and (2) because they fit ridiculously badly. Which the instructions frankly admit.
Here's a couple more photographs:
School bus completed left front view
School bus rh front view completed
School bus rear view completed
So - have I overcome Jordan-o-Phobia. Well, yes and no. I'm not afraid of them - I just don't like them very much. At least not this afternoon. I still have an awful lot of them but I think I'll let them sit for a while.
I will toss out one observation which I hope others with more experience will comment on:
If you want to do a multi-color paint job, you have a choice of two approaches, and both are difficult:
-- you can build the entire model before painting, which makes gluing easy but makes painting pretty maddening if your brush painting skills are only so-so.
-- you can paint some or all of the parts before assembly, as I did on the school bus. This makes for nice neat color separations but means you spend a lot of time scraping paint off places where you want to apply glue. I don't think that approach would have worked at all on the stake body of the Packard truck.
One other observation - Tamiya rattle-can paint is great stuff.
Now I think I will go work on a wooden model of a boat. A large model...
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Edited by - AVRR-PA on 02/06/2012 8:56:53 PM |
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AVRR-PA
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2012 : 6:46:32 PM
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See... I wasn't kidding.
Nutshell model with 3 Jordans |
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2012 : 7:17:32 PM
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Don,
My initial reaction to the bus when I saw it was 'hey, that looks great'!
The brass wire for the front lamps seems to be a great solution, and I'm sure that you will do it at some point.
In the meantime, I added to my stack of Jordans this week by ordering a 1940 Ford sedan. I still haven't built any.[:-ashamed] |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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