Pawel

Hello!

Those headlights sure look funny! Thanks for sharing

Paweł

Hello!

I read about the world capital of polka, too

Have a good trip!

Paweł

Looks good, judging by the gallery - I wish I had a similar book about the Superliner!

Have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

I like the way that Superliner looks! Thanks for posting, have a nice day

Paweł

Larry - thanks a lot!

Vladislav - it's a little tough now, because I'm in germany for some time now, but I'll work on my model as soon as I get back. Thanks for your kind words!

logtruckman - could you please post some pictures to better show what you mean? Thanks in advance!

Thanks again for your comments, have a nice day

Paweł

Ryan, glad to hear you made up your mind this way. You would never get the money (and time!) you invested back. I wish you many miles on good roads in your truck. Have a nice day

Paweł

Superdog - I'd be glad to, if only I could get a visa to the USA! Thanks for your kind words, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your comments, I'm glad you like it. I feel much better now that you have had a look at it - I was afraid I could make some obvious mistake with the markings - too little practice with US trucks. Thanks again, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello again!

Progress on this one had been slow recently, because of my business trips to Germany. But I managed to design the decals for my truck and custom-print them at decalprint.de. Now today it's a holiday in Germany, so that gave me the opportunity to apply the decals and here's what it looks like:

Look how I made the IFTA stickers! But seriously - those are fictious markings I designed after spending some time on the Wisconsin DOT webpage. Do you see any obvious problems with those markings? Maybe I can correct them yet. Thanks in advance for your help, have a nice day

Paweł

Yeah, but they would never admit it - and so they can't improve! Have a nice day

Paweł

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Nice pictures, photos of this part are hard to find on the internet. Could you also post a couple of shots from different angles? Thanks in advance, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

While you're at it - could you please post some pictures of those parts? Such pics are hard to find on the internet, and they could help me a lot with my scale model! Thanks in advance and good luck with that work, have a nice day

Paweł

I even have this brochure in paper - it's very valuable for me.

Have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks a lot John - if you have more reference, especially on Superliner I, please don't hesitate to post it here!

Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł

Superdog - I thought you have the paper version of those ads - that would give you the opportunity to scan this portion of the image with higher resolution. Thanks anyhow, I especially like those Superliner ads

John - thanks for trying, but I tried it too, with the same results - I'd need access to the paper version of it to do right. I'm glad I could clearly explain which detail I wanted.

Have a nice day

Paweł

Those are cool pictures!

Superdog - could you please enlarge the under-the-frame shot from the third ad? Thanks in advance, have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

Ryan - thanks a lot for the photos, it's a great help! I just can't get enough reference, now I know I got the bracket about right. as for the mirors, the actual mirrors are made using self adhesive chrome foil, I think it can be bought at furniture stores and advertising companies should also be able to get it. I bought the mirror heads (with the bulldog) from an American comany called A.I.T.M. - American Industrial Truck Models, they have a lot of grat stuff for somebody building a model of a Mack, or a Brockway, it's like their specialty. They are cast in white metal and can be polished to a really bright finish, so that's what I did. Only the small round mirrors were painted with alclad on their backs. The brackets are soldered and made from silver-coated copper wire, electronics stores sell this stuff, at least here in Poland, they are used for high frequency hardware, winding coils and stuff like that.

feticello122 - glad you like them, thanks for your kind words!

Thanks a lot for your comments, have a nice day!

Paweł

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your comments!

mackniac - glad you like it!

Vinny - thanks, good to know you're reading this one!

Ryan - I appreciate it, that would really help, especially the details of the brackets on the front of the cab.

Jake - thanks for your kind words!

Thanks again, have a nice day

Paweł

Timothy - sorry for replying so late. I didn't actually turn the stanchions myself, I misused ones they sell for ship modellers. Polished them a little by gripping them in a small electric drill and used very fine nail polisher, worked just fine.

In fact I painted the rails silver since, here's what it looks like now:

I'm also working on an air cleaner under the hood:

Real thing photos of the air cleaner and especially its mounting would be greatly appreciated!!!

I also made the rear view mirrors and their brackets:

I actually like how they turned out - hope you lik'em too, thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

Same thing in Poland - to get a US visa you have to pay a lot of money and do a backflip, and if the embassy clerk doesn't like your looks you can still be turned down. The procedures they have are clearly designed to discourage people from visiting the USA. So although there are many interesting things for me to see in the USA, I said I'm not going to go through the hassle - as long as they require visa from the polish people, I stay out. I wonder how long the visas are going to last. Have a nice day!

Paweł

And a happy birthday from Poland, too!

Paweł

Hello!

I don't know how it is in the States, from your posts I get a picture that the junkyard people are the same all over the world, though. Around here I had it many times - I go to the junkyard, see a part I'd take. Ask for a price, get an absurd high number as an answer. I say no, that's too steep - the junkyard man just takes the part to the crusher, or runs it over with a lift truck or stuff like that. Once I literally dug a horn out of mud - asked the junkyard man for a price and found out it was very valuable for him. Once, at another junkyard I've seen 'em stack old cars one on top of the other by way of piercing the windshield with a lift truck and lifting' em by the roof. I bet a used windshield, if I asked the man five minutes before, if I could have this very windshield, he would have wanted real money for it. Looking at it just makes me sick. Rant over, thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

Or 55k - 58k for that matter? That would be interesting for me!

Hello!

I like this thread a lot - helps me with my model, too - so I'm looking forward to more Superliner I pics. Thanks a lot and have a nice day

Paweł