Project Gigaspace: First Build

[MoRockN]

Originally Posted by Azumanga Davo

Maybe so, but the silver didn't go on at all well. Restarted with the grey primer for a darker mica blue. I like blues darker than the norm. :P

Well at least I warned you about the silver so I hope it wasn't a total shock. My 1850L Merc is dark-er blue as well. I used black for base.

[glorydays24]

Truck looks very good in blue as everyone else has said. I don't know what it is about the European trucks, but they really look good in blue. Good job.

Big John

[Azumanga Davo]

Well, a motivator was getting a basic truck running and testing, so I did that yesterday (finally).



The paint's now on for the main colour (as seen in this photo that was taken on a potato...)

[Azumanga Davo]

Double post (oops), but more pertinent and relevant progress! Could be done very soon!

[Azumanga Davo]

And for now... it's done!




Haven't got any trailer combinations yet, so that'll have to arrive later on in this thread at some point. But for now, some play time.

[Azumanga Davo]

Sorry, yet another post in a row, but finally thrilled to say it got to run with other rigs for the first time.



There it is at the back of the queue. Ran around solidly for a little while, but then steering trouble struck. Would fully lock in one direction but not revert back at all. A brains trust got together and worked out that the servo arms were not quite in the right place (that's because I'm a bumnut who skim reads important bits). A few minutes of resetting that bit and... much better! All good again. Another run with a borrowed trailer and, yeah, I call that a win.

[Azumanga Davo]

So have now picked a trailer out and got some good but very affordable vinyls to wrap it in. Job done, time to play properly!