The black vinyl air bags supplied are truly stunning in their moulded detail & are ‘shaped’ to take up the angle difference between the trailing arm & the chassis. Due to the rest of the detail that follows on from installing the airbags, it is not possible to leave them out & fit them later after painting the chassis. Consequently they are fitted now & will need brush painting later. One nice touch is the inclusion of 6 separately moulded air bag air supply pipes. In a civilian truck kit we might consider that to be ‘super detailing’, but here it is all included for you! A tip to anyone else building the rig is the alignment of the prop shaft U/Js. Each prop comes in 3 parts. Two end ‘half U/J’ sections & the prop tube itself moulded with the other half of the U/J. Alignment is critical & each end section where they are added to the axles & transmission should be set dead horizontal. Failure to do so means, that the prop tubes cannot be installed later.
Stages 10 to 15 take in the twin fuel tank assemblies with fine etched brass step treads. The tanks are in two parts in the common practice, but the top & bottom join lines are cleverly placed to be out of site on assembly. Leaving only the end joins to deal with. A lesson there that Italeri could learn I think. Also covered in these 5 stages are the radiator assembly (11 parts just for the radiator!), the monster run up ramps, battery box, stowage locker, air tanks, movable double oscillating fifth wheel & the front wings. The front wings both have separate mounting stalks, etched brass stays, & etched mud flaps.
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