These are the decals i managed to make useing inkscape, This is one of three trailers making up an Australian Road Train,
Iremade the main large round logo as the first attempt didn't look right, i made the white "Aus" outline and the yellow innercircle too light in color , I must admit i had trouble making circles with the eclipse tool since downloading the newer version of inkscape so i made the two circles on adobe and transferred them to inkscape for final sizeing and coloring,
i realise this is pretty "tame" compaired with some of the work you guys do but i am more than happy with the results,
Also i'd like to add my thanks to the guys that helped me out in answering my questions and taking the trouble with links etc, Thanks a bunch and i'll probably be back with more questions at some point,
All the best, Ian

Way to go, Ian! Compliments on a great job.

Even though you have some remarks about your work, I`m pretty much sure that third photo could be easily mistaken for a garage snapshot, rather than as a one from a desktop (even the forth one is close to that impression).

Full sails!

Hi.

Wow! Great work!
Can you tell us more about your models and how you make them!
(Scale, materials etc.)
I am impressed with the levels of details!
Only thing that shows that these are models is the "cleaniness".

RGDS
Ragnar

I totally thought that was the floor of your room with the truck on your carpet, and i thought, "that's huuuge!" Then I saw your wall-mounted 10 foot tall monitor in the background....

Nice work!

The only thing that doesn't look realistic to me are the tires.
They look as glossy as the "steel" parts, and maybe they should be a bit darker too.

Thanks for the replys guys! Ahah! i can just see my wife allowing me a model that size in the house Druban!, As it is this things going to be around 8-10 ft long when it's all tagged together, there is a wall in the spare room just long enough which is where i keep all my models,
I've added the link to my Photobucket pic host so hopefully (if it works) you can see some of the other pics,
the scale of these is 1/25th- !/24th (not a great deal of difference), They are (or started out as) basic plastic model kits, The tractor is a Revell "Australia truck with some alterations, Mainly a longer chassis in order to fit a third drive axel, plus some additional aftermarket parts,
The trailers are Revell heavy gravel 24 wheelers, again slightly altered with home cast resin wheels, the tyres are bought in spare parts packs of 12 tyres a pack, and as you can see i'm still buying them as and when i can,
also i like to fit L.E.D lighting,
As each trailer is finished i will then attempt to "dirty" it up a bit, especially the tyres Lazur, i aggree they look far too shiny as they are,
Blue circle details on the trailers are authentic, (a google search provided their plant locations and head office etc),
The three axel dollys you can see had to be totally scratchbuilt (apart from the tyres), I found on one here that makes kits of these things and only one in Aus (Melbourn Models), But kit cost plus shipping plus VAT when the package hits our shores made me decide to make them myself, there just styrene strip/sheet/ rod/ etc brass wire, home cast resin bits. Susie coils are from PC cable stripped out and wound round brass rod,
Thats about it!!, i'll add a few pics of the Kenworth just in case the link dosen't work so thanks again guys,
http://s63.photobucket.com/user/ian619/ ... 6010886894

Looks great!
Like it was coming from the road.

"Australian Road Train" ? Oh my!

Nice bit of photoshopping!! Looks much better than alongside my fish pond!!