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09/09/2022 10:57 am
😮 I'm sorry, but I don't have the words. I'm speechless.
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09/09/2022 6:25 pm
😮 I'm sorry, but I don't have the words. I'm speechless.
Marlowe Johnson speechless? (..laryngitis?) 😏
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10/09/2022 10:11 am
Tremendous Chris. Love the detail including the brake and clutch pedals coming through the floorboard.
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10/09/2022 4:07 pm
Tremendous Chris. Love the detail including the brake and clutch pedals coming through the floorboard.
Thanks Bob. A few engine compartment details will purposely be omitted because space is so "tight." This cab-over-engine design leaves very little room under the hood.
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16/09/2022 10:01 pm
9-16-22 UPDATE: Body work continues...we're getting close to color!
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17/09/2022 1:01 pm
@jack-dodds Thanks Jack. Glad you like all this... but, like 1:1 bodywork, it's alot of labor! 😣 😣
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21/09/2022 7:31 pm
9-21-22 UPDATE: More & more bodywork but some color has finally been "laid down" on something (yeah!). The labor (apply filler, sand & prime...apply filler, sand & prime, etc, etc..) continues, stay tuned....
23/09/2022 10:00 pm
Ahhhh! The sanding stage! My left arm (non-sanding) looks like Pee Wee Herman's. But my right arm (sanding!) looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger's! Sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding....
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25/09/2022 1:29 pm
9-25 UPDATE PART 1: I was able to FINALLY (..it took 5 years!) put color on this old truck and get this 1/18 1956 Ford COE F750 body on to her frame for the last time. Still a "mini-ton" of body detail to add such as, chrome trim & emblems, mirrors, running lights, skid pads, decals, small paint touch-ups, etc.. etc.. .... THEN TRAILER WORK will resume after that, but there's light at the end of the tunnel. 😉
Here's a "quick 30"
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25/09/2022 1:32 pm
9-25 UPDATE PART 2 of 2: ..five more pics 😉
26/09/2022 10:25 pm
@chris - Be still, my heart! Calm down. 😲
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27/09/2022 6:36 am
@marty-johnson LoL! I said the same thing during assembly...it took quite a while to line up everything. Regardless the planning and "well thought out" execution/engineering there's always something that comes up. This effort was no exception. 🙄 🙄
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27/09/2022 12:02 pm
@chris Wow...what a fantastic job! To be honest I wouldn't have gone with those colors BUT now that I see them on the finished truck I realize I was wrong.....I think it looks awesome.
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