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Marty Johnson
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😮  I'm sorry, but I don't have the words.  I'm speechless.  


   
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Posted by: @marty-johnson

😮  I'm sorry, but I don't have the words.  I'm speechless.  

Marlowe Johnson speechless?  (..laryngitis?) 😏


   
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Tremendous Chris. Love the detail including the brake and clutch pedals coming through the floorboard.


   
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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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9-16-22 UPDATE: Body work continues...we're getting close to color! 

COE 9 16 22 2
COE 9 16 22 1
COE 9 16 22 3
COE 9 16 22 5
COE 9 16 22 4
COE 9 16 22 6
COE 9 16 22 7
COE 9 16 22 8
COE 9 16 22 9
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COE 9 16 22 14
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COE 9 16 22 21

   
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Wow !!!


   
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Christopher Moroni
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@jack-dodds Thanks Jack. Glad you like all this... but, like 1:1 bodywork, it's alot of labor! 😣 😣


   
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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....

AACOE 9 21 22 1
AACOE 9 21 22 2
AACOE 9 21 22 3
AACOE 9 21 22 5
AACOE 9 21 22 4
AACOE 9 21 22 6
AACOE 9 21 22 7
AACOE 9 21 22 8
AACOE 9 21 22 9
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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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...then half of me should be like Conan the Barbarian! 😀 😆 😉 

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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"

COE PAINT Start 9 23 1
COE PAINT Start 9 23 2
COE PAINT Start 9 23 3
COE PAINT Start 9 23 4
COE PAINT Start 9 23 5
COE PAINT Start 9 23 7
COE PAINT Start 9 23 6
COE PAINT Start 9 23 8
COE PAINT Start 9 23 9
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COE PAINT Start 9 23 18
COE PAINT Start 9 23 19
COE PAINT Start 9 23 21
COE PAINT Start 9 23 20
COE PAINT Start 9 23 22
COE PAINT Start 9 23 23
COE PAINT Start 9 23 24
COE PAINT Start 9 23 25
COE PAINT Start 9 23 26
COE PAINT Start 9 23 27
COE PAINT Start 9 23 28
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9-25 UPDATE PART 2 of 2:   ..five more pics 😉 

COE PAINT Start 9 23 31
COE PAINT Start 9 23 32
COE PAINT Start 9 23 33
COE PAINT Start 9 23 35
COE PAINT Start 9 23 34

   
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@chris - Be still, my heart!  Calm down.  😲


   
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@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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@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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