426-Hemi Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Thanks Ira! The detail part is what gets me, I make A LOT of my own details so. that makes it that much more interesting to the real one..... SO, With that said, there are some updates to post with this build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) OK as promised, I'd have some pictures of the recent posting of progress I made (I had to be in a good place to stop and get pictures!)Anyway, the rear axle now has its shocks in place, they like the front ones were custom made, from existing model shock "mounts" to where they go on the axle, and then have the "barrel" or telescopic parts custom made from evergreen styrene, cut to fit, and had a coil over spring added that I also made with a spring mandrel in my lathe and spring wire guide.The pics here show them, quite well also shows the custom made angle iron brackets to connect them to the frame. The rubber grommet around the shock nearest the coil over spring is to be like the real ones that were on my real 1:1 truck at the time....Slightly different view just a bit "over-head".Same thing, just the frame setting on its wheels to show how they look as well as showing the chrome differential plate a bit better then the pics I took to depict it!This actually "completes" the frame at this point, The next things to be done to the frame seen here is the added bumpers both front and back as well as the tail pipes bent down around the rear bumper, and "exhaust tips" added, BUT those details won't be seen till the very end and will be the completion of this particular truck model in the set!Interior is up next! ENJOY! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) OK, I mentioned it, now comes what I been doing with the interior of this truck. The real truck had a tan interior. In poor shape I might add, BUT working for the garge I did at the time, the owner Don told me if I needed or wanted anything for inside the cab to look in the "grounded" truck cab to what was a Little Red Express out back of the shop. So, me being me I did go and have a look, the cab was in pretty bad shape first thing I noticed but the interior from the outside looked to be in pretty good shape, (what I could see of it from a distance) as the windows all were wound up, and there was A LOT of under growth around it. So, back to the Garage I went, and into the office to talk to Don about what it take to get to the trucks cab, and if and what was in it that be of any use to me, (I was unsure), he told me, it was getting hauled up next to the garage the following Monday, as if I remember correctly this was on a Friday afternoon, OR Saturday, I can't remember exact, BUT come Monday morning, I was to come to the garage grab my chain saw and he'd have gas and bar oil ready for me and a weed wacker and some other tools to clear a pathway to it.....Well needless to say, we got it out from where it was, up next to the garage, and able to get into the cab, and boy, let me tell you the cab was in some rough shape! It sat on the ground for what Don told me was at least 8 years, as they got a whole truck in and the frame was in half ways decent shape as well as the bed of it, the truck had hit something (large) as the front was mangled up a bit and rusty, whatever it hit, was high enough that it took out the radiator and grille but just missed the filler part that ran under the grille to the back of the top of the front bumper..... BUT the interior tho, was in pretty good shape! BETTER shape then the truck I was building, WAY better shape! Dash pad had a pretty good rip in it, so I left my original dash where in the truck, BUT the cubby hole cover was good mine wasn't and the seats were untorn ANYWHERE, so I took both of them as well as both interior door panels. As my trucks had a bench seat in it with rips EVERYWHERE or so it seemed at the time as well as the interior door panels on my truck wheren't "ripped" anywhere but were simply raty looking compared!Now to get to making the model like this was in my truck, a few things may have been different, but I'm going from memory so not ALL may be 100% so..... But at this point, I'm good with that! A few things to point out here..... Notice that the cab has bucket seats, my truck originally didn't, BUT the donor cab had all that in good shape! The only difference I can recall was the seats..... Notice the seats have 2 different colors in it, both "tan" but slightly different shade, they were like that on the real thing, BUT the "center" grain runs length-wise on the seats seen here, on the real truck, if my memory serves me right ran side-to-side. I can live with the difference!Then on the real truck, the gear shift to a 4 speed transmission had no gear shift knob, NEVER did and the donor truck didn't have one either, SO with a bit of modeler's license I took and added my own rendition, a "skull" gear shift knob. Thought that was a good way to add it in. The accelerator pedal on my truck was an unpolished aluminum "foot" NOT with any "tread" on it, but the detail I used, I think looks good! AND the the carpet, in my original truck it was tan, the darker of the 2, BUT the donor cab had good "black" cab carpet so I installed it, as there was no rips, or rot in it as the truck had when I got the truck I was building!showing the door panel details a bit better as well as the seats. That chrome strip you see is to the band that was like a horizontal door handle, my original truck had solid black ones, the donor cab had nice chrome ones that I musta polished on for an entire weekend at home before they went into the truck!Then last but not least, looking as tho through the windshield. Showing the seats a lot better now..... ALSO, something else that was slightly different was the gear shift "shaft" my original truck had what looked to be a "blackened" shaft, NOT painted black mind you, but darkened metal. Was "OK" but just didn't stand up to the one in the donor truck, being chrome. Needed polished which I did and had just a little rust on the bottom end of it where it was connected originally to the donor trucks transmission, BUT wasn't to bad to clean up to make useable again and in working order, so that too got changed out!Dash is next! Stay tuned! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) So, with the interior of the truck posted, the missing part was the dash.....On the real truck, all I replaced to the actual dash part was the glove box cover. As it was a matching, or sort of matching color, I was good to have one with NO rips or what I recall remembering a slice or something in the glove box cover, SO, it got that from the donor cab!I also changed out the steering wheel, and column, as the one in my truck, was "OK" its just the donor truck had tilt steering, and a nice aluminum centered steering wheels! SO, while the truck was setting with no motor in it over a weekend, I added these parts by myself to be inspected come Monday morning as the garage opened for business. As the Owner Don had it a PA inspection station so.... -just before the truck was rolled outside to open up that bay for business that day!I left the dash keep its original chrome plates that went around the gauge clusters as those in my truck were actually the one of very few things in really good shape! Seen here I used BMF to add them. The gauges themself were black plastic, but because of how well the gauges turned out on the model I left them be BMF chrome as they show the details a bit better then I could have EVER painted them to be seen!The model itself out of box, did not have a turn signal lever OR anything for a tilt steering lever, SO I made them to fit the column! One thing I also noticed with this truck, was the interior came with having a "automatic" transmission, NO clutch pedal! And thinking of it a bit, the engine itself came with a standard transmission! SO having said that, and my real truck being a 4 speed manual, I had to remove the single pedal for the brakes, and leave the gas pedal to add the chromed foot, BUT I have to make a clutch pedal, and a brake pedal and while I'm at it, I'm going to add in a emergency brake pedal as well! These have yet to be added! Granted, the interior is almost done as well. Once it is, this whole model will be sat aside to allow me to do the same sort of work to the truck that I'm modeling after my Dad's truck and that truck will as well be in this same thread! As when it comes to painting the 2 trucks cabs and beds, they can be done at the same time due to both truck being black! So really, I'm almost a 4th of the way done!ENJOY more to come as progress happens! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjracing Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Awesome! As a DODGE fan I really like this build! Keep it coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gilkeson Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 lookin great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Thanks guys! It has been a fun one to do, and the nice part, (sort of) is my air brush is down, I am doing all the paint work you see here from spray cans I have or brush painting (MOST of it is being being brushed on currently), so....... as this was partly to blame why I started this build, as I have so many others in progress right now as well but all the rest require my air brush to be working! I just got to get it all together and the air brush be up and going, THEN, I may get side tracked and I'd rather not, right now and at least get one model done before I go and do that. But thanks guys! I appreciate the kudo's on the build, and From one Dodge guy to another THANK YOU! I've done a few dodge trucks over the years and this one, no exceptions has been the best and most fun of them all, and really, I got quite a line up of dodge trucks yet to build AFTER this one is done! Stayed tuned, I got at least 2 more of this same truck to do, AND a '67 and then numerous Dodge A100's and 2 Revell VTS Rams as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) So then, as I said, I remembered MY TRUCK. it too didn't come with, or have added in a horn! SO, I got out my spare parts again, looked through and low and behold, I had another EXTRA horn of the same that I used on Dad's truck to go in my truck.. PHEW (they had to looks somewhat the same!) So. off to painting this one black as I did the one that went into Dad's truck AFTER the flash was cleaned off around the edges, and the hole was drilled for the horn wiring.....So you see in my truck:NO horn! I was right, I didn't add it! While looking my truck over, I also noticed something I didn't add when I was building it!On a small block Mopar engine the oil dip-stick is on the passenger side "front" of the engine, near the head. On a big block its on the SIDE of the engine, on the driver-s side of the block. -My truck had a 440, 4 barrel in it. SO thats why the arrow is pointing where it is, thats where the oil dip-stick should be! And, its NOT! I got to thinkin' right then, Boy this is gonna be a fun detail to add while the engine is in place, NOTHING like it be on a real truck LOLBut I got the part made, and then painted the lower part of the wire the same color as the engine and let it dry, and went off to add the horn and its wire, same as I did Dad's truck.Once dry, the oil dip-stick went into place, not as difficult to get it in there as I first thought, I have to admit!Looks GOOD as on my ole truck this part was Chrome. I made the detail reflect this. Looks great! I'm pretty pleased with it!Then I let that set a few and got a refill on coffee, and once I returned I began adding the horn and wire.....One thing I noticed, it wasn't nearly as difficult to add the horn on my truck as it was my Dad's.... Dads truck has a lot extra hose and stuff for the A/C his truck had almost to the point of clutter, so was a bit more challenging weaving the horn wire in his truck, then it was mine, all I had to weave around is the heater core hoses!So then, those couple little details, brings my trucks detail level up to where I took Dads in this build. I'm happy with it, NOW its back to Dad's truck!Thanks for looking, stay tuned! More to come! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I like the direction this thing is going in John. Great work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Thanks Joe! I appreciate the kudo's! Keeps me going on my builds..... As I'm soon gonna get into my Dads part in this, his truck..... His however might be a bit of a trick even more so then this one! (I GOT to keep it "stock" height), and be 4x4 too! His didn't have a big block in it, and mine didn't either when I first got it, but my 360 was pretty much steel toast, so needed a heart put into it again, so, and thats when the 440 came along..... Dads truck had a small block Mopar in it, I'll have to take to someone and find out for sure which small block but I know it was either the 318 or the 360, but I can't remember exactly..... Dad & I back then were in a bad falling out, and wasn't talking (Time now I regret), because he & I reconciled after 20 long years from something my Mother caused, as they were separated for a number of years. So this is way for me to try and close some gaps. Sadly, I lost Dad last March! Very sad story...... BUT the loss, and loss of time, due to my own mother which I also lost 5 years ago....Its difficult in some aspects, but GREAT in others that he and I picked up where we left off..... like time never even passed even tho a long time, did! And to see and have his only grandchild in his life, made it all worth its while, for the 4 short years we were father & son again! -THAT alone is whats fueling this build! Edited May 11, 2015 by 426-Hemi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 More nice work Hemi J, love that interior coloring too, keep at it bud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks Dale! Got to remember, I had a real one VERY close to the same as you see this model back when i was 15..... I'm tryin' to replicate it, as well as a Dodge Truck my Dad had back then too...... (its gonna seem) as tho I'm gonna be building trucks one after the other for a bit..... I got 4 lined right up and on the go to have them done..... This one be the first one complete and then Dads to follow right behind! BUT I got a model of the real truck I currently have to build too! (I found a '67 Dodge Power crew cab, W200!!!!!) and that one is gonna be built with a work truck my Dad drove some time ago when I was a kid for the Railroad local to where i grew up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platerpants Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Isnt there a rule against posting real vehicles as models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 -I wouldn't think so, that is that your using that real car pic to make the model from LOL Thanks Jake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hamilton Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 This is so nice!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 Thanks Ron! The real truck would have been just as nice (even better had I got to use it) but. this makes for a GREAT 4x4 model, and reliving the building of the real one while I assemble the model! I'm just beginning the work on my Dads part in this build, getting the engine parts to make the one he had in his truck but its a bit different! He had a small block 318 or 360, (both look the same as a model kit) but I have to ask relatives that had the truck to find out to "label" the air cleaner for Dads to be.... BUT I know it was a small block as it was said that I just "HAD" to have a big block and all when it was really all that could be found to replace the small block I had in my originally..... Thanks for the compliments tho! Its much appreciated! More will come, pictures of my Dads truck model will follow..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Lots of goodies under that hood John! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 Thanks Joe! A lot of details make the model all by itself! A bit "dusty right now from drilling holes and adding details that I have to physically make makes for a bit of dust all in the while the model frame on its tires, sitting in front of me! SO, I WILL be doing some dusting, BEFORE this one is sat aside to pick up on my Dads truck in this build..... As much as I hate to say it, (I'm known to "lift" trucks 4x4), so my Dads truck model is gonna be a bit of a test, one to see if I can keep it as close "stock height" as possible, BUT how difficult its going to be to get it to be "stock height" as these trucks as models built 4x4, are high stanced trucks anyway, My Dads truck was a bit lower then mine! So going against what I normally do, and not only that but getting the stance right to a factory height might be a challenge in itself! -Altho, I have a few trucks up my sleeves to make the stock stance 4x4 happen, BUT we;ll see (Its always easier to "lift" then to lower..... And I may have to do just that.... "lower" in order to get it right! As the suspension I have will NOT match from my truck to Dads, due to not having/getting the same parts twice, for both trucks..... Thanks Joe! Stay tuned, Air cleaner(s) (YES, theres 2 of them) are to be completed..... They're removable, one, and have slightly different looks, I had the stock 440 air cleaner, that was beat up pretty good, and Don, the garage owner gave me a polished aluminum one from Edelbrock that the edge around the top was beat up so I painted just the top edge "ring" the same color as the engine, to cover it up a bit..... BUT I'm making the 2 of them to have a long "pin" for the sake of replacing one with the other and having a pin hole in the mounting location of the carburetor will allow it on the engine and the other will be "stored" in the bed with a hole drilled to have it be less a chance to be lost. AFTER that, then Dads engine and chassis will follow! Stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) Well as I mention in previous posts, all I had left to do was get an air cleaner done! Well, thinking of this, I actually had 2 different air cleaners for the real truck! BUT one was made for the truck to replace the original one that was sort of beat up, dented and just. not in good shape but worked.....So, I made up one that came with the 440, when we got it and put the engine in, and was a double snorkel, type, but it was dented up, and not in real good shape, I tried to pound out the dents, and straighten it up a bity to make it look good but that air cleaner, for whatever reason wasn't taken care of and then I repainted it black as it was and taped off the factory "440 4 barrel" lettering on it, but, it wasn't in the best of condition either. SO, I kept it but had plans to replace it when something better was found.This is what that factory air cleaner looked like:Nothing special really, just made it as close as I could get it from what I remember my real one being like, its not exact, but, its not perfect to say the least, so..... I'm happy with it! Now, to follow, Don found an extra one he had in a pile of junk he had ion a shelf in the garage, and it was a Edelbrock chrome one but the edges were normally it be polished and shine where pretty chipped up, scratched you name was tossed and moved around a lot. BUT, it was in better shape then that one I had that came with the motor! SO, he asks me if I want it, and I was like well, yeah! I paid him $10 for it, but thats OK, as a better looking air cleaner then the one that I had that came with the 440. That one, I painted the edge of the air cleaner the same color I painted the engine, to have them "match" but hide some of the flaws and chips and scratches in the tops edge..... And it did it well I have to say from remembering and looked good too!The model part, isn't exact, but its even closer the type air cleaner I made for the factory one, The model one has "Edelbrock" in a square marking in the air cleaner just the real one was "finned" BUT not as many as the model part shows, if I recall right. Looks good tho....Now without the camera chrome flash.....Without the chrome flash....NOW the frame is done, the interior is done, this model has its time on the bench, time to have it sat aside and Dad's truck to be started, and pictures of that will follow! I'm doing these 2 trucks as a set, and will paint both at the exact same time, as they were both black exteriors so..... I want to get my Dads truck frame, and interior made up before I begin in on the body work and painting of..... That way, both trucks will be done within a day or so of each other! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) Now, as I have mentioned in a few postings during this build, my Dad's truck was next, to follow suit much the same manner as this one. WELL, a few slight differences between the 2 trucks. One, Dad's was a '79 Dodge Adventurer 150, 4x4. This truck had a Mopar small block in it, I myself can not remember if it was a 318-2 barrel, or a 360-2 barrel, or 360-4 barrel. I'm just NOT sure! The nice part is, stock from Mopar, the engines looked exactly the same from the outside! EVEN the carburetors! The Carter 4 barrel was the same as the Carter 2 barrel, the difference was inside, the 2 barrel had the locations "closed off" and no venturi's in it. Where that same spot was opened and had the venturi's in place for the 4 barrels! (Interesting) but that made them use the same common "casing"!!!! SO with that said, I began, getting the motor together, parts and such during the 2 last sessions on my truck only to begin building assembling that engine while awaiting decals to dry.OK, thats the Mopar Small block. I will not say what its gonna be till I know for sure, I have to ask around to make sure of this. BUT it won't matter TILL I do the air cleaner on it, OR the valve covers. I'm not sure if my Dad had used Chrome valve covers, OR left them blue stock! I also don't know what air cleaner it had so, I'm leaving that detail off till I know for sure (I have to talk to my uncle and cousin to find out as they both would know. I simply can't remember. I was to busy at the time working on my own truck so..... BUT, my Dad was always at my uncle's with his truck and doing stuff together on it, as they both were working on their trucks in my uncles garage, as my Dad had his, and oil changes and such regular tune-ups, and the uncle literally building a '70 Chevy C-10 at the time (I remember that truck pretty well, my cousin loved that truck!) BUT I have to talk with him to find all this out BUT I can get the start on it, to the point of "labeling" what the engine is, HECK, I don't even have the valve covers till I know for sure.Needless to say, thats ALL I got for now, I have to do some talking on the phone before long to get this one under way to know what and where I'm going with it, BUT, thats a start, I can however get the frame going till then as thats going to require some time invested in it to get it to hold the engine anyway, so.......... I'm not 100% stuck on this build, or well till I at least talk to my uncle or cousin on Dad's Dodge back in the day!More to come as progress is made!ENJOY! Edited August 30, 2016 by 426-Hemi New Link Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Very nicely detailed engine bay there John, great work as usual mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 Thanks Dale! Was a bit of work to get that 440 to sit right but once I got that it all fell together really! The fun part is now "catching" my uncle and or cousin at home.... To get specifics on Dads engine that was in his old truck..... Which is what you see in my last posting..... Speaking of, that Mopar engine blue engine, a small block is one of my resin castings! I removed the standard transmission, and replaced it with one of my 727 Torqueflite automatics! Which is what Dads truck had, (That one, I do remember) He LOVED standard in cars, but hated in trucks..... (I myself LOVE standard in everything), BUT my wife wouldn't be able to drive (I have yet to teach her "stick") Lots of "scratchin fun as well as the attempt to "raise" the truck. thats a trial for me! Specially on a truck, any of them really..... (Yeah, I'ma redneck) LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platerpants Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Aint nothing wrong with having some redneck in ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 LOL Thanks Jake! I got my share of "redneck" is all I can say! Specially buildin' pick-ups..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Lookin' sweet as usual John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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