gator52 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Jonah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cole Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Looks good!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynlo Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Sweet! Reall nice build??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Mols Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av405 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Outstanding. How did you make the light bar mounts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYLIBUD Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Great Job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hamilton Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Very nice!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Super nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gator52 Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) Outstanding. How did you make the light bar mounts?After removing the mounting pins from the kit part, I cut a triangular shape from .01" styrene to create a completely flat underside for the main housing. You might be able to skip this step, but it provided more surface area to mount the scratchbuilt legs to.I cut two 2.4 mm x 16 mm strips from .01" styrene, then trimmed a corner off one end. Using the arrow stick portion as a reference, I butted the back end of each strip up against the arrow stick, with the outermost edges of the strip and arrow stick flush, and the trimmed corners at the front and faced inward.I then cut the feet themselves from .06" channel (Evergreen 261).The retaining hardware is a strip of BMF applied to the roof, then a chip of .01" styrene with a Grandt Line bolt (#5135) and a short length of unpainted .02" music wire. For the next one I build, I will add a small strip of styrene to the underside of the horizontal legs to give the music wire a better spot to adhere to.These mounting legs are a bit more squared off than the real thing, but it was fairly straight forward to build a symmetrical pair that looks better than the OOB Lindberg part. I originally tried cutting/shaping some thin sheet brass to more closely represent the shape of the real mounts, but couldn't quite get a matching pair that I was satisfied with. Thanks for looking-Jonah Edited May 19, 2017 by gator52 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkychiken Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Nice clean build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kymdlr Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Very clean build. Great job on the Vector bar & push bar is sweet. Nice touch with the tailgate lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilrathy10 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Excellent work, Bud.....One of the best of these I've seen, yet....Very nice work...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsideous Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 (edited) Nice, clean build.? Edited June 16, 2017 by darthsideous spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mod3l Lover Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsuperdan Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 I think this is the best build of this kit I've seen so far. Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjanderson Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Looks fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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