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I use liquid glue for joining block halves and seat parts, I have found after getting the best fit possible while joining the parts, I can usually sand the seam ‘away’ with no filler needed, and not destroy or lose any detail. Edit, granted I didn’t answer your question, but tried to show another way around having to use filler.

Tbill came about one day at work about 25 years ago, one of the managers at work was talking about treasury bills, looked over at me, and said, ‘well what do you know, you’re a T bill too!’ ( obvious play on my name, Tom Billings), and from then on, he always referred to me as Tbill, so I started using it as my screen name after that.

You’ve outdone yourself on this one, just a beautiful clean build of a great looking COE, well done!

I too have added a couple to the fleet since my last post…

Good looking truck! Most of those left in this area are missing metal up to and including the drip rails….

Front bumpers are totally different, rear bumpers are totally different as well. 1970 front fenders are different due to the marker lamps in the lower front portion. you’re best bet as mentioned, is to find a 72 and back date it, other than the obvious grille and turn signal /marker lamps differences, the rest is the same , reverse lamps are slightly different between the two years, but in scale, hardly noticeable.

Thanks fellas.

That’s looking really good! once you build a few of the multi part cabs, you’ll start to like them, they seem to be more crisp than the one part cabs.

That came out fantastic, glad the decals were still useable. the 66 chevelle is one of my favorite cars, and I love the kit, I’ve built 4 of them so far. Still need to build a replica of the one I had……

This is looking dynamite!

Can’t help but wonder if these Miller kits sell well, if they will bring back all the ‘beer’ sets and actually sell them as sets like back in the day. edit, about time for the bed bugger kits to make a return as well…..

Thanks guys. Jeff, frame color will come to me at the appropriate time, lol. I finally found the info another member sent me back in 2015 for the measurements to drop the cab to a more realistic height and still tilt properly, so I’ll be doing that on this build. I’m also using moebius wheels and some tires from Gary Wallace (GW trucks). So, stay tuned, plan to actually keep working on this when time allows.

Latest mail delivery,

Can’t get things right on this planet, but we want to go to another one….. also in the same vein, we don’t know everything this planet has to offer ( mostly just what we can pillage for profit), yet we feel the need to explore other planets….. just my opinion, no offense meant to anyone…

Thanks guys. frame will probably be a darker orange/reddish color I think, but, who knows, lol.

No idea when I’ll get back to this , but this past weekend was a washout, so I started on the Astro, as usual, I started with the cab paint job…..

Love the black and yellow, great looking build.

My 04 and a 21

I think he was leaning more towards nothing like the sound an internal combustion engine makes, no matter how the fuel gets into it. fast is fast, no matter what propulsion you’re using, but after 100 years of ‘hearing it’ go fast……

Got this stuff over the last couple of days,

Great pics, thanks for posting those .

Model round up shows in stock @59 bucks