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I hear what your sayin' Niko. $35 extra...………..YEEEESH!!!! Ya know...……..you're right. Why I didn't go out and look on my own truck to see about that is a true wonder. Thanks for the heads up Earl. Cool avatar and welcome aboard to the forum BTW.

Thanks Niko. You can find them alright but they aint cheap.

Thanks a lot Jeremy. Great to have you tagging along. I still have to move the rear tires inwards a little but I've just about got the wheel/ tire and stance set up where I want it. The wheel and tire fit was a little bit of a trick for the rear wheels but I managed to get it to work alright. I coated all wheels with Tamiya Smoke (X-19) to get rid of the toy chrome look. The chassis isn't adhered to the body yet which will pull the body down to set a better stance but you get the idea anyways. I also received my re-mastered decals from Thomas at Speedway Decals.

I've heard that about these kits Terry. I may have to pick one of these up. Good progress on this one.

This is all coming together pretty nicely Anthony. I've gotten to where I use Tamiya Titanium Gold with a light brown wash to bring out the details on Holley carburetors.

Chassis is completed. I painted it all different shades and textures of black with some of the highlights/ raised areas brought out with a very subtle touch of silver lead pencil. The exhaust, even though it's hard to make out in the photos, was one of the hardest paint wise I've had to do yet. For starters it was LACED with seam lines down both sides of the exhaust pipes, converters and mufflers so I first had to remove all of that. I black based the complete exhaust system and shot it all with a coat of Metalizing Aluminum through an airbrush. Next I drilled out both tail pipe ends. After that I lightly coated both converters with a coat of Tamiya Titanium gold and after that dried a light dry brushing of Tamiya Burnt Blue powder from their engine weathering kit. Both mufflers got a treatment of Matte Aluminum Bare Metal Foil for an added effect. The fuel tank was also flat black based and shot with a very light coat of Alclad Polished Aluminum. After that dried I dry brushed a light coat of ground up black pastel onto it to dull it down. For the front suspension I did make the front wheels steerable as I've always wanted a model with posable front wheels. It was a lot easier to do with this kit than it has been with some of the builds that I've done. The ones in the past and really delicate and finicky parts or they had no option for steering at all. As a matter of fact this whole kit has been a true breath of fresh air in comparison to some of the older BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH Revell kits that I've built where I had to do a TON of work just to get them to look even half decent.

Really clean build Chris. Gotta love those old F-100's man.

Very cool project going on here. Fabulous work!!!

I like the old 72 model trucks as well. My dad's got one at his shop in my home town. I'd really like to re-do a truck like that one day. Yours sounds like it really got around pretty well. Thanks for the good word Ricky.

That's a good looking truck Jacob. I feel the same way about these trucks. Some of the longest lasting trucks out there. I've got just over 400,000 miles on mine.

Back for a second post. How long have you been doing this????

Man what an interesting story Chuck! It gives a proper introduction and brings character to your replication here. Very nice work buddy.

Nice!!! Good start on that transfer case.

Right you are Dave. Will have some progress shots up today.

I hear what you're sayin' Dave. I still thought the air cleaner was just a tad bit high initially and I understand about the reasoning for the spacer. In the picture below is my 1:1 scale engine in my truck with a highly modified 220 TBI unit that's been bored to 50mm and as a set of 454 Fuel Injectors on top (and no spacer...lol) All of that is adapted to a 4 barrel carburetor style intake manifold. I was thinking about a Holley system but have heard about some reliability concerns with it.

Thanks Dave! I appreciate the comments bud. There's no external throttle return spring on these TBI engines so I didn't worry too much about that one. The throttle linkage......that's a toughy for me. The following picture is one I robbed from the internet but it shows the return spring that's integrated into the throttle shaft as well as the intricate linkage/ mount assy. It also shows the CORRECT ignition coil that I've got wrong on my build.

Thanks Dave. Finished the engine up over the holidays. I did a couple of tweaks to it after I thought I was done initially. I put a little droop in the ignition wires just behind the cylinder heads as they just didn't look right and that air cleaner was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too high. I shaved some off of the bottom of the air cleaner and installed at the proper height. I also added an ignition coil and some fuel delivery lines. I was going to add some throttle linkage but everything I had was incorrect and it's much to intricate of detail to scratch build and get to look right so I left that part alone. There'll be an intake duct attaching at the air cleaner inlet and mounting on passengers side inner fenderwell later after the engine gets installed into the truck. Finished 454:

That's where I thought you were going to get it from. Shaving some of the top of the TBI unit off will lower the air cleaner down where it's supposed to be as the air cleaner sits way too high on those AMT TBI 454's. Then you won't have to worry as much about how crude it is. This is how the air cleaner sits with no modification to the TBI unit: and this is after shaving some off of the top of the TBI unit: Looking forward to seeing this one in progress Jacob.

Given what I've seen you do with other projects this outta be a fun one to watch.

Coming along very nicely Sergey. Very nice work.

This'll be a cool one to follow. Where are you robbing the 454 TBI from?

Stance and wheels look perfect Mike. Good work with the paint so far.

Ok folks....update time. This kit has a pretty decent engine with lots of parts. The chrome parts all got stripped to include the rocker covers but other than that it's a pretty complete and detailed engine. And here we are with the assembled base engine and transmission. Believe it or not....this IS some big time progress for me.

Right there with you on that Cary. What I've always liked about these trucks, especially early on with this body style, is their simplicity in operation. Easy and still cheap to work on.

Can't wait to see this one cleared. Stance, colors and wheels look great so far Mike.