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Thanks Brian! Did some work on this thing this morning and got the fire extinguisher assembled and primed. We'll be painting this later today or in the morning. and.....it took four freekin' times to get the paint right on this but here the hood is. The reflection you see is my hand holding the camera. I left the picture unmodified so you could make the flames out in the paint. It's just the look I was after. Yeah...................I can live with this...........

That motor is da bomb.................truck too!

Now this came out of the blue! Looking back over the thread you've done some amazing work thus far. Looking forward to the progress here. Nice Ross Gibson motor. Good luck on finding any more of these....

I remember that pic of that blue Ford with Jeff Dane standing in front of it. Man it's been about 20+ years since I've last seen that picture and I used to think that truck was the coolest. Well.....it still is. Great progress on this beast so far Brian!

Thanks JC!! I just hope the rest of the build is "pain free". lol

That's just awesome right there!!! That's a better paint job than I could have laid down at 12. lol . Way to go Wayne and grandson!!!

Heya Richard! I'll be in on this one!

Thanks Carl. Hopefully the rest of this build is smooth sailin'. I worked through the drivers door hinge to where the door opens and closes well with little sagging when opening the door. The next obstacle that I had to go through was to make the door stay shut. I've heard of the use of magnets to accomplish this so I started thinking....."How am I going to pull this off and make all this look legit ?". I came up with the following: I need a fire extinguisher in the cab anyways so I took out my pocket screwdriver from work and removed the magnet from the top. I needed a fire extinguisher from another kit so I turned to my AMT 1994 Mark Martin Valvoline kit for that. I cut the top and bottom off just to the inside of each retaining strap so that when this is all glued together it'll look ok. This will go upright in the L/H rear corner of the cab after being assembled and painted. I had to remove the drivers door trim panel and come up with a metal strip that I could fit inside the door along the rear door jamb area in which to "latch" onto the magnet/ fire extinguisher just inside the cab. I came up with a trim panel retainer and cut a strip off from it and glued it on the inside the door and reinstalled the drivers door trim panel back. This outta do.......... I tested it several times and it works great so now I can press ahead to the completion of this thing hopefully.

Welcome to a great forum Brian.

Welcome aboard neighbor! I was gonna post the link into the aftermarket vendors but looks like Foxer's got it covered for you.

Welcome to the forum Adriano!!

Welcome aboard there Gino!! Got any pics from back in the day?

Welcome aboard Lee!

Welcome aboard Jason. You'll like the wealth of knowledge on this forum. There's lots!!!

Welcome aboard Fernando!!

I appreciate it Sam, Brian and Dave. Managed to get the drivers door on this morning but will have to hit the hinge up again with a little extra glue just to make sure it doesn't come loose as the drivers door will be able to open and close.

Looks a lot better JC.

This is "thinkin' outside the box" to the Nth degree. Lot's of vision , planning and great execution on this build. Thumbs up all the way and will be watching.

Bring 'er home Fred. Spectacular so far. Say I used your solder method for my exhaust on my 56 F-100 and it worked fantastic!!! I only ended up having one issue, the flux in the solder melted out and stained my aluminum muffler. Yikes!!

I'm likin' this build a lot. I really like that trick you did with the battery Cameron.

Stuff like this makes me want to put away my plastic toys and say "Daddy can I play now? " . This is truly remarkable work here Tim. You sir have a true craft............and gift.

Well over the weekend I was able to make some progress on this thing. All in all this old Revell kit has got to be among the worst fitting kits I've seen yet. I'm sure there's others but this one is among 'em. I've got fit issues with the windshield and the doors as well as inner fender wells that have thrown me off track but I keep chuggin' along nevertheless. The BMF adventure turned out ok and I managed to get the passenger side door shoe horned in there and got it to look half decent. I messed with the photos to bring the red out as close to what it actually is here..

Carl:Thank you bud and speakin' of screwdriver.....where did I put that thing? lol Mike: I appreciate the comments and I'll tell you this thing is a tough kit. I just got through test fitting the windshield and there were huge gaps in the upper corners between the glass and the opening. No shortage of filing and grinding there. Dennis: Thank you sir!

Thanks Gator! I hope to have some real progress in pictures in the coming days.

I was applying BMF to the passengers door window trim this morning and looked over at the truck bed and realized I haven't posted any pictures of the wood planks and mini wheel tubs that I fabricated in the bed yet. I figured I'd get that posted up this morning. and then a close up of the license plate retaining hardware: