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Please feel free to post them! More reference materiel is always welcome.

Thank you Bob, my bench is getting hectic again with 5 builds going simultaneously, time to start getting the bench squirrels under control again! More soon.

Some pics of the “before” the cleanup begins! Model A front crossmembers. Model A rear buggy spring. AMT 32 ford K member(center). Revell 32 frame devoid of floor pan and front cross member. This will be the basis for our stock frame. Now it’s time to clean up all the parts and start laying out where the new/old crossmembers will sit. The rear cross member from our first frame will change to the buggy spring mount as we plan to use a quick change on that one.

@Ulf that’s a neat idea for a tool! It’s a long weekend here in Canada, so I’ll most likely be attacking all of my projects with verve, vigor and gusto! I know the k member is going to take some head scratching. I’ll have some progress a bit later.

Time to start hacking! First victim is a rather clean AMT Vicky frame, we are harvesting the center cross brace. Also harvested a pair of late model A front crossmembers as well as a rear crossmember! time to hack up a Revell 32 frame now, first we will add some bracing to maintain the frame rails positions. Next we start cutting out what we won’t need. going by the dimensions of the amt frame vs the revell frame the center bracing will be too narrow. I’ll attempt to replicate that piece. More soon! As always all comments are welcome!

Thank you, that’s a great addition to the discussion!

I’ve done some size comparison the the old AMT blobtastic frame and it appears that it both narrower and shorter, so the notion of robbing the center cross frame may not be as a simple soloution as I’d hoped it would be. Don’t worry these frames are not the sacrificial ones I’ll be using! Further sleuthing on the interwebs has also drawn up a third option for a frame that I may pursue down the road! https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/fabricating-a-pavement-hugging-early-ford-chassis/

Best the ole interwebs could gag up for me!

So after searching back through my “Started” threads I came across this and my creative juices started flowing again, so I poured myself a cup of brain lubricant and started falling down the rabbit hole of the internet searches. Why not add a stock frame to the mix as well. I sent a couple of messages to some of the forum members and inquired about some stockish parts that might be close enough to serve the purpose. Im still in the compile and source the bits part of the search. I have resurrected the parts that I had accumulated for the frame backdating, as well as some new fodder for the stock frame. I’ll leave this off today with my source materiel pics of a stock frame. more soon!

Thank you Carl, I’m happy with the stance of the truck now, it took some fettling to get it exactly how I wanted. I’m almost finished with the extended mock up process(especially for me) the exhaust is hopefully finished today! More soon thanks for following along and as always feel free to comment!

@Phildaupho that interior is sweet, love the detail on the dashboard!

Radiator revision, I wasn’t feeling that the amt rad was fitting correct so I binned it in favour of a revell piece, just have to allow for the shorter height and adjust the rad hoses.

Just popped my head in to have a look around, and dang Bob that paint is nice!

It’s the 82 release of the revell 29

Update! Chassis is ? % done! Spent a little time doing some extra touchups and maybe a little drop of Tamiya panel line black fell in there a couple of times. Yes I know the brake master and booster are not in there, hadn’t decided if I was going to mount to the firewall or not. I usually don’t stress too much about the detail of the chassis as they rarely if ever get seen by anyone again. Now to flip it over and see where I can continue,

Well Brian let’s see if I can shed some light here for you, I started with a Zed frame in the rear and have hollowed out the rear spring perch so that the spring pack can sit higher in the frame. I’ll try to get some detailed pics to show that.

@Speedpro as far as I know it’s not a race! Your build is very well detailed and it will take the time it takes, keep up the great work!

@Ulf hope all is well and soon will be well, wish you the best!

@Ulf have you made anymore progress on this build?

Box art when I was a younger modeller was a pretty important buying factor, during the early eighties when I strayed off track and built armour and figurines Tamiya was my chosen for subject matter, most of the boxes were art and if there were any photos they were small and on the sides of the box, when I switched back to automotive kits in my later years again yes I was drawn to the subject matter by the box art! As @Ace-Garageguy has demonstrated a couple of the kits that show that art was sometimes a particularly large buying factor. I have a limited number of kits in my collection of unbuilt that I have because of the art itself. By Subject matter alone do I purchase kits now as I’m pretty focused on a timeline period and buy for content. But every now and again I’ve purchased because of what’s on the box.

Work has stalled in favour of getting the 29 up to speed, the 32 sedan should see an update soon

This is as much as I’ve completed recently, it’s at least still on the bench.

Well we are inching ever closer to having a stance that will bring it closer to my vision! dis the ole tried, tested and true method of taking some springs from the front spring pack that gets the front down to a almost Tire touching the fender look I’m after! The rear is not as bad as it had looked before. It will see another tweak later. Had to get at least one item in paint though so I started on the flathead. Our highschooler has gone with the flattie from a 34 ford and will give it a proper spray can rebuild with the addition of a dual carb manifold. He has his eye on a set of chrome cylinder heads but they may be out of his reach atm. He is still broke from the outlay for the mismatched five spokes and new Firestone’s. Once we can temp in the engine we can start the complicated exhaust work. The last pic is the gang of hotrods I’m currently working on.

I use mainly Tamiya liquid cements, regular through intravenous thin, but I have some of the new revell and a limited supply of model master liquid cement! Various brands of ca as well. I think my boxing plate will hold, it was a very fine joint to begin with and maybe it just jostled loose in the move.

Well I got it up on four wheels with suspension components and I’ll have to address the front track, she’s a tinch too wide and the rear could come down a little more. That’s all workable which is great news