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Looking good there Luke. That's a lot of bodies your getting prepared.

I appreciate ya Brotha. Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks man. Yeah, I got lucky right. I'll check out your build.

Thanks Steve. Yeah, I pulled another rabbit out of the hat. Yup, the Blue Violet is fitting for this Willy's. The Iceman always puts out some nice stuff.

Thanks Chris.

Thanks Spike. Yeah, I got lucky.

I appreciate ya Luke. Thanks Buddy.

There are a lot of helpful idea's floating around here.

Thanks Mario. Yeah, the color turned out pretty nice. It only goes to two place....the start line and finish line.

You know I appreciate ya Buddy. Thanks.

Thanks Buddy.

Much obliged DJ. That would be a wild ride.

It looks the part Chuck. Nice weathering.

Good looking 53 Ford pickup rebuild Nathan.

Wow....what a day. I'm calling this one done fellows. Pics are Under Glass. https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/199437-1941-willys-pickup/

I have been working on this build since last November. Everything was going fine until yesterday morning I had a disaster when gluing on one of the headlights and the paint. I solved the problem pretty quick this morning by wet sanding and repainting the fender around the headlight and drug it across the finish line. Paint is Tamiya Blue Violet and cleared with Splash Paints 2K Clear. The engine is a BBC from the Iceman and wired. I cut off what little nubs that were there for door hings and cut new ones from a paperclip. I also got rid of the funky center hood hinge. Other than that it is pretty much out of the box. WIP: https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/196816-1941-willys-pickup/

Yup, pretty kewl little gadget.

Only one thing left to do so I wet sanded it and gave it two coats of the Tamiya Blue Violet. Doesn't look to bad. I just may have pulled another rabbit ouf of my hat. I still have to try and glue the headlight back on. Oh boy....can't wait for that. I think I'll lay off the caffeine for that.

The wet sanding didn't do much so I'm not left with repainting.

Thanks for the info Luke. I just tried some Meguiar's fine-cut cleaner on a Qtip and it didn't touch it. Also tried some Mr. Color Leveling thinner and Tamiya X-20 thinner with no luck. I'm going to try some hot lacquer thinner. This may take everything off.

Ok fellows. This is the disaster that struck yesterday. I was trying to figure out how to attach the headlights to the body since my hands were shaking and the tape idea seemed like the way to go. I use a toothpick and put 3 small drop of glue on the back side and that worked out fine on the drivers side. When I got to the passengers side disaster struck. I had painted the headlights gloss black before I airbrushed the chrome on so I'm guessing the glues loosened up the black and it started to run plus my shaky hands help smear it. Now I'm screwed. Looking for suggestion on how to get this Tamiya Gloss black paint off the body color???

Thank Carl. The headlights on the 41 are dome shaped so I don't think that would have worked on this build.

Yeah, probably so but that's water under the bridge now. They have been airbrushed and installed and...I messed one side up big time.

My hands where shaking to much and I messed up the passengers side big time.

Unfortunately things didn't go well installing the headlights.