Butter 1

Hi Ian Wow! Your attention to detail and scale is second to none! Building a replica with the precision you display is no small task. Your metal work is perfect. I will be following this one to completion.

Your choices of color really allow the beholder an opportunity to see most of the perfect models you built to create one amazing engine compartment. hope to have the honor of seeing it in person some day. Absolutely incredible!

Thanks Francis. Always appreciate your feedback. I need to wrap up the frame and get this on 4 wheels. Then I will build the engine and maybe get it done already!

Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate the comments.

The top pic is the 1:1 actual dash and the others are my rendition.

Thanks for the feedback Francis. I want to get this done by the end of May so I can display it with the truck at a few car shows this summer. I will post more updates as I progress.

Maybe these are clearer. Sorry about that

Some interior stuff. First 2 photos are of actual interior. Seat is old revell 56 f100 with pleated inserts from revell 32 Ford 5 window. Door panel pleats are also 32 Ford 5 window. The color is a perfect match. My camera really distorted the color of the parts I built.

The paint inside the engine bay is awesome. The radiator fits like a glove and looks perfect. The engine appears to be second to none! What will you do with your spare time when this is done?

Use the hood and fenders from the ERTL 53 F100. {They are much more correct then the old 56 F100 Revell did. The Monogram 55 Ford F100 is also way incorrect.} That is how I did mine in my thread called "Defoosing the FD 100" near the top of the this section of WIPS.

Sorry about the fuzzy picture of the aluminum stuff. I will send better pics when the parts are installed.

Thanks Mike for looking. I have seen your posts in this forum. If you have some of you work posted let me know where it so I go take a look.

Attached is a pic of some stuff I carved out of aluminum. Top to bottom, tail lights, one is done the other is still in progress attached to the exact knife handle they are carved from. Next is a tail light bracket, next are tail gate hinges, next are the door strike plates and finally the big cube at the bottom is the gas tank.

Hi Bob. Thanks for looking! The color is left over from my 1:1 F-100. It's a late model Chevy pickup color shot over a black base. I have a few pics of my 1:1 truck before it was finished earlier in this thread. I see your posts all over this forum. I think I remember seeing some of your work. Refresh my memory so I can take a look.

This is sort of how it will sit. Fenders and top are polished the door is not.

Hi Francis Thanks for the kind words. I always appreciate your opinions.

Still working on it. Painted some stuff,assembled box and need to rub out cab.

Oil pressure and coolant sensors, I think you have thought of everything! Absolutely incredible. Haven't responded in a while but I keep watching. Hope to see the finished product at some event sometime. (Butter, defoosing the fd100)

Hey Francis. been a while since I have been checking up on your build. WOW!!!!! The engine fits like a glove. FYI my project (defoosing the fd100) is slowly progressing.

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it

You can do this. The cab is close to stock and the ertl 53 F100 has accurate fenders, hood and tail gate. See "Defoosing the Fd100" thread on the second or third page of the "pickups SUV section" to see how I am doing the conversion. The Foose grille looks stock to me.

You can modify the Foose kit to stock by combining the cab with Ertl 53 fenders, hood, box and tail gate. Go to the "defoosing the Fd100" thread on about page 2 or 3 of pickups wip. That will show how I am modifying the Foose kit to stock body proportions