Gary Chastain

Another problem I was concerned with was flexing the hood and frame to align the pins behind the grill. After engine cross member, radiator and bumper the frame becomes very rigid. With the removal of the grill center section and addition of PE grill, I was afraid that I might bend or break those parts. I slotted the hinge pin holes leaving them slightly snug as an easy snap fit, but allow hood to rotate open without falling off. So far it works very well.

To correct the hood to cab clearance/fit, I added a .020 shim to the bottom of the rear cab mount, which raised the cab crossmember to .187 thickness. You can also see the mount could not be attached by kit locating holes in the frame (sits slightly forward).

Revell chrome paint, I wanted to use my Krylon chrome (ish) paint but my spray nozzle broke and got paint everywhere. I like the Krylon because it is a little more polished aluminum look rather than a bright shiny chrome and secondly it doesn’t finger print so bad.

Little update. Got the battery boxes modified per Ron’s advice and chromed. Polished the aluminum exhaust tubes, interior paint (want it to look like brown leather), dash is about ready to apply gage panels. Air canisters are painted, let dry for a few days then paint chrome clamp rings and detail them out.

Pleasure to watch your builds.

Looking forward to watching this build. Oh, love the posing of the coffee cups, that’s just cool.

I’ve done that tape trick many times, well done.

Top notch building right there.

Not a detail missed, this is really a special build.

Good to see you getting some bench time, progress looks good

Impressive work, tells a great story

Another one of a kid kit, well done

Never seen the paint trick and looks as it worked well. I’m stealing that idea😉😉

Top notch build, lookin good

Paint work complete on headache rack, let these sit for a few days before any handling.