Gary Chastain

Fitting resin cast flares to the hood and cleaning up. Removed the fake windshield wipers, air horn bosses on the roof, filling non utilized holes and cleaning up molding lines.

Great progress, love the color combination

Now that’s a good tip, easy modification , thank you.

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I am going with these mounts for the exhaust, got the square. Holes plugged where the exhaust was to be mounted. Now remove crappy molded in wipers, some cleanup on the cab and ready for primer.

Impressive building right there.

Just keeps getting better, well done.

Glad to see this back in progress.

Did some experimenting with an exhaust mount. Problem is cab tapers in on the sides and rear tapers forward. Think I could use 123 blocks to keep them square. Think on it tonight to see if any other idea comes up.

Thank you

By chance , you gotta picture of that modification?

I drove one of those trucks with a grain bed and a rear spring tag axle, got stuck everywhere. It had the 366 big block with 5 spd and 2 speed rear axle.

Did a quick mock-up to find a new problem to solve. I purchased these after market battery boxes from Truck builders model forum and they have good detail, so I want to use them but as you can see the exhaust mounting holes are not in the correct place, so need to plug those four holes and make exhaust mounts off the back of the cab. Will switch to Auslowe exhaust, which was the original plan. I can still move the fuel tanks back a bit for exhaust clearance

Few changes this morning, but going with this design for a headache rack. Little bit of cleanup and off to primer.

Now that’s a cool paint job, love it.

Built a headache rack today, but not sure I like it. Look at it in the morning to see if I want to continue or start over.

Great subject matter, will be watching.

Using 1/4 aluminum tubing (6.25 scale inches) , got the bends correct without flat siding the tubing. Got the crossover tube made, now to make the frame hangers and must clear the driveshaft and tank mounts.

Got a rear light bar made up and will also be attachment point for the rear fenders in the rear. mockup for fit.

Oh I am sure that would be easy enough to do, also considered glueing a brace from the bottom of the center portion back to the opposing underside to pull the warpage out. I have seen that brace on trucks before. But the warpage was in two planes to challenge the brace idea.

Wow Steve, huge improvement, well done.

Those details will pay off big time, well done.

Finally got the bench done and all organized (well mostly, I keep seeing more to organize) so getting some bench time. Couple changes to this build and keeping with the mild custom vision. First I decided to use the stretched frame that I built first. Second is the rear fenders. I purchased a set of 3d printed fenders but they are warped and seem to not be able to straighten them, so I modified them for this truck by removing the center piece that was warped. You can see the warpage on the uncut fender. I think this will work.

Wow, now that will be a serious build right there. Will be watching

Wowser, that is some build, well done 🏆🏆🏆