Darren B

Yeah, i need to apply for a grant for something green, or something for the advance of mankind, hope they make what they are studying but usually nothing comes from it, just drives up the national debt, like the studying of LSD on monkeys, tells us what we usually know but nothing comes from it. but again hope they make it for our sake.

That budweiser drag car could bring a premium if you sold it.....anything bud goes great.

Not much of an update, did a little, but most of it has been in body work, getting rid of flaws in the body work, sink marks, making sure everything matches and working on the layout for the hydro cylinders, did make a weapons rack on each side of hood and came across some skull beads at a bed store over the weekend, they are a little on the large size but liked the color of them. Was worried that the weapons on the hood might look cluttered but had that idea for a long time now, just wanted to see what it would look like.

Now thats an idea that would have never crossed my mind, that would work if there is enough room, may drop the disk brakes and put the cylinders there if i have to. i have given it a lot of thought and still want to have full hydros on it as that was what gave me the idea for the truck.

I was looking at them the other day at the gamer store, and they have some cool colors and may go that route. Im studying stone work and cemetery pics on the net to get the stone work to look realistic. When i figure out what colors to get ill go the citadel route, i keep a few bottle of their badab black on hand as its a great wash for engines and other type of models, may be making citadel paints a staple for other builds.

This is a really nice clean build , gives me inspiration to finish my two minis. Doing an awesome job.

WOW is all i can say, it looks like a carbon copy of the pic in the magazine, can not wait to see this baby done.

Cool project you should scratch build the trailer for the truck that would be really cool.

Im beginning to rethink this as a lowrider especially the way i am finishing the bed with the rats and stone, the hydro cylinders would have to poke up thou it and i am now not wanting to mess with that over all look, i could make short cylinders but even then there is not much room they would have to come up thru the bed. Will have to give it more thought as to what it will be more of a rod or show rod or just a custom truck, not sure but i am second guessing myself on this one.

I was searching google for some ideas on the build and came across this pic, awesome truck and a great project for another 1941 chevy pickup!!!

Virgil, i have been wondering what it would look like if you painted it. Ill try to do it justice but have a lot ahead of me on making it look convincing.

Thank you for your comment, i am starting to think about paint and the hardest thing is going to be painting all the weapons, mice, rats, concrete, etc, that will take a lot to figure out.

Thank you for your comment. Yeah I did actually mention it to the gamer store guy, i told him i was using them on a model truck and that I would show it to him when it was done but he just kinda blew it off so i wont be showing him anything when its done and I found another gamer store that if i use the little gamer stuff on a build ill go to that store. They dont have a great selection however they can order anything i need.

Smiths food store here in Turkey town has bundles of them in the vegetable department for tying off the bags you bag the vegeies in,,, not advocating stealing or anything but from time to time have gotten a few for a few projects......

I read it too and even thou Alclad is kinda the same thing with chrome in a jar, if its not an april fools the results look horrible, just by seeing those pics Ill stick with alclad.

Any updates on this bad boy?

Small update, made some severed heads for the seat back, and made platform for seat. and started to work on the rear end to fit disc brakes

up to this point a single mock up!

Last night i tried to integrate the rats in the bed so you couldnt tell they were on seperate pedestals.

Isnt that the truth, i took the time to look at the boxed sets and even thou they have a bunch of figures and tanks or what not, a lot of them can go as high as $85.00. I dont want to get the bug for that hobby, not just yet, unless im lucky enough to win the lottery or a big scracther win.

No update yet, hopefully tonight I can get some work done to it. I stopped by the gamer store again and picked up another bone pack as I did not think i had enough for the build from the other two packs. So that brings a grand total of $68.99 for all the tiny little metal pieces.

Ditto!!!

Well I couldn't leave it alone on the detail, went back to the gamer store today and got some more rats. Make em look like they want out of the bed.... and its time for a cleaning job of the shop this weekend as I have no more room to build........

Yeah know I was worried about that as well, It must just be the region of the country because albuquerque usually is horrible for getting anything on time and i thought since i just subscribed that it will be another month, thats what threw me off. Have you talked to your postmaster about this? Thats true too, didnt think about that one.