cobraman Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 (edited) Starting this truck kit . It will be built as a Carroll Shelby flatbed Cobra hauler and will have a Cobra loaded on it . I lost a rear wheel already as I was stripping chrome and Casey came to the rescue and is sending me one and asking nothing in return . Model builders are the best ! Thank you Casey !!! Edited February 1, 2018 by cobraman claification
afx Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) My dad was the Fire Chief of our local VFD. Never forget riding in the C-series tanker truck during parades when I was a young lad. Edited January 25, 2018 by afx
gotnitro? Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 I have the papa truck hauler bed stashed if ya need let me know Cobra hauler sounds like a great project
cobraman Posted January 27, 2018 Author Posted January 27, 2018 Made some small progress on this project. Should be able to post some pics on Monday.
cobraman Posted January 28, 2018 Author Posted January 28, 2018 Here is some of what I have managed to work on .
Vince66 Posted January 29, 2018 Posted January 29, 2018 Nice looking build. Is that a factory Ford engine color ?.
landman Posted January 29, 2018 Posted January 29, 2018 Looks like either way works. I made mine blue. The web shows blue for trucks and red for marine. But I guess Ford knows best.
cobraman Posted January 29, 2018 Author Posted January 29, 2018 Color is most likely not correct. I was not trying to keep it as a stock build. Since truck will be blue I just wanted something different for the engine. It is painted with Duplicolor red/orange.
cobraman Posted January 30, 2018 Author Posted January 30, 2018 Made a bit more progress . Still waiting for the paint to arrive .
DRIPTROIT 71 Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 Looks Great so far!! As far as the engine color goes, I used to maintain a firetruck that had a 534 in it and it was red from the factory.
gotnitro? Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 Wow excellent progress! Going with a red ford engine will really be unique good call
slusher Posted February 1, 2018 Posted February 1, 2018 Real neat and clean work Ray. I would have painted the engine red if the truck was blue. What color blue are you waiting on?
cobraman Posted February 1, 2018 Author Posted February 1, 2018 Thanks gents. Carl, I have seen them in two different colors. A light blue and a dark blue. I am not trying to build a replica of one of the Shelby trucks but in the style. I chose a light blue called Big Bad Blue. I think it was a AMC color. I ordered it from ebay but seller sent me primer instead. I now have it coming from two different vendors.
slusher Posted February 1, 2018 Posted February 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, cobraman said: Thanks gents. Carl, I have seen them in two different colors. A light blue and a dark blue. I am not trying to build a replica of one of the Shelby trucks but in the style. I chose a light blue called Big Bad Blue. I think it was a AMC color. I ordered it from ebay but seller sent me primer instead. I now have it coming from two different vendors. That is a very nice color Ray....
PettyKW43 Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 Big Bad Blue is a very close colour to Petty Blue. Will look great , interesting build and following this one , great build so far!
cobraman Posted February 5, 2018 Author Posted February 5, 2018 Making a bit more progress on this project . The paint finally arrived so I hope to start painting today . The Cobra will be a Cobra under construction . Still a lot of little details to address .
cobraman Posted February 6, 2018 Author Posted February 6, 2018 Thanks Gary ! I'm even happy with this project............... so far.
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