1929 Ford Pickup 80's Contemporary Street Rod - A Tim Boyd Tribute!

[OldNYJim]

On 6/1/2024 at 3:12 PM, tim boyd said:

Just got my MCM #224 yesterday and was astounded to see six pages of coverage devoted to the contents of this thread.  To all of you who participated in this thread over the last several years, to all who posted your modeling projects, to Dennis who got the whole thing going, to Wes and Paul at GSL, and to the entire MCM Editorial team, thank you from the bottom of my heart!   This will be one of the proudest moments of my life, for sure!  

Very best to you all!!!   TIM 

A fine and fitting tribute!!!  Well deserved!

[Speedpro]

On 6/1/2024 at 2:12 PM, tim boyd said:

Just got my MCM #224 yesterday and was astounded to see six pages of coverage devoted to the contents of this thread.  To all of you who participated in this thread over the last several years, to all who posted your modeling projects, to Dennis who got the whole thing going, to Wes and Paul at GSL, and to the entire MCM Editorial team, thank you from the bottom of my heart!   This will be one of the proudest moments of my life, for sure!  

Very best to you all!!!   TIM 

@tim boyd, This is such a well-deserved and fitting tribute to a great inspiration to this hobby. Great article and the builds pictured show a little of what you instilled in us as model builders. Definitely your day! It was nice to have met you and shake your hand. Great moment for me. Congratulations and thank you for everything you've done for this hobby.

Paul 

 

[tim boyd]

On 1/15/2023 at 11:28 PM, Dennis Lacy said:

UPDATE!

Had a great afternoon at the bench today catching up on podcasts and getting some more solid work done on the companion RPU. 

One more small task on the cab was filling in the hood ledge at the top/center of the firewall like I did on the Closed Cab. 

 

Up front I grabbed a pair of the small headlights from Revell’s ‘29 Roadster / ‘30 Coupe, mounted them directly to the fenders and filled the mounting holes for the old headlight bar just like the Closed Cab.

Next I turned my attention to the bed and back end. Here is where things deviate considerably from the Closed Cab as I decided to make a solid, smooth tailgate and bed cover from .040” Evergreen sheet.

On the inner edges of the bed mounting rails made from strips of .040” square rod were installed to support the cover.

A 3/16” wide strip was added to the bottom front edge of the cover to fill the gap at the front of the bed when installed.

Continuing with the smooth theme I made a rear filler panel to span between the bed support rails and flush mounted a pair of taillight lenses found in most of Revell’s ‘32 Ford series. Underneath, a rectangular filler panel was fit. Both were made from .040” Evergreen sheet.

 

Here’s the truck mocked up again with today’s additions. I couldn’t be happier with the look which is extremely appropriate for a late 80’s / early 90’s billet / smooth street rod. Like I said last week about the interior, I wish I could go back and do the Closed Cab like this!

Until next Sunday…

 

 

Dennis....ran across this project while I was looking for Tim Slesak's post in your long running thread here....Did this project get finished and I missed it?  I have to say those low angle three quarter shots have just about the most killer stance I think I have ever seen in a 1//1 or scale A rod....hope all is well....TIM