Joe Handley Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 This years club build project to be done by the 2nd Saturday of December this year and we’re all building the Revell Make and Take 2017 Ford F150 Raptor kits that the club was able to acquire. Dad and I weren’t able to get ours until last weekend since we weren’t able to go the the December ‘23 meeting/Christmas party due to me catching Covid right before it and then some fairly nasty winter weather in January. We’ve been scratching our heads to try and figure out what to do and I finally figured mine out today after running across a video of the RTR F150 Street Truck as envisioned by drift racer Vaughn Gettin Jr that could be a daily driven truck, but also capable of being off roaded (including jumps!) and as well as drifted, plus with it being bagged using a parts of their own King Shocks, and Air Lift Suspension, it could be raised or lowered for the purpose at hand. https://www.speedhunters.com/2015/09/the-ultimate-fun-haver-rtr-ford-f150/ Here it just popped together so I know what I’m starting with. What’s not pictured is what I did next, which is where I started by filing the parts of the chassis where the axles clip in into it so I could have it fully droop out when lifted off the table top and sitting low when on it’s tires. Once that was done, I put the body on the chassis minus the interior and bed to measure how far above the chassis plate the axles would sit. After I finished all of the above, I stuck the interior/bed tub back in the body and check out the fit, which worked out better than I planned on! Debating about making my own Widebody fenders for it and not sure what is out there for appropriate aftermarket or kit sourced wheels and tires that might work in place of the box stock stuff. Also debating about making some sort of faux can extension/roll bar to the bed out of .080 styrene as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattilacken Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Cool, will be folowing to se what you make out of it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) 16 hours ago, Mattilacken said: Cool, will be folowing to se what you make out of it! Thanks, I sketched up what I may do for that bed bar and edit into this post later, any possible Widebody extensions may have to be improvised at the desk. Here’s a rough sketch of my plan on the bed bar, kinda Chevy Avalanche looking, if I may be honest though. Sorry about the location, it was a spur of the moment shot after grabbing a bite to each between work and the gym. Edited February 20 by Joe Handley Inserted pic of sketch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 We got a package of Evergreen 20”x8”x.080” Black Sheet Styrene and started messing around with the bed bar I mentioned earlier, this is just the beginnings of it here as it was just roughly trimmed out from the sheet with the help of a mechanic pencil, Harbor Freight Square, and one of my box cutters from when I worked retail. I’ll probably dig a bit deeper into it this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 (edited) Getting further along on the truck today and it’s going about where I want it to look. got the doubled insides made and cement is curing right now. Edited February 24 by Joe Handley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris chabre Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Ill be watching. I just picked up a 4wd 17 crew cab as a new daily that I plan on lowering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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