Aztec Warrior 1950 Ford custom Lowrider Pick up Finished Moved to Under Glass

[lower99]

Cool!

[Darren B]

Working on the wire wheels and creating working knockoffs. Only doing the front wheels so far unless I can figure out a way to embed the bolt without ruining the rear end since i already glued it to the frame.

[lower99]

Wow the knockoffs are amazing!

Are they selfmade?

[Darren B]

Yes they are made up of several bits, 2 mm bolt and nut, and i didnt want the nut to show so i put it in a piece of plastic rod and sanded it round by chucking it in my lathe and sanding till the nut almost soon, then glued a watch part gear over that then added a gamer bits piece on top of that. Once painted it will show a lot better thou.

Edited December 4, 2013 by Darren B

[lower99]

They look really "AZTEC"

See ´6a´

[Darren B]

Not much of an update last night but did come up with an exhaust, the original exhaust would not fit with the treatment i did for the bracing for the bumper so i found some mega phone type jewelery bits in my stash that went over the cut off pipe. once painted i think will look pretty good.

[lower99]

Love the exhausts! Really fancy!

[Darren B]

Thank you lower 99!

[Austin T]

This is sweet man. Can't wait to see some more.

[Darren B]

Thanks Austin, believe me i want to update this baby with the complete pics, but now im on to the grueling part of cleaning up the body work and making a custom hinge for the hood, and finalizing the hydro system, stereo set up so updates will be a little slow for a while but check back often hope to have some updated pics by the end of next week.

[Foxer]

I will never ask you where your updates are as I build at a similar pace at my own speed! But I WILL say how much I enjoy your creativity every time there is an update!

[Darren B]

Thanks mike, not much of an update, been working on smoothing out the bodywork, decided to fill in the openings in the hood, never like the hood on the 1950 ford, adding some resin pieces to the truck beds, and laying out some more resin pieces under the body.

[David G.]

Good Stuff Darren!

David G.

[lower99]

Cool! Awesome Details!

[Darren B]

Thanks Jonas and David.


another small update, I did not plan in either bed a place for an amp. was thinking of placing it under the bed and add a few of my scratched video monitors. Not sure if this will be where they end up but just doing some brain storming.

[Darren B]

I have finally took to task the hinge for the hood, and if this works I will be able to finally get to graphics and paint. I have tried to hinge it from the rear, from the side and finally after hours of no luck decided on a double joint hinge and tilt it forward, it can rest on the back edge of hood or im planning on mostly displaying it by resting it on the bumper.

[Darren B]

Another Idea I have been bouncing around in my mind is using a fine line sharpie and drawing a design on the hood then spray over it with a candy color to have the image show thru the paint. I came across this from someone on facebook that did a biomech design using a sharpie then painting over it with a candy paint.

[Platerpants]

Dang!!!! Not a low rider person, but for some reason in school i always found the aztecs/incas/mayan people as a study topic for history classes so this truck being a ford and having this ancient theme has sparked my interest.

[Darren B]

Thanks Jake,

Got a little update, working on the engine, getting the pulleys setup and drilled out the carbs stacks to look more realistic.

[Darren B]

Got the layout of the pulleys finalized, now to get on the carbs setup and then route the hydraulic lines......

[Darren B]

I tried a sample of the sharpie and a design I had in mind, a real quick layout it needs some cleaning up, kinda like how it turned out actually, will have to redo on a silver base so I can make it a ghost pattern. I plan laying several layers of candy color over top of it so will see how it comes out......

[David G.]

Nice work with the pen!

David G.

[Darren B]

Thanks David. ITS PAINT TIME!!! yeah, doing final last minute body work to finally get this thing in paint just doing the spoon test to see what color combo to do it in.

[Darren B]

I'm very anxious to finish this build I have reached the point that I want to get it to the finish line.
Getting close, working on the ladders as some of the paint is drying......\

[Platerpants]

sweet