crazyrichard Posted January 31, 2014 Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) going frankenstein with left over parts and stuff i already cut op tpo use parts for other builds started with this 1940 ford pick-up cabine , back then i chopped this cab and put brass tubing on the firewall sanded of the red paint first to reveil the black underneith after a lot of sanding i got through the black and then the primer and found styrene again then took the rear quarter panels of a 57 chevy and cut up the roof of the chevy to use as bed cover put a wheel in the rear and started to look at difefrent wheels and tyres here with a styrene sleeve and a small styrene rim as center same but used a hub cap in the center i loved this one myself now i want to use the front clip of the chevy but there are no headlights or bumper or grille , so i then should make a custom front end .. or maybe i can look at a nother front end from left overs i want a blown v8 sticking through the hood , i will just let the parts lead me Edited February 1, 2014 by crazyrichard
ScaleDale Posted January 31, 2014 Posted January 31, 2014 Should be cool. I've seen videos of a Pro Mod truck doing high speed burn outs and it's awesome. Finland, I think. Dale
midengineaddict Posted January 31, 2014 Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) will you make it rat style like this one? Edited January 31, 2014 by midengineaddict
Armornv Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 This is gonna way too cool! Actually, it's already way too cool!
crazyrichard Posted February 1, 2014 Author Posted February 1, 2014 thnx guysand luc well i already had that picture and was thinking about it , for now i removed the cover i made on the bed .. so maybe i will go that direction ,, not a exact copy but ..
crazyrichard Posted February 1, 2014 Author Posted February 1, 2014 decided to go with the style of the rat pick up with the coronet ass > started on my version , instead of a coronet its a 57 chevy rear end placed the light houses , bumper , that became a whole lot shorter found the perfect tyres with a good sand they will look like the reference rod
midengineaddict Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 I will follow this one, Cool project, it looks better with a 57 chevy
crazyrichard Posted February 1, 2014 Author Posted February 1, 2014 made a tailgate , the chevy trunk was not usable i already used part of that .. so i took a chevy trunk lid and bend it into shape did the round shae myself by heating and bending .... i had 3 corvette bodus so i hacked one up .. other parts are usefull in the future glued a bar of sprue on the top rear of the trunklid wich i will flatten and file into shape later
bryan_m Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 NEAT! im diggin it. keep up the good work cheers bryan
crazyrichard Posted February 2, 2014 Author Posted February 2, 2014 thnx bryan ! i made good progres this morning first i took the rim backsides that fit the axle and made them a lot smaller (width) and for the picture with dryfitting put some deeper bbs rims in the tyres made a closed part in the bed , underneith i can slide in a gas tank (need to make that) and let the fillerneck come up through the top plate.. need to make wheel wells and a floor i had old new beetle rims i saved from the bin ounce .. and took the revell rims you find in a lot of kits .. i never use there revell rims because they are to common .. so now i could use them as a center for deep dish rims and ... need to spray them chrome under the rod like the reference rod the rims fall deep into the tyre and are nice and deep
crazyrichard Posted February 2, 2014 Author Posted February 2, 2014 thnx david !! did a lot of dryfitting and searching for the right parts and look then i decided to spray the whole rear in primer to see how it looked .. red is hard to see where there are issues or .. now it wil be a rougher rod but hmm it actually was pretty smooth ..
crazyrichard Posted February 3, 2014 Author Posted February 3, 2014 sprayed the rims chrome and then after drying painted them with brown oild paint and with a wet cuetip removed the brown oild paint leaving it in the edges and deeper parts sanded a bit on the primed rear end here you see its brown in the rims the cabine is next i guess thats not primed , need to make a strip on the side and clean up some stuff like pannellines
crazyrichard Posted February 3, 2014 Author Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) thnx !! the rear will sit higer eventually so that its got a rake in the cab and bed just closed some gaps on the inside of the bed , the underside and on the sides of the tailgate .. beside the cut chevy parts its all left overs and some old plastic so i just filled in the gaps with car bondo that becomes rockhard its drying tomorrow i can sand the bondo the inside of the bed will get more detail later Edited February 3, 2014 by crazyrichard
bobthehobbyguy Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Cool idea. Keep up the good work. bobthehobbyguy
crazyrichard Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 thnx guys started on the chassis , engine in , driveshft and some struts from the axle to the chassis , still rough / start dryfit this is how i want to put the body on like the example rod i showed , a bot of rake in the body and bed ...
crazyrichard Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 thnx ! started on the front suspension , went for the leaf spring suspended ..... oh and for the purists its a chevy front axle with a ford leaf spring ... i know some may go nuts and thinking its sacrilege .. well its just stuff i think looks cool and it so happens to be chevy and ford parts mixed up hahahaha "bad mariage" hehe only need to make the bars from the axle to the chasis i tried every combination of wheels and i have enough choise , already was thinking nothing would work , it just didnt look right in the front earea ... untill i tried these thinking they would not look good and whow perfect proportions and look hacked up some rim backs made a gass tank , and the fun part is the words mean nice hey ? .. that was not done on purpose i sawed a pen to pieces and glued the end caps on and then saw that hahahaha
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