Cricket 32 Ford pickup

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[GTJUNIOR]

Mock up looks really good. 

[gatorincebu]

Mock up looks really good. 

              X's 2

        You have  this one looking real good. A classic hot rod style from back in the day! Chromed steelies , white walls ,  Oh yeah!!

 

 

         Be Well

          Gator

[Agent G]

Wow!

G

[Modelbuilder Mark]

You ever have one of those projects that just stump you? You think it is going along nicely, then you just hit a block. That happened here. Most if this is my fault to be sure. I do not test fit, or dry fit enough for example. At any rate, a while back, I swapped out the hobby room to a larger room in the house. Our 2 year old grandson is not stopped by things such as baby proof door knob thingys (he even removed the baby proof latch from the fridge), so I resorted to putting hook and eye latches at the tops of doors, like bathrooms, model room etc. Well, before I could finish organizing the room, seems I forgot to latch that top latch before heading to work one morning. My wife said she found him in my model room, sitting at my desk but could not tell if he had gotten into anything. I had to wait until I got home to find out. He had pretty much left everything in the room alone, except this project. It was not even on the desk yet in the new room, so not sure why he grabbed it, but the chassis suffered from only have a drag arm come off, but as the body was not attached fell off, found it just sitting on the floor. Fearing the worst, I only found the one corner impact had cracked the paint on the side of the body, and chipped the paints front edge. The scratch is a little more visible in person, but not awful, so given the issues I have had with this paint not curing, I will live with the minor crack and touched up the chip. BUT.....I have to wrap this one up. Modelzona is in two weeks. The interior is in, chassis complete, just have to mount the body, grill, lights, and bed, then a bit of wiring, and call it done. THen I will have to polish the dust out of this soft point one final time. (shot it back around March, still not rock hard, it may never be)

 

Edited October 24, 2016 by Modelbuilder Mark

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[Davewilly]

very nice so far...liking the Green paint..Nice work

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Motor plumbed and wired. After these pictures, I mounted the grill so it could set aside and dry, then all is left if plates, headlights, radiator hoses, fuel tank, some final washes and touch ups. I just might finish it for this coming Saturdays Modelzona!

 

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[Modelbuilder Mark]

The above two pics were from last night, just could not get them uploaded. Tonight, I got the gas tank mounts in place in the bed, got the lower radiator hoses on, side step plates to reach into the bed. I will have to get creative with the headlights, The bar no longer spans the fenders as the grill sits farther forward than I planned. (upcoming new-years resolution, test/trial fit more)

[Ace-Garageguy]

Looking really good. Great to see one that's been around for a while getting finished up. You give me hope and inspiration to get back to a few of my own lifetime projects.  

[Jantrix]

Very impressive. I like it a whole lot.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Thanks guys!  Yeah Bill, there have been several things that have made bench time a real premium this year, and in the case of this project, I kept running into issues with, but I always knew I would see it through. Thanks for checking in!

[Modlbldr]

That is a very beautiful build. Your work on it is top notch. Love the look of the entire thing. I wish that they would come out with a new tool 32 pickup kit. Wouldn't that be great?

Later- 

[Modlbldr]

I just saw your Avitar. I have a build of that in the works. Can't wait to get back on it. 

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[Modelbuilder Mark]

Tom,  that avatar is there because I was inspired by the drawing.  I built up the model and called it C-N-Things because it was a mash up of the C cab and other things.  Here is a link to it. http://public.fotki.com/machman/models/builds-2013/c-n-things/

[gatorincebu]

 

  Mark,

           I think you nailed the classic hot rod look! Nice job.

 

 

  Be Well

   Gator

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Alrighty then! I am calling this one done. I am going to try and get a few hours sleep before I have to get up for Modelzona, but the headlights and gas tank have to dry/set, then I will give it one more polishing in the morning and take some daylight pictures and head out to the show.

 

 

[Modelbuilder Mark]

[Modelbuilder Mark]

 

trying to resend pictures

Edited November 5, 2016 by Modelbuilder Mark

[Modlbldr]

Beautiful work on it. You'll do great at the show. I went through all of your photos of C N things and I love it. Lots of good ideas I'll be using for mine. 

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[Modelbuilder Mark]

Beautiful work on it. You'll do great at the show. I went through all of your photos of C N things and I love it. Lots of good ideas I'll be using for mine. 

Later- 

          cool,  lmk when you post pics