41-47 Ford COE cab

Looking great Allan, keep at it mate.

Thank's DeeCee,starting on the inside of the cab to fit windows and the chassis,wheels.

Come on Allan, you're powering through this one. keep at it mate.

Ya Adam have put all builds on hold untill I get this one done for truck show in march going to build the little inter too.

painted inside of cab grey,will be working on glass.

Al mate , whats this truck show of which you speak ?

scummy,its the Hunter Valley Vintage Commercial Vehicle show, sat'sun' march 9-10 th 2013,Maitland showground,corner Anzac & Blomfield st Maitland. Sould be a good weekend.

had small hick with the tray,found that it sat on top of rear wheels fixed it now,working on inside of cab.

Argh , was reading about truck show in the vintage truck mag . Might come up for a look see .
Place some balsa runners between chassis and tray it will look like real wood when you paint it and its easy to work to conform to the chassis .

Already glue some plastic strips in place,painting seats and headlight buckets as me forgot them

Got any more pics Al? This one is looking pretty good.

have had a big set back with this one look's like were I sat the cab has rolled up side down and put a deep mark into the paint off it, will look at it on the weekend it almost hit the floor with my boot on top of it.

NO AL !!!!!!!!!!!! Keep boot away from truck ! Start rubbing it back mate , this project to good to stop now .

will be looking closely at it on the weekend ,Silverfox was here last night picking up some new kits we just gotten from the USA ,showed him the COE, he said it can be fixed,going to be a pain as it will have to be painted dark green then red again just knew something was going to happen sooner or later,I have the worst luck at building models of late, think something is telling me to give away model building

Have sanded the cab back,yep had to go right back to the resin,still a bit to do before I reprimer it then repaint the two colours on it.Think this will be the last model that I will be building,going to pack the rest up and take time out for a while.

Think its time to sell the plastic and buy diecast.

You can't give building away Allan. I would get withdrawals not have your great models to look forward to.
I will be starting on my F8 soon, have the body from Kerry it is a good casting, took me about 1/2 to clean up.

Thank's Frank for that,only got two done last year just picked up a Opel blitz for my F8 cab

Silverfox got some kits from the US aye??

resin why

allan wrote:Thank's Frank for that,only got two done last year just picked up a Opel blitz for my F8 cab

Hi Allan, I cant afford to buy an Opel Blitz just to rob the chassis. I am going to have a go at scratch building one.
What are you going to use for the engine and trans, the F7 & F8 had the big 337 engine that was also fitted into the 52 Lincoln.

I was very luck in get a opel blitz,one came up on starman's site in the usa $38,silverfox told me about it as i had missed seeing it oder it asap,for gear box I am using the one out of the Dodge l700.there was a story in scale auto on building the chaasis for the F8 hqmon sent me copy also got copy from silverfox,will email you the infor, Italeri has just released a opel blitz in army colours,will find out more infor for you.

I am trying to locate a Dencon 337 ford engine, but he seems to have gone out of business.

infor sent to you.

just gotten chassis done,but not cab as its to cold to put gloss coat on it,chassis is semi gloss black.