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Looking good mate

Thanks, it's getting there........ slowly.......

I thought you were going to paint it in McDonald's livery going by this picture, or maybe Hungry Jack's (Burger King). Just joshing. Looks much better.

I don’t know why I thought one can was enough bloody rookies.

Kind of annoying that I can't finish painting the main color at least.

Well, after a week outside in the wind rain and snow..... ok, maybe not the snow part....... but a pretty good lightning and thunder storm instead, the most yellowed of the rims finally turned white

Crap, I think I'm taking a page out of Alex's book.

Since we all like pictures here's when I first took it out of the box....... back in June of 2019 basically the day before I started this thread

There is no TS-8 in stock anywhere that i could find so this is on hold till mid March when the next orders are due in

Much to my surprise I finally found another can of TS-8 at the only hobby shop I didn't call to ask about a can

I've sprayed 2 more coats and it is taking on a nice rich color. I will give it another light sand before the final coat of red, then I can start detailing it before clear coat.

While the red paint was drying I put this together... very happy so far.....

Finished up a bit of detail all ready for clear coat, hopefully the clear spray doesn't react with anything I will "dust" the body a few times first to lock in the Sharpie.

Once the clear is dry I will black out the bed and blower recess and the painting process will be finished ready for decals.

Weird question but what was the stock color of the antenna?

RC10th wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:07 am Weird question but what was the stock color of the antenna?

Just checked my NIB which is a non chev original like yours here and it has a “clear” antenna tube.

And that body is looking great, top job

Phew, painting is done !!

Is it as nice as I had hoped? Not really.....but it still came out pretty good considering all the issues and set backs I had with it. The stickers are all cut out ready to go, I just need to find some quiet time to sit down and sticker it up. I would have mounted the windows but after test fitting them I realised I need to polish ithe plastic a bit more.

I wasn’t going to post these till I finished the truck but I can finally put the body to bed. Now I can sit down and enjoy the build over a few nights while looking at the body waiting to be placed as the cherry on top.

Everything is original except for the chrome parts, decals, and the odd screw.

I got a fair bit done tonight, once I got started I couldn't stop. You know the I'll stop after one more step, ok, maybe the next one, and before you know it you've done 20 steps

Been fun so far. I decided to put this awesome servo in it..... as it's just for display I'm not too worried about it even though it was the downfall of many a Clod. I thought about the steering mods etc but I'm going to leave it as stock as a box of rocks.