And it Begins... My 1.9 chevy build lots o pics...

[dankycrawler]

I am guessing this build is going to take a while, I am trying to build a replica of my older brothers truck, or come close anyway, I havent decided on a chassis yet I think im gonna make one out of split square tubing. I have had a clod body sitting around for ages so I started filling and cutting it up to make it a bit more scale. I filled in the blower hole and sun roof and decided to give the whole drop bed thing a go. So keep in mind this is my first try at a drop bed.

This is what I started with



I didnt get a chance to snap a pic of the body before I took it apart.



I first ground out the center of the grill no more 4x4x4



Then covered it in a piece of styrene



And preped it for Paint by filling in the headlight bucket with yellow tak.



I then painted it and put a chevy grill from a proline body in the center. I saw someone else on here do it and thought it looked really good. I also took some side marker lights from the proline body and used them as signal covers.



Then I filled the sunroof





After sucessfully building a flatbed for my actros out of sheets of styrene



I decided to have a go at a drop bed for the chevy.



I started out with the bed floor and sides.



I amde the fender wells out of the pieces I cut from the sides and added a strip of styrene to them for stability



then glued a strip to the top of them to cover it



Finished fender well



then I smoothed out the corners a bit with a file.



Assembled the bed.



Covered the floor with this piece and cut it to fit.



And test fit the bed... thats about where I am at right now

[Shaun (yota)]

The bed is lookin good so far.

[RivBlueNoma]

Wow. Very nice work. Which plastic cement/glue are you using?

[fathead]

you have to much patience, I would have just thrown that away by now. But your doing a great job, nice work

[kalani]

Looking good. Really like the bed. Where did you get the material for the bed bottom?

[Robb]

Originally Posted by fathead

you have to much patience

I have to agree!! He is drinking Coors, and patiently waiting for the taste of a good beer to kick in!!


Honestly, the grille, sunroof, and bed look INCREDIBLE!!!! Nice work!!

[RaleighRCer]

Nice work. Keep the pics coming.

[dankycrawler]

Originally Posted by RivBlueNoma

Wow. Very nice work. Which plastic cement/glue are you using?

Its called pro weld by ambroid. sells most places that cary styrene.

[Gula]

I think I came up with the grille Idea. Looks awesome by the way I think I might have to do the same with my bed. Where did you get the rippled styrene though?

[1BadJeepBruiser]

WOW man this thing looks awesome!! I am so siked to see so many drop beds being done, they made a rig look 100x scaler! The grill looks awesome like that too, much better then that 4x4x4 crap I like the idea of using thumb tac to keep the chrome in the head light buckets, thats an awesome idea!

Keep up the good work

-Mike

[Mirage]

Awesome work man, this thing is going to turn out great! The bed is looking amazing!

[dankycrawler]

Originally Posted by GulaVW69

I think I came up with the grille Idea. Looks awesome by the way I think I might have to do the same with my bed. Where did you get the rippled styrene though?

Thanks for the grill Idea

The rippled styrene I got at the LHS where I got the other sheets. I think they sell it as metal siding for building model houses for railways.

Well im heading down to work for the week but hopefully I can make some progress on it when I come back on thursday.

Thanks for all the coments!

[braceysdad]

The body work mods are looking great

[Crawler Noob]

holy craps, that really impresive.

[dankycrawler]

Thanks people I decided to build the body first and then a chassis around the body. My plan for the drivetrain is a set of tlt axles running through an r2 on some bfg's I think im gonna wait until they come out with the disconnect model though. I heard you can flip it around and use it to shift from 2wd rear to 4wd. is that right?

[guamcrawler]

looks good

[obijuan]

dude, im lovin it! i cant wait to see how this is gonna go. whats the truck youre replicating look like?

[foodstamp]

awsome, now all you have is that ugly hole in the hood, should just make a cowl to cover it

[SMFtwstdHICK]

Very nice man. Those fender wells are made out of styrene as well? I haven't mess much with styrene, just cellfoam for now. I didn't know styrene would bend so much. I have been debating doing a drop bed on my rig..

Great work.

[Bronco]

dude. thats sick!