old comp truck turned scale truck (the rebuild!)

[CUSTOMHILUX]

LOVE that color! looks so good! wish i had the skills

[Metal Masher]

Originally Posted by CUSTOMHILUX

LOVE that color! looks so good! wish i had the skills

Thanks I like how it turned out.

It's a bit overdue but here are the after pics from the comp i ran it in.






It took a nasty tumble on the first big climb and hit the passenger side fender hard.



and the roof



plus wiped out the rear tail lights good





then further down the course I wedged the drivers side roof under an overhang



then getting to the last gate i drug the drivers side really nicely.



In all it worked well And i can't wait until the next one.

[AX10wannabe]

those are some nice pics man!! i love how you spend all that time making the body panels then your not afraid to throw it around on the rocks haha...

[blakeski]

so sick.... sell it to me!?

[kuatto]

Nice makeover.The more I see the metal bodies and how when done right it looks like real damage as you would see on a 1:1,the more I am considering one for a future rig,may even build some scale body hammers and a dent puller to pull out any of the bigger dents.

[heinie_21]

way jealous of your mad fab skills. fab me up some fj-60 sheet metal?

[Metal Masher]

Originally Posted by AX10wannabe

those are some nice pics man!! i love how you spend all that time making the body panels then your not afraid to throw it around on the rocks haha...

Oh yah, thats the best part!

Originally Posted by blakeski

so sick.... sell it to me!?

no way! this one is staying for good!

Originally Posted by kuatto

Nice makeover.The more I see the metal bodies and how when done right it looks like real damage as you would see on a 1:1,the more I am considering one for a future rig,may even build some scale body hammers and a dent puller to pull out any of the bigger dents.

Go for it! there is nothing like getting real damage when wheeling. I would like to see some scale body tools, that would be neat.

Originally Posted by heinie_21

way jealous of your mad fab skills. fab me up some fj-60 sheet metal?

if you can find a body that i could make molds of i could help you out for sure.

Last weekend was my last comp of the season for our club so i decided to make a couple small updates to the truck.

First i fixed the passenger side front fender.



then i added a tray for some more accessories.



and i added some side markers, breakable of course.



and fixed the tail light lenses. I also won a tire cover during the comp raffle so i threw that on for fun



The courses were pretty rough, here are pics after the first course.









I fixed some of the damage then went onto the second course. I'm not sure which course was worse!



























Time to bang out more dents then wheel it again.

[steelbed]

wow i love this rebuild. i have been following this rig since it was a 2.2 comp truck and it has changed alot since then. you must put alot of time painting all those panels to just smash them which i would never do but that is why your rig it very cool and original. do you make your rear light lenses because you said something about how they are breakable.

[Metal Masher]

Originally Posted by steelbed

wow i love this rebuild. i have been following this rig since it was a 2.2 comp truck and it has changed alot since then. you must put alot of time painting all those panels to just smash them which i would never do but that is why your rig it very cool and original. do you make your rear light lenses because you said something about how they are breakable.

Thanks. I've been thinking about doing another thread just showing pics of it's transformation. Actually i'm already thinking about how to change it again

Actually i have it down to a science and it doesn't take all that long to paint. That's mostly why i keep the whole truck the same color.

Yes i make all my own lenses. I use a product called EZwater. It's used to make water scenes in dioramas.

[TONKA TOY]

Killer fab skills. This is by far one of the neatest scalers I have seen. Keep up the good work.

[adamargue]

Looks great man love the paint.

[Casey429]

Pure awesomeness, I love it. I wish I could TIG like that. Seeing a bead that looks like a roll of coins spread out like that is pure art to me.

[heinie_21]

Love this build. Pure awesome