My first tf2 - lwb lc70

[Fatman489]

So here she is .. my first tf2 .. as soon as I seen the lc70 I knew I had to have one and this is what I decided to do with it








Undecided on the wheels I may end up running these instead




Suspension still needs some tweaks and what not but she's gettin there

[new2rocks]

Congrats on the LWB LC70. Love the color choice! Re the wheels, it's such a personal choice, but I prefer the blacked out look vs the blingy Kraits on this truck. Enjoy it and keep us posted!

[Fatman489]

They are actually ssd trailready knock offs lol ... the black incision wheels have 1.7 Baja claws stretched on them and the ssds have 1.55 growlers .. Not sure which tire I'll keep either lol and thanks for the compliments i was going after a mall crawler look because so many around me have rusted out shit boxes and I like to be different lol

[Fatman489]

My issue with the wheels is I really like both of them tires are easy .. I'll see which one works better at my normal trail and keep that one but wheels I'm kinda screwed as there's not gonna be a performance gain either way so it's probably gonna come down to being too lazy to change tires around lol

[NXPRSS]

Very nice! Love this new body! And your color choice is SUPERB!

[Fatman489]

Thank you .. it's actually automotive touch up aerosol .. it's 2004-2009ish dodge viper snakeskin green

[2mtech]

That is definitely a beautimus LC! Your build pushed me over the edge, I just ordered an LC70 kit for my first hard body. Now I have to pester new2rocks for all those Bowhouse TF2 goodies

And my vote is absolutely for the Incision wheels. SSD's are great for easy installation but those Incisions are badazz!

[JatoTheRipper]

That's a great looking truck!

You better hope EeePee doesn't see those huge photos or he'll snip them.

[Fatman489]

2mtech-

The incision wheels were incredibly easy to mount aswell .. and being they were the very first tires I ever stretched that was even more of a surprise, then for giggles I tried mounting the 1.55 on the 1.9 ssds and they mounted extremely easy aswell thank you for the kind words, she isn't finished yet but after I got it here I just had to take some pix cuz it turned out a lot better than I imagined

JatoTheRipper thank you and I wish I knew how to resize them but since I'm a truck driver I do everything on my cell phone and it's not that easy to set it all up so it's not all crazy huge lol

Side note I did get my driver and passenger ordered and a few other things.. going to order new shocks next week probably, and gonna get me some styrene and construct me a custom interior, I did but a nice interior but planning to use it on a V2 lc70 body once they release all the little add on goodies, just have to decide if I'm going to go with the same snakeskin green or something different. Again thanks for the kind words you guys being my first hardbody it means alot

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Fatman489

JatoTheRipper thank you and I wish I knew how to resize them but since I'm a truck driver I do everything on my cell phone and it's not that easy to set it all up so it's not all crazy huge lol

Do you use Tapatalk? If so that's supposed to correctly size them automatically.

They are the right size now so I'm not sure what happened.

[Fatman489]

Nah I use the desktop site actually lol

[Levi]

Looks great, good job. Also loving the color. Its making me super jealous that my tf2 is still sitting right where I felt it about three weeks ago, still not put together. How do you feel the paint job went on far as quantity fatman489? I know many sat they dont like using automotive paint cause it leaves splatters when being used.

[Fatman489]

Well mine was actually touch up paint in a spray can from the touch up store on ebay ... I messed it up a little because of my conditions and rushing (only home to play with my toys 4 to 5 days a month) but overall it laid down very well but these cans also had the nice tips on them so that helps too, bed liner is rattle can plastidip aswell and it lays on splotchy if you do it right so it looks like a scale roll on bed liner, overall I'd have no problems using this paint again but it is solvent based so it will eat regular spray paint with ease .. I did however have success using regular spray paint over top of the green automotive paint after it had fully dried .. but spraying the green over fully dried regular spray paint cause a huge mess ... I always test things like that on old parts trees or flashing scraps if it's a lexan body .. if rather be safe than sorry lol .. I should have prepped it more and wet sanded the clear and applied a few more coats but all the errors are on my end not the paints

[Fatman489]

Go for it buddy ebay has the paint but it's costly lol... I do love how it came out i wasn't sure it was gonna look good green but imo it looks awesome