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thanks Dale! had a pretty good time, had planned on taking the quad, but a ****** mouse ate my battery cables, so me & dawg went hiking instead...
got a little more on the '66, motor is just about done, got to re-do the throttle return spring, my ham fisted digits gripped my tweezers a little too hard and kinked it in half....
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also got most of the susp done. them are the rims i cobbled together....
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It's looking sharp! I'm glad you and Dawg had a good time.

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yeah Dale, even a day in the bush with yer mutt & no quad is still better than a day at work......or with your family....:lol::metal:
got some paint slung on the chassis, still gots to do d-shafts, exhaust, crossmember for the steady bearing (2 piece rr shaft) & all that stuff. found a sheet of bilstein decals in the parts box for the shocks
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here's that "bright calypso" paint (another hard to photo color...)
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everything is going together nicely on this one-no issues's
should have paint on pretty soon
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Interior is sharp, it's coming along great.

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thanks Dale!
tell ya, this color is impossible to try photo....comes out faded or silver-ish
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different angles, trying to get the green in it to show...
everything is just temp, still have to clear the body. just seein' if everything fits......still...usually build them like the factory, chassis & motor together, then the body drop....well the 427 is wider than the 283 & would not fit in there (don't know how i missed that one.....:metal:)
pulled the inners out a couple mil's, still not nearly enough, so now it's like how we usually do it after the factory, drop in afterwards...little more work but plus side the engine bay is filled up nicely now.:lol:
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also bought this for $9.99 at the local "trash from china" store..:lol:
snap-tite, no motor, but whatever- just ordered some 40" swamps for it :metal::metal:
also grabbed some swamps for the '50 chevy too, what the hey, save on shipping....lest thats what i told wifey...
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but the blaze is next...

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It's looking great. The K5 will. Be cool

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yeah, lookin' forward to doing the blaze Dale, if flipping exchange & shipping were'nt so expensive right now, i'd order the '69 grille for it, hard to justify $35.20, more than i paid for the kit....
some pic's of the '66. guess i should have blown the dust out of the engine bay first...
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for some reason my clear made a mess of the white chevy on the tailgate, hrs of getting it strait, then this. when i'm bored i will fix it
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couple more...
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and (yippy-skippy!) bonus pic's.
had some extra wood left over from the bed conversion...
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It came awesome! The wood stake sides are a neat finishing touch.:metal:

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good job, I'm going to do another k model. 62

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thanks Dale!
thanks j.kirn, that '62 your doing, would that happen to be the old AMT/MPC kit?
got these rims for the blazer. still not sure, think i'll go dig threw the parts box some more...
butt-loads of flash all over this thing, & the bedsides are not very strait or level, check out the topper fitment
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stockers from the kit
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the stockers are a little small.
this is how they stayed put for the picture....
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maybe leave the roof off, one thing that always bugged me, why could'nt chevy make the door line up with the bedside.....
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.....or the bedside line up with the door (yeah, purists are cringing....:lol:)
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That's gonna be a cool one

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be cool Dale if i could just figure out what i'll do with it...:lol:
still trying to decide on rims...
if ya look closely at the front rim, i drilled out all the "holes" in the rim
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these are the only other 6 bolts i got right now
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i was thinking this is neat, seperate axles & springs....figured i would just make some lift springs, untill this....
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waaaay too short! guess i'm building axles...

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one thing i have pretty much decided on is, between the twisted bed rails & warped top, blaze will most likely be topless. scratched up a bar & lights
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It looks good toppless (I'm kinda fond off topless things lol). The rollbar looks good too. Love the period correct KC lights.

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yup, topless is nice....heh heh...
well, on the hugen hour thing at work again, been slow on the blaze...
my even out the door/quarter panel plan does'nt really pan out. the fenders look good lined up with the doors, but the tailgate looks reeeeal goofy raised up to match, so scratch that.
decided to try make the top work, figured i would'nt glue the rollbar in so i could go either way, top on or off.
started by fixin & straitening out the bedrails & replacing the missing corner of the door
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.....then the topper.........................
started by just trying to flex it back into place, did'nt really do much....
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so, my wife's skinny pigs cage is in my model room, perfect! put it in front of their heater....looks ok except for that weird crease by the door pillar 90 degree....
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oh yeah, this is nice.....:metal:
so for now she's going topless, if i get the gumption later on, i'll have another whack at it...
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was kind of a drag, lost a little wind out of the sails, so......

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....the postie come to my house today!
just took a quick break off the blazer to play with the humvee i bought at china mart the other week...and the swampers the mailman dropped off.
just a snapper, but i think i can detail it up. i love H1 hummers, just too cool! here it is dry fitted, box stock, minus the roof mounted rocket launcher
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plan is to de-militarize it. everything on the roof will be shaved off, & some real hummer worthy tires :metal:
cant really narrow the susp on it, so the plan is to also add some fender flares
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he also dropped off these swamps too...:metal:
with our buck in the crapper again, buying from down south is getting progressively more retarded, 'cause i'd like to get another '50 chev kit, or even a donor cab & make a extended cab out of it. i think the porportions would look better than a crew, but, blaze & then hummer first. maybe find something by then...
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The '64 turned out sweet!!! Makes me want the real thing lol...I got some tires from streetscenes.com I think, but when I got them I was kinda disappointed. I ordered 4 sets, 49" Iroc, 44" boggers, 37" Truxus MTs and some "offroad tires" that are baja claws I think. But none of the tires are true to size. The Irocs and boggers are bigger than most tires, but not true to scale. Not to mention skinny as hell. The other two are smaller than many current box tires, so I was pretty bummed when I did some comparing. But I see you get your tires from BNL, how do they stack up? Looks like they are truer to scale. I have all these kits, and no time!!! Or place to do it where my 1.5 year old boy won't get into them. I went to local model show and picked up a crew cab to match my 99, just gotta find all the pieces....

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It's a shame about the top but the roll bar will look awesome. I have faith in ya..

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well, i tell ya, this was NOT my week....big hrs at work, big injury bills....
i think i mite have mentioned once or twice about all the work i've had done on my teeth in the last couple yrs, well 4 yrs of pain & around 8 or 9 grand went strait down the tubes yesterday...... and then some...wanna talk murphy's law?
going up the ladder yesterday, someone yelled look out, looked up just in time to see a carpenters 30 oz framing hammer nail me (sick pun...) right in the face.....more specifically, my mouth....kinda a yucky picture, took this after i got back from the dentist, yeah, i'm still dirty, went right from the job to the dentist. $851 for emergency
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got a fat lip, pretty sure i swallowed the bottom tooth, snapped the top one in half, and the 2 on the right top & 1 on the top left beside the half tooth, broke completely threw. the dentist shoved them back up & now i got big chunks of wire & glue behind them temp holding them in till work can start. they are not savable- broke completely threw. almost impossible to eat, even grinding my food into a pulpy mash aint working.....she's telling me i will need 3 root canals & 2 bridges....ya-frikin-hoo....
and she will also need thousands of dollars. my boss, who is a stand up guy, will pick up the tab for everything. neither of us wants to go threw all the bs of WCB crap, so i'm completely good with that. takes some of the sting out, but dont really do much for all the needles i know are coming...lol
going back in tomorrow for a 5hr "visit" oh boy.....
off work for a few, so i'm hoping to get some stuff on the blaze done, if i can keep my lips from draggin' on the floor :lol:
i had just primered the int in prep for color before this happened, not much, but it's all i got. i was able to do something simple today, i cut out the hummer's roof
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thanks b454rat!
i too would love to get a 1:1 '66
i buy all of my tires from from these 3 guys.
BNL, as you mentioned, the sizes are good & fairly accurate, but he uses open molds of some sort, so you have to completely clean up the back of the tire.
ScenesUnlimited, he has very nice tires & rims. his tires are rubber- no resin.
sizes are very good & accurate, he actually takes the time to correct a lot of tire defects, like the revell groundhawgs, 2 of the tires are backwards, he corrects stuff like that so you have 4 properly labeled, properly directional tires. he just finally released some beautiful skinny luggers, only stock size (around scale 31"er's) but i will be ordering some if our crap dollar can ever be worth anything....:lol:
some of the best tires, in my opinion, comes from FireballModelworks
his tires are extremely accurate, detail & size wise. he does his tires in some kind of "rubber" that feel just like real tires, there flexible & i think he does some kind of injection molding, the tires come with just 1 tiny nub on the tread from being cast, no "around the tire seams" to sand off. he also does very nice 3-d stuff, i buy gm truck door handles from him
check out the detail & quality
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i have bought multiple sets of his bfg krawlers, they really are a beautiful tire, only downside is 35"er's is all there is. some bigger ones would be nice....
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even has "weighted" tires for that kind of look
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here's them door handles i was telling you about. and their cheap-$3 bucks for a rack of 4 sets
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and yeah, just finding everything you need for a truck build is half the challenge! and how true, when my rugrat was young, he "re-arranged" the sheetmetal on a nice 1/16 '57 chev i had built....:metal:

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Ouch...take it easy and get all fixed up. I'm glad you stayed on the ladder and make things worse.

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it sure rung my bell Dale!
been roofing so long, instinct took over right away, clamped on to that ladder like you would'nt belive :lol:
smashed teeth and ringing bells are much better than falling 20 feet to the concrete i guess.....
countdown is on, 11:00 am, going in for the first visit of probably many...ewhhh!

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welp, the dentist visit was not bad at all today...
of the 3 teeth that got knocked loose, (she showed me the x-rays, they came out 4.8 mm, 3 mm is considered a pull-out...) one for sure can be saved, it's tightened right up, the other 2, still not sure, a little tighter, but still broke through. she thinks one of them may be "knitting" itself..so no work today. she does not want to disturb it just yet, so next friday the re-constructive stuff starts. still sucks i got to walk around for a week with some dumb-ass wire stuck in my mouth....
but i did get a couple things done. got some bodywork on the hummer.
dont know how a chopper is supposed to lift yer hummer from the mud bog with these sling hooks...proper ones going on
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filled in some military holes, chopped off the low mount air cleaner, be putting a proper hummer snorkel on it, and opened up the front wheelwells a few mils for more even clearance on the swamps.
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a little base paint on some stuff. rims are the truck color, and my longer snork
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also managed to get most of the blaze's int done. still needs seatbelts & a couple other minors....
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huh, just half to knock half yer teeth out and you'd be amazed how much you can get done...lol
hope the wife don't see this....get any idea's...:lol:
the hummer is a pretty basic truck, so it's going a lot faster than the blaze. did manage to suck the wheels in a bit, but still getting flares
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just got the green sprayed, nothings detailed yet. italian (??) olive green
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building some axles for the blazer right now. shifters installed
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Everything is looking great. Have you figured out how to eat?

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pretty much cant bite anything Dale, doc figures a couple months or so before i should be able to bite decently.....try to eat on my back teeth, but when yer chewing & your teeth touch together......jeez, nasty pain threw the 3 that got knocked out and are trying to get home....literally just toss the food down my gullet, dont really get to enjoy the taste, but hoping fri she can get something going...
and i AM getting some stuff done around the house (hunger does that...lol)
hummer went together pretty fast. it's simple, but i like 'em. thinking i mite lower the lite bar a bit more..
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For a snap together you got amazing detail on it. I agree on lowering the light bar. The Blazer interior looks fantastic.

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thanks Dale!
was a quick, easy one..ya, bar was too high...
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Yep, that looks much better.

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thanks Dale, but i really need to get my eyes checked, that snork aint very strait....:lol:
little more blazer stuff...
300 horse 350. battery cables look a little big, smallest wires i got left. thinking i'll have to take apart another old cassette deck in the shop...
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spent a few hrs working on rims. the rim lip fits in the hole, but there was a gap around the rest allowing it to rock, so they got a strip of styrene. the inners (from the kit) i cut the mounting hub off, drilled 'em out for my axles, then had to sleeve them with 2 strips of 015, one piece of 030 was to thick too bend nice and round. the rears i added brake backing plates, the fronts will be disc. also had to sleeve the steelie spare rim to fit the tire wit 2 strips of 015 as well
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first coat of primer, little more bodywork to do...
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