Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Things are looking great. You have some mad skills, my friend.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Blasted the grill today. Other than wheels, I think I have now blasted everything.

Plotting my next primer/paint 7-day/14-day spraying window.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Hi, would you like to help me and measure your frame from the windshield at 2/3 points in height?

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

19.25" or 490mm measured at the center of the defrost vents, from shoulder to shoulder, NOT the ends of the flanges.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Some more primer:

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...46-378x672.jpg

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Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

I thank you and will check it in my cab, that will help me.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Bit of prepping today. Hopefully squirt some more primer tomorrow.

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...41-672x379.png

Wow. I sure look old in this shot. In my head, I'm 24. My body is not holding 24 too well.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Haha, I feel the same way

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

A bit of filler, and another coat this evening.

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...06-672x378.jpg

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

I bought a Turbine Products Supplied Air System to save my lungs as I spray a di-iso-cyanate:

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...022/04/sas.png

First skiff of colour (First pic is closest to in-person, it's more orange than the next two pics. And the supplied air system is freaking awesome!):

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...11-672x380.png

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...30-672x378.jpg

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...38-672x378.jpg

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

I'm jambing the cab, then hanging the doors, then finishing the bodywork, then shooting the whole thing assembled.

This is NOT a "show truck;" it's a freaking "please don't rust out so fast but hella cool daily driver."

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

It's going to be great, I'm really excited.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Color is bright & not what I was expecting.

What are the tube lengths for your fresh-air set-up? That's really a good idea if doing a big project like this @ a home shop.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Oooooh yeah, a color other than black! I like your approach to keeping it from rusting faster :thumbs:

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

The colour is as close to "Grabber Orange" as I could get with this paint.

The kit comes with a 25' hose.

You can buy a longer hose from them, but it's a garden hose fitting at the machine end, so you could easily lengthen it in a pinch if you had to.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

The paint is a little more orange in this shot.

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...24-672x380.png

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

I would avoid placing plastic over paint. Not just dry paint either.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Despite the pics I post, you need to know: it's not yellow. It looks yellow in pics. It's not yellow.

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...13-672x378.jpg

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...27-672x378.jpg

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Backside of grill and front bumper done. Also hood inserts and headlight bezels.

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...20-672x378.jpg

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Certainly not green.

But like all your work……..

I do like it.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

It's this sort of thing that has me thinking "in five years from now, when this is covered in road grime and blow-by residue, how much am I going to care how not perfect this is?"

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...20-672x378.jpg

Sticky-side-sandpaper-on-a-roll is one of the seven wonders of the universe.

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

For me personally the thought of having perfect paint and body work would ruin owning an old truck because I would be afraid to even drive it let alone use it for truck things.

PS. the more you deny it being yellow the more yellow it looks....

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

Or.... 'YOU' see more yellow?

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

With some help of the photography teachers, THIS is truer of the colour:

https://www.gwellwood.com/wordpress/...27-672x378.jpg

Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
 

That is the balance, isn't it?

I struggle to find shades of gray. I am either on or off, black or white, yes or no, go or stop, all or nothing. I struggle to find that balance.

On one hand, this is intended to be a driver, a truck that I will use. Rain or shine, sleet or snow, freaking DRIVE it. It's going to scratches, rock chips, door dings, and rust.

On the other hand, if I'm going to take it 100% apart and fix everything, why WOULDN'T I go to the effort of perfecting everything?

Well.... because I'll STILL be working on it fifteen years from now, and I want to finish it and start enjoying it.

Depends, I guess, on how much I can convince myself that the little defects I see all over the place aren't going to be bothering me as much as I think they will.

And, at NO TIME will I ever say I am a body man. I'm less afraid of it, but I still do not enjoy it. Give me ten motors any day.