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| Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2014 11:23 am |
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dennischee
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Did you check out the link to TRAMS it should interest some
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2014 08:51 pm |
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mwiz64
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Here are the other photos of that tow truck that I promised above. I wonder if I could use the lost foam method of molding that body shape with fiberglass? I've made some real simple shapes like that before (airplane cowls) but that looks pretty challenging. It sure as heck would be a cool railtruck. If I did it, it would have to be large scale. Humm....
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2014 08:57 pm |
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Just found another....
And this advertisement
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 04:29 am |
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That truck is like Aunt Millie's wart...it kinda grows on you! I think you SHOULD build one. I have a 1:24 33(?) Chevy truck radiator grill which looks pretty much like that one. Let me know if you need it.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 06:04 am |
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Ray Dunakin
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I can't tell if those are louvers on either side of the grill, or if they are a painted design.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 08:50 am |
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dennischee
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Ray they were chrome strips, I can't remember for the life of me the make, but I'm sure it was English in origin, I remember delivery vans with fronts like that when I was a kid in Sydney
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 02:24 pm |
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As I look at the pictures those look like stripes either side of the grill. Also, the 38 Dodge trucks grill looks about like that but more curved side to side. I think the thing might have been made by cutting the original down the center and flattening out the two halves.
I'm going to start experimenting at making the basic shape. I'm imagining that it will take me several iterations before I get something acceptable.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 04:11 pm |
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In the last pix, it looks like they stick out from the body, where the body rounds out of view on the drivers (US) side..ergo chrome strips.
Pardon me if I don't march with the group, but that thing is warthog ugly!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 05:04 pm |
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