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November 10, 2019 at 9:19 pm #106393Sysop
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November 11, 2019 at 6:20 pm #106397Membermikef350
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Jesus Christ 😮 you sir are a true artist,that’s superb that pal 👌
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November 13, 2019 at 10:20 pm #106410MemberFourth Protocol
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OMG, you officially win, everything.
Lol thank you 😃 It really is a lot easier than you think. It just takes patience.
Jesus Christ 😮 you sir are a true artist,that’s superb that pal 👌
Thank you 😃
The body is pretty much done now (body, floor, hood, roof and doors) so I can start on the fun stuff – the details 😎 That’s real fake leather right there!
November 14, 2019 at 8:51 am #106412SysopRetrocosm
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November 14, 2019 at 10:25 am #106414MemberFourth Protocol
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Beautiful, are they working windows I see?
Thank you and no they are not. I’d intended for them to be but it’s a time sink. I can do it with a long servo arm but with half a turn to wind completely up or down it’s not realistic. The FJ (like pretty much all cars in the 60’s) uses a cable mechanism which I modelled 4 years ago but kinda didn’t get it to work. Well technically it worked, but it was jerky and kept getting stuck.
I think I’ll do this as a side project some day… For now that door with the missing door card is simply part of the beaten-up look of the build. Like it broke, and the owner started dismanteling the thing to fix it but just never got round to finishing the repair. Like many of my own DIY endeavours 😉
November 16, 2019 at 1:26 am #106422MemberFourth Protocol
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Bar obviously a fair bit of clean-up all the doors are in now.
November 16, 2019 at 7:08 am #106423Memberjonny191
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Lookin good Mike, big thumbs up, really astounds me how much patients you’ve got, your making me feel bad for not touching any of my builds for month’s 🙁
What would look good on the door without a door card would be a pair of mole grips on the winder (cos that’s how it’d be in real life 😉 )
keep up the good work
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November 18, 2019 at 10:22 pm #106439MemberFourth Protocol
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Lookin good Mike, big thumbs up, really astounds me how much patients you’ve got, your making me feel bad for not touching any of my builds for month’s 🙁
What would look good on the door without a door card would be a pair of mole grips on the winder (cos that’s how it’d be in real life 😉 )
keep up the good work
Thank you. Stinkey Pete’s mole grip is already the handle on his toilet 😬 He might could go to the hardware store for a pair if it rains and he needs to shut the window…
Anyway, spending too much time on the new house and not enough on tiny trucks. All I managed was the bobbejaanspanner (Afrikaans for monkey wrench, literally actually baboon wrench because that’s how they roll down there) door handle.
It slides and everything.
November 22, 2019 at 6:05 pm #106465Membermark
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If we start telling you how nice those bobbejaanspaner is will we get one in the post?
November 23, 2019 at 1:03 am #106466SysopRetrocosm
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December 31, 2019 at 1:59 am #106638MemberFourth Protocol
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If we start telling you how nice those bobbejaanspaner is will we get one in the post?
Of course. If it doesn’t arrive in a couple days… wait longer 🤣
Man that is some fiddly arsed detail, brilliant work.
It is that, but I enjoy tiny details immensely and wish I had eternal time for more of them!
Update: Back from France (coffee is still astonishingly bad) and working on interior panels, windows and window rubbers.
Doubt I’ll update tomorrow so all the best for 2020.
December 31, 2019 at 10:21 am #106639MemberMarkB
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Absolutely brilliant! The detail is just mind blowing 🤯
December 31, 2019 at 3:14 pm #106641SysopRetrocosm
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January 1, 2020 at 3:35 pm #106647MemberFourth Protocol
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Absolutely brilliant! The detail is just mind blowing 🤯
Thanks 😃
Yep, as beautiful inside as out, fantastic stuff.
And also thanks 😃
Got the loading area done at last (super ultimate boring work). The tape is holding panels in place that need paint before being glued down.
Missing window rubbers will also come during paint.
Still needs filler in some areas to hide seams.
January 3, 2020 at 12:30 am #106659MemberFourth Protocol
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Transmission tunnel.
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