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Re: Hayes HD Dump Truck - Take II

Reg, sent you a PM and Email

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Eventually, the kids move on...

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Reg,
Absolute work of art mate. How many hours have you invested in the build so far?

Cheers

Paul. :eek:

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Originally Posted by egronvold (Post 157404)

Eventually, the kids move on...

Haha, It's starting to look a lot different now. By the end of today I should have parts spread all over the yard. I just hope the wind dies down as it's not very nice for outdoor painting right now.

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Originally Posted by Trackerman (Post 157406)

Reg,
Absolute work of art mate. How many hours have you invested in the build so far?

Cheers

Paul. :eek:

Thanks for the compliment Paul. This one has been a TON of work for sure. I never keep track of the hours in a build but they really stacked up in this one even though I haven't worked on it consistently. I would say that 400-500 is not a stretch. I did keep track of some small aspects of the build. I remember it took 14hrs to cut, machine and fit the I beams for the box. This did not include each of the file fit corner braces on each side of the I beams. More recently, 4hrs to make the roof lights, 1 1/2hrs to make the fan ect. The only things store bought are the axles and tires so it adds up.

Hopefully I'll have some "finished" pics in a week or so...

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looks great! What type of paint and application process are you using?

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I'm going to miss the bright aluminum showing off your craftsmanship, but it's going to look great in paint.

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Originally Posted by Mech_Eng (Post 157415)

looks great! What type of paint and application process are you using?

Just spray bombs Stew. Nothing too fancy.

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Originally Posted by frizzen (Post 157423)

I'm going to miss the bright aluminum showing off your craftsmanship, but it's going to look great in paint.

I will miss it too! It will have a lot more "realism" once it's painted though so that's important. Now that the paint has been flying I can't wait to see it reassembled and sitting on the fender of the real truck.

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Progressing along slowly. I'm into day 4 on the paint now... Good thing I planned to work on this all month...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xw7EW0gs_M

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Incredible... not sure what else there is to say.. Best truck build hands down.

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Thanks for the compliment Jason. It has been all painted up for nearly a week now. I've been sitting on the updates though until after Saturday when I hand it over to it rightful owner.;) Stay tuned....

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Oh lord That's love right there. :)

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Wonderful! Very nice work!

Kerst

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Turned out stunningly great Reg! Bet your glad this one's done :D

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Congrats on yet another excellent build!

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Thanks very much guys. I'm not sure when I will have the opportunity to do another build like this but hopefully next time I will get to keep it. It wasn't too hard to give it away but I sure would have liked to have it in my collection.

Here are a few video's I took before handing it over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHv_zNaL2Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTRfUHSns8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcVZppQ2uE0

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That came out so great looking! Nice to see it runs well too