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So along with building a frame up,"Thanks again to Russ at truescale". I'm also upgrading some parts on my grand as well as using it as a test bed prior to drilling the frame on the custom. I bought a set of fifth wheel hitches one for each truck I'm debating which looks the best the hitch mounted to the plate then the plate to the frame, or just the hitch mounted directly to the frame? hopefully these pics will post
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Or without the mount.
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I cant decide on rims either.
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I cant get the others to load right now ill try them again later, I never realized how bad I am at typing with out my phone making auto corrects

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cool wheels. looks badass in black.

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Thanks Rene, I wish the had the rears to buy, but I thought they looked cool so I bought to check them out. did some more work mounting the fifth wheel, temporarily while true scale makes me a custom one.

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I have the friggin hardest time posting pics, I'm not sure how to verify the size so that's not messing it up:confused:

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Love the black wheels

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Thanks man... I put them on the custom build I'm also doin to help figure out how adjustable the suspension will have to be to lay out.

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What is suspension movement like with the 8 bag suspension?

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Suspension movement is just a little more over the stock setup. the rear fenders only allow for a small amount of travel before the tire hits the top of the fender though, so I'm not completely sure what I could tell you about the amount of articulation you'll see. the rear setup I did on the build for my custom hauler, has a ton of articulation, but it incorporates a leaf spring for holding the truck up, there's pics in the build thread. I was thinking though the link rear suspension I have has so much articulation, you could use it as a crawling setup

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What rims are those?

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I'm pretty sure I bought those from asiatees.. Its a shame, their actually really nice compared to some other rims I have from them. The camera doesn't do them justice.

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Sorry guys no updates really on the grand, I pulled the body apart thinking it'd be easy to paint. I'm still body working the cab, and filling all those holes in it that I wont be using. Tomorrow the fam and I are leaving for a five day Disney vacation:rolleyes:. I'll post some pictures of the progress on the cab

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where did you get the 8 bag suspension?

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Any full side shots, would love to see the rear wheels as well.

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Sorry guys its been a bit. The eight bag came from Mr Russ @ truescal, He's a true craftsman... On the full side shot I'm holding off till after paint..

Here's some pics of what I've been up too.
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And glued
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Doing some finish sanding now.

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looks so much better as a flattop

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I think overall it definitely helped the looks, here's it sanded almost ready for primer.
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Looks better lower imo.

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Definitely. I spent the night smoothing the rear fenders, hopefully I'll be painting by the weekend.

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Currently block sanding and spreading bondo on the cab, hopefully I'll have some pictures up tonight of the painted plastic.

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Had a little progress and a few set backs. the first time I primed it with high build primer I think I put it on too thick, and really weird but melted small sections of the body. Looked like the primer shrank and left the plastic with cracks that were really soft feeling when I tried to sand it. I removed most of it, put spot putty on the body sanded it all down and re-primed with plastic primer prior to putting on the high build. Oddly enough the rear panel and back fenders came out perfect so I painted those with the final color. the body will have to wait for another day after the high build completely dries.

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hopefully there's enough material to not have to sand it all the way back.
here's a rear fender painted.
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weird angle but I'll get some pics when the sun comes back out

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Still more high build and sanding, the first round of high build I used wasn't meant for plastic I guess and melted the body in some areas. Thankfully this is just a practice run for my other build, but here's where I'm at.
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Hi guys, sorry for the long time between updates. I've been closet building as they say. So I finished the paint on the body. It came out decent for a rattle can job. I lack the skill of patients, and sanded the filler primer before it had time to cure properly. After I painted the body, if you get close to it you can see my body work. For my first attempt at any type of body mods, and painting I'm happy with it....
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I had some extra true scale pieces laying around so I started to mount them, I still need to mount the air cleaners, and roof lights, and a grill is on its way.:D
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Really looking good.

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nice

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Thanks guys! I tore it all back apart to install a rc4wd extended chassis. I'll update the thread here in a bit, to show where I'm at

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coming along great so far

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Thanks! Sorry guys for the long time between updates. After spending hours on the truck, it's hard to spend hours on the computer afterwards uploading pics, I've been doing a couple weeks of building, even though it was supposed to be just a nice low mod box build. It's snowballed....I replaced the chassis with one from rc4wd, I transferred the suspension holes from the old chassis to the new, but everything else needed to be hand fitted. It seems like I've had each of the components mounted and remounted at least 10times. The fitting stages of these trucks are a nightmare, and being my first build I lack experience. I have it about 80% done, and running. When I have time later tonight, I'll post all the progress pics, and the pic of it on the ground and hooked up, it's just missing the front bumper. Lol. Thanks for looking, and the encouraging comments!!