Pumper Truck Build

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Ok here you guys go. I got the side panels to the body painted and I have added the chrome strip across ed the lower of the body with the DOT tape over top of that. What do you think :-/


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[Tamiya Cowboy]

I got a bunch of nit picken work done today on the truck. After meeting with the company and taking a little walk around the plant with Nick and getting a good up close look at the trucks I seen a few things I was not happy with the way the windows looked so I cut the nose off again and lowered it 3/8 of a inch then also cut the side windows to match that 3/8.I also changed the curve in the upper corners of the windshield.

Nose Lowered



Then I cut the side windows down.



Then I made the front bumper and the grill test piece.

[Tamiya Cowboy]

I also got to play with my shear and break to and made the running boards.


Well after a lot of filler work and now I finialy got the body in K2 fill and kill primer Ill wet sand this out and use a DuPont surface primer and scotch bright that and start paint wont be long now this truck will be making fast progress now. I have the decal shop working on the decals now too..

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Here is a pick of the body on the chassis. Had to put it together and take it to the decal shop so they could do some of there work.

[Tamiya Cowboy]

I have been working on the truck I ran into a issue with the nose of the body that slowed me up but I got it fixed and all primer work is done and it is in the White color as i type and will be ready for the red tomarrow i hope.

I worked on the rubber wheel flares today gotr them mounted to the pump body.


Also I got the hazard decal on the front bumper and the rear of the pump body today it was pretty tricky to do the rear and get it to all line up and the bad thing is I am going to redo it as the red lines are larger than the ones on the front bumper and they were to be the same size.

[Tamiya Cowboy]

[b]Ok I got the Red striped out and sprayed red today.

And you cant see it in the pick but i am going to have to reshoot the white. I sprayed the white and let it dry for 24hrs before I striped it out to spray the red and let the red flash and I cleared it all and the white reacted not sure why I think m reducer was too cool for the mix I did the white. So that will set me back a few more day as it will have to dry very good and Ill have to wet sand and reshoot the white. But I also got more detail done on the pump body too.

Pump Panels on and the tread plate put on and I also got the grill done too.


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[Tamiya Cowboy]

Ok got alot done tonight on the truck. It took me some time to make the windows and get them fitted and glued but I got them done. I made the windows out of clear PVC .08 cut and glued the side ones. The front window I cut the window out 1/8 larger than the opening and then I heated the edge of the window with a hair dryer and used a 1/2 wooden doll to curve the PVC till it was cooled.



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