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Are those decals for the wood of the cargo bed slats?

It appears so. Any plans to use the truck bed decals or scratch build the truck bed using wood.

Never seen that before, decals for the interior !!



- Kari

Stik: Those are in fact decals for the slats.

Tom: Dunno what I want to do yet. I've got a spare truck bed so I may try 'em out and see what they look like after they've been applied.

Kari: Actually the decals for the interior didn't turn out too bad. Pics coming a little later.

Got some more done on the interior. I'm going to flock the floor with black carpet and install a PE accelerator and brake pedal yet and maybe throw a couple of items in the front seat. The dash panel I just test fitted into place and still have to do a lot of detail painting and apply a good gloss coat over the dash pad. I did away with the Foose decal on the medallion in the center of the seat and chromed it. I put an "embroidered" demon decal just under the medallion for a little interior snazz. These seat and interior decals were a little tricky to me and it seems like I may have needed a little stronger setting solution for them besides Microsol. I'm thinking something like Solvaset would have done a better job of settling them into the crevices but they didn't turn out too awful bad with around 8-10 coats of Microsol.

All in all the interior packs into a neat little "tub" and fits very snuggly into the cab..................which I'll cover in a little more detail below.



I was reading in the latest issue of Scale Auto that I received in the mail a few days ago and saw an article pertaining to this kit and it stated that the cab was some difficulty encountered when installing the cab over the interior during assembly. This was due to instructions calling out that the interior tub was to be installed on the chassis first.......? A bit unorthodox I thought ..............and so did the writer/ builder of the article/ model.



I always buy two kits when I modify any given build. Having that second kit has saved my bacon several times in the past and.................it's done it once again. Being the overzealous and sometimes impatient modeler that I sometimes am , I seem to skip the VERY basics.............the test fitting process. But then again I didn't have the Scale Auto article ahead of time. One of the trouble areas are the ledges at the bottom of both interior side panels on the lower outside edges of the interior bucket shown here as a big "step" along the bottom edges of the side walls.



You can see the potential for a troubling fit here in the photo below. Imagine trying to cram the interior tub into a nicely painted cab.



What I did was sand these steps down in combination with sanding the bottom inside edge of the doors on both sides to reduce the interference fit so I wouldn't have to fight it while installing the interior into place. So I'll be installing the cab into the interior first before installing the cab onto the chassis. I still have to test fit the windshield to ensure proper fit at the front of the tub to windshield area in the cab so I'll be working on that today/ tomorrow. N E wayz .................here's the results after an easy/ trouble free install.

Just putting it simply Joe. .. Almost crazy interesting to follow this great build ! :-)

- Kari

Thanks Kari!

Just for kicks I added a Hot Rod Magazine and tossed a set of PE keys attached to a scratchbuilt key ring in the seat. I also added a set of PE foot pedals and gave 'em a quick wash to spice things up in the interior a bit.

Nice soft finish to the interior Joe! Looks awesome as usual!! I wish all my cars looked so nice inside!

Soon it will have that new hot rod smell... Looking great.