S-10 Pickup Custom (WIP)

I actually started this model before my camaros, so I think its time to finish it up.

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Here is the cab all primered up. You can see I shaved the door handles. One thing that was weird is when I sprayed primer on it (DupiColor) it kinda either melted the plastic or wrinkled it, basicly, it had little slots everywhere, so I took some pudy and filled it in. Im not sure if it was the primer that did it, or the body was like that.

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Other side of the cab

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Bad pick, but the only one I have of this side of the bed. Here you can see the gas cab has been shaved. I dont know if you guys watch Trucks! or not, but Stacey David showed a truck with the gas cap shaved, and it put into the bed, Im kinda going that way.

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Other side of the bed. Same thing happened on the bed that happened on the cab.

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My hood with a scoop =) Getting all that puddy looking perfect is a b***h. Its still not perfect, and this was the 4th time ive tryed to fill in all the gaps and cracks. Im going to keep on trying.

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The hatch with filled in handle. This is going to be a handle less truck.

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Custom engine. Still the V-6 that comes in the S-10's, but a custom paint job.

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The interior

I plan on a candy apple red for the truck. Progess shots to come when there is osmething to show =P

Looks to be a cool project!! Keep us posted on the progress!!!!

Question: I got pretty trigger happy with th paint, and it ran on the cab, I used putty to full in the grooves in the plastic, will dot3 lift the puddy? or is there another way (its really heavy on the bottom)

A long exposition to brake fluid seems to soften the putty, at least the basic grey putty from tamiya. I had the same problem with my RX7, and i ended sanding the whole body and rescribing the panel lines ! Those grooves are really difficult to get rid of.

shes looking good

Yeah, it was either revive this post or make a new one, you really cant win, so Ill revive ;)

Update: When I sprayed the Burgendy Metallic paint, it ran, like stated above. I through it into the dot3, and long behold, most of it came off. The problem: most. The rest turned green, and flaked. Not the good kind of flake where it comes off, but the kind that you have to scrape to get off. So I primed it again, scraped off all the flakes, and just sprayed my first layer of gun metal on it.

I plan on 3 layers of gun metal, then ill mask below the seem on the cab all the way down the bed, as well as mask off a chevy bowtie and SS on the doors, then spray a GM bright yellow (forgot the name right now).

In case your wondering, the hood scoop looks pretty good now =P