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Always enjoy following your threads JR your attention to detail is awesome...this will look great

Gave it a couple more coats yesterday - it has gone a little more orange, but still not really the right one. It'll have to do, and TBH I'm not sure how much it matters - no-one was ever going to confuse a Bullhead with a Dodge Charger anyway

Hey... post #1000 for Jonny!

Weather is still too cold & damp to finish the spraying & no change likely for the next 5 days

I got fed up of waiting for the M4 grubscrews for the pinions to arrive, so yesterday I ordered some more - they came today so after a quick fix on one of the gearbox brackets that managed to break itself while sitting on the bench , I finished the chassis.

Had a tiny bit of sunshine this afternoon so I made best use of it & got the clearcoat on the shell

JR your colour choice is great and the finish even better. The colour will take to some detailing of body panel gaps, door hinges and window rubbers something magic. Certainly not as "Rough as a Badgers" any more! Keep going .....brilliant work as always.
Marius

I second that. That color is awesome, and I think it looks killer on the Bullhead body.

Thanks chaps - I still don't think it's quite orange enough for my purposes though

It looks the part and any colour with "FORD" in it can only be nice!
Marius

Spotted a nasty rug/sag in the clearcoat on the back of the cab shortly after taking the photos ... should have taken a photo really as it was a bit of a monster ... it's shrinking rapidly though - now it's pretty much down to a lentil size lump, & it's it such an awkward place I think I might just leave it

Made a liitle more progress on the bolt on bits - they got 3 coats of Ford "Machine Silver" & a heavy coat of clear while I was doing the body:





Also did a bit of detailing - rubber black & NATO black as appropriate + "chrome silver" for the filler caps, a wash of heavily watered down NATO black on the grille & smoke stacks, I also put a bit of mesh on the air cleaners - the masking tape is so the greek godess of adhesion (Araldite ) can work her magic overnight: