I've wanted to mess with the Monogram '40 Ford pickup for a some time, but I didn't want to pay for a nice kit until I knew more about them. Got this little gluebomb for cheap, and it really was a lot worse that it looks. Must have been one entire tube of glue on this thing.....even the opening doors were glued shut, and the hood, and geez.....
Got it blown apart, with a LOT of damage, and was kind of getting disheartened because of all I had to mess up during disassembly. Poor little truck looked like a lost cause there for a while.....
Ended up deciding to channel it to get rid of some of the damaged areas lower down on the bed and cab, and then thought a chop would help the proportions. The channel on the cab is 1/2 the height of the frame, but the bed is channeled almost the entire height of the frame. So much of the bottom of the bed was destroyed taking it apart, there wasn't much choice, but I've raised the rear fenders relative to it, and I like the stance now. The chop is about 1/8", or about 3.5 scale inches. It's also going to get louvered frame covers instead of running boards, 'cause there's not much left of them either. I was lucky to be able to get the doors open.
If you channel these trucks right, you can get them really looking low, but still practical as trucks, because the front fenders have SO much room for suspension travel.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1000411.aspx
Colin Davis Jimmy Daywalt JeanDenis Deletraz Patrick Depailler
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