Willys M38 Build

Been toiling away on the body - bog, sang, bog, sand, bog, sand and so on. Lots of thanks to both Don and Dave for their labour. Once that was done I laid another coat of the pink etch on before a coat of high build primer to pick up sanding marks and things.  After that another sand then green everywhere!  If you look closely at the body you can still pick up imperfections here and there but overall I'm happy with it.  The old girl has certainly had more attention than the real M-38's back in the day would have had.

Once again no posts in a while.  That doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything though.  The chassis has been finished and painted: I finished stripping the body tub, etch primed the whole thing and painted the underside and fire wall in olive drab: I stripped all the old paint, primer and underseal with wire brushes, strip discs and sanding discs as sandblasting concerned me in regards to panel distortion and to potential cost. Anyone reading this please just take it to a blaster and deal with what you get. There are so many parts you can't get to without a blaster. This has to have been the most time consuming and least enjoyable part of the build.  In saying that I am happy with how it's come out. Because the body was going to take a while to do, I took it home to deal to it. Today was exciting as it went back to Dons to be sat back on the body and from here on out it shouldn't have to come off again! The M38 foreg...