!New Improved! "Last Minute" buildup thread

boatside?

I'll probably just stick with sliders for now. The angle iron ones I had before worked pretty well, I'll just need to extend them back and around the corner of the tub.

no I mean for the bedsides. Might look cool?

That's possible...I was planning on trimming the bottom even or just below the frame (like the picture), but I could angle the cut upward and cover the gap with sheetmetal to look like a boatside.

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Why is it too late to dovetail it?

I guess it's not too late... though everything is already cut too short to bring the bedsides in at an angle.

Yeah, dovetail it, be like the rest of the sheeple out there. :rolleyes:


Yall leave the man alone, atleast he is workin on it. :flipoff2:

I'm not messing with him, I was just curious. Dovetailing it would be cool, but I think I see what you're trying to do with the bed being so narrow. Could you integrate some floating trailer fenders? Could end up ghetto, but would definitely be unique...

I think that beside looks funny to me because it's curvyness doesn't reall match the rest of the look. I was trying to think of a bed that would be slightly more fitting to the whole truck theme and I thought maybe a M715-ish bed would look pretty cool on there. Wouldn't be too hard to build, or make narrow, and you could do something more like a half a trailer fender instead of the non-lipped arch of a M715. Just kind of thinking out loud.

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Originally Posted by bbrurris

I'm not messing with him, I was just curious. Dovetailing it would be cool, but I think I see what you're trying to do with the bed being so narrow. Could you integrate some floating trailer fenders? Could end up ghetto, but would definitely be unique...

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I did think about some sort of fenders like that....kind of a stepside look. But I haven't seen any out there that would look right.

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Originally Posted by Fredo

I think that beside looks funny to me because it's curvyness doesn't reall match the rest of the look. I was trying to think of a bed that would be slightly more fitting to the whole truck theme and I thought maybe a M715-ish bed would look pretty cool on there. Wouldn't be too hard to build, or make narrow, and you could do something more like a half a trailer fender instead of the non-lipped arch of a M715. Just kind of thinking out loud.

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I have seen a build where a guy used real FJ45 bedsides for his... to me it looks like too much flat area without the wheel well, and a bit boxy looking. I think bedsides like on the M715 would come out similar. The thing is the front clip is a lot more curvy than the tub, then the bed may look too boxy in comparison. I think once this thing is a little more together these bedsides will look a little less out of place.

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Originally Posted by mudtoy67

I have seen a build where a guy used real FJ45 bedsides for his... to me it looks like too much flat area without the wheel well, and a bit boxy looking. I think bedsides like on the M715 would come out similar. The thing is the front clip is a lot more curvy than the tub, then the bed may look too boxy in comparison. I think once this thing is a little more together these bedsides will look a little less out of place.

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so is that what you are doing? cause that isnt half as ghetto as what i thought you had in mind.

I say narrow and flat, no wheel wells, more old school like dees.

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