!New Improved! "Last Minute" buildup thread

[uglyota]

boatside?

[mudtoy67]

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.

[uglyota]

no I mean for the bedsides. Might look cool?

[mudtoy67]

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.

[BMFScout]

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[bburris]

Why is it too late to dovetail it?

[mudtoy67]

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

[DRAGOONRANCH]

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


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

[bburris]

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...

[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.

[mudtoy67]

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 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.

[mudtoy67]

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.

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.

[jerryg79]

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.

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

[BMFScout]

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

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[BMFScout]

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