This week we work on @KevinTalbotTV New Monster truck body. The truck is a Chevy C10 and we are making new moulds for it so we can reproduce the panels here in the UK instead of having to import them from America / kevintalbottv
Wow you don’t hang around tony. I can imagine the whinging now if kev had to do that 🤣 I can’t believe how smooth and nice the body looks just in primer 😮 looking forward to seeing it finished and fitted 😉
Quite the Job of making the molds and then having to do all the prep and paint for the fiberglass body all by hand 🤠👍👍 you Sir are a Master in the trade and Thank You for Sharing this process for us that wonder about how expensive these part's are, I like that coup Hotrod You're restoring that will be very Cool 👍😎👍 AOAH 🙏 Stay Safe and Play Healthy My Friend ❣️
Excellent video and very very interesting. I keep toying with the idea of having a go at mould making and this video is the most straight forward and informative one I’ve seen. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you
Throughout the video I was anticipating when you pulled the front hood clip out of the mold. Geniuses idea using water for pressure to release it. The whole process was so cool to watch. I build porch's and decks for a living and I do a lot of fiberglass decks so I'm partly familiar, but nothing to this magnitude. Thanks Tony.
Great work. Can't wait to see it in action. I still think the paint scheme should be littered with Kev's phrases like 'footage' and 'to the moon' and 'boom' ... Al.
I enjoy to watch your and Kev's Videos. Would like to see a few Pictures of your Ford Transit Van. (don't really know if its a Transit, sorry) It looks great. Greetings from Germany. Looking forward to a new Taxi Video, I like this Taxi. :-) Have a nice weekend!
Can't wait to see it completed! Great job! 👍! We all know how kevins bodys hold up on his rc's so he will definitely need xtra parts for all the epic jumps and crashes i forsee in it's future!!!
Fibreglassing is never "not interesting" in any way! I'm a new subscriber and love the art of fibreglassing in all forms - roofs, ponds, negative forms, positive forms - anything and everything, the more the better. Brilliant video, thank you.
When you go that thick on the body filler for larger holes its probably better to use the fiberglass reinforced body filler. My friend also swears by metal reinforced filler, but I don't use that stuff. A word of warning though, it is A LOT harder to sand - but far stronger. Nice work.
Massive work load involved in to it. Awesome is that we can see the whole process. Can not wait to see this monster at Santa Pod. Huge Kudos to both of you for patience and dedication. Staying for longer.
With hindsight it would've been better to make the moulds before cutting it to fit kev's truck , to get the full arches etc, other than that great nob and video 😎
If you wanted to do that you would have to cut the wheel arches every single time this way you lose less material and the wheel arches are pre-cut and always in the same place
Most people don’t know about Feather Fill Primer first on fiberglass substrates and repairs prior to your common 2K primer. The red paintjob came out great btw 🔥.. without seeing any closeups I can tell it came out wet and clean out the both as it should be! So was that a 2:1 with extra slow activator? Or was it sprayed by someone else?
@@swampthing4x4 …. Wow that’s hard work on such a large section. You must of been in cold weather I’d imagine but yes thank you for the response I’ve been watching the whole build 💪
The holes in the bumper are for turn signals, maker lights, or park lights, what ever you want to call them. One of the best features of that body style truck. AND YOU RUINED IT .
Great work. I have a question, VFN in Chicago sells 67-72 c-10 bodies, and ship Worldwide. Is it the shipping time situation we have going on that caused you guys to make bodies or the shipping costs?? Either way nice job 👍
There are a few reasons for making bodies. The main reasons is that it a lot quicker to make your own bodies have to wait for shipping from America also the shipping to America is really really expensive for monster truck body parts as they are so big. Also when you damaged the panels it’s a lot easier to do a repair if you have them you can cut off the damaged parts and drop them mold and prepare them very very quickly
Very amazing work Tony!! All the prep work is going to make the world of difference. I've only done small stuff with fibreglass and carbon fibre but this is a huge project. Impressed. Again, Lovely work!
Nice little vid Tony. Hope things are picking up in regards to the RU-vid channel. Keep the vids coming and don't worry if you don't think something is interesting, you really don't know what people find interesting.
Been watching Kev's build, and came here after his video of your shop. Awesome that you build so much of your trucks and equipment. Nice smooth and flat finish, thanks for showing all the process and details.
There a lot of love that goes in to making a body look good. hopefully Kevin goes easy for the first couple times out. If not your going to wear the mold out.
awesome job your doing there 👌 totally agree, the extra time spent now to make the mold will save loads of work later casting the parts. love a bit of glassing, doing up me old Shetland boat lol, but like the monster truck body, something a bit different. gonna look epic 👊
A very informative video guide on how to make your own panels. You are a talented team. That was some lovely paintwork just for a mould, can't wait to see the finnised shell. Will it have Don't just bash Blast on the inside😁😁🤣🤣
Why not vacuum bag it to get it all compressed into the the bonnet dents? Can’t u put a breather cloth over the top of the peel ply? Plus vacuum bagging it the breather cloth and peel ply would pull excess resin out , and u make the fiberglass less brittle. Sorry I’m not trying to be a pain in the ass but I’ve always baked the fiberglass even at a low temp, put it in for so long take it out to cool it then back in n out a few times and it helps the resin cure harder.
We can do resin infusion moulding but the mould has to be set up a little bit different with the panel has to have different flanges on it to do this and it takes a lot longer time as we only plan on making very many panels it isn’t worth the extra effort to do this. Thank you for your comments
@@swampthing4x4 just wondering that was all. Did you ever think about putting Dyneema in with the fiberglass or Inegra. I know the panels on MTs normally get broken but I’ve always wondered why they don’t add a material like Inegra on the outside layer with a very thin layer of glass to sand and finish. Just adding stuff like Inegra would let the panels be bent completely in half without breaking? = more work first = less later =small repairs etc etc. Again I only ask out of interest?!?! Thanks
In the states here we do 3-24 piece bodies and they have removable pieces with flat screws the reason that body had the weird split on the cab was from molding like you said and was unprepared
Thank you for the comments the big problem with the Mould was where the mould lines were the mould wasn’t set correctly and when you flatten down the join the panel still didn’t lineup
@@swampthing4x4 truck builders usually don’t talk about it but pretty much every body you’ve seen on TV has tons of body work one of the trucks I’ve worked on pre work mounted with a 2.35” gap or so front clip to cab. it’s pretty unacceptable of the builder but we fixed it by modifying the mounts to be adjustable the mounting points were perfectly square and level! I’m not calling out the builder of that truck but the nerve to send out something so out of spec to a customer a bit of body filler for molding lines + sanding (don’t recommend large disk grinder it should be fiberglass and will splinter) +primer+ paint will smooth it out if you do any sanding or cutting I’d definitely recommend a full face mask+ respirator, that fiberglass will mess you up! Atleast it seems like the body lines up correctly on kev’s truck.
