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Adding a few details now that the heavy lifting is done. Leslie air horns on either side of the crew cab, headlight casting glued and holes drilled out for the lights and the curved handholds added. There’s no dimples to help with drilling holes so looking at the prototype photos I judged were the bottom rung sat and measured 18” spacing between the four rungs. I also cut a piece of Tamiya tape and placed it vertically where I thought the holes needed to be drilled this helps keep the rungs lined up. I mark each place where a hole will go with a needle point so the drill bit doesn’t wander. Since each one wraps around the nose you have to drill at an angle so they sit right. I’ll add rivet detail at the end of each using Archer rivets.
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