M101A3 build

[Johnnyenglish]

Progress

Making progress on sanding and painting

Support frame for the tongue boxes

 

[Johnnyenglish]

Prep work complete!

All the prep work is finally complete. Should be doing the first coats later today.

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[Johnnyenglish]

Bed is done. Racks, tarp bows and boxes go today. Should be putting this thing back together by the weekend.

 

[eevlgoose]

looks great. nice job.
Did you shoot the paint yourself?

 

[Johnnyenglish]

I did most of the prep work and found a local place to shoot the color and clear coat.

 

[Mark Harley]

Looks good, any color accents going on?

 

[Johnnyenglish]

Looks good, any color accents going on?

I hadn't planned on any accent colors. May change my mind once it's all out together. The box, rack and jacks were painted today.

 

[Johnnyenglish]

Starting to put the pieces together.

 

[Johnnyenglish]

Slowly but surely.

 

[Johnnyenglish]

Before


After




I'm going to do a full write up listing all the mods and the rationale later. For now I'm just happy to be done and ready to get this thing on the road.

 

[dstock]

Looks great!

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[Mark Harley]

Very nice results. Good color, Level stance with the jeep and great use of stabilizers.

 

[smlobx]

Great build!
If you have an opportunity I would be interested in what this build ended up weighing.

 

[Johnnyenglish]

I'm going to get it weighed tomorrow.

 

[capnjackcanon]

Very cool build, interested to see the evolution of this trailer.