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Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:51 am
by tomsoffroad
just seen this on FB tom, holy shit it looks good
no one cleans there trucks for you tom haha
Thanks
Most people clean their truck (some get them spotless) before they bring them to me. This truck on the other hand....................
Oh well maybe this truck likes slightly textured paint
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:55 am
by tomsoffroad
Should've posted this pic last night. Explains the random bar out the back
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:42 am
by bob_or_jim
Looks bloody good mate! 1 question though, will you need to put park lights out wider to reflect the true width of the truck? I came into greif a while ago with the same style deck when VTNZ looked at it. my 2cw.
Cheers
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:01 am
by tomsoffroad
bob_or_jim wrote:Looks bloody good mate! 1 question though, will you need to put park lights out wider to reflect the true width of the truck? I came into greif a while ago with the same style deck when VTNZ looked at it. my 2cw.
Cheers
Reflectors will suffice.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:47 am
by bob_or_jim
Good call!
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:07 am
by Georgediver
Not on my truck they won't be
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:23 am
by SMOKEY
Well done again Tom, as for the tyre --- I am thinking of my stuffed back and a Davit off the roll cage with a snatch block that the winch rope could go through and wulla bang
hey presto and my poor OLD back survives again, gee my brain is exhausted,
BACK FOR A GRANDAD NAP,
FITZY.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:54 am
by tomsoffroad
SMOKEY wrote:Well done again Tom, as for the tyre --- I am thinking of my stuffed back and a Davit off the roll cage with a snatch block that the winch rope could go through and wulla bang
hey presto and my poor OLD back survives again, gee my brain is exhausted,
BACK FOR A GRANDAD NAP,
FITZY.
Good thing the owner is still a young punk
Anyways all done. Going to have to have a play with the coils as it is coil bound about 2" before full compression
But thats not a biggy. Drives better than the leaves allowed.
Oh yeah and the front now needs work
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:18 pm
by Georgediver
And we got a new winner up the ramp!!
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:20 pm
by tomsoffroad
Georgediver wrote:And we got a new winner up the ramp!!
For now
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:27 pm
by petefj40
Looks mint!!
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:35 pm
by muddyhilux
very clean tidy work once again Tom.but dammit you always seem to get these things built so fast my ideas are never new
those thin lights on the rear are exactly the path I'm planning for the rear of mine
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:24 pm
by tomsoffroad
muddyhilux wrote:very clean tidy work once again Tom.but dammit you always seem to get these things built so fast my ideas are never new
those thin lights on the rear are exactly the path I'm planning for the rear of mine
Cheers
Pretty easy to slap em together when you have 5000hrs a week to work on them
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:34 am
by Leithfield
Awesome work Tom - great to see an Artist at his craft.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:19 am
by juz
looking awesome tom, was wondering what paint you use on barwork?
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:27 am
by tomsoffroad
juz wrote:looking awesome tom, was wondering what paint you use on barwork?
Nothing flash. Its from a local company, United Paints. They call it unichem satin black. Ment to chemical resistant blah blah blah. I use it because you can layer it on thick and it drys very quickly. Basically stock car paint tho, wouldn't want to paint a car with it
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:35 pm
by monaro427
good old united paints aye worked there for four years making that paint, who helped you out mike or doug, unichem is just a fast drying enamel
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:38 pm
by tomsoffroad
monaro427 wrote:good old united paints aye worked there for four years making that paint, who helped you out mike or doug, unichem is just a fast drying enamel
Haa small world. No idea of any names, I just ph them followed by a ph call to my courier
Its not a bad product. Bullet proof after a few days.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:06 pm
by stinky
We use it to paint Towbars and walls,counter tops, trucks, furniture, windows, its good stuff dont even have to clean your truck before you paint it
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:46 pm
by oldyella
I tried to clean the LR
Hilux looks a bit nose down at the moment Tom
Similar thing planned for the front then
I guess we'll have 2 wait an see...
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:49 am
by tomsoffroad
oldyella wrote:I tried to clean the LR
Hilux looks a bit nose down at the moment Tom
Similar thing planned for the front then
I guess we'll have 2 wait an see...
Yip definitly going to get the treatment in the front too.
It is abit nose down, but when those pics were taken it only have 1/4 tank of fuel and no spare wheel
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:51 am
by tomsoffroad
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:54 am
by MNC
Very cool. Great to have it tucked away so nicely
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:57 am
by tomsoffroad
MNC wrote:Very cool. Great to have it tucked away so nicely
Cheers
The eventual plan for this truck is Hilux axles, Commy v6 and auto, single cab chop and a full exo. The reason I tucked it into the guard is to allow for the cage at a later date
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:52 am
by Twodiffs
I've been looking out for snorkel work like that...now I can start hatching a plan
Might see you about a 4" jobbie.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:00 pm
by tomsoffroad
Twodiffs wrote:I've been looking out for snorkel work like that...now I can start hatching a plan
Might see you about a 4" jobbie.
No worries. Flick me a PM when your ready.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:16 pm
by Twodiffs
done bud.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:33 pm
by rokhound
Now you are starting to get the idea about how a snorkle should be done.
Looks noice.
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:14 pm
by ant-neil
dam that snorkle is cool
Re: Tomsoffroad & Customs
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:48 pm
by niblik
sorry chap, as nice as the fab work youve done etc and i know you were just workin to the job scope, i'm just preferrin what it was prior to what it is now..
then...
now.......
just the bobbed rear tray made it have that little something different to the norm..
