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General Category => CF Bedford Chat => Topic started by: Bedfordcrazy on February 04, 2010, 12:17:27 PM
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Hi Guys, I have a Q. for everyone in beddy land, years ago I bought a set of custom truck & van magazines, some good memories, I have been looking for a custom van magazine whether australian or yank vans, My newsagent does not have a listing for anything, and I can tell you he has a list, we sat down one day to see what was out there, nothing. Does anyone on this sight know if there is a mag out there that covers custom vans today. I am just looking for new ideas for vans.
Regards
George.............. ::) :o
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I don't think there is a van magazine anymore, some of the pickup magazines sometimes features vans but nothing major.
Best bet is the older custom vans & trucks, vans & trucks, vans & pickups, 1001 trucks and van ideas, van world, truckin, travelin vans which are the main one then the smaller collection ones like, street truckin, trucking trends, illustrated vans, sport truckin, custom vans, pickups and vans, street vans, van power, van wheels, super vans, and others.
else vannin.com and other van web sites on google that can be found
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busy, you are the man in the know!
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And theres allways heaps of old CVT on ebay.
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You could try Graffity publication, there at Newstead in Victoria. Ther the ones who done custom vans and trucks and a whole lot of others. mite be worth a try
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You could try Graffity publication, there at Newstead in Victoria. Ther the ones who done custom vans and trucks and a whole lot of others. mite be worth a try
i bought the full set of them 6 months ago they still have full sets of custom vans and trucks...i went back to the old bugger site and found the adress there.........FULL GREAT IDEAS...
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how much was the full set Arron?
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how much was the full set Arron?
I bought them from Eddie Ford Publications.pty ltd...if you bought the whole set then it came to $349.0 including postage his email is restoredcars@iinet.net.au it was well worth the money..
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I agree with Arron. I bought a set from Eddie last year, same price, airmailed to NZ. One of the issues had some pages missing and other pages double printed. Sent them an e-mail letting them know but saying not to worry about it as I already had that issue but they sent me out a new one anyway. Great to deal with and awesome magazines. Now have a full set plus about 20 spare issues.
Cheers,
Garry.
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Hi Sundownernz, how many mags are there in the set ? are they the full set from 1st mag to last mag printed ?
George..........
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Hi Gary, I have been looking at your interior panels, are they a factory plastic or fibreglass roof and cab panels, or do the pics just look like a vacume finish ? like the van, lot of work gone into it.
George..............
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fibreglass i think
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Hey George,
Re magazines, there's 61 of them from the first to last. Awesome set.
The panels are all custom made using a mix of ply, foam and fibreglass. Dead easy to do. Cut and fit the ply to whatever your working on, say a door panel. Get some insulation foam from a supplier. Forman Insulation over here have a huge range but in the type I use there are three grades: Soft - brown, Medium - green and hard - blue. I use green. This is glued onto wherever you want to form a shape to whatever thickness you want. Once the glue is dry, sand it to the shape you want. Blow off the dust with an air gun then I fibreglass it using Dynal cloth (fine fibreglass cloth). this folds around curves really well. Then I soak the cloth with resin and roll out all the air bubbles with a fibreglass roller. Once dry I give it a second coat of resin. Once that's gone off I sand it and give the whole thing a skim coat of bog then sand the whole lot smooth. The colour finish is just Dulux 101 interior house paint, semi gloss, applied with a roller which gives a slight stippled finish and that's about it.
There are a number of other ways of doing this. Complicated large shapes can be done by forming the basic shape in mdf, covering with speaker cloth then fibreglassing the cloth, and bogging it from there.
Hope this helps.
Garry.
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