photoshop help

[Willowbilly3]

I've had this idea for a long time to a 3-4 inches to an old cab, right through the doors so they would be made longer too. Can anyone do the stretch to this picture and shorten the bed the same amount. Plus do a 3 front, 2 rear chop. thanks

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/383228249511971159/

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

I like the way you think.

Here's a quick hack... as near to your specs as I could eyeball it. (Sorry 'bout the crappy "slant" chop. )

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[Yankee Transplant]

nice job crank[cl

 

[Toad]

I like the way you think.

Here's a quick hack... as near to your specs as I could eyeball it. (Sorry 'bout the crappy "slant" chop. )

I like it and the extra leg room would sure be nice! [cl

Toad

 

[bruno]

Lower it around 4" and it would be beautimous.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Nice job crank, exactly what I wanted to see. Now if that same truck was lowered 3" in the rear and 4-5" in the front I think it would look just right. This is an idea I've had rolling around for a few years. I want it subtle, not extreme. and now I have a 35 and a 36 coming in plus access to 3 more cabs with doors so I might just decide to tackle it.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I just love the looks of that, can't stop looking at it. It looks even better than I had visualized. I have seen some stretched cabs but they always do it behind the doors and usually do too much, they never look quite "right". That right there is perfect.

 

[smallfoot]

That does look good! Nice work Dr. C...

 

[zzrodder]

Nice job Dr.C - I would go a step further and move the fenders and wheels forward 4" too while keeping the hood stock length and the grille in place where it is. Keep the running boards stock length and slide them and the fenders ahead by the amount the box is shortened. I love the look of these trucks but have always felt that the cab looks like it is pushed too far forward.

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

I just love the looks of that, can't stop looking at it. It looks even better than I had visualized. I have seen some stretched cabs but they always do it behind the doors and usually do too much, they never look quite "right". That right there is perfect.

I can't agree more. Most I've seen are extended behind... and look like 10 pounds of **** in a 5 pound bag.

zz; you are a true artist... and I am... clearly... not.

I managed to bugger this up further, poorly lowered approx. 4" - 5'' and somehow missing the foreground...

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[zzrodder]

Please don't laugh at my crappy photoshop job but it shows what I'm talking about with moving the fenders ahead about 4".
I can't manipulate the photo pieces so I print out the pic and actually cut it up with scissors then scan back to the computer and do touch up. Problem is my printer is low on ink so the color is way off.
Whaddaya think?

 

[Willowbilly3]

I like that ZZ. But it's a whole different level of commitment to change the whole chassis to move the wheels forward. Also reworking the fender to door bottom would take some surgery. But it does prove a point I have been arguing for years, it takes a combination of modifications to get the right look. A good example is a radically dropped pickup with no chop, ends up looking like a telephone booth all too often. I loved those 40ish cars done in the 50s where they dropped, chopped and moved the fenders and/or wheel openings up, plus often sectioning the body (who does that any more?). This is kind of the same treatment. And also a combination of several subtle changes is almost always better than one or two radical ones.

 

[MercuryMac]

Dr C. wrap that puppy up and bring it over to me. .....Do you take trade-ins?

ZZ I have been dreaming of doing the longer front on my next '36, but I would also like to move the rad forward with the fenders, so I can put a 460 in there, as it's going to be a 2 ton to pull my trailer.
ZZ if you look hard enough just over my air cleaner, for 700 miles, you'll see your place.

 

[zzrodder]

I like that ZZ. But it's a whole different level of commitment to change the whole chassis to move the wheels forward. Also reworking the fender to door bottom would take some surgery. But it does prove a point I have been arguing for years, it takes a combination of modifications to get the right look. A good example is a radically dropped pickup with no chop, ends up looking like a telephone booth all too often. I loved those 40ish cars done in the 50s where they dropped, chopped and moved the fenders and/or wheel openings up, plus often sectioning the body (who does that any more?). This is kind of the same treatment. And also a combination of several subtle changes is almost always better than one or two radical ones.

Yeah I know what you mean - I have a habit of dreaming up ways to do more work... But then, stretching the cab and doors is no small task either...
Got some new printer ink and did a re-do of Dr.C's photoshop, little lower and with the fenders moved ahead.

 

[earthman]

Yep. There is the ZZ Rodder look right there.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Yeah I know what you mean - I have a habit of dreaming up ways to do more work... But then, stretching the cab and doors is no small task either...
Got some new printer ink and did a re-do of Dr.C's photoshop, little lower and with the fenders moved ahead.

That is certainly one bitchin looking truck. Sadly, all of it is probably way past my skill and/or ambition level.

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

ZZ if you look hard enough just over my air cleaner, for 700 miles, you'll see your place.

You'd need one hell of a TALL ladder and a mirror or two. (I believe zz resides in the Okanagan Valley. )

WB3: Sorry to hear your lost parts tale. I hope you find them and build your vision...

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[MercuryMac]

Well, Dr. C, I've got the direction right, that view would be just a little west of straight south, and I have a nifty little fiberglass ladder.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Yeah I know what you mean - I have a habit of dreaming up ways to do more work... But then, stretching the cab and doors is no small task either...
Got some new printer ink and did a re-do of Dr.C's photoshop, little lower and with the fenders moved ahead.

Ok, I'm trying to figure out just how to attack this. I talked to a master restoration friend this morning and he would lend me some help stretching the doors and such. I think it needs to be done. ZZ, tell me just what you did in the picture. Did the fender stay the same and you stretched the running board? The chassis part I can deal with by just starting the build with the right wheel base. If anyone has some good ideas how to get started, I was thinking some kind of graph paper or a clear graph I could lay over each picture to get a general idea where the surgery needed to start.

 

[Willowbilly3]

No one? I am in uncharted waters here? Well, here's my plan so far; Get it bolted on a good solid cart that telescopes.
Cut the roof off, then cut through the cab for the stretch, split it up the back, move the 2 back pieces back and apart. Brace the back across with braces I can slide and adjust if I need to later on. Brace the door openings and tack the sills, start the chop and putting the roof on. Somewhere in the process I'll also cut the door tops off and get the doors stretched. Now I can start trial fitting those before the cab gets permanently stuck together. Fill in all the gaps. Last thing will be building the door tops. Piece of cake, eh?