Building progress LACoFD Lifeguard Ford F-350

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Followed by the compartment door handles...

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...the roof lights, out of tiny, self adhesive gemstones...

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...and the diamond plate parts for the rear and top compartment surface together with some L-shape rods as rain gutters.

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I further built the rack attachments for the surfboard and the stretcher out of T- and U-shape rods.

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The next step was to paint the compartment doorhandles chrome, using the "Molotow Liquid Chrome pen".
Some of you probably noticed that I meanwhile "shrunk" the compartment door handles, since they were out of scale.
I already noticed it after painting, but I thought when adding the chrome it will look ok Exactly the opposite happened, it pretty much highlighted the error further
So I ended up filling the former holes, drilling smaller ones into it and then repainting the whole part
Always something with my projects

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Then I completed the towing hitch.

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And the truck at this stage

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I continued with the equipment like the rescue can/buoy.
Therefore I used 1,5mm, 1mm strip styrene and a 1mm styrene round rod.

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The styrene rod was cut to an small arrow and the round rod was then horizontaly wrapped around it.

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finally I added the 1mm styrene strip on top of the arrow. But since I filled the 1mm strip about half way down, i suggest a 0,5mm strip would do the job I think the outcome pretty much looks like the rescue can, even without paint on.

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And the rescue cans with paint and some rope on

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The other, nice feature were the swim fins.
These were made out of 1mm and 0,5 mm styrene sheet and strip styrene.

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For the rear handles on top of the compartments I simply used paper clips, cut to size.

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meanwhile I also painted the diamondplates with the Molotow pen. It worked perfectly even with this, rather big, surface

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Then I punched out some side reflectors, out of reflective sheet.

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Next I concentrated on the emergency lights.
To create them I punched out round lights of self adhesive clear gemstone/decoration stickers and cutting out rectangular shapes as well. Finally I even painted a small, tiny chrome trim around the rectangular lights.

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The rear part was further completed with tiny round red gemstones.

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Further parts were the rear scene lights out of clear plastic pins and ferrules.

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A modified FRR MX lightbar.

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Antennas

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And even small, fingernail gemstones as rear cabine/brake light

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To conclude this build walkthrough the creation of the life wests out of the former IXO FDNY Engine "hoses"

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Since I haven´t made a picture of the finished wests, here some closeups with everything together

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To end this, a final shot of the whole rig

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I hope you liked it and I could answer some questions

[JoeO]

Thanks for sharing and taking the time to download all the information!