65 international 1300

This is a truck that I made for my friend Mike. When I asked him if he would like me to make him a truck with his company logo on the door (mike is in the housing industry in the Niagara area) his first thought was to make this. The first thing mike ever drove was a 65 international 1300 flatbed.

I had a lot of trouble making this one and to be honest with you I am not totally pleased. I ran into a few problems that I was able to overcome, but not resolve to my satisfaction.
1) I had never used lock-tite wood glue before and I ran into lots of issues with pieces migrating off of the initial position once in the clamps. I am using the same clamps with the same approach as always, but this time there were several pieces that set in positions that were not where I had originally set them. With lepage, I would hold them until they were tacky then place the clamps on them. I did the same with the lock tite and sometimes it would drift after I let go. I am sure that better clamps or clamp placement might have prevented this, but i never had this problem before I started this bottle.
2) I could not find photos of this kind of truck. I researched everywhere and came up with only a handful of pics to use as reference. Most of the time I was just guessing how things looked. My apologies to anyone who actually knows what a 65 ihc looks like.
3)I usually use craft grade acrylic paints to finish the trucks. this lets me thin the paint with water for finer detailed work. this time I used a high gloss indoor/outdoor paint that didn’t like being diluted. it just lumped and clumped and it left noticable brush strokes on the cab. It has lots of coats of paint, but it still looks gnarly
4) I didn’t like the tire widths but I like my fingertips too much to try to cut them thinner. I contempated sanding them thinner, but my shopvac isn’t filtering it’s exhaust as well as it has in the past so I try not to use it as much
5) I use tooth picks to help hold things in place. once things are glued in place I will drill small holes into the joint and use a tooth pick as a dowel. the thing that is driving me nuts is that the container of tooth picks I had for this project was just a little thicker than the ones I normally use. So, after I had the holes drilled and injected glue with a syringe, I realized that the toothpicks were not going to fit. I was afraid to drill bigger holes so I ended up letting the glue dry, redrilling the holes (and clamping the resulting splits) then sanding each one to take a bit off each one.

So… this is the project. I learned a lot from it. hope you enjoy.

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