Kristen's boat is still at school, she says she's not quite finished with it but I can have pictures when it is done. The assignment was to build a two-person boat using cardboard and duct tape. They are supposed to test them in the school's pool when they are complete. That should be very interesting.
Progress update on the main subject of this thread:
Since I'm going to use painted front flares on the pickup to better harmonize with the rear fenders, I picked up a used set of wider painted Sahara flares a while back on eBay. They were painted white, so I'm in the process of painting them Flame Red now. I experimented on the rears first, since they're not part of the end result of the build, and they turned out well enough that I'm now doing the fronts. Below you can see the rears pretty much finished (when the paint has hardened about a week I'll probably buff them to perfect the shine), and some of the front parts on the bench in primer and first coat of color. It's a bit hard to get a factory finish with rattle can paint, but I think I've got it worked out.
Should be done with them by mid-week and will install them on the LJ. Just one more task I can tick off while waiting for the house to be done.
I did order the bed last week and they told me it would be about three weeks before it arrived. I have some customizations being done to it (actually, the customizations involve NOT including features, leaving out things like fender bolt holes, tailgate chain holes, etc.), so they have to build the parts custom and then ship it to me. So about 2 1/2 weeks until that arrives.
Jeff
