With some paint on the cab, I moved on to some of the other bare metal bits that were sat in the garage. I had two pretty ropey front valance panels and had started to make one good one from them. I didn’t plan on running a front bumper so I wanted the bumper holes filled in too. I cut out the openings and cut patch panels from the worst one before tacking it all together. Unfortunately neither of them were in good shape in the centre section, so it took a lot of heating and hammering to get it close to the right shape.

Some of it was completely beyond hope, so I had to make a few patch pieces to bring it all back to roughly the right shape. There were also a few bad splits and cracks round the edges but with all that done and cleaned up with the sander it all looked pretty good. It still needs some filler but I’m pretty happy with the result.