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I gotta say, I'm a little surprised that I am just realizing that you aren't integrating ROPS into your new heavier cab.

Vom, probably the best way to address your particular situation is to start at a scale. GAWRs are posted for each vehicle, and you can take your truck over a scale to find out how much payload is left. You can very roughly calculate what added weight goes to which axle by "slicing" the from...

It also depends on the thickness of steel he puts on the truck. A square foot of 1" thick AR500 weighs in at just about 40.5lbs. You can do some math to figure out the weights of the other thicknesses, then multiply the weigh by how many square feet you put in. Of course, he also modified the...

Looks like it came from an older cougar type MRAP. Is this somewhat close to what you see in there? If so that would make a good bit of sense. When a projectile impacts a hard surface like AR500 steel, it mostly shatters and those pieces follow the surface of the material it hit. Here's a...

Is that grille a delta or a zig-zag in cross-section? [EDIT:] Interesting - just realized that Jesse asked the same question I did :beer: [/EDIT]

Huh, I'm going to have to throw in the towel on the CAD drawing, lest you be done with the actual truck before the drawing is done... I'll post up the picture I did before when I get home tonight. Work is eating up all of my free time right now (even over the last few weekends). Yes. I'll...

3D CAD freeware from Google/Trimble which also allows you to import 2D drawings and whittle it away until it's a scale accurate 3D image - think 2D satellite imagery and panoramic street-view pictures being converted into 3D buildings and you'll have its roots... :beer:

Got started in SketchUp last night, starting on the solid tonight when I get home from work...

Looks decent [thumbzup] I haven't forgotten about the drawing, I did it in Photoshop and it didn't come out as well as I'd like, so I'm redoing it in SketchUp. It'll be a real 3D model that way that you can look at.

How about cab roof over hood height? I need an anchor reference to make it somewhat accurate.

Are you doing the standard width cab? How wide are your doors and pillars? How tall is your roofline over the hood line? I'll use the camouflage paint guide 2D drawings to get a head on and side view, and I can do the isotropic view afterwards.

What do you need done in Photoshop?

Thanks. I'm most interested in the corners, they are the most complicated. By thinking it through I've come up with one solution to a rather tricky corner detail: Im interested in door hardware details and window framing details. These are always the most complicated of all the corners...

I'm interested in your corner detail work. How are doing that? Re-enforcing it with a corner piece?

Coating that reacts when exposed to petroleum by expanding. You spray the outside (where petroleum isn't supposed to be) - when someone shoots the tank, the bullet spreads the coating which them collapses back into a smaller hole then the fuel leaks onto the reactive surface inside the hole and...