Fabrication of the rounded and custom
curves of the nose. Here are Barry's words to explain...
Well, as you can see, the boys in the fabrication shop
worked on the front window frame master and tacked it to the cab sides,
so that I could see how the nose needed to be built, and mate up to it.
The basic frame of the nose was fabricated with the slope on the front
first. The frame was then wrapped with two layers of sheet material, and
then the form for the arch at the rear of the nose was cut and
installed. The top of the nose is arched and sloped with curved corners
to the sides. Here is where a lot of the head scratching occurred. How
to get all of that correct to the plan. Well as you can see, the boys
used multiple supports to get it to work, and then laid the top sheet
on. Lots of carving of the corners took place to get it to the point you
see here. Of course it is far from finished. - Barry
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