Project510

Build quality on my brothers 750 was great, just like the two CB550's I owned. I enjoyed riding it, but enjoyed my 550's more and my XS650 even more. I relate that mostly due to the fact that my brothers 750 was 100% factory and I had changed many things on my bikes. I cant imagine paying 15k for one unless I was absolutely in love with it and never planned on selling. My XS This 750 on CL in my area looks great! https://sacramento.craigslist.org/mcy/d/sacramento-1973-honda-cb750-scrambler/7734801062.html

I have already started this one so the the first post is going to be long and full of updates to get us caught up. With the C7R finished and my group build responsibilities done (for now) I think I will jump into this one. Did a little more work getting the wide body kit attached. It doesn't fit as great as I initially thought. Not bad though. Kit also came with a nice set of wheels. Appear to be Work Meister S1 Used the Dremel to trim away and clean up inside the fender. Spent quite a bit of time sanding as well to help the transition. More work still to be done but in general this was for sure the right way to go. Should clean up nice and look great once paint is applied. Not super happy with the vents yet. Again, once cleaned up it will look fine after paint. It was so fragile it broke away as soon as I started drilling it out. This caused me to make a bigger hole than I wanted to clean it up.  I was going to post up the two wheel sets and ask for opinions on what looked better but once I saw the photos I am set on the Works.  Kit supplied wheels Aftermarket wheels that came with the Pandem kit from Fugu Garage Getting the chassis painted up. 1st step was to paint it all black then tape off the first section. After the tape session, came LP-36  After that was to remove some tape and paint the UCA's and heat shield After that dried for a day came another tape session. Then more black.... this is starting to get annoying haha And for the reveal... Looks good. I made a few mistakes. Ill let it dry for 24 hours and then fix a few small things if I can. Ok that gets me caught up. My progress is usually slow. I only get a few hours a week at the work bench. So see ya around and thanks for looking.

Thanks!

Vette is done. I was pleasantly surprised with the fit and finish of the kit being Revell. Until, that is until I got to the body. I cant get it on fully, so it looks like the ride height is bad. Also the windows do not fit great. Bummed, but my goodness the paint looks great haha.

I used evans design leds. Red, orange and ... flickering fire. Which will be perfect for your furnace.

Have not posted in here in a while. I guess I should update progress. I finished the CRX for my sons bedroom shelf as he requested. Granted this was the 2nd kit I had built in almost 2 decades its not that great. My sons next request as mentioned in previous posts was a Saturn V rocket. He also wanted it to look like it was blasting off and I did the best I could with some LEDs. That is also done. I have not finished the 64 Chevy pickup. I am debating making it into a little diorama to display. I have also started this kit as part of a 6 month Group Build on the MSC forum. I am about to cross the finish line, just laid down clear. need to attach a few pieces and then final assembly. I decided to build the car as a street version if GM ever sold one. Sort of like a Porsche GT3RS. Basically the race car minus a few bits made for the street. Last and final update is that I also entered into a multi-year group build ( also on MSC forums) with this Ok that mostly catches me up. Ive started on the bus, only trying to lower it with major changes. Ill post those later.

Keep me posted on both! The Avex kit is the one I'm looking for but also interesting haha.

Looking for some kits. Shipping would be to Hayward, Ca so If you have them I would prefer you also be in the US. Thanks for looking.

I couldnt just leave it alone haha. I wasnt super satisfied. Gave Youtube and Google a search for alternative ways to find the look I was going for. What a rabbit hole that was... I do think I found a way to get it done once and for all. So that was started yesterday. First, was to sand off as much of the teal as I could. Then paint it all a rust ish brown. I added some orange and red to the brown I had on hand. works for me. Then I tried to look for a factory color from 64 and I settled on Dark Blue (63 was Balboa Blue) and this was the closest I could get without purchasing paint. Finally. Im pretty sure this is the one. I think its more realistic. Still have the heavy rust spots to add as well as sanding the bed. I'm super happy with this. Also trying to figure out the wheel situation..

Wasnt happy with the CRX sooooo.. I started over. Also, I got the filters in from MicroMark. Happy to have them, and they work... but they are easily 1/3 the same thickness. So while they are cheaper, I would assume they will last a no where near the original. Good thing I bought more than 1. Because I had the CRX almost done (so I thought) I brought another kit I have had half built in a box for over a decade not knowing I would restart the paint on the CRX. I painted it a looooong time ago, and it was nice, but wanted to use this kit as a practice dummy. I've sanded down and repainted it twice in the last few weeks. I was the Good Guys show here in Ca and saw a truck that had some really nice patina on it and got inspired so I started practicing some weathering. Generally I would had done this from the start, so as you sand down you get the right colors but its a good excuse to practice adding rust, and weathering etc. Its been fun. I think I will leave it like this.

Same here, my old car Ill never get over selling. Not a lot of updates this week. Some good and bad news. Bad news first. I did not like how the window trim came out, was at first going to leave it because it felt more difficult to correct but I couldn't just leave stuff alone so I tried to fix it and cracked the body above the windshield. So I will be working on that this week. I pivoted to painting the Saturn V, but noticed clouds of paint spray in the booth so I knew something was wrong. Apparently I have neglected the 3 layer filter for too long and its badly clogged. My Artograph 1530 is discontinued, but thankfully MicroMark still sells the filters so I purchased a couple of them to last a long time So some good news... My brother finished 3D printing all my requested pieces to add some organization to the workbench. I was able to get a lot of stuff off the table to have more space to work. I'm pretty excited. 3D printed parts include 4 cylinder type containers for q-tips tooth pics etc. 2 tall cases to hold tools, 2 nipper/plier holders, 1 flat tray to hold tweezers and pin vise. He also printed this wire holder bracket I added a 3/8 dowel to. And lastly the l brackets for the shelves. Black walnut is a bit much to hold $5 jars of paint but it was scrap wood from my pile and it looks cool haha. The baskets were $12 from Home Depot. Also, the tamiya tape holder is great. I added some tool box tray liner to the bottom to prevent it from sliding around. Works pretty good!

Been a busy week, but not with modeling work. Too many birthdays, and baby showers, and kids sports practice and school. I did manage to get the black trim paint work done. Not 100% happy with it, but think it will harder to remove it and retry. Just need to do a better job taping off the car and probably a bit more patience painting. Also got time to put the stuffing on the cones for the rocket to see how it looks. It didnt come out how I thought it would, but the wife and kid saw it and they liked it so works for me! I did decide to trim that center cone so they are even. I will also add some orange and red paint so he gets the effect in both day and night. Night time will have the leds lighting it up.

Thanks David, I agree.

Chassis is done, has been done for a few days. Have just been waiting for paint in the mail. Was trying to locate paint that matched the OEM color from Honda Celestial blue. Found a pretty damn close option from Mr. Color and I think it turned out great. Its a bit too dark but out of the jar was the closest I could find. I'm happy with it. Once I get the black trim and window rubber areas painted should look pretty good.

Pretty much done with the underside. Tail lights came out pretty nice. Had some trouble with the Tamiya Smoke for the glass. Think my regulator might be bad, or at least not accurate. I kept turning it down to reduce psi finally got it to where it sprays nice and its reading 5 psi.