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[W-409]

Today I was able to get that body painted. I'm not completely happy about that result, maybe Maston's white paint hates me. Every body that I have painted with it, has turned out bad, or at least something that I'm not completely happy about. This is one of the bests with that paint, but however I can't be completely happy with it. Maybe decals, clear and polishing will make it good, hopefully it'll go like that.

And started the chassis assembly, too. Engine sits very nicely on place, but upper A-Arms were really tricky to get fit right. Cutting the locator pins was needed to make them fit. Same problem with the exhaust so far, they don't fit at all. And other one is badly in the picture, I haven't glued it to the exhaust manifold yet. Frame is also glued to the chassis. On the next update this should be on four wheels.








Compare with another Hemi I have on the bench.

[Lunajammer]

That engine looks great Niko. The body doesn't look too bad, maybe just a little color sanding for smoothing and you'll probably feel better about it.

ARC, sorry to hear about your exit. I was kind of looking forward to your entry. If last year was any indication, I know you would have brought a very serious contender... in other words, a beauty!

Erik, that interior looks super clean! I can't wait to see more of this.

[zenrat]

The early Hemi in the AMT '57 300 is a lovely piece of work and you've done it justice there.

I'm ready for paint on the panel delivery - No more scratch building apart from a fuel tank (probably should have one of them!), exhaust system and all the ###### that will be bouncing around in the back.
I'm thinking silver & blue (although I am tempted by a jar of hemi orange) and have been designing some decals for the sides.

Oh, and the styrene gods were not smiling on me. I knew the parts from The Modelhaus were for the old SMP(?) '60 pick up but I hoped that they would be a close enough fit to be useable.
No.
"Glass" wasn't even close and the grille would have needed a hell of a lot of grinding to sit right. Oh well, a split windscreen doesn't look too bad (to hide the crack) and I can use the custom grille from the kit.

I haven't touched this for 4 weeks due to having my folks visit but after we wave them off tomorrow i'll be right back into it.

[W-409]

Thanks for the compliments, Mike and Fred! Now when looking at the body completely dry, it looks like decals, clear and polishing will make it nice.

Chassis is on four wheels now, I had no fit issues with the rear axle, and that driveshaft fits very nicely too. Only front axle was very tricky to install, but luckily I got it right. However, it's on three wheels, one front tire don't touch to the ground. I have to adjust it a little.

Now on to the interior!

[CorvairJim]

I haven't had time to do ANY work on my Plymouth over the past few months... or any other model, for that matter. I wish my chassis were at this point. It's getting down to crunch time and I have two transcontinental race CBP's to finish builds for!

[W-409]

Decals are now on place. I wanted to keep it quite simple, because it will not look so much different then on the Race. The starting number for the race seems to be 12, hopefully it won't be the finishing number. Also started the interior work, seats are painted Humbroll's Radome Tan.

[cobraman]

Looking good Niko.

[Jantrix]

Well with Niko getting all decaled up I just had to get it rolling. I'll let it set a while and hit it with some clear tomorrow. After that - whoo, I might be near done. Imagine that.

[W-409]

Thanks, Ray!

I got something done with the interior, door panels are foiled and assembled. It was real paint to get them Foiled nicely and they're not perfect, actually far away from it but they are good enough when installed. Also the dashboard is installed, it's painted white and black with brush. Seat belts are made too, only steering wheel, rear view mirror and tachometer are missing.







EDIT: Very nice job with the Ford too, Rob! Decals look fantastic on that one.

Edited by W-409, 11 November 2012 - 09:29 AM.

[Lunajammer]

The decals look right at home on that Rob. Looks like everything's laying down pretty good for you. That's gotta be a relief.

Niko, I can't believe how much you're getting done in a short amount of time. All of it looks great, your extra effort shows.

[A.R.C.]

ARC, sorry to hear about your exit. I was kind of looking forward to your entry. If last year was any indication, I know you would have brought a very serious contender... in other words, a beauty!

Thanks Luna. I appreciate the comment. Your words actually inspired me to get my tail in gear. Last year was my first Cannonball and I had a good time with it. I really REALLY hate to not finish anything I begin let alone not even start it. It was actually bugging me that I bailed out last week,so if its cool with you guys I`m gonna jump back in.
I took alook at the Fairlane this afternoon and decided with the type of build I originally had planned for it and the next 3 days off I can make some major headway and do my darndest to make the start line. I spent 3 hours on it so far today and plan to put in at least a couple more. I`ll put up some pics later this eve.

[SuperStockAndy]

Ok...I'm still alive.


Been held up lately due to school, work, and working on my 1:1. However the other day, I pulled the '55 out of the box and did some foiling (did you know I hate foiling with a passion?). Mainly just gotta finish that and then paint the hood. Then I think it'll be about done. Some real nice entries so far

[Lunajammer]

Excellent Adam, I look forward to any progress.

Andy your post reminds of a past thread about what makes your builds stall out. I'm kind of there with you on the BMF.

[slantasaurus]

Thats strange, I actually LIKE BMFing. Thas what I was doing tonight, its questionable if I'll actually finish the Dart though. A few nights ago I realized that I have no mufflers and my parts box is 1000 miles away so I'm going to try to scratchbuild some. I'm not the fastest builder and there isn't any area of the Dart that is finished yet. We'll see what I have in a couple weeks.

[SuperStockAndy]

Thats strange, I actually LIKE BMFing.

You're hired

[slantasaurus]

You're hired

You couldn't afford me.

[A.R.C.]

I`m strange, I actually LIKE BMFing.

Fixed it for ya

Had a long productive day yesterday. It would have been even more productive if I didnt spend half of it removing flash and cutting out that silly molded exhaust sytem.

[ChevyCoupe41]

Guys your builds looks very good. And what come with my T-Bird, well its not gonna finished to deadline. Too much work and not as much time to do it...

[MLMDesign]

Hi everyone, sorry for not recent posts, life's been keeping me busy. I've got a good amount of work done to the vette. I'll have pics up later today, battery in the camera is dead and being charged right now. I'm not sure if I'll get it done on time either, but I'll try.

Everyone's cars look great, I hope we all get to the start line, it looks like a killer line up. Goodluck everyone.

[MLMDesign]

As promised earlier here's an update, the color is Nassau Blue which is the closest I could get to Pennant Blue. I'm almost done with the engine. The frame is pretty much done, the interior is being slow. I had an issue with the floor board but my good friend sandpaper solved the problem. I got to re-spray that as soon as it gets warmer. Anyway that's what I've been up to.