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The driveline tunnel was textured to look like it was shot with an epoxy bed liner and painted Wolf Blue, and then the raised rivet detail was scraped off to show the raw aluminum.

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I also painted the interior panels Wolf Blue and then hand painted the rivet detail in silver.

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The harnesses are ready to install.  Except for the reworked anchors they are fully scratch-built.  The driver's side lap belts are already in the car as I needed to use them to determine the lengths of the latched passenger side ones.

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I thought I could get away with only machining the snaps, (male and female) for the lower front parts of the seats.  Until I installed them and realized that since I polished the rear panel it acted as a mirror and the back snaps (or lack thereof) were clearly visible in the reflection.

So I went back to the lathe to make another eight parts…

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You might have lost some time doing that Mark but the result was well worth it.  Fantastic fabrication as always.  Read your recent article on working with brass which was very cool and informative.  Appreciated.  cheers, tim

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Thanks guys! 

I'm glad you enjoyed the article Tim.  Now that it has been published for a while I think I can share a little of it.

The start of a scratch-built brass removable "fiberglass" hardtop.  See the June 2018 issue of Scale Auto magazine for the step-by-step how it was made…

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Mark..... no-one on this planet is capable of producing accurate gauges on the instrument panel as you have. This is scale model car scratch building at the finest level. We can all learn a great deal from watching this build thread, and I don't see myself ever getting close to what you have achieved here.

David

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