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6th Annual 24hr Build


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Getting some work done now, baby is asleep, so its time to rock and roll and get some modeling done.

Here is the body, still a little tacky, painted with cheap wally world blue

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here is the chassis going to together

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and here are the tires and wheels, dullcoated the tires, wheels are paint tamyia gunmetal

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Well I'm done for the night. The paint on the roof of the top section wrinkled and bubbled so I have to strip it. And I have nothing here to strip it with. Gotta go to the market in the morning and get some Easyoff oven cleaner and get that ###### paint off. Everything else is done to this point that I need the roof to build the walls of the top section...so I'm screwed for now. Sorry guys...

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Here's where I ended up at noon...not complete :(

But, the paint turned out so well, I just couldn't rush it at the end. I've got to give it a chance to cure completely, then I'll polish. My OCD tendencies won't let me finish without making it the best I can, probably why I never get any builds to 100% :blink:

Build pics here:

http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad46/jeffs396/6th%20Annual%2024HR%20build%20jeffs396/

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Well the knives and the brushes are all down now.

I started this model at 12:19 yesterday afternoon and just stopped. There are a few more decals to apply and plumbing and wiring on the engine. Just ran out of time for the finer details.

Challanges I had were waiting for the paint to dry. I used Tamiya Laquer and Acylics as well as Krylon. All are fairly fast drying but I still would prefer to allow paint to dry for a couple of days before working with it.

I bought this kit for 9.99 on a clearance table at the hobby shop. It was opened, the box was in rough shape, but the decals were old and had a little water damage. It took a long time and decal set to get the larger decals done.

All in all I had a blast. With a little more work I'll have my second build completed by the end of the day. I spent almost 10 hours yesterday and 4 1/2 hours today. Man, how in the world did we ever pound out kits in a few hours as kids?

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Great job and thanx guys. Jeff, yes, at around 1120. It turned into a curbside build. I was a little shakey this morning, broke one of the trim parts, so I left them off. The windows were a real pain. The molds are shot for this kit. Almost more flash that parts. Anyway, turned out pretty good, considering I haven't built a model this fast in probably 40 years!

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