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Yup. The plan sounds good. Tail lights look great with the beveled holes. 👍🏻

Red is good, Greg, but that's not what I meant. Is the new smile going to be painted ( body color ) or will you be putting braces on ? 😁

You can park it in my driveway, Dave! 😀

Nice stance, Jon. Are we staying shaved? It's gonna be easy to rub out 🙂

Can you feed the rear tubes up through the bottom through slant-drilled holes, up against the sides of the rear seat ?

Well..... as long as you keep moving, you don't need a fan 🥴 The grille looks pretty cool, Greg. I think that's gonna work. Body color?

I only check this category when I'm too lazy to be doing everything else that I need to be doing. Probably, I should check more often 🤔. I should go do something.....

Now my head hurts. 😑

I'm convinced. It's in the cart 🤓!

Yup. That's a fact. 😟

Probably not but I'll let you know in 20 minutes 💩

It's been a long time for me but I recall post 48 was at Carlyle, right?

Great idea for getting the roll cage up tight. Tail lights are not too shabby either 🙂. I'm gonna tag along.

Yeah, I know. 😔

Oh no....did I call you.....oh, my bad, Greg. 💩 I'm off my meds, sorry.

Well it looks like you'll have enough air flow through there, Len. I trust you used your ductulator to determine the size. 😉

That's okay, Elliot, I know what all those old cars look like......🤣

Sweet Merc. 😍

Well, I hope you got some good pictures, Len. Is Hershey still pre-'48?

Niiiiiiiiiice blue! Gonna be fantastic in foil 😀

He was hoping the intrinsic value would bring that kind of money. I can imagine what the box looked(and smelled) like 🤮. Always wanted to see Hershey 😕. Did you score anything for your 1:1s?

Well this certainly raises the bar 😯. Where is your home planet, Jon? There are so many lessons here I can't absorb it all in one pass. Gotta go through it again from the beginning. Absolutely amazing!

It seems the deuce grille, the very thing that many of us love the most about the old girl, is not well represented in some kits and this is one of them. There are two weaknesses with this one. Fortunately, the shape of the shell is good, from what I can determine, which is something I can't say for some others. The grille, however, lacks the cross braces and that's a big one. I can't fix that. The other is a common one and that is the way the grille fits the shell. It goes into the shell too deep. On other builds, I just shim up the grille till it looks right to me. This kit has an additional issue that needs to be addressed before I can be happy. The chin is weak. Literally. It can be easily broken. First, I added shims to bring the grille out using scraps of .005" sheet. To make me happy, I needed to do it twice for a total of .010" at each point of contact. Then I braced the chin with more junk, bending it carefully into position, and holding with CA and a kick. With all the test fitting I've had to do (another story 😕), I was lucky to get this done before I broke it off. Moving along, and I know some folks won't like this but I want the hood but I don't like the louvers. Sorry. They had to go. Why did they have to use this (arrow) for the sprue gate? Gotta fix that too. While I was playing with the grille shell this popped up👇😕. Easy fix, though. A bit of CA on a thin toothpick and done. You didn't need to know this but I wanted to show off a very handy tool that maybe isn't ubiquitous among fellow builders. And it's still wet 😋 Thanks for putting up with my nonsense.🥴

Rick, thanks for your tips. The trouble with a filler that is much harder than the styrene is sanding the surrounding styrene under flush. Usually, when filling small holes and other low spots, I will use CA kicked and sanded immediately while it's still close to the styrene in hardness. Why I didn't do that this time is still a mystery 🤔. I don't know why the filler swelled out of the panel lines but it may be the Tamiya paints are too hot or I sprayed a too heavy coat. It dries pretty fast so that is indicative of a hot thinner. The filler, Mr. Surfacer 500, is something I have used for years without any issues for filling imperfections. The panel lines were not very deep but maybe there's an incompatibility factor involved as well. I'm being more cautious now.

Thanks, Jon. I'm kinda partial to flat white myself 😂