Quick GMC

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looks like a cast iron block, no paint. I have a can of Dupli-Color cast iron spray paint, looks dead on.

Looking very nice. Where did you get those Ferrari emblems? I need some of those.

I think the engine is done. The only thing left is to have a fuel line coming from the pump going all the way back to the tank. One thing I am not sure on is if I should paint the engine bay black, or the body color. I am not sure of the body color yet. I'm leaning towards black, it seems to make the engine pop more.

Got some more work done on the engine. I think for me, wiring is the most tediously tricky part of the model, other than polishing the paint. I think I made the wires on the driver's side bank a little too short, I wanted them to fall down more to look more natural, but it is what it is. I used the Model Car Garage wiring loom set to keep the wires in order. I attached two of the looms to the cylinder heads by bolting them down with .5mm nickel bolts. The fan is the PE part from the MCG set. Primered with Tamiya metal primer, then black, then dull coat. I sanded the edges of the fan to reveal the metal, maybe a bit too much. The kit part has a plug that fits through the pulley and into the engine. Turns out the toothpicks I have are exactly the right diameter to fit in there snugly and I don't have to glue it in. So I took a piece of toothpick and drilled a hole through the end. Then I put a 1mm brass bolt through the center of the fan and screwed it into the toothpick, then pressed it into place. No glue. I dry fitted the engine to the chassis with the front suspension to make sure the headers fit correctly. The driver's side headers is a little out of place, but I only tacked them in place with super glue, so I can adjust it easily. I think the headers should be weathered, but they look so good the way they are I'm going to leave them alone.

that helped a lot, I found it! here: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_269513-Pontiac-Ventura-1974.html And Jimmy Flinstone makes a resin body. I was watching the show and it looked like a cool car http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-73-Pontiac-Ventura-Jimmy-Flintstone-1-24th-1-25th-scale-Resin-Body-/400789606732?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d50ec114c

Season 1, episode 3 of the Rockford Files. Looks like a Nova, but it has a Pontiac grill and badging on it. Dark green car during the chase through the golf course This show was before my time, but I just started watching it. I figured if anyone knew, it would be you guys

there is already a massive online petition to bring Clarkson back.

no magnifier. Taking advantage of my eyesight while I can.

I have never seen one.

They came with the kit, but I stripped the chrome and did primer, black, clear, then Alclad polished Aluminum. Looks much better than the kit chrome to me.

Great Planes makes a CA debonder if you ever need to undo parts without breaking them.

I just started using this, it's the best. If your parts are primed and painted well, it won't pull the paint off. Also I use this as masking for weird areas.

I'm pretty sure it's not correct. I actually really tried to find the correct setup for the alternator and starter, but had so many conflicting search results I just did the best I could. Now for the fuel lines I really did look through quite a bit of pictures to make it as realistic as possible. I thought about doing the fuel line from the filter back to the tank. I still may, but I don't wan't to clutter it up. I still have to fit the headers, but I don't want to handle them too much because of the Alclad. I have been acquiring this aftermarket stuff over the course of the last 8 years. I don't have much money to spend either, but I buy little things here and there, even if I don't need them for a particular build. Anything I think would add detail to whatever may come next is what I buy. Plus I have to spread it out or my wife would kill me in my sleep

Your wheels turned out awesome, they have that bright metal sharpness, pretty great for your first time with Alclad. It took me forever to get consistent results.

we have a 3 bedroom house. One of the agreements when buying the house was I get one room and the garage, the wife can have the rest. The garage is now taken up with my business and my room was a guest room/office/hobby room. The office is the priority, so my hobby area is literally inside the closet, with the doors taken off, and a little desk for the spray booth. Anyway, I have been throwing hints out for a year that I want the full bed out of this room and into our son's room. He's just about 15 months now and a little young for the bed, but still. Last night she says okay, let's move the bed. He will still be in the crib for a bit, but the bed is in there and we can ease him into it. I had all my photo stuff setup in the garage, mainly for taking stock photos of products for my website, but now I can have it inside. I'm super excited. This is what I threw together last night, but I'll get it dialed in when I have time. That thing to the left is a massage chair I am "storing" for my parents There are 5 bulbs in each light, they call them soft boxes. I use it for creating pics for my website. I have two more lamps with massively bright, 300 watt daylight bulbs, but right now they are overkill.

I bought a new 1/48 Revell Airplane model from the hobby shop a couple years ago. Got home and opened it and there was a large cut across the entire wing assembly. Through the plastic bag and into the model parts, like someone sliced open a box with a box cutter and it went into the model. sent a picture to Revell and they sent a new set immediately.

That looks awesome

I managed to lose both coils from this kit somehow. I spun some styrene rod in a drill, then inserted a piece of wire for the contact point Then I used some scrap PE fret to make a bracket Here we are now. Normally I jump from build to build and can't stand stuff all over my bench, but I have been pretty content with this build, so this is where I am Can anyone recognize the show I'm watching in the last picture??

PE fan from set Still have to paint and bend to shape I had these laying around Figured they would make good connectors Removed some wir fro the insulation and slip these in Brass screws set into the starter and wire connectors attached with .5mm nuts Same with the Alternator Coming together. The toothpick was used as a dowel to line up the pulley. The PE fan doesn't have a pin

.5mm brass threaded nuts cut their own threads right on to this wire. The wire is very soft This is a pre-colored resin distributor from R&M of Maryland. I pinned it because I always break these off. Here is some of the fuel line complete in place. Next i made the T fitting from styrene rod, to route the fuel line to the filter I cut the fuel line where needed and test fit the T fitting Here are all the pieces trimmed and ready to install best closeup I could get

Next is the engine, my favorite part. I used Hemi Orange from Scale Finishes. The valve covers I did in gun metal instead of the usual black. I probably should have done black. I don't know if I like it, but I'm not changing it. I found this stuff called Blue Tack on Amazon. It's a life saver. It works as an infinitely positionable masking putty. I used to use tape her, this is so much easier. You can tuck it in to get a perfectly clean line The tranny is Alclad Dark Aluminum right over the orange. Here is the beginning of the rabbit hole. .5mm bolt head, MCG carb linkage and some steel tube. It goes here in the middle Here is the center link installed with the bolt through the link and into the tube Next is fitting the fuel line I got it all finished up and realized it was wrong, so here is the start of the new shape

alright, not a ton of work done, but satisfying progress. I did everything 2-3 times. I can test fit parts like a champ, but when it comes to final assembly it's like I have ten thumbs. I wasn't planning on doing all this, but I did one thing and it just kind of snowballed. I originally planned to use the slicks, but then I realized they wouldn't fit without trimming away the rear openings, which I didn't want to do. So I went with the stock tires. Then I kept thinking about it and really wanted slicks, so I said screw it and modified the rear end to tuck the slicks. Beginning of slicks mockup I will use these I ground these down to a nub and also removed a lot of material to narrow the overall width This is not the final stance, but with the rear end glued together with CA, you can see how they tuck. The final stance will be fairly level Here are some of the stuff I will be using. Model Car Garage carb linkage, hood pins, battery fittings, seatbelt fittings, pug wire, wiring looms and Hobby Design wipers Chassis painted but not weathered. I also have the MCG detail set for this. The grill is tricky. I scraped off the grill detail and bent the PE pieces to fit. I'm not sure that it will be worth it, this grill is pretty risp to begin with.

Off topic, but we use super glue to fill chips in granite. Some accelerators react with the minerals in certain stones and several days after you will see a green or aqua colored bloom. We call it green bloom. If the chip is very tiny, you could see bloom the size of a dinner plate. When it first started happening, people were freaking out. It looks like copper oxidation. To this day, there have been many theories, but no definitive answer. We mix Comet with Bleach and let it sit overnight and it gets rid of it. Or, if the customer isn't watching, we use a torch and it comes out sometimes like that.

Alclad is a lacquer. General rule of thumb is no lacquer over enamel, although it's not always disastrous. I would be careful. I think with how thin Alclad goes down and how fast it dries, it probably wouldn't cause any harm. My next Alclad session will be over Scale Finishes Gloss Black. I have been using Alclad Gloss Black Base, but I messed around with some Scale Finishes today and it laid down MUCH smoother for me without any effort. It stays on the part better too. The Alclad is so thin it takes quite a bit to build up a good base. Both are lacquers and dry very quickly, I'd recommend trying one of them out.