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Thanks Dennis. Mine were like that in some of my past builds and I wanted a more realistic touch to them so starting with my "Demon II" F-100 build I started routing the ignition cables a lot more carefully and uniformly. Seems to tidy things up a bit in the engine compartment. The beginnings of the interior construction are under way. Here's the progress on the door panels. I mixed up some dark grey and thinner and outlined all the recessed areas so when I shot the white over the door panels it would make those areas stand out a little more. A pre-shading of sorts. I found a piece of adhesive backed blue metallic sheet that I applied and cut out around the edges for a neat and clean door insert panel. Then I masked off and painted the door speaker grilles black. I did the same thing with the seats as I did with the door panels on pre-shading all the cracks and crevices with a dark gray, then a medium coat of white followed by a coat of semi-gloss clear. I'm trying to accent the blue lightly throughout the interior without overdoing it. Keep in mind that the seat belts and dash will be blue as well. I had some soda bottles so I drilled two holes to simulate cup holders and slipped a couple of sodas in the center console. Window switch and shifter bezels were picked out with Chrome BMF. There'll be some more blue in here to balance things out colorwise as it's waaaaaaaaaaaay too bright in there right now with no contrasting. Radio face with CD halfway out of the slot will be going on the blue panel at the front of the console. Weird how Revell didn't have a decal slide or radio face molded on it.

As smooth as it is , a gloss coat will look perfect on it.

Man.....I'm diggin' this! I like the resin goodies........particularly those headers.

This will be good to be in on. Good start.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang Dale!! Man THAT is lookin' good!!!! Very nice detailing!

Man every time you start a build I swear it's like watchin' a good movie. I learn so dang much from your work. Certainly looking forward to more John.

Having the tools and the "know how" goes a loooooooooong ways. Looks like you've got both down pat.

Gotta love a Willys build. Great color choice Craig.

Man that is crazy cool! Very nice paint work!

Good lookin' Cuda Jim!!!

Thanks James, Dave and Guido. I dry brushed on a little ground up brown pastel to tone the plug wires down for a little more realistic look. I've still got a little tweaking to do and one throttle return spring to install on the rear carburetor but here's the fruits of today's labor:

Nice work and great ideas in motion.

Smooth paint John!

LOTSA work going into this one James. Wow!!

I'll be seconding what everyone else said about the second time around and how good it looks now Ben. This is gonna turn out good......real good.

Man there's some good ideas at work here with this build. Learning a lot here!

Thanks JC and Daniel. I hear ya Daniel. Seems like a lot of 'em do have blowers stickin' out of the hood. I've got the chassis finished except for the chrome exhaust tips install: Got the throttle linkage done and have been working on other stuff like the fuel delivery system and radiator hose(which took three hose fabrications until I got a hose and clamp assembly that looked half decent! ). Still have the throttle return springs to install, fuel lines from the fuel junction block and gotta clean up those air horns which I have temporarily installed for effect. Here's where we're at now:

Good lookin' build Richard. Man those ol' F bodies look too cool!!!

This Willys kit is the bomb. Lookin' good so far.

Man all the plumbing and wiring follows the contours and is routed nicely. Fantastic progress so far.

This one's turning in to a pearl! Watching......

Oh my LORD that's such a clean build!!!! Very nice work!!!

Great work on the headlamps and tail lights. That's one BIG pitfall of these kits.

This should be very interesting to follow. Liking all the mods so far.

I do like the Gunmetal approach to this one Pat.