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I don't miss that snow and colder weather one bit. I'm ok down to about 30 or so but once it hits that 20's mark I'm out..........and then you add wind and snow? God bless you Dan. Cool GMC BTW. As for the scale truck..........I like the way you're thinkin. Looks great.

Thanks Dave! This is the OOB one here. I'm putting all of my efforts into getting this one completed so I can focus my attention back on my modified bus...........and my Arado 234 Blitz Bomber. There's a lot of work going into the Arado as well. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment for the details..... Here's the cockpit tub assy with a just.......a mere 35 parts.....

Thanks Ray. I've actually been working on this the whole week but not enough visual progress has been made to post pics of.

Welcome aboard Tony. A great site it is with a no shortage of talented folks who are ready to share their skills and knowledge. Looking forward to seeing you around.

Thanks Bob. I appreciate the comments. I don't think this one'll do any good in a contest though . lol

That's pretty dang cool of you to bring this one back to life Mike. Good lookin' build Harry and I'll second Mike's motion. Get well soon Harry.

Good lookin' build Tyler! My son loves these trucks so I'll be showing him this one today.

I admire not only this stellar build but also the "out of this world" photography in which you used to bring this build to a life like state. Truly fantastic work here on both fronts Yuri!

Suuuuuweet!!! I love it!! I see a lot of that kind of stuff here in Corpus!

Dang Mark! I love the theme and the work that you put into this. Awesome stuff bud.

Joe: Thanks and I would paint the other body that color if it were a molded in yellow kit. I do like the gold/ greenish paint look. John: Thank you as well sir. All that detail is so hidden that it really doesn't make much difference. Really the only reason I moved the fan up any is because it would have been hidden too if I had of relocated it. I didn't get a whole lot of bench time in this morning (1 hour) like I usually get on the weekend (3+ hours) as I've been really tired the last few days and it caught up with me yesterday so I slept in a little bit longer this morning. I did get my injector stack bases coated with some Alclad II this morning and started working on a replacement fuel cell for the OOB build. On the left and in the back ground is the OOB fuel cell which to me just looks TOTALLY ridiculous so I opted for one from my Camaro Pro Stock kit which looks less toy like (like that whole kit doesn't look that way already right?) plus I get to detail it a little bit more than the OOB one. Got it glued together and I'll be working on the seam line and detailing in the days to come.

I couldn't have put that better myself as that's been my stance on it . My monthly average is about $45 but a build will take me around the 7-10 month marker. All in all it doesn't hurt too bad and as Dale said it's one helluva lot cheaper than my Mustang used to be and to me it's just as gratifying..

I managed to get some things done today on the interior and I got a gloss black coat over the injector stack bases. After that dries I'll shoot some Alclad over them and start working on installation of the stacks. While the injector stacks were drying I couldn't help myself any longer. I had primed a spare roof section from my cut up bus a couple of days ago and decided to spray the base coat yesterday followed up with the clear this morning. The results are EXACTLY what I was after. In the pictures below you'll see the teal base color but you'll also be able to pick out the blue and purple on the curves and angles. This color has always been one of my favorites due to the sheer wickedness of its look.............

Prayers sent up every day. Hope everything is ok Harry.

These guys have pretty much covered it all. Wow. I will say this Jaime, you are an awesome person. He's a lucky guy it sounds like. Merry Christmas to both of you, Joe

I got the engine installed this morning but before I did I mounted the cooling fan up and made some minor adjustments to the radiator. I've never seen a cooling fan installed..........on the crankshaft pulley???? Too weird and I didn't like it and besides, the OOB fan was too dang bulky and big anyhow. I went with a cooling fan from Revell's Pro Stock Thunderbird kit and it worked great AND I installed it in the "normal" position at the water pump pulley. Criminy! I'm also in the process of stripping all the chrome from the fuel injector stack bases so I can apply gloss black to them and shoot a coat of Alclad chrome over them. Anyhow here's this morning's progress report...............

Looking good and I'll be interested in seeing what you're gonna toss inside of that camper.

I've gotta say that this one looks just way too cool (pardon the pun) . I really like the way you've got it looking with all the graphics and knick knacks here and there. If there was one thing that I disliked about the OOB kit was the front wheels sticking so far outside of the wheel openings but you're managing to pull off a good looking build in spite of that.

Thanks James. Yeah this one was supposed to be an OOB build and I get ribbed a lot in good fun on some of the other sites about not being able to build anything OOB. I argue back that it'll at least be 80% OOB.

That's definitely a guy who not only likes his rigs but builds great models of them as well. Out of this world builds.

Okeedokee folks. On page 3 I left off with the OOB engine with no timing cover, water pump....nothin'. Man did that look blank! I was initially going with a Hemi that I built as a kid and then backed out of that one just because of all the mods I would have to do to get it looking right and fitting. So I took the timing cover and water pump from that engine and put over onto this engine first of all. Secondly, I couldn't leave the engine with now ignition system given all this effort I'm going through to "enhance" things a bit so I added some wire's from Lex's after drilling out the distributor cap and going through the usual process of installing wires into the cap and routing and all. The current progress with the L/H OOB injector stack test fitted and a dang timing cover on the front of it for cryin' out loud. Lastly, speaking of injector stacks, while I like the idea of those on this kit I strongly dislike all the seam lines and flash associated with the parts that AMT used. From a distance they look great and the stacks are at least not molded together but close up they are a complete disaster that would require total reworking to straighten out! Let's zoom in a little closer.... So I'll start fixing that by cutting off the stacks from the bases.... Here's what I'm going to use instead. I picked up some aluminum tube from HL and will cut each stalk in half, chuck it up in a drill and spin it up in the steel wool there beside the stalk here to start a base for the shining process and then switch over to spinning it up in a polishing cloth with some Mothers Aluminum polish to "polish" things off. Sorry...............couldn't help the pun. I needed locators in which to create a strong adhesion and to help line everything up so I chose some smaller diameter brass rod that slips right into the aluminum rod perfectly. and in one photo I'll illustrate the process. I drilled into the injector stack base at each outlet to create a pilot hole for the brass rod which fits snugly inside each hole, then will slip the aluminum rod over the short lengths of brass rod like so............. and then slid it on down to it's "home" position like so..............and do 7 more like that and I'll be home free with a lot better looking stacks than I started out with.

Nailin' this one the whole way! Great work Mark.

Neat idea.....and I agree with Mark........that bug deflector looks great.

That's some good modeling right there Luis!

Wow man! Waaaaay off the charts!!!