mustang1989

There's Pete! Didn't know you were here too! Great to see you.

Thanks Carl. I may have an item or two more up my sleeve yet. lol Ok. I've got the headlamps installed and am now working on the grille. I really like the custom one that is shown on the box top but it needs a lot of clean up which means...........well......stripping all the chrome off, cleaning up the mess and .............you know..........applying Alclad in place of the kit chrome. The stock grille doesn't look as good in my opinion but doesn't require even half of the work. Looks like I'd better get the Easy Off oven cleaner ready for the chrome stripping process........... With the stock grille and with the custom grille: (Yeah.........we'll go with this one!)

If the engine sits on the K member anyway the oil pan won't be any closer to the ground than it would be already. Or you could make a modified K member that would drop the engine below the hood line. Again, the oil pan to ground clearance won't be affected. Something along these lines maybe? This is definitely more complex than a scale representation would be but you get the picture. Lookin' forward to seeing more progress.

Any chance of putting a small spacer between the K member and the frame to lower the engine slightly below the hood line without too much height at the front of the car?

Thanks Rich. One day I hope to be able to tackle the worn paint jobs like yours.

This crate looks really vicious Tyrone! Nice aggressive look along with some awesome paint.

Thanks Jeremy. This morning I worked on a couple more interior items. I was looking for something to put at the R/H rear corner of the flooring to hide the light that can be seen between the R/H rear wheel opening and the floor and my eyes cast upon a 1/43rd scale Great Garages kit that I've got in my stash. There's a tool box in there that in 43rd scale is supposed to be a parts trunk but in 25th scale it works perfectly as an "on-the-go" toolbox. I primed it and painted it yesterday and detailed the handle and hinges. This morning I applied a couple of decals to give it a more "true mechanics toolbox" look and installed it on the floor. then I applied a "Chevrolet/ Bowtie" banner on the wall just behind the couch.

There's nothing ordinary about this car Eric! Really turned out a goody here!

Nice work all around on this one Tom! I really like that fuel distribution block and plumbing.

Looks good Jeremy. Good lookin' paint and I like that tint strip across the top of the windshield.

Great ideas going on here. I ended up going to HL and buying one of these kits because of this thread. lol

What can a guy say to this that hasn't been said already?? I still, to this day, cannot get over the results you get from Alclad.

Paint looks great!

Great work so far Pat. I really like using Lego's in my projects as well. Shop looks killer too!!!!

This is just crazy good Rich!! Good grief!!!!!!!!!!! Just off the map man.

Cool plan out Rob.

Nice!!! I've always liked these wagons. Come on with it Ray! Lookin' good!

That sounds like a good idea. Next time youre up against that dilemma try some EZ Line Bill. That stuff works wonders.

Well..............I had success with the gloss coat on the hood today and I discovered something by accident. I decanted my aerosol MM "Wet Look" Lacquer into a paint bottle and shot it through an airbrush and it turned out REALLY good. The problem is that I have two airbrushes and only thought I'd run enough thinner through the airbrush to rid all of the Alclad from it. I will say that it's a bittersweet mistake in the fact that if I ever want a slight glitter in my gloss that I know what to do now. What I'll do from here is shoot another coat of black followed up with another coat of decanted "Wet Look" without the glitter in it as opposed to dunking the whole thing in brake fluid again. The glitter seems to show up well in photos as does the gloss:

Lookin' good so far Jeremy! Details look great.

Thanks Nick, Jeremy and Carl. Hopefully I can start moving along a little quicker with this thing now.

Thank you gents. The results of relocating the hinge, sanding the left hand edge of the door to allow for proper opening and closing and installing a door stop Closed: (wouldn't you know there'd be a stupid dog hair in the middle of the door-no worries-it'll get dusted off) I still have to shave some off of the floor at the door hinge area to allow for the body to sit low on the frame and for the door to open fully but here it is anyway with the body a slight bit off of the frame. Don't worry, the outer door edge at the R/H side of the door will be painted the proper body color. I'll get to it shortly Open: Oh and before I forget. I've been working on the headlight bezels. I had to strip the chrome on from them and try my luck with the Alclad II Chrome. I'm getting a lot more comfortable with my results. Here the both of them are after polishing: and the Alclad door handles are ready for installation as well:

Ok I'll be catching up in here. It's been a long while since I've done anything aviation related so it was really difficult to decide on what I'm going to do for an ice breaker for the last few months. I bounced back and forth from Ta-152 to an Fw190 D series to a 190 A series to finally .........this: A Hase offering of the 234: I bought two of these because every time I start hackin' on a build for detail add ons like cockpits or engine displays or anything like that I have inherent problem of messing something up along the way to the point of being unrepairable so I just head it off at the pass with a spare parts kit. I don't know when exactly I'll get started on this bad boy as I still have to finish up my '54 Chevy Panel Wagon that I'm building in the Auto section. Here are the upgrades: with a masking set: and reference material:

Thanks Randy. I'm slowly making my way back towards getting the door re-installed. I'm fairly close to having this one done I think but I just don't want to get "finishitis" and hurry through the last of it. Updates coming soon.

Will be watchin' for it........................