mustang1989

Man you really treated that kit to a superb build. The paint finish is perfect.

Holy schmokes man! First off this would make one cool lookin' Monza. Secondly....you've got your work (pardon the pun) cut out for you. Will be watchin' in on this one. I love all this fabrication and body work going on with these things.

Nice stance with this one Steve. You gonna put any center caps on the front wheels?

Looks really good Tom! Thanks for sharing that.

I already like this guy. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a dang thread hi-jacked by people with the "Me! Me! Me!" complex. I'd kind of like to see the car in question though. A PM maybe?

You've got it in the bag Kevin...........

I ended up with a little bonus benchtime today. I got the hood cut out located and the outline all drilled out : and then cut out... Lots of clean up left to do just on the hood. As referenced earlier, the molding process on these bodies and related parts is nothing short of sloppy. Revell gets my vote on this one in that regard. It didn't help things when I cracked the hood at the very back. That part is currently being repaired.

I'm with Kevin on the rear of the car being just slightly too high up. This thing is beautiful though.

You aint gotta hair on.............if you don't . lol. Go for it Kevin. This is a super lookin' build so far man.

Kevin: Thanks brother!! Bill: Thank you for the encouragement. I apologize for the terrible first picture. The more I look at it the worse it looks. You are strongly correct that this kit sucks in terms of straightness and really bad in terms of roughness. Dan: I appreciate that bud. Randy: Great to see you around and appreciate your comments as well.

Whadda shine! I dare you to put this in a show when you're done. Matter of fact I double dare you.

Did some work in the paint booth this morning and I'm pretty well content with where she's at now. The first pic has been lightened a little to show the detail while the second one is unaltered to show the correct shade. In any case............she's black:

Dude that linkage is gonna look killer on that engine in scale!!!!

That little small block looks good so far. How far you gonna take it?

There are very few people who are gonna see that. Dispense a little of that paint into an airbrush cup, mask off and touch it up. You'll have to point it out for anyone to notice.

For a couple of days I was just stuck. I had the body primed and was going to test fit the body on the chassis so I could figure out where to make the hood cuts at when......I noticed that the body wasn't going all the way down on the chassis. Long story short I had to take the couch back out in the back as it was too close to the L/H wall of the body. It took me a minute to find it because I noticed a couple of things that I overlooked when installing the floor onto the chassis that'll help with body/chassis alignment later. Those are fixed as well. As of this morning I was able to test fit the body and mark the hood for cuts later. One more primer coat and this'll be ready for paint.

Carl: I started working on the issues at hand tonight. Will continue tomorrow morning at 4 a.m. Pat and Vince: I hear what both of you guys are talking about and I had already test fitted it a while back. I had to fill a lot of the gaps on my 56 F-100 in with clear parts cement to fill the huge gaps.

Lemme know how that turns out Kevin. I seem to have the same issues with my finishes.

You build a very convincing model there Ludwig. Lookin' good!

Schuuuwweeeeeeet!!

Thanks Kevin. Right now I'm getting through the body fit problem but hopefully I'll have that one figured out before long here.

Cool project! Lookin' forward to the rebuild Pat! Nice lookin' shop BTW! Where'd you get it at?

Man that finish has a purdy shine to it!

I did just that Mike. Thanks for the encouragement. I will say that I've spent some time today thinking about what's different and I think I have an idea what it is. It'll be a bear to fix but I think I can handle it ok.

First off, Happy Fathers Day to all you dad's out there. I hope you all have a great day today. Secondly.....................I'm now stumped. I've had this body on and off this chassis twenty or better times now making sure everything is ok. Now that I'm this far the dang thing won't go on all the way. I haven't reached that throw in the towel moment or anything yet but this is pretty frustrating. I shelved it for today and will approach with a new outlook tomorrow. Man........you gotta love this stuff. lol