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Carl: Thanks buddy! Rob: Thank you kindly sir!

This is gonna be good!

Now that's a neat build. Great work Mattias!

Looks great so far Ty and welcome aboard!

Good lookin' Fox Body there Tim! Welcome aboard!

One from each genre as they are both my best efforts.... Automotive: Monogram 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A and one from the aircraft side: 1/48 Tamiya Fw190 D-9

Looks pretty cleanly built to me! Nice job!!!

Thank you there Andy!

Thanks a million fellas! You know when I posted the finished pics I didn't foresee as much response as this ol' build has gotten. Wow! Thanks again you guys.

Thanks Dan! I'll give it my best shot. I can focus on this one alone now that I'm finished with my AMT 37 Chevy. Hopefully I'll have some good progress on this thing in the weeks to come.

Well I took the glamour shots this morning and am content with how this all turned out. Lot's of touch up and some parts replacements along the way helped out some. The paint is all original with only clean up and a polishing with Novus to bring out the shine. On the original build I never installed any glass or headlamps so right off the bat there was an improvement there. Wheels and tires are all replacements (front tires from the Revell Motorcraft T-Bird Pro Stock kit, front wheels and rear tires from newer boxing of AMT's 37 Chevy and rear wheels from the Barris T Buggy kit) with some tricks that I've learned here and there to enhance those items. All exterior chrome was replaced and the hood was added as well. I'm not just real happy with the hood but I'll work around that for now. Interior is all original with no upgrades other than cleaning up. The engine is terrible and if it weren't for the fact that the headers were visible all the way up to it I would have left it out. All in all this has been some good fun with little frustration and I've even got to try out a few tricks and ideas in what was unchartered waters before this build. Is this my best model or will this win in any shows?? No. It does, however, have it's place inside a good display case to pay tribute to some of my earlier days 30+ years ago. With any luck it will last another 30+ years............ Thank you to all who encouraged me on the WIP as well as those who stopped by to look in. Now.....I focus all my efforts on the F-100. To recap. Beginning shots: (Take note: The front tires have melted away from the wheels....the heat was terrible in that back room!) Finishing shots:

Finished up with this little guy this morning and took some "glamour shots". I shot this one over to the "Under Glass" section just a few minutes ago. Thanks to all who encouraged me on this build as well as those who stopped by to look in.

That is crazy cool!!! Colors are wild!!!

The first thing that came to my mind was the terrific color choices you have going on here. Man that looks really clean! Great work there Steve!!!

Man I've got high respects for folks that do this just simply because I know there's a ton of work to pull something like this off. I've actually got one of these sitting on a separate enclosed shelf and if I didn't have two builds going right now I'd join in here. I will, however, follow along with this because sooner or later down the road I've got plans to bring mine back to life.

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'Preciate it Ira! I installed the fuel rail between the carburetor inlet lines this morning and am still working on the ideas for the fuel line routing. The plan is to make it neat and tidy.

I don't see many Gremlins being done. The ideas are lookin' great here Eric.

Ok. I finally got the headlamp assys completed. I got complete with the passengers side lamp and started on the drivers side. While trying to glue the lens in place I dropped it into a drop of clear parts glue and blemished the outside of it. I dropped into a small bottle of Windex and stripped off the Future and started over with it. A while later I was able to finish the drivers headlamp assy off. I also managed to paint the hood sections last night and this morning were dry enough to fit on for pics. After 30 years the original blue has faded and is noticeable here. You know, this model will certainly never be one of my best nor will it ever be in a model show however I look on this one with the mindset of it was one of the stepping stones toward getting better as well as admiring the fact that it's survived all these years. A couple more finishing touches to go and I'll get some glamour shots of the ol' mule. BTW I have since fixed that utterly disgusting gap between the front fender and the drivers side step as well as the 3/16" offset towards the passengers side of the body mount on the frame. Took some patience but I got it. The glamour shots will reflect this change.

Keep it up Mark!! This one sure is fun to watch!

Got to work on the stock hood. I didn't like the side panels so I cut 'em off.... and both sides ready for washing, priming and paint.... I also started working on the headlights. The replacement kit came with tinted brown headlights. I didn't much care for that so I stole some out of that Boss 429 Mustang kit that I stole the engine out of for my F-100. I trimmed em up and applied some Future over the lenses. No pics but you'll see the results here in a week or so.

Dude!!!! This alone would be enough to justify why I came here to this forum!! Holee Schmokes!!!! Thanks for taking the time to explain how you did it as well. Good Grief this is good stuff!!!!

Mike: Thanks man! Carl: Thank you as well and.......................how'd you know? lol Pat: I appreciate the encouragement buddy! Yeah it was hard on the eyes alright. I started work today on the common fuel rail for the carburetors. I used .062" diameter solder as a basis for it and drilled two holes in the sides for the fuel inlet lines to the carbs and one in the end at the back of the fuel rail for the fuel inlet line from the fuel pump. I shot some gloss black over it and set it aside to dry. In a few days I'll shoot a coat of chrome alclad over it to give it a nice shine. I put the air inlet horns on top of the carburetors as well. Man does that engine stand tall in the frame! I feel pretty good about where I'm at with this build right now. As I put this build back up in its holding cell I noticed that the "down low" view gave it an even more aggressive stance so I brought it back down and took a picture of it that way.....

Nice! I know how it is going through all the different options that the "voices in my head" keep telling me to try. I like the end results here. Good goin' Darren!

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