mustang1989

Dude that turbo fabrication is just tops man! Ha ha HA!! Wooo hooo! Keep bringin' it brutha!

That's about what I have in mind really. I actually have some brass rod that'll work as well. Either way, that driveshaft is way too short.

I was working on the hood and firewall to stall myself long enough for a problem to resolve itself and I think it did. I was looking on my work bench at a broken 1/8" drill bit and was about to toss when I had another thought. I could use the smooth /arbor side of the drill bit for a master cylinder pivot point for the brake input linkage and rods. I cut the drill bit about 9/16" long, drilled a hole in the frame at just about the right point and pushed 'er through. It worked perfectly..... Something else also crossed my mind when I was doing some of the paint and body work pertaining to return springs. While I liked the idea of the wrist watch band retaining pin spring I was searching for a spring still yet smaller and more to scale. I do like a lot of the scratch work that goes on with home made wound springs but I just wanted something with a little more uniformity in the coils. I think I might have found what I'm looking for. My headlight burned out in my truck yesterday and wouldn't ya know there's a filament that looks like a spring in there? LOL. While a headlight bulb filament is NOT the right scale, a 3157 light bulb...................is! Today I broke a bulb on a spare bulb I had in my spare parts drawer of my box (all you automotive style mechanics out there know the drawer I'm talking about too--spare bolts, nuts , fuses, electrical stuff, and just about everything to put a car together and run with drawer) . Inside there were two filaments: One larger than the other and both more than perfect for what my use for them was. The next obstacle.............lengthening the driveshaft by about 1/4".

Nice touch Ira!

This has got my "thumbs up" vote the whole way Richard!!!

Ron: I couldn't agree with you more on the terrible overall fit of the "Street Demons" kit. So far I have used the frame and a lot of the suspension components, the hood and main body and the rear fender blisters out of that kit. As of right now I'm glad I got the original SD kit because of the decals which are in tip top shape for being as old as they are. I'm using most of my parts from the latest Revell F-100 boxing. You've probably seen it around but it's kit #85-4914 and the parts are somewhat cleaned up with of those nasty ejector pin marks (which look like appendages on the SD kit) mostly gone and a lot of the fit issues fixed. I now have two of these. If I don't use one of 'em I may have a spare for you should you want it. Thanks for the encouragement here because there are days that I'm just STUCK on how I'm going to get past the next obstacle and it does get a little frustrating and discouraging. I'm figuring it out slowly and as I go but it's coming together. My hang up will be if I screw up on the decals. In that event I'll be in the market for another SD F-100 kit. Hopefully I'll have this bad boy done in time for the show in Houston on August 1st and if not, there's the IPMS show in Austin on the 10th of October. Fingers crossed all the way............ Ok fellas. Now for an oversight on my part. I initially removed the hood emblem from the front of the hood. What I forgot about is that given the fact that I am going to stick with the body look on the box top with the red paint and the flames I neglected to look at the decal sheet which clearly has a cut out for the hood emblem!! I've got two more hoods if I need 'em so I got this bright idea to use one. I cut the area containing the hood emblem out of one of my two usable spares: and sanded the area down on the backside until I had my emblem back. a little closer... and then BMF'd it. Whew!!! I was wondering at first how I was going to get through that obstacle and am glad that problem is solved....... Now..............to the next challenge............

Thanks Carl ! I'm really looking forward to polishing this one up and making it a mirror shine as it's my first true automotive paint job from primer to color to clear. This shade of red is exactly the shade I was hoping for!

All of the Cabovers posted are incredible! Mine do not compare, but here are a few that I have built over the years. Attached Thumbnails http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-15693-0-00338500-1432860674.jpg http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-15693-0-44526500-1432860991.jpg http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-15693-0-61781200-1432860886.jpg http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-15693-0-34830600-1432860767.jpg Brian:Don't compare to what? Those are righteous man!!!

You're really throwin' a lot at these two models John!! I look forward to more updates.

Now that is something I have yet to see!!! I've seen a stagecoach or two but not this.

I always love watching these builds of yours come together Jim!! Keep the pics and progress coming.

Looks great so far Blair!

Looking very much forward to the progress Ray!

Whadda paint job!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!

Paint and BMF work look great!!

That paint job is electric and the engine detail is just outstanding!!!! Top notch build man!

Looks like it was made that way.

What does one say that hasn't been said yet? All I'm gonna add here is that this is friggin' way cool!

Thanks Greg! Well I ended up shooting some paint late last night on my hood and scoop. I've still got some work to do on the clean up and polishing of it as I've got some dust particles in the paint and one or two small bubbles to contend with but with a little finesse I think I'll be in the green. I'll just set this aside for the next couple of weeks and then start to work on smoothing it all out. Mean while I'll turn the attention back to the brake linkage as I think I have that one figured out now.

The paint is turned out masterfully!! The BMF job is what I'm zoomin' in on though. Nice and smooth!!!!

Dang that was quick Ray! Looks great man!!!!

Thanks Carl! LOLOLOLOL!! Randy: Thank you as well. I actually primed the hood yesterday morning. The bottom side looked great but the exterior surface looked like I sprayed gray Rhino Liner on it. I stripped it all off yesterday, cleaned all the brake fluid residue up and I'm back where I started now in the pics above. Will try to re-prime this morning. As far as hockey goes he's a "squirt" and he's still in the "learn to skate" program but he's all heart and that may just be enough. We'll see where it takes him. This is almost monumental considering that I tried to prime this yesterday and the exterior of the hood turned out looking like somebody sprayed gray Rhino Liner on it. I have since stripped it all the way back down to the plastic and now have re primed. I ended up pinning the hood scoop so it will be a lot easier to install once everything is painted.

That turned out great for a two day build. I wouldn't have been even 25% done with the motor in two days. lol . Nice job Chuck! P.S. Just how many actual hours do you have in that build?

Sorry I missed you guys. Thank you Ira and Cliff!

Once you get a paypal account, life will change for you in the ebay world..........................dramatically. I'm like a frikkin kid in a candy store in that place. The scary thing is once you have a PayPal account set up and link it to Ebay is that it's so dang easy to buy stuff. Too easy really!!