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That color and shine look immaculate Atin. Gonna be subscribing to this one.

Doncha just love it when things just seem to “click”? Good on you bud. Looks great so far.

There's a lot goin' on in this thread. Looking forward to seeing what you do with this one Jim. This kit comes with a molded in exhaust??

I've done that with military aircraft paint jobs and it helped immensely. I actually took a 5 year break from aircraft to watch and learn while I worked on developing my auto paint skills and that helped alot too. Learned a LOT of tricks in my time away from aircraft.

Looking forward to seeing the paint start flyin

All coming together so cleanly Kit. Will be watching this one with great interest now that I've stumbled upon it.

Missed this one Jeremy. I'll be following now. Sorry about the painting blues brutha. Been there and done that. Looking forward to the recovery efforts.

Thanks a lot fellas! All updates will start slowing after this weekend as I get ready to go to the Nationals in San Marcos. It's promising to be a great time and I've been looking forward to going to one of these for a LONG time now. For today though....Update time: I cut a thin piece of clear Evergreen plastic this morning and glued it into place. After that I cut the same shape from some sandpaper so the floor carpeting wouldn't be lost and adhered that on top of the clear panel. I'll be hitting the sandpaper with some gloss to give everything a uniform base to start with and then we'll be going with the color. I'll be going with a black interior but it won't be boring. Something else that caught my attention was the molded in park brake handle. This........will change. There'll be a few items from this sheet ending up in the interior. Thank God for The MCG... I've got the interior tub painted with a base coat of black primer and painted the door panels and console in a semi-gloss black. Driver's toe board where the swing pedals were is pretty much blended in at this point in the build. Since I've painted it, I've re-thought the situation some and have decided to open up a panel for displaying a little more detail. I decided to open the battery compartment up behind the drivers seat and have painted a battery all up and detailed it already. I'll be cutting the drivers seat to display it in the forward position to allow visibility back to the battery compartment in the coming updates. I've started on both door panels by painting the wood grain paneling & outlining the chrome strips on the panel as well as installing PE window crank handles. I've also begun the center console detailing process.

Following this beautiful beautiful build JR. Paint work is just outstanding.

Dude.....where does it all STOP??!! Such amazing attention to detail and then the execution of the said detail is just mind-blowing.

Oh man......that green does look good on this bad boy. Fantastic color selection and you applied it very well.

Looking as close to perfect as it gets Zack. Good score on the extra kit for 13 bucks too. I saw where they've got 1970 Vette kits on for the same price now. I wished I would've known about THAT sooner. lol . Progress is looking good man.

Continuing on with the good progress Dennis. Looking good so far. I like the usage of the block hugger headers to work that'll play a little more nicely with the build.

Any more progress on this one? I've got a set of aluminum wheels that I had spun up for mine and the HP decal set for it and you're really making me want to move this up in the build que.

I'm gonna be using this. Thanks for the information on that Steve. PM sent bro.

There's a fair amount of body work involved in this one and it all looks like it's coming together almost flawlessly at that. Will be watching what you do with it.

I'm not sure about which color you should use but I can sure as heck tell ya ONE thing....that's a great start on that engine. Great detail and paint work on that.

Hey! A Maverick!! I'm in!!!

I'm in on this one Dennis.

Good lookin' build going on so far. Will be lookin' in on this one.

Moving on to my next favorite part of auto building....the interior. If there's one thing I cannot STAND it's molded in foot pedals. They just look so dang fake!! The fix......is to remove the toe board on the drivers side. What'll happen is that I'll use either PE foot pedals or pedals from another kit and use needles as the swing levers and mount them on the back side of the dash. The following photos show this process when I built my Dyno Don Ford Maverick. The results speak for themselves....... In the case of my Maverick, I used foot pedals from an AMT Mustang kit that I had And cut the levers off leaving the pedals and using the needles pictured above for the levers Mounted to the rear of the dash in the following shot: The turn out is just SO much better of a result as can be seen on my 1970 Maverick dash:

Thanks for the comments fellas. Emre, I prime the intake and exhaust manifolds black and then come back over both with a very light coat of Aluminum Alclad. No work gets done to the intake after this treatment but the exhaust manifolds get one more step. I apply a light dry brushing of ground up black pastel over them to add some depth and extra weathering.

So wait.......You applied embossing powder and then shot enamel green over it to get this look? Dumb it down to the lowest level for me because I'm going to try this. I've used flocking material in the past and don't like it because once the model is turned upside down at all, that stuff goes like......everywhere. It's for that reason that I stopped using flocking material all together and have been searching for a better method of modeling carpet. I think I may have just found it here. Looking forward to your reply Steven.

Gonna tune into this one.

WHOA HO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSS!!! That's how it's done right there!!!