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Dude, that aint a big enough difference to worry 'bout. I'll buy either scale and won't even think twice.

Great fit! I recently found out about this tubbing idea and it does work great. Good work Ira!!!

Neat idea on the usage of that BMF Jim!! I'll be writing that one down!

Now that's freekin cool!!!

Thanks Jim and Carl!! I almost forgot to go through the front wheel to spindle fit problem I had. Here is the wheel as it sits on the kit supplied spindle-not exactly fitting here: So..........I got some 1/8" brass rod and cut about a 1/4" long section and slid it onto the spindles and cut and rounded the ends of the spindle: and although it looks rough here in the macro photo, you can't see anything but perfect fit with the naked eye: I sanded my L bracket for the power brake booster/master cylinder assy this morning and set that aside. While all that was drying I flattened some concave washers I found with rubber backing on them. After flattening the washers I sanded all of the rubber backing off of them and will polish them up over the weekend to give them that "brake rotor look". I robbed some brake rotors from a 1/24 scale Monogram F-100 kit , trimmed them to scale length a little and cut a groove in the middle of them with my dremel to get them to fit over the rotor. I still have to cut into the centers to get them to cover the brake rotor (washer) surface a little better but I ran out of time this morning. Gotta get to work you know. Here's where I'm at right now with that..............

I'm in!

Tim and Randy: Thanks fellas!!! Well I've been slackin' on progress pics of this thing. I had "modelers block" last week but have been working my way through it now for the last few days. I was trying to figure out the whole brake system dilemma and I think I've finally got something started here. I found a master cylinder / power brake booster combo that is going to work. The problem is that the bottom of the power brake booster was hollow as seen from the bottom but the benefit here is that instead of being rounded on the bottom , it's flat. This is perfect in the fact that I cut the master cylinder from the booster and will rotate the master cylinder 180 degrees in order to mount the flat portion of the brake booster to the bottom of the cab floor. I also cut an L bracket out from some spare parts of another frame and drilled a hole in it for the booster to "mount" to. Perhaps I could explain it better in photos. Here's the brake booster/ master cylinder assy: (sorry for the blurred image on the first pic) Here is the brake booster and L bracket test fitted. I pinned the brake booster so that the master cylinder mount up to the booster would be a bit more solid. Looks like I'll be thinning that L bracket a bit to scale thickness as well. While keeping in mind that my results aren't going to look exactly like it, this is what I'm going for but with a slightly longer rod and another stand off L bracket for a brake booster actuating rod guide that's coming soon:

Progress?

Everything looks good from this angle Phil. Lots of detail and looks like the hard work on the panel fit paid off!

Charlie and Gene: Thanks a mil guys! Bob: Thank you! It is funny indeed! I still sit back and surprise myself.....a lot, but always remember where I came from.

The paint!!!!!!!!!!!! Need I say more?????

What a build! Clean, detailed throughout and sleek!! It just doesn't get much better.

I've got my Bf109 G-6 and my Ford F-100 to finish and I'm fairly certain I'll be tackling that 229 first.

Man your interiors always come out looking sweet Jim!! Great job!!!!

Now THAT'S a clean build. Nice!

And Jeremy busts out with a Tamiya Corsair. Man are you ever gonna be glad you did that. I picked these up at the IPMS Houston Model Mania show over the weekend. This , I got a deal on: And don't EVEN ask how much I gave for this one!

Now ask me how I knew. PM sent

Harry: Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. (Told you I'd get around to building a car model here. lol) Monty: Man I really appreciate your comments. Believe me I learned more watching all of you folks here than you learned from me I'll tell you that. I do thank you for your encouragement along the way as well.

Those wheels look like the ones off of a Monogram 69 Z28 kit I built once. Great looking build BTW there Jeremy!

Sweet ride man!!

Thank you Jim and Kevin! I was surprised enough to see that the Challenger won 1st place but I sure enough didn't see the Best in Automotive one coming at all. There were some great builds there at that show!

That sure is a nice build Bob!

Nifty work Dan! Lookin' forward to see what you're gonna bring to the table with this one.

Man this build is moving right along JC! Great work!

These guys are right Ken. Hit those wheels a little bit with some paint and you'll set this puppy off!! Those chrome pipes would benefit from a light coat of Tamiya smoke to tint them a bit to get rid of the toy chrome look. Good lookin' model bud. You did her proud.