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Thanks Bill. Will PM you later man.

A Hasegawa 190 gave you problems? Usually Hasegawa has their act together on these birds.

Dan:It ended up sticking so I'll be using that idea after all. I'll have to do the wraps on a piece of wire that's not twisted though. After sitting back and looking at it a bit , it looks like wrapped twisted wire. As far as today's updates go , I ended up installing a hose for the windshield washer reservoir and I've been working on the chassis a little bit. I ended up just starting over because I'm going to have to change up the ride height a little bit to get the wheel/ tire combo that I have to work. So with that.................. Here we go..........

Thanks for the heads up Jim. The stuff I'm using is about the same as the can. Check it out:

I'm sorry for this Jim................Which one of those is the real life photo?????????? BTW, thanks for the tip on the Tamiya primer over teflon tape. I used the Tamiya Gray primer in the bottle and it does stick. Looks like we're on our way to replicating mummified electrical harnesses with teflon tape after all.

Hey there Kevin. I found out some information regarding chassis. Initially I had painted my chassis black but later found out that it was mostly body color. Here's a photo from one of my reference photos that I acquired through here: Not nit picking as you are off to a good start but just giving some info to you.

I do appreciate the input you guys give and it's all good stuff so thanks Bill and Fred for taking the time to contribute all the information you do to my build. I run into these issues all the time with the RLM colors when building Luftwaffe subjects(the only thing is that muscle car information is a lot more recent and available! lol). Thank you both for all you contribute in here. Jim: Thank you for that information because I had decided to scrap the initial idea and was working on something to take it's place. I do have a bottle of Tamiya liquid primer in gray. I may give it a shot with this stuff and see what kind of result I get. If it doesn't work I'll find a bottle of the Ultra Fine White Primer you speak of. Thanks buddy!

Tom:Thanks for the good word man and I don't blame you on the not doing wire harnesses for 6 builds. That would drive me crazy too. (Hell this one here is almost doing that!) Tim:No operational horn yet! lol . Hopefully I can start making some real progress on this thing. I've still got a little ways to go here in the engine compartment and then hopefully I'll be able to get underway. Ken:Thanks for the link dude! I'll be using that for sure in future builds. Mike:Thanks for the encouragement! Believe me when I say I get a lot more from you all than I bring to the table. I just started in automotive builds for all practical purposes (since around the 1st week of November) and am still in my infancy skill wise here. I do appreciate what you said though. Tommy:No thanks! There's gotta be an end to this all somewhere. I think this build is running itself at times! lol

Ahh....an exercise in patience! lol . It frustrating to have to wait at times but it's a necessary evil.

All this fabrication is great Mike and I'm really looking forward to more progress!

Interior is lookin' sharp Rich. Looks like you've put a lot of time into it.

Those seats alone are da bomb and that's not to mention the rest of the build!! Kenneth!! Good looking build so far!

No real benchtime this morning. It was mostly research as to how I can pull the harness replication off. I may move on to other things right now with this build but rest assured, I will be re-visiting and re-vamping this idea.

That spare tire looks good in there Dan! I can't imagine having a flat with a full load of cars on there. Must have been hell on a person to get to that spare at that point , let alone get it out of there! lol

Thanks Kevin! That'll go right with the other book I've got for it. Still need to get the mask set for it. There aint no WAY I'm gonna tackle this thing without one! lol https://www.scalemates.com/books/book.php?id=102255

Man those are awesome!! Nice brake lines BTW.....x 6??!!!!

Thanks Ken and Tom for your encouragement and support. It's much appreciated fellas. This, I found out today as somewhere along the line I forgot about that! Sometimes we miss the very basics as I've been working with this stuff for years! Jeez! I come up with "bright idea" and then at work I get "reminded"........................but............I have another idea !!!

Thanks Dan! Hopefully, once I come up with the correct wire size , I can pull it off to at least resemble a wire harness in order to route it all at the drivers side of the firewall area. We'll see....

Man Rich that paint job really got set off by that BMF! Looks great!

Folks I'm going to try something totally new to me today as it's been weighing on my mind about how to replicate a mummified (a.k.a. tapped/wrapped) wiring harness. It's all in the experimental stages now and I may have to switch to a slightly smaller gauge wire to accommodate the scale thickness to my build here but here goes. First I start with two strands of wire clamped at one end by my table vise and two strands of much thinner wire. Then I gather my tools and materials. I didn't get pics of the initial process but I think you'll get the jist here. I used the lockwire pliers to put neat wraps in the wire and took the two much smaller pieces of wire and inserted into the wraps at about the midpoint and continued the wraps until it was fairly tightly wound. I then applied a bead of super glue along the length of the wrapped wire set. At that point I cut a strip of the teflon tape and started wrapping the twisted wire set like I would with electrical tape. To get this: I continued on until I ran out of tape and, unfortunately, time this morning but this is where I'm at right now. Will continue onwards tomorrow morning and have the four wires as breakout circuits for the ballast resistor and the wiper motor. Again I'm probably going to have to go with smaller gauge wire but I've got the thought process from inside my head to application now anyways. a little closer......... I do see myself adding more super glue to the wraps to keep it from looking so much like wrapped twisted wire but we're getting there. When done it'll be getting a treatment of semi gloss black to simulate that black tape color.

You're a better man than me buddy. More than one at a time and I get sensory overload!! lol Nice line up!

Lookin' good from here!

You've got yourself one helluva kit there Kevin! Those kits are among the best in the modeling market right now!

Wicked color!

Now THAT would be small!! lol