mustang1989

Alright gang. Update time.... I made an attempt at a wood grain steering wheel a while back and just wasn’t happy with it. Just looked all plain Jane and all. Plus I had used the stock Mustang steering wheel with that big ol’ bonker pad on there and I never could stand that thing in my car so I replaced it on the real car with a woodgrain wheel with a normal horn button. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I did the same thing here too. First attempt: I knew this was going to be alot of work so I stayed up late at night laying the groundwork for the steering column and wheel completion today. I woke up the next day and managed to get it to a point to where I’m going to be okay with it. I used some scale PE rivets that I have from the Model Car Garage that I inserted into each one of the cavities once I had everything painted up. Take II…which I am MUCH happier with.

This was coming along really nicely. Any updates on this?

Any progress on this bad boy?

GAAAAHHHH!! Man that is turning out SWELL right there Marcos!!! Love it so far man.

I missed the last part of this build but am really liking what I'm seeing in the finished product James. That color is PERFECT!!!

Beautiful work Mike!! Stepped out of the forum realm for a while but am back now to see great builds like this one.

Gotta hand it to ya Gareth, great work on both of these iconic rides.

Any more progress on this?

Followed this one and have been away for a while but MAN.......to come back and see it in its awesome completion is pure eye candy. Magnificent job and great modeling brother. WOW!!!

It's been a while since I've been on here due to various things in real life but I'm glad I'm back so I can see cool stuff like this. I can't get enough of your work Steve. I've incorporated alot of your techniques into my own builds and it's made a world of difference in the outcome. Looking forward to more of this amazing project.

I was looking forward to some of those myself. This has been such an awesome build to follow.

Some call me weird for saying this but I did like some of the 5.0 Capri cars. I'm a die hard Fox Body Mustang fan but still find a place for their sister car. Will be watching this one.

Off to a good start Bob.

This is looking pretty spiffy TR. Like the work that you're putting into this.

Thanks Dan and Carl!! Alright gang. I'm sure some of you have wondered just what in the world has happened to me as far as being around in the last couple of months. Yesterday was the FIRST day in around 2 months that I've had any free time at all just because it was a Thanksgiving Holiday here in the states. I'm also off till Monday so I get a few more days off. Guys it been tough to say the least. Things at work have changed to the point that I don't even recognize where I work anymore. I ran that place for 6 + years and it was going good and then within the course of a year I found myself out on the floor turning wrenches. The lady that took my place as shop supervisor.....man....what a story. The saving grace in all of this is that they haven't changed my pay from supervisor pay to technician pay so I definitely have that to be thankful for. Couple that with the fact that I've been terribly sick twice now in the last two months and had to miss out on 2-1/2 weeks of work because of it and then our sons truck getting hit by a hit and run driver last month. Frickin' whirlwind of busyness & setbacks and jacks with one's mental state and ability to enjoy anything that they love doing like....modeling for instance. I'm starting to come to terms with work and the truck wreck issues are getting sorted out and my son is now back on the road again. Hang with me fellas if you will. I'm finding that there are limits to what one human being is capable of with everything going on in the back ground and that something had to give but I'm making my comeback slowly. Updates coming soon.................

Been too long not being here but then I come back and see this. HOLY frickin' COW!!! What else will you think of Francis? Off the frickin' charts man.

Hang in there Tim and hope that your recovery is going well. It's been a while since I've been on here myself and saw this here. Hope that you are doing well and that you had a good Thanksgiving. Looking forward to more on this great project of yours.

That is one nifty looking Camaro MIke. Very good job picking out the chrome on the light bezels and that hood looks like a pretty dang good fit from where I'm sitting. Kudos out to you on a job well done.

Thanks Carl, Jerry, Monty and Joe for the very flattering and encouraging comments. BMF ing this was dang near impossible. I tried chrome silver paint which looked good initially and then over time it did some weird stuff. Set up wrong or something. Anyway it looked terrible. This is where drastic measures are called for. Some may call me crazy for this but hey......ya gotta do what you've gotta do in modeling. I had a spare dash sooooooo. I cut it in half and cut the dash pad/ cover off of it to gain easy access to the outline of the passengers side of the dash for being able to cut a template out of BMF in which to place a perfectly cut BMF piece on that side. After creating an outline onto the BMF I cut it out to the exact shape and laid 'er into place. Not perfect....but I can live with this alot better than that other job. Still gotta do the column and steering wheel and will have to fabricate a turn signal lever for it as I cut the drumstick for a lever off of the column. I ended up going over the left side of the dash with Molotow chrome and because of its flow properties it made its way into the nooks and crannys of the gauge clusters corners. After the Molotow had dried I shot a uniform coat of MM Acrylic Flat Coat over both sides of the dash trim bringing everything to a uniform finish. I then applied the Mustang medallion to the right side of the dash. Then the decals for the instruments went on and I painted the radio up, applied the chrome to the radio and light switch knobs. Ignition cylinder bezel went on and I inserted the keys into the ignition switch. PE pedal faces went onto the pedals and I picked out the chrome trim around the pedals. I'm mostly content with this dash despite the difficulties presented with it but....I've had better.

That rear seat looks perfect in that interior bud. This is coming along nicely.

I do like what I'm seeing here with this build and that engine looks great. If I remember right the cooling fan on these engines was a white plastic.

I've gotta remember to open up the holes in the chassis as well. Very good progress on this so far Steve.

Ya know.....I tend to do that on my aircraft builds but can never remember to do that on my scale autos.

A beautiful build indeed JR. Really looks class act pal.

Nice n' cleanly built so far JR. Aint it great when something goes together that smoothly? I long for those days. lol