mustang1989

I am truly impressed by the skill I see on display here. Great efforts and fantastic results!!

New levels of modeling every time I open this thread up. Glad to see you're still at this one ol buddy.

This is looking really good so far Bob!!!

Engine progress to date. Gotta touch up one or two more areas and this part will be done. Will be moving on to interior next.

That sure is a purdy car so far. Color and finish are tops.

Oh my GOSH man!! That turned out splendidly!!! Beautiful build Harry!!!

That's a sharp lookin' ride man.

That DOES look good!!

That looks freekin' awesome JR!! Great details, paint and stance.

Yeah....Revell.....They're fun kits and all but accuracy in their early kits was not one of their strong points. I built an old vintage 1/48 Monogram Dauntless a few years back and used alot of interior parts from a Hasegawa SBD to help it out in addition to tweeking what was there on the Monogram offering. All in all she didn't turn out too bad and consider it to be one of my better early paint jobs in regards to military aircraft.

Good looking Spit and it's an American bird at that. Extra cool!! Which kit is this? As far as Airfix goes, they have really stepped up their game in the last few years. Better detailing and just better kits all the way around.

Thanks Mike!! I do appreciate the encouraging words pal. Right??!! Thanks Roger!! I'm still gathering up the gumption to start on that Maverick. I've got this build and another aircraft build and then I'll be hopping back on that one.

Thanks fellas. Managed to find some additional bench time last night which doesn't always happen....but....I'll take it. Just puts me that much further ahead on the build. As of last night I've got the engine electrical all done. Now the only thing I don't really care for is the belt but with enough other stuff around the engine when it gets dropped into the engine bay hopefully there'll be enough distraction to divert attention away from it. Going to have start working on a new way to replicate the whole belt/ pulley system on my engine builds.

I always like watching your builds come together Eric. Will be tuned in to this one.

Coming along nicely......very nicely. Love all the fab work.

You couldn't have picked harder colors to work with but it looks like you're doing well with them. Looks great so far Gareth.

LOL!!! I bout fell out when I saw the Vise-Grips as the window crank. My dad had that "option" on his old '69 Chevrolet truck. Nice work so far.

Some good work going on in this thread Dave.

You've definitely got the stance down alright. Looks nice 'n aggressive. Btw......that 1:1 Camaro that your friend has looks bad a$$!!

Glad to have you in here Francis. Been a while since I've been in here and it's also been a while since I've talked to you. Hope all is going well on your end brother. Went out of town for a quick getaway this last weekend with my wife and had a GREAT time just out and about with absolutely no demands on our time. Life's been crazy this year with one thing to do after another and it was sure nice to take a break together. Now that we're back home, I am glad to be building on this project again. This mornings progress. Still need to paint the breather cap on the rocker cover and the alternator bracket is NOT correct BUT...... I needed to do something with it to keep it from becoming the "mysterious floating alternator". I added a bolt head to the front of the alternator to simulate a through bolt into the adjustment bracket. I'm actually good with this as it adds another touch to the engine. Ignition & charging system electrical wiring coming next......

I've worked with this chassis numerous times already so I'm used the "tricks" involved to get them to "behave". lol Got some work on the engine done. Still need to come back over the engine with a semi gloss coat though. Here's a quick mock up of where I'm at right now.....

It's all in the details. Love it. Umm.....yeah.....I'll be watching this one!!!

Lots of good work going into this spectacular build. WOW!!!

Really glad to see you here JR!! I remember alot of your builds from over at SA and always liked what you did at the bench. Looking forward to this one old friend.

I did two things. One to lower the stance and one to address the track offset issue. I cut the spindles off and relocated them higher with some plastic rod I had in the stash on the steering knuckles to lower it and while the spindles were off I sanded the mounting area for the spindle back to the pivot points on the knuckle to take care of the offset. It puts the tire back under the fender where it's supposed to be. If you look closely in this picture you can see what I'm talking about.