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Thanks Dave. ?

After working with the Foose F-100 kit I'm definitely a fan of the way the newer Revell kits pretty much just fall together,. I thoroughly enjoyed that one myself and have already got another one of those after finishing my Demon II version of that kit.

I keep hearing a lot of good stuff about this kit on reviews and watching you build this one up might just tip me over the edge to grab one. Engine looks great in there Geoff.

Today saw the completion of the engine bay prep. The one thing I couldn't get over was the clear windshield washer bottle out of the box. A little weird but I guess they were trying to appeal to the average modeler. I made the necessary corrections to it and managed to finish up the engine bay today. Shock studs and retaining nuts were added to the shock towers, brake lines were fabricated and added and I brought out the highlights of the steering column with a silver lead pencil. Anyhow ....here's the engine bay all prepped for that 440 engine to be installed hopefully shortly....

Thanks Dave, Jeremy and Martin. Martin: I'm definitely not going for originality on this one. She'll be shinier, lower and a lot more aggressive looking than the original Lee.

Engine electrical routing and layout are "All That" AND a bag of party mix. WOW!!!!

I'll be watching this. Looks to be one for the books.

That's a good go to kit for all your Pro Street needs in my book. Good call.

Yeah the "Snap, Crackle, Pop" sounds send chills up my spine every time while fitting completed bodies over the completed interior tubs and chassis. This is looking really good on its wheels.

Thanks Mike. Always sucks putting them down but as you know it's better than them suffering any more. Okay......I managed to get the hair raising task of installing the wheels all done. Sounds simple but I made the wheel mounting holes on the rims an oval so I could get this one just wee tad lower. Had to get all the wheels at just the right height so I wouldn't wind up with a "3 wheeler". The stance is now locked in. I also got the back panel all painted up, detailed up, bumpered up and installed. I hit the body with a little more polish but can tell I need to do it again just to get it just right.

Very good masking and painting on those side stripes. You're right about that point about the nerve racking part of the paint job. When you have lots of time involved to get to this point it sure seems like a gamble when we are faced with a pivotable task of this nature.

Looking forward to more on this one! So far this is turning out pretty dang good.

Very well replicated. Details, paint......hell everything!!! Top notch!!

All this fabrication is making me dizzy. Gotta love this stuff!!! Keep 'er comin' Dann.

First off.....I worked on the battery a couple of days back and decided not to go with real cables for this one. Gonna concentrate most of my efforts on the brake lines coming off of the master cylinder and more so on the engine which I still haven't decided which way to go with yet. Secondly.....If you wanna know about stress...…I can tell you about that. I have never seen an interior that fought the whole way going into a car body before. I just knew one of the windows were gonna pop out or that there was going to be an interior side panel pop out of place or something was gonna break while installing it. I can't really turn the car body upside down to do all of this either due to all the flocking going everywhere during the popping and all from fitting this interior up into the body. I had to do all of this with the body upright which made things really hard to do. But............…I got it. Thank God-I got it.

Thanks Bruce! Yeah he'd mosey into the modeling room every time I went in there. Of course......he expected his treat you know.

Lookin' good so far Logan. The radiator shroud/ core support does need to be flipped around the other way but that's an easy fix. Lookin' forward to more and BTW.....welcome to the forum!!

I take lots of Macro shots of all my engine builds and they make everything stand out. Can't tell you how many times I've done the same thing. Glad you took what I advised you in the helpful way I meant it Terry.

This is CRAZY good right here!! Masterful work going on.

Tim: Thanks man! Glad to have you along. Dann: Wow! Thanks for the votes of confidence bud. Dave: Thank you as well! Looking forward to that Torino build! Well I've officially completed the interior tub today. All that's left is installing the door lock knobs into the holes that I drilled in the top of each door which will happen after I've got everything installed neatly and securely up into the body as to avoid damage to the knobs during the interior install. Revell really did everything right on this kit. If you look up under the dash on the passengers side you'll see the HVAC case. AM items include the seat belts and buckles, PE foot pedals, PE steering wheel spokes, PE keys and key chains and of course the carpet/ flocking. All chrome was applied with a Molotow Chrome pen except for the chrome endcap on the rear of the console. I'm pretty pleased with this.

That color coat just keeps getting better and better. Man that looks good. Engine looks good too but the sides of that intake manifold could probably be trimmed some so that'd it lay flat on the engine block a little better.

Thanks Adam. Got the console & seats done, interior carpeted, seat belted and mostly underway guys.

Nuthin' but good goin' on in here. Keep 'er comin'......

Good detailing on the grille. Impressive build!!! Very impressive.

This'll be my second go round with these door panels as I didn't prime them before painting the first time and the paint lifted when I tried to apply the BMF to the trim areas. Bummer! So I stripped them and began with priming this time but ended up using Molotow Chrome the second time instead of BMF. Picked up this new acrylic primer from Badger called STYNYLREZ. It's an acrylic polyurethane primer and I was pretty impressed with the results. Just apply in thin coats and it goes on smooth as a baby's butt: Finished door panels. I used RLM 79 with some shadowing here and there and chromed the details and trim with Molotow Chrome: