Speedpro

Nice looking 442. The paint looks great!

Very nice! The vinyl top adds a lot to the overall appearance of the car. I like the color too. Well done.

Beautifully done interior Dennis. Colors work so well together. You sure have a good eye for the custom stuff. Nice work!

Nice save! Those decals can get tricky. Nice work on this build.

Very cool, very different and very well done so far! That paint work is really something and makes this custom build stand out!

I can smell the race fuel and burning rubber from here! Nice work!

Thats a hard kit to build. Your effort shows and the color is perfect. Very nice

Beautifully done! The trim and all the details look spot on. One of the best examples I have seen!

You always do such nice clean work. I enjoy looking at your builds.

Great build of an old kit. Very clean work.

Very nice! The paint and details look great

I think I have things corrected and redone and I can move forward. Got the plug wires ran over the valve covers. Now the engine should go right in. Put embossing powder on the back wall of the interior bucket to hide what happened with the decal. The bumpers had to be resprayed with alclad and those are done. They came out ok I think. They just seem to look a little dark. First pic is the gloss black enamel before chrome........... Thats it for now................ Thanks for looking and more to come......................................

No offence taken steve. I like to think I can get it right the first time. After paint I feel like I only get one shot to get things right. It never looks the same the second time around. So it's more annoying than anything. The fixes are all easy except the plug wires...a little more effort there on those. Thanks also for liking the color because haven't convinced myself I like yet. Speedpro Thank you dave Thanks Edgar, I had to add those fasteners just to give more life to the part. And if you had to work on the engine, taking the panel off would help get those spark plugs out. lol

Daniel, The wrinkle's that were in the decal were pretty bad. I use Micro Sol on all my decals. But this one didn't like it. I tried using my brush on it to manipulate it a little and it was not going to get any better. Done a lot of decals in my time. I think it was just too old. It was from an old monogram 55' chevy kit from the early 80's. Thanks Daniel

This update is what I'll call my backwards update..................... Here is my list: 1. So I put the alclad on the front and rear bumpers. The front came out better than the rear. I'm thinking I put too much down and it got a little silver looking. Thought I'd try and buff it after it dried. Well that didn't work out to well. So I ended up stripping the part and starting over. The part was primed and I decided to work on the front end. I was laying in some black on the grill when I made a mistake. Naturally I went after it to see if I could repair it but ended up making it worse. So ended up stripping it too! At this time I have the parts resprayed with the alclad gloss black and drying before I try and ruin them again (hope not) with the chrome. 2. On the back wall of the interior bucket I decided to put this decal I found in my stash. The decal is in the form of a chevy emblem. Looked kind old but still might work. Figured I would try it, I mean what's the worst thing that could happen. Its just a decal! So I put it down and it looked good. Did not see the need for any setting solution at the time. Put when the decal started drying, It got these white areas like the decal wasn't sticking. So on went the setting solution. 15 min later I checked it to see how it was doing and it had crinkled up and looked terrible. So I used some tape to pull the decal off with. But it was to late. Just look at the picture. Figured I would just but some embossing powder on the back wall to cover it up. I left some tape on protecting the package tray and when I pulled it off their was nothing that resembled a straight line. Now I have to redo that! Not too hard to fix. It's just that it happened. My Fault! 3. Decided to start some assembly and check some clearances around the engine. When I did the spark plug wires I ran them behind the cylinder heads to go under the headers. Well, I went to put the engine in its place and it would not go in because the plug wires were stopping it from going all the way in. They were hitting the firewall. Had to pull them up around the head to get the engine in place. Now I get to redo the wires so they go over the valve covers which is what i did not want to do. I missed this during mockup and when I was fitting things. This can be fixed but not at this stage of the build. The firewall recess needs to be set back to give more room between the engine and the firewall. There is room to do this mod. You can see how much room that there is to work with the firewall recess if you wanted to do that And of course the engine getting it wires ripped out................................ This bits!! I hate going backwards! But hey... I'm having fun now! And that's all that matters Speedpro

Thank you Rob. Glad this will help you out.

Thanks Mark, I can assure you its dry. Thanks Chaz and thanks for looking..........................

Sharp looking duster. The underhood detailing is very well done. Alot of effort there! The first thing that caught my eye though was those caltrac traction bars in the rear. Nice touch!

Been getting some more done on this build and things are coming along. I have been working on the front bumper/grill and rear bumper. Having some original parts from a first run kit i chose to use them as the details are so much better. Mind you these parts are still no way perfect. The chrome was stripped off the parts. The two openings at the bottom of the front bumper were opened up. That added a lot of life that part. Also had a sink mark on the front bumper that had to be filled and then it was primed. Alclad is next. As for the engine, I assembled a few parts and added plug wires using a gofer racing distributor kit. I ran the wires under the headers. Not much room to work with coming from the top. Some parts on the engine are just mocked up for a photo. I'm not really planning on any more detailing of the engine but we will see. On the interior i got the dash almost done. Did some bmf and added some decals from the revelle 66' wagon kit. Had to cut down the speedo decal to make fit but still worked out well. For some reason the steering wheel is for a 67' as noted having 3 spokes. I made it into a 2 spoke. Still not completely correct but i'm using it anyway. The body is done and waxed. Applied bmf to front and rear windows and the wing windows......... Going to start assembling what i can and work on the front and rear. More to come and thanks for looking...........

Look's amazing! Quite the project to take on and then to follow through and not let it end up being a box queen is commendable. Turned out beautiful and your effort show's. Great job steve. Speedpro

I really like this. Nice clean build. Very well done!

Beautiful! Those body line look pretty straight. Paint look's Great. Very nice....

Great looking build! Nice detail work too!

Boy that turned out nice! I like the weathering on the chassis. Great color too.

Very nice! Beautiful paint and the details all are so well done. My guess is this is 1/12 scale.