JTalmage

Thats looking good. I really dig it.

Thanks! I need better tools to do it though. I'm using basic xacto knives, some sanding sticks, zap-a-gap, and sandpaper. no microscope or magnifying glass lol I'm having a hard time progressing on this truck because I keep forgetting I have to send the intake away to the resin caster first instead of painting it and gluing it on my engine. lol

Very cool. That red really stands out. I seen an orange right hand drive VW bug on the way to work today. The fact that your car is RHD reminded me of that. looks like you've cleaned it up quite a bit. Did the product you used for the black trim work well and last long? I've restored black trim on some vehicles using a heat gun.

Thats gorgeous. I think they definitely missed the boat on these. What could have been....

Very cool! I have this same kit... built it many many many years ago probably before I knew what I was doing.

Ah I see... good to know. I would love to see some more of it when its 100%. Just noticed you're in Cincy as well.

Thats a great idea! I wonder if once the white dries, and is cleared, it could have a red marked over it to make a redline (that would actually show up!)

Looks good. Some better pictures and adding a brake booster/master cylinder would bring it over the top.

A couple I can think of are the mtn dew bottles closed real tight after having the lid drilled to the appropriate size and a valve stem pulled thru... those go pop real loud. uhh.. lets see... friend of mine put lighter fluid on a tire changer once. That made a loud boom. I had an orange barrel tied to the back of my '89 Mustang GT once with caution tape. Made it a mile down the road before my friend who did chased me down the road and flashed his lights til I pulled over in a gas station. I couldnt see the barrel swinging back and forth from lane to lane LOL! Came in the next day to work to wonder why the first garage bay door was stuck shut. Apparently when I did my nightly clutch-drop to leave the parking lot after management left, the orange barrel tied to my car swung wide and nailed the 1st and 3rd garage bay doors. They never did figure out what happened.

Funny thing is, I said that to myself because it was so slick... and I wetsanded everything yet still had issues. although some small details are hard to sand. so that could be it. i just have to give it light coats and then wait longer.

Yeah its been an adventure in everything I've painted on this thing.

I think the General Mayhem is going to pull out of this event this year. I still havent gotten my parts from Mike "a/gass" and I've given up. I may enter another vehicle that I KNOW I have all the parts too.... we'll see.

I have had this kit for years for the same reason. It always looked fiddly to put together. Although I'm going to chop it and hot rod it.

I got an LS engine for this build from Manny @ VCG Resins. So I started to build my LsX intake for it so I can build the Muscle Truck in it's carb'd format. Pretty sweet engine. Looks like it has a 6 speed on the back of it. I'll be sawing that off for an automatic to go on the back though. So I started building an intake out of some styrene strips. I bought some Evergreen 157 a while back to make hot rod frames, and it looked like I could cut some lengths of it and bend it for intake runners. Well that idea didnt pan out so well. So I cut more strips of it and stacked them on themselves and glued them together with some zap. Sat them into the intake valley and glued them together at an angle. I had cut and temporarily glued some strips to the insides of the heads since the actual kit intake is a supercharger. This will simulate the intake side of the head and the beginning of the runners. I am not very good at doing detailed scratch building so I did the best I could. Since my first attempt failed at shaping it I decided to carve it. And that worked out pretty well. I did lots of sanding and carving. This was the first stop I took to take a picture. Lots more sanding and carving later... As you can see I added a carb riser and a carb plate to it. I'll sand the top down just a little so its not as intrusive. Still have to do some more sanding and filling/filing. I also put some injector bosses on the intake as the real lsX intake does.

Not yet. Painting, and painting again all those purple parts. lol I took a few days off of this truck to scratch build an lsX intake for The Muscle Truck which may eventually get casted by a resin caster

Almost looks like you could take a Tall T or a middle door T and make that cabin area. Doesnt Jimmy Flintstone make those bodies?

Thats up to you. I would be very grateful! (In case I screw up the one that my friend is giving me) Oh, and the "Im waiting on parts" wasn't a poke at you. Ruben found a chassis for me that might have a usable front suspension, but I think he may be busy/out of town as I havent heard from him... no biggie because I wasnt in a hurry on this project anyway. Got too many others on the stack to got thru first.

Its easier than you think. But its easier to make it look goofy as well.

No not yet. I have been working on my '55 Chevy truck lately. Waiting on some parts for this one.

I just gotta say... painting colored plastic sucks. I have to give everything multiple coats! I had to paint the engine orange twice, the headers steel twice, the intake aluminum twice... sheesh... I thought this build was going to be fairly quick.

Thats a beautiful looking model.

I kinda want the geo on page 1.... too much fun could be had with that...

I'm currently watching my favorite older TV shows on Netflix at the moment... but when I do watch my movies its typically these: Mad Max series Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone's "The Man With No Name" trilogy. Bullitt Gone in 60 seconds (original) Hollywood Knights The Blues Brothers Vanishing Point (orignal) The Great Escape Nevada Smith The Magnificent Seven The Getaway (original) The Thomas Crown Affair (original) Cannonball Run Hooper Smokey & The Bandit series Back to The Future trilogy White Lightning America Grafitti The California Kid Gosh there's soo many.... I have so many car movies its rediculous. Hot Rods/Car Chase and Westerns are my favorite movies.

Thanks! I didnt have much time to work on it this weekend. I had to go out of town. But I did work on it friday evening and when I got back yesterday. Here's what it looked like out of the bag on Friday. I needed to do more parts and perfect the look so I added more iron surfacer, let it dry, brushed on the solution, and back in the bag it went for about 2 days. I wrapped them in plastic bags too... as an experiment to see if it would give it any textures. Here's what it looked like when I got back sunday. It didnt let some of the spots fully react to the solution. So I touched those spots up with more iron surfacer and back in the bag it went... You can really see the imperfections on the hood and a little on the roof. I took it out of the bag this morning and it looked considerably better but I didnt snap any pictures. I think the body is done now as far as rust goes. I did cheat a little and realized that the roof on '55 chevy trucks can be white. But I didnt know that when I painted it. So after I rusted the top I painted around the perimeter and some parts of the center w/ white, and then rusted it again. Looks perfect! The window trim is deceiving because it LOOKS like it should have BMF on it for the trim... but pictures I see of most trucks dont have chrome trim. So I need to do more research on that.

I'm in love with this build. Amazing! I cant bring myself to hack one up like that for the fear of it not going back together!