Straightliner59

A4 Garage is excellent! There's Kenji's something or other, too.

I stopped at a different Walmart, today, to get some more yellow-headed pins. This one had boxes of nothing but yellow pins! I should be set, now.🙂

Thank you, Tim! No need for apologies. Other stuff gets in the way, from time-to-time! Caboose was awesome! It was so easy to get lost in there, for a couple of hours. I appreciate you stopping by, my friend!

Beautiful work, Tom! Love your finish work!

Thank you, Andy! I guess I'll just add, here, that this is my only completion for 2024. I finished it in January, and have been working on a "quick and easy" Badman project, since!😅

Well, I think they look pretty, together! I've got a good start on the injector hoses, too. Turns out, I'm going to need more yellow pins, anyway--a couple didn't stand up to the sanding process, even as gentle as I could be. So, I need three. I am going to try my hand at "ship-rigging" to tether to balls together. Kind of interested if I can make it work! Thanks for looking!

I get them on Ebay. ten or eleven bucks will get a hundred blades and a handle! I've been using them, the last few years. I love them!

I decided to shoot some metallizer aluminum on the manifold, to see where I stand. I liked it enough to shoot some flat clear, over that. I installed the fuel block, and did a little work on the mag, but, I suspect that'll be redone, completely.😄 Now, i need to drill the throttle bodies for the injectors--I had planned to do that, before I painted the manifold, but, I didn't want to strip the paint, so... I shot clear purple over half of the stacks. The other four will be amber-ish. I used Parafilm to mask the bases. It's perfect for these instances, because it has a straight edge, and it conforms to anything. It's designed, originally for laboratory use, so it doesn't leave residue. I'm sold on the stuff, thanks to Andy Sapiro. I'll see if I can't finish up the injectors and lines, today, along with the paint on the remaining stacks. I was looking for something to use to plug the stacks, to keep objects out of them. Tennis balls seemed logical. I found a box of quilting pins with 3 mm round heads. They're too big, in their natural state, so I chucked one in the lathe, and sanded it to size (regulations call for tennis balls to be from 2.57"-2.70" in diameter--day-glow yellow balls first came into use in 1972, so, we're good, technically and chronologically! The things we learn, because we model!😂). The sanding gives it a look to the naked eye, of a fuzzy texture. Only one problem: the box I bought only had seven yellow-headed pins! Questions, comments and critiques are always welcomed. Thanks for looking!

Some might say that "mediocre" is being kind!😀

And, here's the man, himself! This album is actually a pretty hard-rocker.

Very nicely done! Those parts are beauties, Francis.

This illustrates one of my favorite aspects of working with brass. Properly done, there's way more durability. It's easier to make changes, should they be necessary. It's possible to use things like wire, to aid in conformability. Great work, my friend!

It sure is!

Yeah, and the properly-sized Monogram slicks had wonky wrinkles on the sidewalls, which would have been fine, except that when you put them on the car, they were wrinkled in opposite directions!

Thanks, David! My experience working on real race cars is minimal. I've hung out with a lot of guys who do/have, and I've spent a lot of time hanging around the pits at drag races, and picked up a lot of that little stuff, just from being around. Honestly, I kinda hate working on real cars!😅 Until I'm done, then I feel like I accomplished something!

That's a great-looking body, on that car. I usually hate those front wheel bubbles, but they look good, here. This will be cool to watch come together!

I seem to be having "the trouble" again, in replying to this thread. I've got a few things worked on, the last few days. I washed the fuel fittings with a Vallejo grey wash, to tone them down. I used my doming block to make caps for the pushbar. They'll most likely get painted black. I made and installed the pittman arm and drag link. I used the eraser drill, again, to drill the dash because I forgot to make and install a handle for the fuel shutoff. Duh! Finally, I milled a fuel block from aluminum rod. I think it worked out, pretty nicely! I should be really getting into the manifold, pretty soon! As always comments are welcomed. Thanks for looking!

It's always cool to find a new use for a tool, that it was never intended for. I think I got the eraser on Ebay, most likely from China. It's come in very handy, at times! Thank you, my friend!

Thank you, Ian! I truly appreciate that. I am always hopeful somebody can get some use from some of this stuff.

I put superglue on a plastic lid (like from Pringle's, etc.). I have a dowel that I mounted a sewing needle in, to apply it, but, I digress--that plastic lid gets all crusty, like that, too. For a time, it'll sort of peel off, but, after a while, it seems to embed itself, and won't come off, anymore. That's when I toss it. The applicator's been around, for years. I've replaced multiple needles, in it, and the dowel, itself is polished, from use.

It's funny, how early dragsters and FCs, etc. look so simple. Then, when you start detailing a scale model, you find out just how much stuff is really in there! You're looking good, so far!

I use a set of punches, and a doming block I bought at Harbor Freight. They work, beautifully. Unfortunately, I am not near my computer, so I don't have any photos, right now.

I'm slow, but I catch on. I somehow missed the end of this show! You did a ton of fixing, on this thing. It was well worth it! Time for a nice Sunday drive! Beautiful work, Andy! Would you allow me to share your photos in a Rush group?

I should say so!

You might want to reconsider the colored glass. Generally, window tint was restricted to what came from the factory. I recently read through a few years of Altered rules, they all stated that.