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You'll like the guy's stuff Mike. If he doesn't list what you want, just drop him a message about what your looking for, he made a set for me once that he didnt usually carry. You do have to be carefull cutting them out but a good shape exacto knife is all I ever use for them.

Thanks Michael, I'll be starting work on both cars engines once I get both interiors complete. I usually do my chassis and engines at the same time so I can make sure all the detail work matches up. Hi Joe, thanks buddy, LOL been a long time since I heard that phrase. "Mouse Motor" lol that's what we used to call those old chevy small blocks back in our youth. Especially the 265, 283, 302 (yes chevy made a 302), the 307 and the 327 engines. And even the 350 and the 400 were also sometimes refered to mouse motors.

Nice win Joe and well deserved. Is that a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 I see in your last pic. Nice build as well. If my brother were still around he would be begging to see more pics of it. He loved building aircraft and armor.

Nice color choice on the interior Tim. Gives it a slight, but not to much, custom look. Wet sanding and polishing is my least favorite part lol, that's why whenever I can, I get it out of the way early.

Should be pretty cool when you get it done.

I finished up the interior on Mom's Toy this morning. Removed the clutch pedal from the dash and added a photo etched piece for the brake pedal. I made the panel that sits behind the rear seat to represent the fold panel that lays down when the rear seat folds down I cleaned up the flash on the steering wheel, drilled some holes on the column for the turn signal and shift levers (since this is gonna have a automatic trans I needed a column shift lever). Then painted the steering wheel and column and added BMF to the horn ring and trim. I then made the turn signal and shift levers out of bent straight pins and mixed up some 5 minute epoxy and applied it to the ends of the pins and painted that gloss black once the epoxy dried. This was to represent the knobs on the ends of the shift and turn signal levers. The center horn area of the wheel got a black wash of flat black to hide the SS emblem in the middle of it. Once I had all that done, the steering wheel assembly was glued to the dash and the dash was finally glued into place with a few drops of CA glue on each side. That pretty much wrapped up the interior assembly for Mom's Toy (the wagon), I may added some little goodies to it at some point before it goes in the body. But for now, it's time to move on to other parts of the build. Including work on the interior for Pop's Toy (the SS ). More to come as I get it done.

Very true Tim, so the Roadent engine will probably get set aside for another project. I was leaning toward going with the kit supplied 327 engine for Pop's Toy (the SS) anyways so that frees up the Stroker for the wagon. The only issue with the 383 stroker is the motor mounts on the frame don't meet it, so I'll have to modify them so it fits correctly. But no big deal to do that. Thanks Carl. Don't forget this is a pair of builds. I still have another interior to do for the SS so stay tuned. When I get to the other Dash I will try to take more in progress pics of it, It should help those wanting to see how I do them. It really isn't that hard, just a lot of planning out and some aftermarket stuff and lots of PATIENCE and TIME lol.

After doing a mockup of the ross gibson 350TPI roadent engine that I was thinking about using for Mom's Toy, this morning, I compared it to the BNL chevy 383 stroker engine, Both are supposed to be small blocks, but as you can see there is a big difference in size between the two. I'm starting to think the Ross engine is more along the scale of 1/24th. It would just look too oversized for the wagon, so as of now the plan is to give Mamma's wagon the stroker engine. It'll work out fine with a few mods. The engine mounts will need a little adjusting since after a test fit of the block on the chassis reveals that the mounts may need extending a tad bit. But it also comes with a nice automatic trans and that fits right into my plan. I'll have more pics after the weekend, once I get started on assembling the engine and planning out the detail for it. The Ross Engine would look too much like a big block in the Nova Wagon im my opinion If you look at how the heads sit on the Ross 350 engine and compared to where the heads sit on the 383 Stroker engine, you can see the difference in length, and as far as I know, Chevy didn't change much in the demensions of the different models of small blocks , most of the difference was in the bore. Anyways that's my story and Im sticking to it lol. More updates after the weekend. (I Hope)

Now thats what I call getting it off the ground. Really cool project. And nice work

You level of engine detail is outstanding Russell

Yuppers, ya can't start it without em lol. Thanks Tim.

The door handles and cranks got attached in place with CA glue. And then the dash was mocked up to see how everything was going to look. I still got a few odds and ends left to do to the interior, such as a collapse panel behind the rear seat and the steering wheel, before I can call it done, and then make a decission about the foot pedals,depending on the tranny it gets, but it's almost there and I need to move on and work on a few other things before the finishing touches are done to the interior. More to come as I get it done.. Thanks for looking

Morning guys, finally got my parts order in yesterday. It took the scenic route from Florida up the east coast and then over here to Michigan. So I guess these builds will already have some milage on them lol. One of the things I was waiting on was a set of white metal interior door handles and window cranks made by Pro Tech. I needed these to help finish up the interior of the wagon. Because of how small they are, I didn't want to try to polish them up, so I elected to just try and cover them with BMF which worked out ok. I just had to clean the parts in Denatured Alcohol first to make sure the BMF work stick to them, which it did. Once I got all the handles and cranks covered with BMF I set them aside and went to work making a rear interior tailgate panel for the interior. It's about the only draw back to the resin interior provided by Bandit Resins. But it wasn't much of a problem to make one out of evergreen sheet plastic. It's not perfect but it will do the job The tailgate panel got painted interior color and CA glued into place. continued in post that follows..................

Thanks Mike, I know what ya mean, I lost my share of them when I first started messing with them, but then I figured out if I use a box lid with sides on it while I'm messing with these small photo etched parts, I tend to loose less of them. Thanks and I had to learn to have lots and lots of patience.. lmao.. something that took some getting used to for me.

Thanks Tim, I only wish it would go a little easier, but then what ever goes easy in the modeling hobby lol. Hi and thanks Joe, this one is gonna be a long one that's for sure, especially building two at once.

Now see Tim, wasn't that fun lmao. Nice work my friend

Hi Fred, I get them from this guy on ebay.. http://www.ebay.com/usr/bestmodelcarparts?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2754 if he doesn't list what you are looking for on his ebay items, message him through his ebay contact, and ask him about it, he made some for me once that he didnt list. He can make photo reduced gauges for almost anything. Just remember they aren't decals they are photo reduced so ya got to cut them out with your trusty exacto knife and white glue them into place. But they are nice that's for sure.

Hi Stray, as I said, I think it just depended on the model and what options they offered on it, around that time. So it could very well have been that some had the vent lines and some may not have. But as I said, there are some really knowledgable chevy guys on here that would know for sure. I know my 67 implala didn't have the vent line, and it still had the vent hole in the gas cap. But some may have at that time.

Thanks Guys. I spent some time last night and today working on tne wagon's dash. I started by drilling out a hole for the key switch and then using BMF on all the knobs and heater contols before any paint was applied. I then sprayed the lighter color on the entire dash. Once that dried I masked off the areas I wanted lighter color, and spayed the rest with model master blue angel blue. Once that was dry I added BMF to the radio area, and then gave it a wash of Tamiya acrylic flat aluminum. And I then used a tooth pic dipped in lacquer thinner and cleaned the paint off the knobs and heater contolos that I had applied BMF to earlier. I then gave the heater contol area a light black wash. Once that was done, I painted the instrument area and glovebox flat black. I then applied aftermarket Photo reduced guage faces to the radio and instrument panel area. Photo etched parts where then added to the glovebox and ignition key area as well as photo etched Nova II script to the glove box. I left the foot pedals unfinished for now until I have what type of tranny worked out for the car. Those will get done before the dash is installed in the interior. Next up I removed the photo etched Keys and key chain from the nova detail kit from The Model Car Garage, and detail painted and assembled them. The Keys were then tacked into place on the dash with a tiny drop of CA glue. That's pretty much where I'm at with it for now. Parts order should be here later today, so my hope is later tonight to be able to get more done on the interior detail. Once I start working on Pop's Toy (the 66 SS) I will try to take better detailed pics of how I do my dash in progress. more to come as I get it done.

Morning Joe, sorry I haven't been over here in the truck area in a while, but I decided today to come over here and check out what was happening, and saw your post and just had to read through it. Nice choice on the project and it looks like it's really coming along. I will get in here more often now and try to keep up lol.

You got it bud, should be all the info you need to run the gas line properly.

Very very nice Ted. Love the stance and the color choice.

I agree with Joe. Very nice engine detail on your engine and engine bay area. As for your alclad chrome work, Alclad Chome doesn't play nice with any type of sealer or clear coat. Ya just got to be careful with handling it once ya got it done lol. Whenever I use the stuff, I always wait till the very end of the build to install the parts I used it one, that way any handling I have to do with it is a "one and don" type thing. But boy it does make chrome work look so much nicer. Yours will look great I'm sure. Over all your doing a outstanding job on your Chevelle.

Nice work on both so far.

Morning Tim, I think, but am not for certain, that 67 was right around the year when some cars started being made with vented gas tanks. Some, durning that time, but not all, were made that way. I'm sure there are some pretty good GM experts on here that would know for sure. I know in later years all cars did and do come with vented gas tanks. But I don't remember the 67 chevy implala I had as a teen having a vented tank, and I spent alot of time in my parents drive way under it durning the time I owned it, including time fixing rusty, broken, fuel and brake lines lol. So I would research a little before ya wrap yourself up into running double lines for the fuel sysem, you might only need the one. Usually if the car had a vent line going to the gas tank, it would have had a charcoal vacuum canister, under the hood somewhere that it went go to.