426-Hemi

Yepper LOL John.... its all good! A lot of times I find, people don't "connect" my avatar and I couldn't use the same screen name here as I did there, so.....

NICE Work Tom! That 426 is looking really good! NICE job! Nice choice of body color too! its something different! NICE & SHINEY Too!

That could be machined from a small section of styrene and look pretty good too! (I've done Oldsmobiles W-43 valve covers for a guy once!)

Missed that one WE GOT A WINNER!!!!!! Its a polished Aluminum base for the Antenna on the passenger side fender!!!!! GOOD guess Dave!!!!!

Nope! LOL Its only a single part! BUT you guys are getting warmer, its an exterior part of the car! Think about it...... those that have assembled this model, whats the one exterior detail the car does not have as a detail part!?

Nope! LOL But again, thats a good guess too! When you know what it is, you'll be kickin' yourself as its "that" simple too!

So its made as it looks on the box...... Thats wild!!!! BTW you know you & I go back and forth over at Coffin Corner 2 right?

Nope.... Good guess tho!

Hey Stevie, I was wondering where you been!? Go check out my '68 Roadrunner if you think this one is good! LOL That one turned out even better then this one I think! Thanks tho on the compliments of it! Much appreciated! -Stay tuned, more to come as this one is very close done!

Pat purposely twisted, or its made to be that way?

So as everyone has read, this weekend was kinda the plan to finish 2 models (or so I thought) till a rather large box was found at my door step on Saturday then the finishing of the 2 models went right out the wind! BUT that didn't stop me up to that point! LOL I worked like a madman on Thursday & Friday and Friday night till the wee hours of the morning on one of them! As the other hung to dry! The one to hang to dry, was this one! I got that interior mounted into the body, and "hung" it up out of the way overhead with several clamps on it.... So.... And this is how that all turned out: Dang that looks GREAT! I'm so pleased with the looks and how well this model has came along, a far cry from what it once was! Looks GREAT with no camera flash too! Which a lot of times I find the camera flash changes how things look, it could be that the car is while as well.... I'm not sure, I just know that it looks great under any lighting as you can see! Other side looks great! Couple shots of "Flash" through the window....with and without the flash of the camera! I'm pleased with this and all the efforts I've put into it! Not to shabby for a model that asks for a lot to be desired of within! Over-all I'm happy with how this one has turned out!!!! Was trying kit, to say the very least, and I still have a little ways to go on it, but its coming along! (I question how the body is gonna set on the frame), and how the 2 sub-assemblies are going to mount together in the end, I remain optimistic on that one! (a lot of changes with body mounting was changed along the way in order to "seek" a factory height car), because as the kit was OOB it would have looked like a low-rider police car, as it was! The frame sat so high up in the body, that it was a 1/4 of a REAL inch up, which sunk the wheels into the wheel wells WAY TO FAR! so I had to bring the frame down out of the body, from the underside of the interior tub. Hopefully in the end, what I did works out for the best and not makes it impossible to mount and look right the frame to the body! -We'll see! Thanks for following along, Stay tuned more to come as things get completed, or while they're being completed!!! ~Enjoy!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Yeah LOVE the Imitation of ole Rosco!!!!! LOL I thought Flash look good on the front seat, thats where he rode with Rosco most the time!!!!

Thanks Charles! Same for me I just finished a trade with him "Olson181" was a GREAT trade, and would do it again without question!

I think that the heads would fit the AMT '57 Chrysler 300 392 Hemi block easily..... ANY of them actually of the 392 Hemi';s as the poly's were pretty big engines! The head "foot print" should be really close the same! NOT exact, mind you, as the hemis were rounded corner rectangles, so that would allow the poly head sit in the same way and place as the hemi head did, and be real close!

So while that work on the tail lights dried I got to getting ready to do the BMF on this car! I always second guess myself on that task, as I say I don't think I'm all that good at it, BUT, I am starting to prove myself wrong, I think.... This car however has an interesting BMFing task to it, that rear freakin' window! WOW, what fun that one is gonna be (What I was thinking as I was saving it for last!) I also forgot about going around the windshield wiper arms too! That was an interesting task, as well, but wasn't as difficult as I first anticipated! -Did those first, and then went on to do the trim around the windshield.... Turned out pretty good! I'm actually pleased with my efforts here and work! (I keep it up I'll have a better outlook at my BMF skills I keep this up! ...And about the time I had a little more confidence, I was slapped, hard in the face, with a side "wing vent window trim" man does those SUCK! LOL I musta pulled the BMF off the drivers side 3 times BEFORE I was happy with it! (I hate wasting materials) but I simply could NOT live with how it looked either! And I found that the MPC cars, have an issue not noticed back when I actually "painted" the chrome onto the model, the windshield pillars, in the front, where the windshield meets the side vent wing windows, don't always have a "line" for the chrome trim on the pillar itself! SO as a modeler you sort of have to create it as you put the BMF on..... Making sure its semi even and straight..... As its so close to the windshield trim that off by the thickness of your blade can and will be seen! BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, is that a difficult one to do and look right! -THEN I get to do that rear window! OMG.... WOW........ I'm am amazed at myself! Really, I'm so surprised how that window chrome went on, went down, and trimmed off.... I'm pleased with that and how it looks! I sat and stared at that work for at least 2 minutes in absolute amazement! LOL Then while doing trim, I ran into something that I was working on a whole other model... (one thats in my "Round Robin" build here, BUT, sat aside, the '68 Dodge Dart.... There is ONE detail this Roadrunner does NOT have on it, or with it as a detail part, thats partly "trim" and is chrome or well part of it is chrome and then rest is just metal..... Anyone know what that "detail part" might be? With that, I'll give you all a picture! -Have a look, and take a wild guess what it is, and post it.... I'll then reveal what I've made! NOT that handle of a file in the right side of the picture, that little "triangular" part, what you all think that is? Enjoy for now look forwards in responses to that little part!

So this past weekend I was hoping to get this and one other model in the "COMPLETE" category, but that didn't happen as I had so much going on with a box I got on Saturday that well, the work did not pan-out as I had planed or hopped for, BUT the box I found, I am not complaining about, I am glad I got it! I just did not plan or expect anything quite that intense, BUT up till I had found it on my front porch, I did get some work done those 2 models! So, where to begin? Lets see, ohh yeah, I had gotten to look at the tail lights of a real 1:1 '68 Roadrunner and noticed the lights on the kit had some slight issues, that I HAD to remedy, AFTER they were already painted and such so I had to go about what I was going to do in a slightly different way! The outer edges on a real '68 Roadrunner has a chrome trim ring. The model parts did not have that molded into the castings,. and me being well....... ME I could live with them out of the box! SO, on a look for things to make those rings from I went..... And I found what is the best wire to be one, polished, and two, correct or close diameter of the rest of the chrome "outlines" so it symmetrically "match" the rest of the lens! Seen here is one thats "stuck" to tape made to hold the lens while I went and bent up the wire to fit the outer edges of the lens and be polished at the same time! The other lens thats still ON the sprue is the factory look, thats been painted! I added that trim ring on the other one thats NOT on the sprue! A little better in-depth look.... Then you have the wire as its being bent and shaped to the lens circumference! A LOT of compound bends to make that fit that factory kit lens part! And polished up nice too! WHY does it polish up nice? Well thats a secret to be said now, that "wire" I used? isn't "wire" at all! Thats 100% Pure Jewelers Silver Solder! -Expensive? yeah just a little, I bought it for when I was building trains and needed it to seal up bearings and polish things smoothly to have a bit of a gleaming smooth surface as those bearings require a little different approach to the making of them when made of brass, and well, silver is easily workable the other way is nickel plating and I didn't want to have to send the parts out to someone else, so I did everything in-house, its not often I use the silver solder specially on a model car or truck, but its not a lot that I used here and to that, nothing else was correct in diameter to match up to the other chrome trim within that tail light lens! SO.... I think it looks GREAT and it bends and forms a lot easier then actual wire and looks good all at the same time! It was "fastened" to the lens much the same way I did black wire trim rings on another model headlights.... With that clear glass glue from Testors, applied a really thin line of glue where the ring would make contact, and then once dry, around the outer edges and added some more, let dry, and then sealed that in with brush on gloss coat lacquer.... -LOOKS great too! So while I was doing this, I was conjuring up the gut fortitude to go on with the BMF work too! *GULP* I still question that task with me.... Stay tuned, thats to follow! Thanks for following along and as always, Comments & Commentary welcome!

Thanks guys! All of the commentary is greatly appreciated and actually enjoyed! I enjoy the detailing aspect myself to see just how-close I can get a model to what its real 1:1 is or was.... This one model here as you guys following knows has a little meaning to me behind it. From my accident in 2015, its a "healing build" and the work done to it, kept me from needing physical therapy for dexterity on both of my hands from that accident! Which gives it a little sentimental attachment if ya will so I'm putting as much into it, as I can because that memory will live with me and remembrance to it by looking at the model, you know? Was a way to heal, deal, and get day to day physical therapy on my hands at the time (It was thee only model I worked on then!) couple months later, I worked on other as I felt I could, BUT right after the accident, I won 1st place in a contest locally, winning THIS KIT, and then when I was able to work on models after my accident is when I opened this kit and went on to build it! I'd like to get this one done, before the "build" becomes 2 years old LOL BUT it is VERY close done!!!! Stay tuned more to come!

-My question is, how do they even KNOW that hog SEEN its own shadow anyway????? Does it stand up and say YEP theres my shadow to someone? GOOFY!!!! I agree if I'm gonna get a bad weather report at least give me something GOOD to look at! (or in my case a pleasant voice to hear) I listen to the radio WAY more then I watch TV!

Thanks Rob! Much appreciated! Yeah wet sanding goes a long ways to a glass-like finish on Enamels and even Lacquer paints (ALL I use!) so.... I'm quite pleased with the whole model at this point, I can't wait to see it done! THEN I have Rosco's police car too, it will be finished very shortly afterwards too! Which will be another plus as well!

John, That looks AWESOME!!!!! NICE job!

Funny, I was wondering the SAME THING!!!!!

How is it that some animal seeing its own shadow can predict that we're gonna have 6 more weeks of any kinda weather? I'm from PA not to awful far from Punxsutawney to boot and I still don't believe that old folk lore and wives tale! -It after all is............. F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y!

Thanks Dave! Yeah I'm all excited on its finish! I'm gonna be doing BMF in the next day or so so. this one is real close done too! Sadly, I had to pull one of the 3 kits out of the Round Robin build, for a short time as I'm almost out of Gloss coat to finsh the 2 that are the closest this one happens to be one of the 2 that I wanna finish, with the same can of Gloss coat and then the other is Rosco's police car so. the 3rd on I took from this round robin build was my Dad;s '68 Dart I'm modeling, I ain't got enough gloss coat to do all 3 at this time but just enough to finish the 2 hoods on the Roadrunner and the Monaco! BUT, thats OK, I'll be getting back to him when I get to the store to pick up some more! -OR I might try another spray can type lacquer clear coat I have in the shop and see if I can continue with that on the '68 Dart! Anyway thanks for looking & following along its much appreciated!

NICE work! That all looks great! NICE engine work too! Like the looks of the Gold one!!!!

Well every little bit counts, right? I got to looking at the interior to this car, a few things needed addressed, and added! In fact, what I had addressed was the cars interior from what I could see in different video clips there as we all know was several cars used to make the TV series, and I seen one car to have a gray interior, BUT found SEVERAL cars, to have the "common" tan interior, and when I began this model back when I returned to the hobby, I went with the gray interior that I had seen Granted, for all I know at this point (I can't find that video now as it was on youtube) and to that, I looked this all up in 2013!!! SO. and I wasn't "signed" for it to remember what video's I looked at! Dummy me! Thats a learned lesson I can tell ya! ANYWAY, I choose the less common interior not knowing if that was in the '78 Dodge Monaco, or the other Dodge Police Interceptors that was used in filming the show! SO, that means its either right, or its wrong, either way its to late to go back and change it now! So onward I went! I did NOT add the lights in the back of the car, that was to be mounted to what looks ot be the tops of the back seat! Just, I didn't see them being there, and I plugged the holes and painted the plugs to match. Onward again, in the interior, I seen a lot needed done when I first started this model, and lost a little interest due to the lack of correct details, but the one thing they should have included in the interior, more then all the guns they include (how many times did ya actually see ole Rosco, pull his pistol? OR have a long rifle, or even shot gun in his hand in the TV series!? WELL what they could have switched in interior details was the one thing he a LOT had with him in the car? Anyone? How about Flash!? Rosco's Dog? SURE enough, nothing in this kit, BUT Paul, helped me out with such a detail! I just didn't know one was made, and to that to be a Basset Hound too! SO I would up making a mold of this Dog to use in possibly other builds! Naturally, it in those builds will be painted differently but I made it as close as I could get it to look like Flash! Sitting on a stick so that I can handle it for painting all the different colors seen here UN-painted, to show that its one of my resin castings! Anyone need one for their own Rosco's police Interceptor build, PM me on it! I have extras made up! (This mold is over a year old now I do believe) and I'm just now, getting around using one of them for myself! Gotthe "white" on Flash's face.... A LONG ways to go and a LOT of color variations too.. and now its goes out the window! As the time passed, and the paint added, I FAILED to get pics of the stages..... So heres how that all turned out: Painting the doggy, was fun, interesting, and in some cases a PIMA!!!! LOL BUT I managed to do it, and its not the best, but its also not the worst..... BUT, I am happy with it, plus, its on the inside of a car interior, so truly seeing it isn't going to show all its imperfections! However thats OK, I'm good with how it turned out! Thats all for now! I am waiting for the body to dry as the interior is in it to stay, and will sit till I know I can handle it from all the clamps holding things together.... With that, I have some more details to get onto the frame while that dries anyway! Its getting close to the finished car! YAY! Thats for looking. following along, and as always Comments welcome and appreciated! ~ENJOY!