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Oh man it looks like you could drown in that black. Awesome dude.

Look at you going all detail crazy. Love it dude.

oooooh I love that colour dude.

She looks good mate. Nice try at the patina. The problem with rat rods, and I don't know if it is the same in the UK as it is here in australia, but having rust holes and exposed rust will get your car knocked back at registration. I don't know how they get away with it in america, but there is no way you could take a car with bullet holes or even rust spots you could poke your fingers through and get it rego'd.

good looking ute. Well done.

Thanks for sharing them. All excellent builds and different to each other. That's gotta be hard to achieve on it's own. Is there a reason you made the scratch built yellow one left hand drive?

Absolutely insane build. I really like it man. Awesome finish all round.

welcome to the board dude. I'm up in west sydney myself.

Thats a slick build man. Way to go.

Hey Jim. I am using a automotive acrylic rattle can clear. Has not been an issue when using it on other stuff. I am going to strip her AGAIN. But I am gonna be shifting house in a few weeks so this build is going to have to be put on hold for now. When I get set up again I will strip and prep and paint again. This time I will just do primer, one colour, clear. Something simple! I think I have done enough work on the rest of her to let the build die completely. So until then I will tinker with the '50 pickup. Thanks for all the follows and look-ins and props and advice folks. I will resurrect this thread when I start the body again.

lol Joe. At this point I am thinking that since the body is smooth as glass mostly I should just give it a couple coats of Alclad's gloss black and leave it at that!

WELL... I did what I did. I painted the body, left it for a couple days. Painted the clear and left that for three days. I started the finishing. Began with the 3200 grit in the finishing kit I bought. Keeping the pads wet while rubbing. Used them as recommended. And two days later I have found cracks AGAIN! I am thinking I am just plain cursed. This is pretty silly when you think that I am an airbrush artist and can't even get a decent paintjob on a model car lol Here's a few pics of the crackage.

The engines look awesome Jim. Beautiful detailing and clean building. Truly superb. What did you use for the linkages? Did you scratch or is there something aftermarket available?

This is really coming along fantastically Joe. Every update keeps getting better!

This is moving along rather well. Top notch work buddy.

I much prefer the earlier chev's to the common tri-5's and this looks spot on. Congrats man.

very nicely done. And the paint looks slick as. Great stuff.

awesome work as always Jim. And man those T-junctions are perfect hey? Really nicely done.

Looking great man.

lol.

Was that on the Unfinished table Tim? See this is what happens when you don't read the instructions provided. The poor dude couldn't figure out how to finish his assembly. Oh well, better luck next time.

As they said, beautiful That colour is slick as dude. And congrats on the BMF, it can be a PITA. That interior is sweet. Actually looks a little like real suede. What did you use for paint?

welcome aboard buddy.

I'm not generally a fan of green but it really suits your build man. Nicely done! Just enough detailing in the bay, and the work on them hubcaps is spot on, really gives them depth. Pity about that chip in the chrome at the front left of the bonnet trim, was that where it was attached to the sprue?