R. Thorne

Built this to approximate Norm Warling’s car. Added tach, roll bar, shifter, turbo 200 trans, 68 Firebird headers, aftermarket AFB carbs, hood scoop, reinforced rear control arms, side windows, no primer just Tamiya TS black paint, aftermarket wheels sprayed with Revell chrome paint, cast scratch built front tires and Hasegawa chrome trim. Further details are in the WIP thread. Comments, questions, criticisms are always welcomed and encouraged.

Needs a good dust off and maybe a polishing, but you gotta stop sometimes. Assembled with the usual quirks that comes from changing even minor stuff. CA gold stuff and accelerator are my friends. More pics in the finished section. Learned a little, now on to the next one.

Ordered the kit and hood yesterday. Scott Burton’s car will be used as a guide. Not a replica of his, however. I am thinking candyapple red for the color. Unsure of wheels.

Finally got the numbers/letters on the side windows. On individual decals like these, I had forgotten to soak each one on a paper towel to remove excess liquid, until I was about halfway through. Keeps the decal more stabil on the window to position it easier.

Looks similar to the real thing.

Cut some .010”x.030” pieces, stuck them side by side onto a piece of double back tape. Tried a couple types of foil on them, but ended up with some Flysea instead and “taped” them on to the windows. Now, it is on to some class designations.

Another burnout. Had to gather some sanity and built a quickie and cheap P-51 airplane for diversion. Shot some ts30 Tamiya on it and used the new acrylic markers for all other painting. Now I am back on the 62 Pontiac.

Thank you, Tony. I keep plugging. Gonna use some .010”x.030” for the posts after installing the windows. Taped the windows in, then applied super glue. Used Gold super glue, kicker, and the Glue Loopers to put the windows on. So far, so good. Gonna let it dry and came up with a different way to mount the separators. Tackle that tomorrow.

Got her shined up and some windows cut out. Done for the day.

Finished roll bar, installed scratch built head rest, used some novus to remove some spots on body. Succeeded in knocking off rear view mirror, one front fender chrome spear, and removing chrome from door handles (sigh…).

I am on the fence right now on that issue. If I do the vent windows, I will do the front and rear windows also, and make a chrome window separator, too. This would also allow placement of the class designations. Got a little more done today. Tailights and parking lights, radiator hoses,white acrylic marker on the dome light, battery, aftermarket dual master cylinder, silver acrylic marker touched up with black acrylic marker on door handles. Next to last pic shows the flatness of the marker on the radiator support. Finally, installed the chassis to set the roll bar height and super glued in place. Installed the master cylinder with super glue on the firewall and kicker on the master cylinder, making for an almost instant bond.

More small steps. Used the acrylic black marker to touch up the hood and under hood area. Much easier (and quicker) than painting. Then super glued and “kicked” the windshields in.

Baby steps. Got some letters/numbers on the windshields.

Some personal stuff going on, but back trying to finish this thing. Thanks again, Daniel for your input. Much appreciated. My friend, Bob Michael, here in Div 3 (land of winners), also has a 62 Pontiac with a 389 in stock class. Started a model of his a few years back (gee, wish I could finish more of my builds). Anyway, got the tach, steering wheel, dash, and shifter installed. Sure would be a lot more tedious without super glue and kicker.

Steering wheel and Tamiya panel line grille work.

Sanded and cleaned up some racing seats I casted. Put some primer and paint on them. Used those great markers to “paint” and detail the tach.

Cut off a piece of chrome, applied a “spear” cut with scissors. Looks a little better. One of the deficiencies of Hasegawa is the thickness and subsequently, less conformability . Used Elmer’s thinned with a few drops of water applied with a brush for the embossing powder. Didn’t want to mask everything off again in order to spray paint as a base for the powder. Next time will try paint as Daniel suggested.

Your comments and suggestions are always much appreciated, Daniel. Thank you. While that paint was drying, I worked on the chrome trim. I used Hasegawa, BMF, and Flysea pens. The BMF looked the worst, so took it off. The trim around the windshield(s) is extremely thin. Mostly, Hasegawa was used, but chrome pen used on some areas. Not thrilled with the results. Got some clean up to do(if I can stay motivated). I am gonna try to cut some spear headed Hasegawa for the front of the side trim.

Cut the back seat out and replaced it with styrene.

Wow, I’m stumped. I love Tamiya TS spray cans and have painted 5 or six cars in the past year with stellar results. Orange, maroon, black (my favorite) and the last one ts42 gunmetal gray. I put gloss ts13 on the last one, but rarely do. Temperatures range from 71-74 degrees and humidity around 50 %. Is that extremely low 5% normal for you? I sincerely hope you find a solution. Also, I sometimes use a primer base, but, mostly straight to the plastic. Normally I use 2 medium coats perhaps held a little closer than you.

You might consider one of the thin slot miter boxes. This one comes with a saw.

Put some marker on the tubing I will use for the roll bar. This will save me from removing it to paint after I have bent it in position. Could have painted the straight tubing, but the marker was easy to do and less likely to crack or flake off during bending. Put some putty on the original shifter area after trimming it off. Going to try some embossing powder for carpet. Will probably use Elmer’s first.

Yeah, I guess I suffered from burnout and hurry up and get it done on this one. Note the lack of master cylinder, also. I couldn’t come up with one that looked like this. I am still looking.

Thanks, guys.

After finally finishing one of my 65 Dodges, I am back on this one. A pic of what ceramic coated headers look like. Glued the calipers/rotors/wheels/tires on. Couldn’t resist some more pics of Norm Warling’s car.