Dragonhawk1066

I got the interior buttoned up, the front and rear chassis done, exhaust on and engine installed. Now I just have to catch up on the body. I wet-sanded the Go Mango, and it's ready for clear, the black on top of the doors, cowl, and around the windows, decals, and foil but I have to figure out the best order in which to do it all. I'm thinking of doing the clear, wet-sanding it after a few days, then the black followed by satin clear on the black, then polishing the Go Mango with Novus #2 followed by wax, then the foil and decals last.

Nicely done! A great tribute to a great show!!

Very cool customs!! Outstanding work on all of them, and very imaginative use of office equipment, lol!! Seriously though, the shape of the stapler for the cargo area really makes a ton of difference for the custom aspect of this build, well done!!

Very nice looking Shelby!!

All three pieces are outstanding!!

I forgot to post the pics of the look I'm after, except with a white and black interior, and the flat hood. The black around the side windows, especially along the roof and front pillars is going to be fun!

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll keep an eye on those areas.

Very well done!

Nice job Ray! That's a great color! How is the Duplicolor 1K clear to work with? It looks good, did you wet-sand and/or polish it at all?

Thanks guys, this is what I'm going for, except with a white & black interior and I'll keep the hood flat with the 340 Wedge decal. I agree Ray, it's been a nice kit so far, although I haven't really assembled anything yet, LOL.

I just bought a can of the Krylon Short Cuts Clear last time I was there. Eventually I'll get around to testing it over various other paints to see how it interacts with them, what the coverage looks like, and how glossy it is before and after wet sanding/polishing. At $3.99, if it does well enough it might be a go to over the $6 and up Tamiya and Testors clears.

Unfortunately there will always be stupid people doing stupid things with rare and/or valuable objects. Worse is rich stupid people doing stupid things with extremely rare and/or valuable items. I won't post a link, but as an example a youtuber buying a brand new Challenger Hellcat and putting wooden wagon wheels on it and driving it around town....WHY!!!! Just to get some likes and subs on his channel to make more money and do stupider things with even more rare and/or valuable things. Stupid is as stupid does, always, unfortunately!

Here's a quick little update on this one I started last week. I primed the body, firewall, and engine in white, and the rest of the parts in black. I taped off the interior panels yesterday and painted them and the seats in white primer over the black this morning. I airbrushed the exhaust and floor pan in Vallejo Aluminum, and the steering linkage and exhaust manifolds in steel earlier today, as well as the engine in Testors Orange Acrylic. I decided to go ahead and paint the body before lunch too, and it turned out pretty good. I will color sand the orange on this one before taping off the rest of the body so I can paint the top of the fenders, door panels and around the windows black. I sprayed some dull-cote onto the wheels Friday too, but I didn't like how they looked, so I put them into a container of LA's Totally Awesome overnight. When weather permits again (rain tomorrow looks like) I'll get the wheels primed and painted in Vallejo Aluminum.

Looking pretty slick so far!

WOW! What a great start to this one! One of these days I have to try to do a weathered build too, but I'm just so nervous to start one. I have a couple of extra bodies that I might practice on real soon. Your techniques look very solid and doable for me, so I'll probably try to follow them as close as possible. Thanks for the guide!

You're blowing my mind on this one, Steven! These details are crazy, especially the wiring harness. I'm half expecting some shrunken down 3" guy to get in, start it up and drive it away when you're done!

He did good! I was building paint glopped glue bombs at that age, LOL!!!

Thanks Chris. Thanks Rusty! I wasn't 100% sure where the tank started and the floor pan ended, I couldn't really tell on any of the reference pics I could find on Google.

Very cool and very imaginative! Well done!

Cool little roadster! Well done!

I'm liking that color! This is quite the popular kit to build at the moment. I started mine a few days ago and there's another one going on in this WIP section of the forum.

Looking good! I like the color! I just started mine a few days ago by trimming the flash and mold lines and deepening the panel lines followed by a Dawn dishwater bath. I'm just waiting for the humidity here in Michigan to drop under 60% so I can prime it, lol. Mine will be Go Mango Orange with a white and black interior. Funny that while prepping the parts, I noticed I was missing one of the spoiler pedestals, part #71. I'm waiting to hear from Round 2 about my missing part request.

Definitely a possibility as well.

Thanks guys!! This one went immediately into one of my top 5 faves. The end result looks pretty much like how I envisioned, which is usually not the case for me, lol. Thank you Tom! My mindset is that the clear seals in the foil so it can be handled without freaking out about it "sliding around" on the surface, not that I overly handle or play with them, but I do pick them up by the roof edges often. I have noticed that clearing over the BMF does dull it just a little bit. Not too noticeable, but not quite as shiny so there is that pro and con for the individual to weigh.

My one measly kit that I managed at Ollie's this morning about 2 minutes after the hoarder trio filled up their 3 carts full of kits. I passed on it last time before I realized Stallone's "Cobra" movie car could be made from it for the most part. I also got my MAD order in from Kris Morgan. 2 sets each of regular and deep Cragar Draglites and Weld Pro Star's, a set of big 'n little Torque Thrusts and 4 pair of Accel Supercoils. Outstanding quality castings on everything, I'm very happy with these parts! I also picked up a nice little Mopar collage at Hobby Lobby in their clearance aisle last week for $3.49.