bill-e-boy

Is the Touch Tone Terror the same kit as the Little Red Wagon? They are both Dodge A100 pickups

I have been spending some time with my 32 Coupe build and I was waiting for paint and glue to dry I dug ot a door card to detail. I used BMF on the arm rests and Satellite emblem and used Molotow on the window cranks and door handles I must say that the engraving on the interior parts of these kits is very good in that the details are crisp and of good depth. The foiling and masking so far has gone reasonably smoothly. Kudos to Moebius

I have a Emco Unimat 3 that I got second hand a while ago. It was used but came as a kit with the drill/mill attachment and a whole heap of additional stuff that made the deal worthwhile. I di spend some time cleaning it up and fitting new headstock bearings and setting up a new workstation for it. I am real happy with it and in reality I think it is a step up from the Proxon and may even nudge ahead of the Sherline but unfortunately the Emco brand is no longer so you can only get second hand. A lot of the DNA from Unimat 3 can be found in the likes of the small Sieg lathes (and copies) which are another avenue to look at

Thanks Jim. I have done it the other way a lot of times and it is painful masking up around the gas tank so this time I reversed the order. Much more better

Worked on the interior to get it ready to fit up. The combination of colours has worked out. The green body colour for the dash, dark green which is carried over from the motor and running gear and the off white as a contrast. Not seen here is the back side of the fire wall which is pleated and finished in off white. The carpets a flat dark green. The hood liner is off white too. I went to fit the interior into the body and it does not fit. OOPs. Lets read the instructions - looks like the rear inner fenders for the high boy version are fitted AFTER the interior is fitted. Oh dear. Well in for a penny. in for a pound and hoping I would not stuff up the top chop, I wedged it in there by spreading the body apart more than I thought it would go and in it popped. Yahoo!! Now that it is in there you can hardly see it coz of the chop. I need the body ready to fit the chassis for the next step of sorting the motor placement. Thanks for looking

People may not respond but I see you have had a numbers of views. Not everyone knows about the like button or are surfers who have not joined up to the forum. I know I was one of the surfers for a while before I joined. Post em and we will LOOK.

I have the induction set up ready to be installed onto the motor. I have installed .4mm nylon fishing line for the fuel lines to the carbs. I have also made up a small fuel manifold and have "chromed" it. A shot of the motor assembled and waiting for the exhaust manifolds to be fitted. While I am at it I took the opportunity to test fit the motor into the chassis. All is not well. The motor is too far forward and there is not enough space for the radiator and fan. I will need to remake the motor mounts to get the motor back a bit. And that leads to fit issues elsewhere. The joys of monkeying around with non-stock kit parts - and this is what keeps the hobby interesting The body is on its nose waiting for the glue to dry after fitting the windscreen Thanks for looking

Thanks for the conffirmation David

I think I got my answer here

This installment shows the dash panel painted with SMS ally and clear coated. Did a body colour seal coat on my masking and looks OK. Other side of pix is underside shot of the chassis with the gas tank shot with the same ally paint. Now for a detail session with the dash panel and the door cards A conundrum I have is with the body - the chrome detail around the windows and wheel arches is very fine and I am frightened that the separation line for the foiling will be lost. Has anyone scribed along these lines and to what success.

Nice cleanly built model

Cool build Russell

I have had issues with clear eating into the colour below and messing up the paint. Also had ghosting, the worst being on chopped tops where you can still see the stretch line on the roof. I believe that silver or gold metallic paint can help here like blocking bleeding of dyes from coloured plastic. I have had some success with resting of a week or so between colour and clear coating. A modeling friend went as far as only applying a coat of paint to his model each weekend when he was at home. Took ages to paint but the effort was worth it as it is one of the best paint jobs I have seen.

Yup done that too - but thought I would give the base colour a try to see how it goes.

Thanks Jim. Yup the masking wasn't too bad - just tedious. It is not one of the jobs I love to do. I found from somewhere here a trick to lay down a coat of the unlaying colour to seal the masking and to decrease the likelyhood of bleed through. We shall see how this goes as I have masked off the dash panel and layed down some silver which is a greater contrast colour to the red