bill-e-boy

Good to see this coming round again. Some nice builds here. A few of mine 56 Chrysler 300B- slammed with original hemi with some changed bits in engine bay. More about stance, wheels and colour choices 56 Nomad - 409 power 69 Torino Cobra Jet - very subtle stripe - colour is gun metal with light gun metal stripe

I am 0n crowd control week after next - school hol's

I am calling this done - off to Under Glass Been a cool time contributing to this thread - I've had a ball building, watching and interacting with all like minded people

Looking good but you gotta scrape off that made by in ..... stuff on the chassis. Just my thoughts

Looking good Michael. The recessed plate breaks up a rather large expansive area - I should have done it on my build but I figured I had enough going on at the back with the wiggly rear end and tubbed fenders

And it is going into..........

Looking good. Had not thought to use PLA filament for models - don't have any so thought never entered my mind. TS 60 is a good colour choice - very similar to the colour I have used on my 32 5W build -

Well I missed the deadline for the meeting theme due to work. What a dirty four letter word that is. Any way moving onwards toward getting it done Got the fenders glued up. I had pinned them when I was fitting them up during construction and this has payed off when gluing them to the Vickie chassis. The white bare plastic showing on the floor boards are where I had to some relief work to get the body to fit the frame. A typical issue when kit bashing Not happy with the paint finish on the driver side running board - not sure of a fix but most probably hit it with some flat clear - Oh dear!!! I glued the interior into the body - my you have to hold your mouth the right way to get these in. There is no registration lips or protrusions to locate the body when inserted so some electrical tape to the rescue to hold it in position will the epoxy glue cured. It is sitting on my 5W coupe chassis and it sits a bit high due to the additional reveal line and the rear of the body After the trimming of the floorboard got the body to finally fit the chassis and epoxied into place Still a few more bits n bobs to get out of the way but getting there Thanks for looking

Dont forget this is an OOB build. You want fine detailing like piping - stretch some sprue that came in the kit - then chrome it with a Molotow pen before glueing down At least the door cards are separate and can be easily deatailed. I have cut off things like arm rests before and then detailed the cards then glued them back on after detailing them - still OOB

My 32 Tudor coming along nicely And with the body sat on my coupe chassis

Revel 32 5 window coupe build. Chopped 3" with resin flat motor. Painted and waiting for that to harden before colour sanding

Looking good - but: Looks like you could open up the recessed firewall a tad both in width and height to fit those massive stacks and move the engine backwards. That would then give you room for the radiator and fan as the motor looks to close to even fit the radiator. You will need lots of cooling with that high horsepower motor. Rrrrgh - this is what happens when we modify things - you spend a truck load of time making everything fit

Sometimes when you have other in depth builds going on you need to do something simple an OOB build. When you are done you feel as though you have accomplished something and have another build on the shelf. You just have to remember to keep it simple and it looks like you are achieving that in spades. Just keep an eye out for Bil's squirrels

At the start of a build a build list - not to much detail, just general bullet points Often with OOB's I will note down things on the instructions like colour callouts as the instructions are often not quite correct for RepStock or if a modified build as I want to see it At the end an A4 page with build notes clipped to the instructions - I keep all of my instruction sheets in a folder (or2) For one of my current WIP's (Chopped 32 5W Coupe). Typically these things evolve as the build goes along

I have brought the build to the front of the bench. The local club has a Road and Track theme this month so let's see if I can get it over the line The body has been sitting for a while and the paint should be good and hard so I started to get some shine on it. Typical of pearl paints - they don't photograph well and look better in daylight in the flesh The interior needed some little thing that needed attending to so I did that too Got the floor board glued into place. The dog is supervising the job

Mine too But wait............

I took a couple of pix of my build up earlier this evening. Bear in mind that this was built more that 30yrs ago. Paint would have been a custom mix of Humbrol with Humbrol clear enamels and polished out with dulled 2000g wet n dry sandpaper and polished with car polish. And as said above it builds into a nice little hot rod

More, more please

Yup I have - a long, long time ago not long after it was first released in the 80's. It has the Butera T chassis with the body shrunk to match but builds up nicely. Here is a shot of the chassis where I got a bit carried away with detail

You would need to find some old rod brakes. Ol' Henry was a little late to the hydraulic brake party - 1939 for him

I got some cheap ones (a couple of sets actually) and the above is true. And another third are broken - most likely they were blunt or incorrectly ground. Years ago (at least 30 of them) I splashed out on a set like the Micro Mark ones but a different brand and they have been good. There are a few holes in the set that need to be filled but they have stayed sharp and if careful don't break readily. I have a lot of the PCB drill too but I keep them for use on my lathe I suppose when you look at it - you spend good money and look after the kit and they do good long service - or you buy cheap multiple times and add to that a whole heap of frustration. You pays your money and takes your chance

A cool diversion - a nicely written article

And AMT put them behind everything - 427 Ford, SBC, 392 Hemi, Nailhead and more. Every AMT 30's kit that had a modern motor had a SV trans behind it. Amazing really as they weren't that strong but here were a lot of adaptors available back in the day

That is the one that springs to mind first off, but it has an unknown blobby trans. Most probably an early otto. It is easy to cut the auto off and glue a replacement manual trans My build is about to get some love as I have put it to one side while I do a quickie buildup of a 32 5W Coupe

Well I nearly had the interior all finished up and went to glue the dash in and discovered that it would not fit. And the interior would not fit into the body either. It looks like I grabbed a 3W interior instead of a 5W - DOH!! And I had made such a nice job of it. Pix is of wrong interior I got the correct interior prepped it and now have painted it in off white and pearl moss green and it is nearly reader to assemble. The parts box steering wheel was missing a horn button so out to the lathe to turn one up. Looks fine after polishing and fitting to the wheel The motor is coming together. The ignition has been wired with the correct flat motor firing order. The Thickstun valve covers look cool and give the rather dull looking stock flat motor some panache. The bits that hang off the motor are in the paint process at the moment and will be dded when I have done all the detail work. A wee mock up to see that all is on the right track The project is still heading mostly to plan. I made a list at the start of the project So the deviations are: Manual over auto - makes sense with a flat motor Body - this is what started the project We got the old timey big n littles but went with the 300B wires Frame - no change - it is long (with gas tank and front horns) and usual treatment to lower both ends Hiboy - yes please Yet to dig up tail lights and likely to use large headlights Well the red paint got the heave ho in favour of green - just too many red cars And the interior is now cream and green Things have a way of changing during a build but big changes like colour choice have a huge impact on how the build turns out Thanks for looking