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I fixed the slightly to high grill surround and got it glued in. Funny stance while epoxy set up Got all the little to do's done like the: - front shocks - had to shorten them after the front end lowering - radiator hoses - headlights - final clean up This is how it looks now Its off to Under Glass time Thanks for looking

Its been an age since I last posted on this build - I spent 3 months working away from home and had a busy month leading into that - November, December and January taken care of only to go full blast into the next project of working long hours and next minute its May 2023. I did not make the 100th aniversary deadline - darn!! Well back into it Interior gat taken care of - some original build and some new stuff. The gauge panel is from the spares box along with the seat The original white paint job was not doing it so in the tank it went. Had to clean up the body a bit from the chop job it into primer and colour before I went away for work And a shot of the chassis and bits getting ready for assembly And chassis on all four A quick mock up which showed issues with the fire wall - the recess was not big enough for the monster motor so had to do a work round by installing a flat panel behind the fire wall lip to mate up with the interior. Gosh this is a big motor to fit in a fairly small hole but this is what hot rodding is all about So we are now up to date. Motor is now fitted. The steering and exhausts are in as well after a wee fight with the engine but we got there in the end. And the body is now mounted to the chassis Looking OK except the grill surround and radiator sits a bit too high when I mocked it up. I have shaved some more off the bottom where it sits on the cross member and have had to relieve some depth of the fan to get it to look good. I am using a chopped grill and radiator from R&MM but even the chop was not enough for the full chassis depth channel job. This has a nice PE grill insert to boot. Thanks for looking

What a kool combo - both have turned out exceptional. Congrats on the hard work in getting to the finish line.

Great to see a large number of projects that have been on this forum being displayed The quality and quantity of the models seen via this link is awesome. Thanks Tim Congrats to all involved and it is very sad to see an institution of our hobby coming to an end.

This is my "Sunday" car. Originally from LA but bought from Texas before coming to NZ Photo taken in late 2016 just before I partly pulled it apart to install a XJ6 Jag front end into it. It now has American TT2 wheel with narrow white walls and a bit lower in the front

Looking kool Bill, like Dennis said "We do what we gotta do!" One day I hope I can kitbash something that will fall together without lots of work to make it work and look good - I am still waiting for the day

Looks kool - you have addressed the too high stance of the kit well

Kool Elephant Dart

Look forward to following the build as I built up a banger with Cragar OHV conversion as aside project to my Boyd Tribute build. Just not sure what to use it in yet and it is allways good to see the use of a different motor. The chop looks good too - not too much as you say

Love it. The gold with white - superb choice?

Had one back in 2009. Have had some side issues but the benefits outweigh the other outcome if I had not had it done. I was offered three options - radiation and chemo, rods or a prostatectomy. The radiation doc said why see me just get it done. This was back in the day before keyhole surgery was common place so I have been left with a decent size scar but the PSA count has been zero since, but so has the sex life - damn - that has been the biggest down side but at least I am a cancer survivor

Who are sometimes tougher than you think

List all you unmade models and see how many you can complete before you fall off your perch

Brush painting can be done OK. You need to use thinned enamel pant like the Humbrol or Revell tinlets. This needs to be thinned a little with mineral turpentine and brushed on with a wide flat bush and flowed on. The reason to use the enamel paints is they are slow drying and do not set up between strokes like acrylic paint does. You cannot brush paint metallic paints successfully. I have heard you can use laquear paints put on unthinned but you will be in for a big colour sand job at the end Clear coating and colour sanding as if you spay painted works too but bear in mind that enamel paint takes an age to gas out. Colour sand and then let it gas out some more before trying to polish This was how it was done before I started using an airbrush

I am a big fan of the 55-56 Mopars in any form - but then I am biased but as a 55 Dodge was mentioned so here is my 2 cents worth of derailment I have a real deal 56 Dodge which was originally balck and off white where the pink (salmon) now is. And the 1:25 model - a resin kit from Model Car World

This coming along nicely Kurt - been watching along and am gob-smacked at the added detail you have scratched together

Thanks for the comments. Slowing moving along. Getting chassis together The interior is done. The shifter is a bent pin with the the ball chromed with Molotow and the shifter riser scratch built. The hemi is a manual so needed a third pedal so scratched an accelerator pedal. The roll bar is from the earlier build as is the bare door panels. The seat and steering wheel are from the spares box. All wheels on ant right side up. Had to remake the engine mounts as the original mounts on the frame were cut back for the original Hemi I was using. Working on more engine detail Made up the fuel manifold made up and bosses mounted onto the carbs. Looks huge but the larger diameter bar is 1.15mm dia. And looking blobby as I has just flooded it with Molotow In the mean time the body has been colour sanded to 12000 grit and waiting to be polished - more to come

The Ardun banger idea is kool Here is a Cragar conversion I did a little while ago

Nice work going on here - been away from home on project so best I could do was lurk - home now so hopefully the paint has set up enough to polish out. It was too soft before I while I was waiting got into another project, then life and work got in the way. Interesting project - using electricity to heat a steam boiler instead of burning up fossils - uses lots of power too.

Kool work going on here KK

Its been a while since my last post. I got the body and chassis in colour during Oct/Nov then sodded off out of town for a couple of months for work. Every thing got parked up for a while and I missed the 2022 window for 90th anniversary so will need to celebrate the 91st instead. I worked on the rear inner guard fit and prepped the the body after paint removal and got some primer on it Had some issues with the paint - I mixed a custom metalic blue Tamiya lacquer and got this on OK. When I clear coated the clear ate into the blue and tiger striped the finish. Resanded and reshot the blue then took it real easy with the clear with lots of mist coats - that sorted it. So it sat for a couple of months to cure whether it needed it or not After getting back from being away I have been working on the small stuff so will update when some rea progress has been made Thanks for looking

Looking good Jim. You have done a fantastic job on the interior. I think it takes balls to cut open doors, I have tried it and ended up parking it. I did a 300B a couple of years back and found I had to do a lot of clean up on the body - lots of mould lines to clean up and some a little vague. The 300 and 300B are nice looking cars IMO

I have just come across this theme build. I built this engine with something like this theme build in mind

Hia Mathias - I apologise for hijacking your thread for a wee rant. You are doing a great job and the paint job looks kool Cheers Bill-e-boy

Such a pain to pay $$$$$ for a kit to have this sort of thing to happen. Real pain as I live in New Zealand which is even further away from Revells call centre and when I tried for a replacement part which was supported with a photo they sent me the wrong thing - once bitten etc - but I still end up with unusable kits Revell needs to sort this sort of issue out as I have two unusable 29 Roadsters with the same issue and I am reluctant to spend NZ$95 for a kit that has this sort of dog droppings in it "RANT (sheep) RANT (shina) blah (sh...) blah"