Hooked on Chaparral

What a great job with this kit. Beautiful finish.

No actually I used one of the newer trans am mustangs and borrowed a few things from the NASCAR OLDS roof, rear clip rear glass, anything gray was a NASCAR model.

I posted this once before, April 13th, sorry about that guys! I tried to delete it.

Built this box stock , a "few" years ago!

soo cool! You've got that weathering thing "down"!

looks great the interior and body work very well together. ahhh what used to be...

Wow very very nice work.

No that's the one thing I don't do. If I get in those positions i save the donor kit for other possibilities.

INCREDIBLE!! just flat out INCREDIBLE!!

Thanks everybody I really appreciate the comments.

very nice work!

looks like i forgot details, I paint strictly enamel Testors Model Master, Testors enamel, I used to use Lacquer thinner to clean with, but its so hard to "dispose of (legal comment)".as far as my air brush it's an older PASCHE double action with the "cup". I'd break it ALL down and give it a good "wash" after each session.

I mentioned in one of my earlier posts I am getting back INTO the hobby after being away from it for 18-19 yrs. What is the BEST way "legally " (no lacquer thinner), to clean my airbrush now? What do you guys use, techniques, yadda, yadda, anything would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

WOW very nice Gurney car and the other three, WOW again. Maybe I should have just stayed away. There are some really nice things going on, and I thought thehobby was slowing down, HA!

Thank You EVERYONE who've commented like I mentioned earlier in the post it was a bear to complete the original stance was way too high, and as nice as everything was engineering wise A LOT of fit issues also to resolve. i bought the GRAND SPORT book by Lowell Paddock and Dave Friedman for reference, I knew nothing of these cars at the time, the Accurate Miniatures kit came out and I was hooked. I also had heard rumours that they had a Chaparral in the works before they ran into financial troubles. What could have been.... I have the McClaren kit in my maybe someday group of kits to be completed.

Very cool

Thank You very much

Good Morning, I have a question. I am unfamiliar working with so called white metal wheels, I bought a set of "Big and Little" Chaparral wheels from R & D Unique a few years ago. I am finally getting round to using these babies for my 2C project and they could use a little TLC what is the best way to polish/clean these up? I am not looking for an alloy wheel kind of finish just something closer to what a "working" racing wheel would look like? Does this make sense? Anyhow any tips would be greatly appreciated also does anyone know if RB Motion still sells valve stems? THANKS!

Great work, how did you do the convertible top on the Fairlane? THAT looks fantastic!

Well the anodized fittings are from Detail Master for the most part, the "hard lines" are paper clips I would cut and shape to size. After dry fitting and making sure all was well I would then assemble them and use either a red or blue sharpie REALLY brings out the anodized look. Also the Camaro in case anybody is interested, (I wish I had removed the alignment tabs sooner) the entire inside of the body is Fred Cady Kevlar decal, kind of hard to make out from these pictures.

Dave I talked to you here a number of years ago about your Merkur. I kinda got into this hobby when having bought a used 1987 XR4Ti I went to the Glen IMSA race to see Scott Pruett actually racing them, I noticed a Revell Motorcraft Mustang T/A Pruett drove and the similarities and I was "hooked, line, and sinker" right there. I also had the advantage of having at the time one of the premier fully scratch built truck and oil field oddities builder in the country, Mark Savage (not the one at scale auto) he helped with a lot of stuff. This is so cool to re kindle my interests again, I have had a lot of things happen to me since 1999 (last build) and I am getting back into again with Chaparral kits.

IF any of you folks would like to ask questions PLEASE feel free to shoot away. I would LOVE to talk about these two, I kinda put them up with a master I was doing the other day and kind of went through a change of heart. I have been away so long from this hobby I felt like maybe I was coming on a bit too brash, that ain't me! New pictures, anything, be glad to do it.

They were a bit tricky if I recall, I would use the tip of a round toothpick to make sure they were running true until the Super Glue set up. I would assemble the section and gently run the tip between the surfaces to keep them in line. As far as stance, this kit was bad on that account. I had to do a lot of shaving and filing, sand and dry fitting. Also thanks for the compliments on the window, too many times you really cannot get a good look at the interior so that was my reasoning for that, also I was VERY lucky, I had dry brushed the gauges and placed a drop of of 5 minute epoxy over them to resemble glass, that technique works great. I have NO idea were I read that but it was certainly not my idea!

Welcome to another Pennsylvanian!