MarkJ

Pierre, check your private messages.

Thanks, Pierre.

This is the right way to go about this chassis. Better than taking a chassis from another kit and making it fit into the body. that would be more of a dog's breakfast then what you are doing. You have the ref photos right there to build off of . What could be better than that.

I have one actual ref picture of the car I'm building from the front, and it is partially obscured by a pit crew member going from one side of the car to the other. If you blow up the picture, you can see that there has been some race damage to the grille and that some of the chrome had been removed from it prerace. Even the bar down the middle had a molding removed from it that would leave a valley with holes in it that I really did not want to model because I didn't know if that was prerace or happened after the front end damage, so I just came up with something that kind of looks like the grille might have looked like before the damage, but I'm not really sure. The main thing is that it does not look like a 67 comet grille. One thing it has over the amt grille is that air can flow through my grille which is no big deal. The amt grilles are one-piece castings.

No, I'm through with the grille. I have seen the amt comet grille. It doesn't look anything like the car I'm doing had.

Thanks, Ricky.

Thanks, Trevor and Bill.

Thanks, Jason.

Thanks, Pierre.

Thanks, Pierre. I think I'll just stay with this deal I'm doing. I could make a grille decal myself, but I think it might look like an old car trying to look like a modern car that is supposed to have decal headlights and grilles.

Yes, what is with the 429 C.I. I don't recall Pontiac having that size engine. Don't sweat the chassis too much. Just use the chassis in the box and add a few bars here and there. As long as you have something to carry the seat, cage, engine and have something to attach the tires and wheels to your good.

After studying my ref pictures more, I came to the realization that this Comet was a Comet Cyclone that came with a fiberglass hood with scoops and a grille with more of a horizontal bar look that was split in the middle. So, I had to make 4 separate grilles to fill in the grille cavities. The smallest material I could find was some .020 rod, so that's why it's not as accurate as I would want it to look, I would need .010 rod to do it justice. But I don't think they make it, and my finger dexterity is not what it use to be to pull that off anyway. And the glue would melt material that small. So, this will be close enough for me. The car I'm modeling had the hood changed to a metal stock comet hood for the race I'm representing. So that's why I'm having to remove the hood scoops. A lot of the chrome trim on the grille was also removed and they painted the grille black, so just so I have the basic look of a 66 Comet grille will have to suffice.

Excellent work, Pierre. All your mods look well thought out and will give you magnificent results. I will try the fender flares on my current project. I also like the windshield and back glass retention ideas. Really looking forward to the paint portion of the build.

Got some more work done on the grille. I used a hole punch to make the filler plastic that goes between the headlights. Just make two holes extremely close to each other and use the plastic that is left between the two holes you punch out. I will probably just finish the voids left with putty because there is not that much area left to fill. The hole punch makes perfect sized discs to cover the headlight cavities.

Thanks, Pierre. I don't think so. I will have to cut off the rear bumper from the rear panel to save the chrome bumper. I'm not as good as you when it comes to redoing chrome bumpers. The toughest part of the grille will be making the grilles that go into the upper and lower grille cavitys. One good thing is that the real car had the grille painted black.

Got some more work done changing the grille from a 1967 to a 1966.

Thanks, Pierre. As always, I don't give away what the project is ahead of time to hopefully cut down on hijackers who want to share their like builds in this thread. But I think as the build goes along it will become obvious which car, I will be modeling. Thanks for your positive thoughts about the build. I don't think the scratch building will be as intense as the last project. It's a build I have always wanted to do and now finally getting around to doing it.

I will have to dechrome and change the grille and also remove the scoops from the hood and make it flat with a center strip down the middle.

Here is the kit.

Yes, they will be coming soon.

Finally finished the decals for this and will begin the build today. Will be changing a 67 Comet into a 66 Comet.