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Thanks Josh and Scott. I think all the items that go inside the car are finished, so I believe I can start painting the frame and interior and all the parts that go in there.

Yes , I still got a lot of kid in me, even though I'm really getting old.

Thanks, Edgar. Much appreciated.

Pierre, I'm just afraid, some day, the finished product will look so bad, I would have to say, that the dog ate it.

Thanks, Carl. I start out saying, I'm not doing anything to the interior but a roll cage, but always keep adding extra stuff that you really cant see that much when the model is finished. I guess I'm scared to finish the darned thing. Afraid of what it might look like.

thanks, Josh. I really appreciate the feedback.

Thanks, Pierre. Its a sheet of thin foam rubber called Silly Winks. Comes in 12x18 inch, 2mm thick sheets. Have no idea where the name comes from but I purchased them at Hobby Lobby a while back. They might not sell them anymore. I installed them with Elmers glue, and trimmed them with a small scissors.

Looking great, Josh. Will be awesome when finished.

Cage is almost finished. Just a couple of more bars.

You're welcome, Gary. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks Carl and Pierre. Pierre, the tube is 3/32 inch evergreen tube and the wire is just an old roll that has no marking on it, but it fit inside the tube so I used it. Got a lot more done yesterday and will try to add more photos today.

Don't know if you guys use this trick when building your cages, or whenever you need to bend a tube, but putting wire in it helps keep it from breaking when bent and also helps you keep the bend you choose by keeping the tube from rebounding to straight. Got started on the cage. I know it looks off center, but I will explain why I think the real cars cage was made this way, when the model is finished, and I give the story of the build in the under glass section, when finished.

Thanks, Mike and David. I really appreciate your interest in the build. Got the main hoop of the cage , in the rear seat area, installed . everything else builds off of it. Will try to post some pics this afternoon.

Got the body to fit to the chassis/interior. Still going to have to do some fixes here and there to get it right.

Thanks, Carl. It's pretty close to what I was looking for. When you see the roll cage you're going to think I messed up . The right side of the cage is not close to the right door at all. I Have no idea why they did it that way, but I'm going to have to do it. I think it has to do with the unibody construction because they used the stock Camaro to make this race car. Seems pretty unsafe to me.

Pierre, If I can make decals, you can make decals. You just need a vector graphics program like Photoshop. I was lucky . I got my Adobe Photodeluxe 2.0 bundled with the scanner I bought back in the 90's. So it was basically free. It just takes a while playing with it to take an image from the internet and turn it into a decal image that is 600 pixels per inch. you then print it on decal paper, future the decal paper with a brush and then cut them out and put them on the model. the program basically cleans up the image so you can use it as a decal. You just have to find side shots of cars so you will have a flat image to work with. It also helps to have a Laser printer with a ghost white printer cartridge, so you can make white background decals to place your color decals on top of. If not the decal disappears on a dark colored car . If its a white car the decal works fine without the white background decal. I hear that vector graphics programs nowadays are very expensive. You could do it ,my friend, if you really want to. Sometimes you just cant find the decals you want, because the professional decal maker doesn't choose to make them. There are some out there that will do a one off special sheet for you but they are few and far between. Dont rule out making your own, you could make it happen. Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks , Scott and Matti. I finally got my guage decals printed. Not that great, but you can tell they are guages.

Got some more done on the dash. Spent yesterday making guage decals for it. Hoping I have them sized right. Also added the rear foundation after I cut it loose from the rear seat, and filled the void left where the seat would have gone.

Pierre, Yes, I lightly sanded the MM gloss clear acrylic with 8000 and 12000 grit cloths just to knock the high points off the brush strokes down. You can no longer see any brush strokes with the future . I'm thinking if I thin the MM gloss clear next time I can get it on smoother and not have to polish it at all before the Future. Now that I found those bottles I should be able to thin the MM in a more accurate way. I didn't even try to thin it on this model.

I finally got the Pledge/Future on the model and am very pleased. I can go ahead and work on the rest of the model now. After the model is decalled, I will apply one more coat of future to seal them on. I got some more work on the interior done by starting on the dash conversion to what the real car had. The under hood area is going to be black. That's why I didn't bother to add anymore paint to it .