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I’ll follow along as this is one that I’ve wanted to build myself!

Great start Dennis, happy to see you back at it again.

Looks darn purdy there Jim, are you using the stock trunk handle or something a little more svelt?

Don’t get me wrong Bill, I’m not against an airbrush, just to do a proper setup the cost outlay is way out of my modelling budget at the moment, I’ve got a good process for rattle cans and I’m happy with the results.

Thank you Ken, it’s back on track! still not a Oilers or a hockey fan!

Cleaning…. Ohh maaann that’s like work😜 Well I’ll give it some consideration, the initial cost outlay is a bit out of my budget atm unless I buy a cheapo chinesium one from Temu or Amazon. 🤔

I don’t own an airbrush, maybe I should! 🤔

Me too man, me too. Gonna let it gas out for a couple of days before I handle it to do final assembly. Just have to find the fancy bits for the final push like door handles, mirror, tail lights headlights.

Thanks for the kind words gents, persevere I shall. I had another body(like who doesn’t have a spare 32 3 window shell just laying around) and I went through my usual prep and paint process this time with my dwindling supply of Tamiya primer and paint( gonna be a sad day when it finally runs out) and the results show the difference. To those who might say it was something in my process that went bad I’ll say nay it was the subpar primer that I was sold like a bill of goods, duplicolour is no substitute for quality, I’ll save the can and use it as intended on some random piece of farm/garden implement as it’s only fit for.

Yeah it’s got the beginnings of a great patina job…

Well I can honestly say that I’m hugely disappointed with the duplicolour primer, I went through the exact same process of prep and paint that I’ve been doing for years with the only exception of the duplicitous Duplicolour primer, I feel duped. So now it’s gonna sit in the purple pond of doom. After months of waiting for good painting weather, this “dampens” my spirits. And lastly the sad sack mock-up to try to cheer myself up!

“Restraining” the criticism might be a tall Ask Jim. I like it.

It’s great to see that almost a year later they there are still builders plugging away at the finish line and have not abandoned their builds!

Can’t fault Atlantis as most likely they are copy/paste from Revell instructions. I attempted the 55 with all the opening bits and failed horribly in the early 90’s!

I’ll generally have one major build going along with a couple of side distractions( squirrels) sometimes I’ll get an idea while working with the major and hash it out as a side project to see if it will work. That being said I have over a dozen of these “ideas” sitting within reach of the bench so if I reach a stalling point I can dredge up an old idea and make some progress. Having a rather depleted stockpile of glue bombs and rebuilders has been a hinderance lately.

Finally! 😜

Thanks Craig, need some dry weather, it’s been damp cold and miserable for weeks!

Thank you Greg, it’s the lower part of the K-member making it lean! It’s perfectly straight once I put the wheels n tires on.

Thank you Bob, still a couple of smallish details to do but I’m super happy with it!

Thanks Bob, I’ll give it the honest effort to try it out.

Engine is finally finished and mounted to the chassis, now it’s time for more “exhausting” (see what I did there) work, I fabricated the tubing with cold formed bends and used to unknown source mufflers. Bent some turndowns and opened them up. Some small paint touchups and I can call this step complete

Just followed up the whole thread, impressive work on taking this kit to the finish line @David G.. I snuck over to the big rig forum and spent some time looking through your builds over there, I wanted to do a tractor and hauler for years and fill it with my favourite hot rods. I’m inspired by that combo and have started the search for the amt Haul away and a suitable tractor! keep up the great work!

Off to a fine start there Bill, chop looks perfect!

Thank you for the kind words David, under glass thread has already been posted!