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Thank you Francis. It’s coming along now. It still has a long road to completion, though.

Outstanding!

Recovery accomplished. I have to clean up a couple tiny bleed through spots, then on to colors.

They look better than the real thing!

Masked off for candy tangerine panels and thin silver pinstripes with .4 mm fine line tape. I laid down 5 coats of candy tangerine, with candy red gradient lines in front fenders. When unmasking, I not only found that the .4mm was out of scale, the tangerine peeled up in several areas around the fine line. I stripped it back down to resin again, primed, then laid down the Ultra Silver from MCW, then Candy Tangerine, skipping the pinstripes and gradient lines. They would be very hard to see in this scale anyway. I will be shooting the black over it this time(less masking)

Francis, do you have an electron microscope in your shop?? How do you manage to see dead center on something that small? Amazing, as usual!

Looking really good. It is a shame that they molded the console in to the tub, as it wasn’t available on 4 speeds after 1969 in A body. That is something they should have fixed in the retooling.

Looking great so far!

This is going really well, enjoying this build

This just keeps getting better and better! Really nice touches with the retractors and sweet job on the W-30 inner fenders.

That GM blue looks really good on it!

Thank you Carl.

This is looking cool. I will be watching

Thank you Francis. Things may look rough at first, but I do have a plan, and make things work out as I go. I may end up with no hair left afterwards, but I will get there. If it turns out looking 25 percent as good as what you put out there, I consider that a success. Being that this is only the second model I have touched after 30 years away, I think I am doing ok.

Interior together, nitrous bottle/ bracket painted and mounted, battery painted. Photo etch window cranks and under dash gauges, waiting for monster tach. Masked off and painted the gloss black, sanded to 4000. Candy paint next, wish me luck

Looking really good to this point, watching.

Awesome?

A bit more progress, floor is flocked and sealed. Made shifter boot and added short pistol grip from Harts Parts. I finished blending the dashes together, painted and added gauge prints. Seats, cage are in, shaved .020 from door panel area to make way for aluminum panels with door handles from original door panels. I am still waiting for photo etch window handles. Yes, I noticed the Demon decal on backwards, has been corrected.

Yes, the Dart and Duster share the gauge packages, I just got what I thought were decals, but are a printed gauge layout on card that gets glued on. I still have to trim them a little more, but they should work

Roger, the 72 Demon went to the rectangular dash, the 67-71 rally dash wasn’t available. That is why I asked, as many teams would just upgrade the body panels to stay current. If you look at my build, you will see what I did to make mine correct to my car( as close as I could find). I ended up meshing the dash from a 74 mpc style Duster into the 71 Duster dash.

Looking great Roger. Was the BTK car a converted 71, or did they just use the 71 dash? Really nice suspension, I am sure the super glue will do fine.

Looking really good so far and nice bird!

Cool build coming! I knew a guy that had a black one with dual quads sticking out of the hood years ago.( hardtop)

Loving the scratch work. Looking good.

Watching this one. I have a 72 build going on now also. I preordered 3 of these kits, all came in within 2 days of each other. I plan on doing one like my brother’s 71 Citron Yella w/ black painted code V02 roof. Yours is coming along nicely, gunmetal will be a nice, different look.