johnyrotten

Clean build. Very nice work.

Very nice, great paint work and interior. Classy looking ride.

Great work so far, I enjoy checking out your builds. The scratch building you, and other members here, is awesome. Nice job on the 4 link.

Started weathering the cab and bed, and added a few scabbed on patches to gramps old truck. I also toned down the amount of rust on the frame, the black right over the rusted frame gives it a good look, no preparation, just spray bomb it. I think with rust on the cab/bed, I'll get the look I'm going for. Thanks for looking.

I could see that working, as if the repair was flush. I had thought about using some .020 rod and doing similar, its easy for me to get carried away doing this kinda stuff. I did notice the solvent makes the styrene sloppy very fast if you go overboard. Luckily it evaporates just as fast.

I've seen available in styrene, nothing on hand. This was .010, still a bit heavy, but I worked with what I've got. Thanks

Clean build, the charger chassis fits that well. Always liked that prostreet kit, lots of extra parts in that one.

Think I figured out a simple way to pull this off. The welds look like an old farm repair,stick welded,perfect for my build. You'll need an old Xacto blade, bent on tip and dull. This is important. I lightly ground the area to be patched with a burr. Cut the patch out of styrene, the thinner the better and use solvent glue to secure it. After it dries, reapply a swipe of solvent around the edge and use that bent blade to just knick the edge, at a 45 degree angle to the patch. Barely nip it off, it'll be soft enough to form the weld bead, don't try and finesse it, just chop along the edge. Should look like this. From here it's just a matter of washes, dry brushing ect. Here's mine, still have to go back and dry brush a bit of steel to bring out the welds. Here's what i tried to mimic with this.

Thanks you. The engine details were fun, and tricky to do. Lot of first time stuff, the coil and bracket are actually two separate scratch built pieces. That was fun.

Great looking trio of mustangs, nice save on the red one. The tail lights fit the body pretty well, who would've thought.

Great looking pair of darts. And and anything Mr. norm get a thumbs up from me. 👍

This is gonna be awesome when finished. I've always liked this generation trucks, the pontiac and suspension adds to an already cool truck. Did you cast that engine yourself, I've tried in the past with only about 40% success. Very nice so far

Very nice build. I like the no frills look and big power under the hood. Well done! Great photos as well, I'm horrible in the department.

Got a little bit work done on this. Added some fishplates where the frame was z'd, trying to make it look home built. Also painted the frame. That is actual rust scapped off some material I have lying around, figured I try it. Made a few rust holes in the cab, and a couple bullet holes for good measure. I don't want it reached out, just ratty. The frame's gonna get some painting, over the rust. I want a thrown together look. Scratch built these door handles out of 24 Guage wire and styrene, the rest of the door panel is cardstock and some thin woven material I found at work. And a paper bag.

Thank you.

Thanks, first one I've built in 30 or so years and everything under the hood is a first as far as detail.

Thanks, I wanted something old school and understated for the wheels, nothing chrome or polished. I'll check out that Catalina if you posted any pictures.

I don't think it's quad turbo, most compound set-ups are coupled directly or almost directly. Remote mounting eliminates the need for an intercooler at the cost of boost pressure. Some diesel drag trucks use a compound set up, they push insane amounts of boost. 90-100 pounds plus. They use a "smaller" turbo to spool the larger one, and "stretch out" power band (lower rpm as they larger turbo's have no chanceof spooling off idle).Some racers use nitrous while staging the car in higher altitudes to do the same. Once the turbo is spooled up, nitrous is off.

Great job, nice work with the steer horns.

Finished this up last night. Pretty happy how it came out, learned a lot of new things on this. Thanks to everyone for their comments and suggestions while I was building this.

I completely overlooked that. Makes no sense.

Odd set up. Looks like a old radial tire set up with the front suspension, maybe. The rear mount turbo's probably help hitting the tire so hard on the leave,lots of lag, but it's my understanding a radial needs you to"smash" the tire. Weird setup.

Awesome birds, they are extremely smart. Maybe not this one, that's a bad habit to pick up.

Sounds like you've got an awesome educational system, at least at the college level.

Nice build, cool idea with the series.