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My last weekend of building before heading to Kenya for 3 weeks. Body painted, cleared, and decaled. Engine progress Interior complete Fuel cell 3D-printed (separate bracing on its way). The diagonal bracing on the roll cage is a bit weird. The trailing arm has a little locating pin on the end which would suggest the existence of a reciprocal locating hole somewhere in the rear floor pan but there isn’t one so I had to drill it. There is a hole in the front bar work to fix the leading arm but the arm is short by about 3mm so I simply fixed it to the bar with CA glue. The white base color is from SMS and the clear is from Outlaw Paints. Both are local Australian manufacturers and very nice lacquers to work with.

Some production-line preparation over the last couple days including painting all the rear shocks, fitting and installing the rear end, and test-fitting the drive-train. A little prep-work to detail the underneath of the fuel cell the bracing of which I will paint aluminium.

A little detail added to the first of the interiors. So far so good. I added the bezel to the fire extinguisher using 0.2mm solder, used a decal from a sheet of generic dashboard decals from Interdecal, flattened everything out with some clear and then added a drop of clear resin over the extinguisher gauge.

Chassis and roll cages for Yarborough, Parsons and Baker. Still waiting on some Poppy Red to arrive before I spray the AJ Foytmobile

I don’t like the base of the window frame for a couple of reasons. Firstly it has no profile which doesn’t make sense intuitively. And secondly it’s not a very smooth curve from one side to the next. So I’ve used some plastic strip to address it.

I finished this one a couple weekends ago - it was my beta-test and was one of the original 3 that I purchased when they were on sale. It was my inspiration to build some more.

This morning’s pre-work construction: 4 x roll-cages.

I bought 3 Salvinos kits on a whim when one of Sydney's hobby stores had some of the kits heavily discounted. Having never build a NASCAR stocker or a Salvinos kit before I thought: "Why not?" One of those kits happened to be Cale Yarborough's Oldsmobile 442. Black Friday rolled round and some more kits were on sale and they all happened to be 442s; so I purchased 3 more! So here is the first post of what I hope is a build diary of all 4 to keep me focused to see them through to the end. 4 Oldsmobile 442s filled, sanded and primed from left to right: Cale Yarborough #11 Benny Parsons #72 Buddy Baker #28 AJ Foyt #51 All comments, reference pictures, build suggestions, and comparisons to your own builds are more than welcome.

I’ll see you your two and raise you 2 all primed and ready to be made as: Benny Parsons Racing AJ Foyt Cale Yarborough Buddy Baker’s Gray Ghost

Here are a couple of build guides that highlight the challenges, errors, omissions, and solutions for this kit: Build Blog: Buddy’s Gray Ghost – wixy500 Build Video: The Gray Ghost – wixy500

Thank you, I appreciate the reference

Hi. I am making this kit and I've damaged the clear headlight lenses. If anyone has the spare set of them and would be prepared to sell them to me I'd appreciate it. Regards Grant

The first NASCAR racer that I've ever made. It was a lot of fun to do. All the paints are SMS except for the chrome which is Outlaw and the clear coat is HKS 2k automotive

I thought it was just me.

Hi. Nice job. I'm building this car now. Could you tell me please what color you used for the lower side trim yellow/gold? Thanks