OldNYJim

THis thing is GORGEOUS James - I love the color, and that engine looks great! Those pipes are crazy!

Chris, that sketch is too cool!! I LOVE it!

What an incredible build JC - interesting about the speedo being right over on the right side of the dash! Keep us posted - this is too cool!

The friction shocks? I had a REAL dilemma with them. I wanted this build to have a lot of color coded parts, plenty of red - and I did some research into the real friction shocks of this era and found that they were often painted black. I reasoned that if I was building this in 1:1, I'd want to prime and paint them the same color as the frame. Then I reasoned, if I DON'T paint them seperately, it looks like I didnt bother painting them. I'm still not 100% decided... I've never built one of these before, but it's a fun little kit! And sadly it seems to be mostly forgotten about in favour of the better Revell kits, but it is kinda sweet in it's own way Thanks Greg! Meanwhile, I decided I wanted to paint the interior a kind of baseball mitt dark tan brown - I found a similar color in a feature in that OTHER magazine, and set about mixing some yellow, brown and clear red Tamiya acrylic to match the shade I wanted Ready to airbrush... Chassis tub, seats and steering wheel painted. I HATE this base color, looks like baby poop - but I'm hoping that a little shading with the airbrush and some drybrushing make it look a lot better. I'm keeping the faith for now Just waiting for my Micro Mart dry brushing brush to arrive in the mail, once the snow here stops making the USPS have such a backlog... I mixed up some semi gloss clear too to knock the shine off - not sure whether to apply that before or after the drybrushing with the pastels I have. Any thoughts?

This thread made me REALLY want to build a Ram-Blur!

Small update - started to get the chassis assembled. Exciting!

Everything I've ordered lately seemingly got delayed a lot by the snow in NY last week. Not sure how much you had in NJ, but the USPS seems to be affected where I am anyway.

EB Enterprises - as in Doctor Emmett Brown presumably. Nice!

A tiny bit of progress, because I had to have surgery and was stuck in bed for over a week...managed to get the roof masked out and the fabric insert sprayed flat black Just need to tidy those edges up, although annoyingly thery're only visible in photos and not so much with my eye. Whilst I had the flat black paint out I painted these edges on the underside of the interior tub - there's some nasty gaps between the chassis and the body when viewed from underneath so these flat black edges are intended to try and draw the eye away from them and make them less obvious. Hopefully it'll look like shadow, or at least make them less obvious... And I spent a few hours with the polishing cloths to try and shine that clearcoat up some on the body - came out pretty nice! I'll spend some time waxing it too to get it as perfect as I can, but I'm pretty pleased so far! I clearcoated the chassis too, and once that's set I can paint the floor of the interior (which is just the top of the chassis in this kit) and then work on the tan leather color that I want to use for the interior and the seats. More soon!

This is the stuff I use - I found it on the English Amazon site...hopefully this works... https://www.amazon.co.uk/27OZ-FUTURE-FLOOR-FINISH-Kitchen/dp/B000ARPH4C

Looks good Kevin! Just as a heads up, you posted your address on the internet in that first pic...

That paint job is AMAZING. Testors clear huh? Guess I need to try that... Amazing build!

I have to say, working out the headlights on these early rod projects is probably my least favourite part. it's hard to make them strong but in scale, and easy to mount. Your solution is great!

I kinda like these, from the Revell Orage Crate: Meanwhile - got those fiddly awkward to install plug wires in, secured with a tiny bit of Elmer's glue - plus I'd picked up some red fuel line to use for this porject so I got one of the two fuel lines in place (the other one will need to be added when the engine is in the chassis) Need to work on the pulleys next, and figure out what to do with the radiator hoses that dont fit even remotely...

Thanks Wayne! After letting the engine sit for a while (having Alclad'd the bits that needed it) I peeled the masking off and was pretty pleased to find no runs or anything horrible under the tape. The Alclad black base is pretty thin, so i was worried about having it leak under the tape, but no probs there. With that, I got the intake and the plug wire sheaths in place, ready to start plumbing and wiring Before that though, I picked out the bolt detail on the engine with this silver gel rollerball pen that I found at the art store - worked pretty well! I'm looking forward to the plumbing a LOT more that the wiring, I can see the wiring being fiddly, so I'll tackle that next. I ws going to go with red plug wires, but I think there's gonna be a lot of red on this car already so I'm kinda thinking more of black now...more progress when I make some!

It's been a bit cold for painting here this week, but I colorsanded the paint I'd laid down already, got it super smooth and laid down a couple of mist coats of clear and three thick coats - hopefully it stays as smooth as it looks here! Meanwhile, I prepped all the bits that will be either a chrome or metal finish ...airbrushed on Alclad black... ...and laid down some Alclad steel, aluminium and chrome on the various bits. I really need to get the chassis painted so I can start assembling this thing, but once the Alclad has dried on the engine I can start getting that put together and detailed anyway!

I LOVE that headlight beam - I was stuck on a design for one that I'm building and this helped me figure it out! Thanks for posting!

Brilliant! Thanks Tim!

What's the Altoids tin for?

I've never built one before - but I've been collecting some different 32 kits for a series of builds that I've been thinking of and this seemed a fun one to start with!

Thanks James! Slow progress here - I've been waiting for the weather to be half decent to lay some paint down. Managed to get three mist coats on the body and grilleshell today, let it sit for three or four hours, sanded out a few imperfections and then laid down a thicker coat...doesn't look too bad so far! I'll let the lacquer harden for 24 hours, smooth it down one more time and then put some hi-gloss clear over the top to make it all shiny and pretty It looks prety orange-peely on the roof there but that's the texture on the moulded in fabric roof - the rest looks pretty shiny so far! Fingers crossed it dries that shiny!

Ohhh, that looks GREAT! I love it, looks great with a couple of slices taken out!

A couple of small updates, seeing as I didn't get chance to get any paint laid down today...made some simple pipes... They need a little filler to hide the kinks (solid bar would have been better but I didnt have any), and after a couple of days of thinking I worked out a solution to adding a taillight to the rear. I didnt want to put them on the bodywork, so I modified the kit license plate / single light and affixed a pin so it can mount to the bottom of the frame right at the rear Hopefully I'll get chance to lay some paint down tomorrow - the engine block needs a couple more coats of clear to get it as glossy as I'd like, and the body and grille are ready to go having painted the inside of the body over the weekend, cleared it and carefully masked it back up again. More progress soon!

This is an old post, but what's that build Dale? Looks STUNNING!

Having seen your MG build Graham, I would think you'd be able to do what I'm doing here easily! The only non-kit parts so far are the wheels, and everything else is made from styrene sheet or bar mostly. No special tools, just a hobby knife and a scriber. You can do it!