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Love John, such a character, and one of the top funny car drivers I have a ton of respect for, the other is Cruz Pendregon. I lived for the weekends as a kid to watch these two face off. Win or lose they were class acts. Thank you for sharing the update!

Your welcome and not a pain. Yes its to get that general idea of how it will look, when your spitballing trying to figure out what to do with a build.

No worries, and on the wheels, I just slip them in under the wheel wells to get a general look, and note if I am changing the stance. If you find my 61 Catalina post, it's exactly how I did the wheels. Sat the body on the rears, and slipped the fronts in the wells, I will keep the front stance really similar to that.

So when I do a mock up, nothing is tacked, things are just sitting together. Some of my mockups are held together with blue painters tape, and the one I posted has the Chassis 95% done, and no engine, or interior, mainly checking ride height, etc and giving hints to the final build. Hope that helps Don!

Beautiful work so far, and Love how your explaining things, and showing pictures!

Another Skyline Mockup, and it is on its wheels.

Looking great!

I like where your taking this! Gonna be cool.

If I can on the wife's good side, what I want to build is spendy so gonna have to see how this goes, will post here if I can get it.

Those are sharp!

Had a friend on a model discord send me these 2 Fairlane's. One is all there the other is ... rough rough, but I will either turn it into a stock car or make a demo derby car out of it. Kyle, if you are here thank you again!

Great looking build! I enjoyed the process, tbh, really like the 3 yellows, gives subtle character to the build and not distracting! Do you have a duck for the hood? Cuz with a name like Quack Attack, you gotta have a duck! And mirrors aren't too scary, I had the same fear as well when I did the mirrors on my semi. Can't wait to see how you wrap this ole Duck up!

Thanks Don! I was in the office again after the debacle with the Hudson, and dug out the OBS I have, and reorganized a few kits. They will be a little further down the road builds. But I will enjoy them for sure!

So I did some work on the Skyline chassis, and had the steering linkage working and I was messing with something and broke it, and then the other half took flying lessons, so it's another part I raid out of my other Skyline like it. (May have to change what I do with it) Put another coat of primer on the Catalina. Put another coat of primer on the Hudson, and it failed bad so into the pond it went. I knew then it was time to walk away.

Thank you Robert!

Catalina's were full size and the Tempest were compact cars. I pulled this from Wiki. I haven't broke the box open yet to do a side by side comparison. (I have a sweet spot for the Catalina family as my first car was a 1973 Pontiac Catalina, 4dr with the 400/400 set up.)

I get it, and wife had neck surgery, and her pain is now 1-2 or gone 90% of the time, before she was 7-9 all the time. Gotta take take care of our flesh bags for sure!

Got this from Wes ... was the last bit of model spending money. Gonna do the 3 Chevy's box stock, the Catalina I have a plan for, and same with the Ventura. I got these Wednesday.

Fantastic work sir!! And as an Olds lover, I would be proud to drive that!! Elegance in process!!

Damn John! And here I thought getting woke up early was the worst for me today. Thanks for throwing some perspective on the day! Plus man, you got this my friend!

Oh so many great kits coming! I want 2-3 of the Beemer for sure!

That's just so slick!

I got a second coat of primer on the Catalina and Hudson after cleaning up mold lines, tomorrow will be touch up if needed, then the Hudson gets first coat of body paint. The Skyline I am working on, I will be able to start some detail painting on the chassis parts and some assembly to at least get it to roller. The interior is in an alcohol bath due to some paint being horrid. I will get both frames of the Hudson and Pontiac final painted, then will figure out the chassis parts color for them, and then prime and paint. I also figured out where my OBS kit is... and I have to unbury it from behind the air craft.

Yeah, I got the resin motor in and decals, haven't decided on what ones I will use, and today, I sanded body lines, will drop more primer on it. Likely will paint the frame tonight as well.

Silver metal flake! And this is looking killer bit by bit