Rider

Two thumbs up.

Beautiful!

Really great imagineering/engineering going on here. Keep it coming.

Some good progress. Regardless of the semantics of what it is called it's a very cool looking subject to replicate. I am really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Looking real good, keep it up.

This is really looking great Eric, really looking forward to seeing it finished.

Wild!

Beautiful build, very well done.

Killer paint and gold leaf work! Love the engine too.

Thanks Mike. I agree, we do learn from our failure, as can others.

Brilliant execution on scratch building.

Cool!

^ I agree 100%, good call Ace. All that being said I still like the look of the front ends way up in the rest position. Good start James, I will follow this WIP.

This is killer. Awesome way to extend the fenders. Good luck with the rest of the build.

Wow, this really looks cool.

Still working out the details on how to manipulate this stuff. This project is a warm up for a true low rider I am going to be starting sometime over the next couple months. So not wanting to spend too much time I am laying the tape down as best I can. The 3m vinyl tape has much better flexibility then the crepe Tamiya type .4mm tape. I think on my next go for the drivers side I may work under a halogen light to help bring the temp of everything up allowing the tape to relax and turn much tighter radius. One of my cutting ideas that seemed to work was to pre stretch the 3m to it's max then lay in on the glass. My thought was it would be thinner. The real challenge is my working with my sausage fingers. One of the biggest challenges with cutting tape is holing the straight edge in place, taping it takes care of that issue. As always thanks for the interest and comments, all are welcome and I implore any constructive critisisum and ideas you may want to add. Anyway this is where this project is for tonight.

Brilliant James. The plow looks incredible.

I just found this thread Casey, very masterful building. I will be following this one.

Thanks Casey, I appreciate your interest. I wanted to share something with you all. In my constant quest to learn new methods and always wanting to trying new things there have been many failed ventures. This was a bit of a brain fade moment with the choice of colour, along with trying a new method of adhereing the lace stencilling fabric to the body. In the end the colour was totally wrong (I had the image in my mind flipped) and the method was a total fail. Alas, I have learn a new method for clearing up paint mix ups. Not wanting to strip the entire shell again I chose to remove the masking tape and try cleaning up this mess with Iso alcohol, Q-tips, and some very very gentle scraping with a #12 blade. I am very pleased with the results. Once this is complete you will have been none the wise had I not shared this with you. With the next few colours and all the poly U clear that is going to be laid down this will be nothing more the a memory. Before After

Wheels mounted in the tire's

Wheels done.

Great start.

Another small update. Hoping to make some more progress tonight.

Thanks for looking in David. I'll keep an eye out for your postings, I 'm interested in seeing what you put out.

This is very cool James, I really dig the workmanship in the body and paint.