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Roger, I cant really recommend any "kit" because I'm not overly thrilled at what they offer. I'd suggest getting 1lb HS2 rubber from Alumilite and some Alumilite white casting resin or something similar from Smooth On. HS2 is great for beginners as well as intermediate casting. You do not need any vacuum, etc with HS2 and it yields very high quality flexible molds which are quite durable. Good luck.

Harry, they are working now. I just checked the same threads from earlier. Weird.

Today I've noticed on some of the more recent posts that users pictures are not showing up but have to be "clicked" and downloaded to view? Have not seen that before?

Just read through this post and have to say your doing an amazing job so far. Very nice work all around. Keep it going and thanks for sharing.

Tyrone, looks great man. Nice work. Paint looks fabulous.

Bryan, great job so far. Keep it going looking forward to more progress.

That's really awesome. Looks great! Thanks.

Thank you Raees! I thought they were .. I remember seeing them. Keep up the great work!

Chief, your tires look amazing. Excellent job.

Do you recall who made the plates? Are they from a manufacturer or did someone make them and sell them on ebay?

Another awesome build. Might I say I love your picture taking skills as well. Nice job!

Thats just plain awesome. Love the paint and the plates!

Rear section ... not quite right yet LOL .. One done, one to go. Both rears done. Thanks for watching and the kind comments.

Well, tonight I got a start on the wheels and tires. The Tamiya Enzo rear tires are wider than the resin sleeves I made so I decided to use two sleeves per tire trimmed to fit. Used a Micro Mark mini miter saw and mini 5 inch disc sander along with their variable speed foot control to get it done. These are great little machines and well worth the purchase for hobby use when you get them on sale. Here are some pictures from earlier this evening. Here are the uncut sleeves. Trimmed front section.

Very cool build! Looks great. Thanks for sharing!

Here is the shift light finished up. The body is magnesium metalizer, thinned flat yellow by Tamiya, and red MV lens. The mount was done in titanium metalizer and has scalehardware 8mm rivet and RB motion nut for adjustment detail. Next up is working on the wheels and tires. Thanks guys for the support and comments. Mount in place on dash. Light in place.

Keith, your right. The base Vette has the battery located where I placed mine. The ZO6 has it in the cargo area. I didn't realize this at the time I did my research that there was a difference in battery placement between the two. This is a model though, and I would have placed it right where I have it regardless of whether I had known or not to detail this otherwise boring area of the engine bay. Nice catch though! Thanks all for the kind words. More pics coming tomorrow.

the paint and bubble effect on the roof are awesome! Nice interior also.

Hi Steve! Thanks for the kind words. The pedals are from Model Car Garage. They released some 'tuner' type pedals a while back if I recall. Under a magnifying glass you can actually make out that they are Sparco brand pedals lol.

Forgot to add this picture of the Aber hood hinge fret. It's where I got the bracket for the shift light. Picked up a couple of these a while back from hlj.com.

Here I started work on a shift light. Aluminum tube for the body, styrene rod for the end cap, and MV Lenses. The mounting bracket came from a PE hood hinge set from Aber. In order to drop in the lens I drilled out the aluminum tube body with a drill bit larger than the inner diameter of the tubing. This created a ledge on the inner section of the tube so the lens will have somewhere to rest when dropped in. The end cap is just a section of styrene rod which was drilled to accept the aluminum tube body and the other end was shaped and smoothed with sand paper. More to come. Thanks guys for the kind words. Here it is mocked up on the PE mounting bracket.

Dash coming along.

I also needed to make a new emergency brake handle so I chucked some round aluminum tubing into the dremel and carved some thin finger grip/grooves into it with the back of an xacto. Next up were the gauges. The kit gauges kinda stink so I cut thin slices of aluminum tube for the bezels and found some gauge faces online. I reduced them in Word and printed them out in size. Only the essentials here .. RPM, boost, and oil lol punched out with a micro punch from Micro Mark. Here is a shot of the interior. Mounted the new e-brake, shifter, and pedals.

Its been a long time since I've updated this thread. I'm still working on this build but did have some delays along the way when there was a little construction going on at my house. I'm also just not so great at keeping my posts updated anymore lol. Here are some new pics and I'll keep adding updates and progress along the way. Here I'm working on the new intake tube. Polished aluminum piece added and also added some Archer dry transfers for warning labels and such. I wanted a flat bottom steering wheel and couldn't find any in my parts bin so I opted to make one from bent solder and plastic bits.

Casey, well said.