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Very cool Randy, I absolutely love it!! Are you going to the picnic this Saturday to show it off? I hope so man, I want to see it up close. Hope to see you Saturday!!!!

Wow!!! I like the fact that it's just ready to use. Looks like you can cover dozens of models with that amount too, I will definitely look into it!! Thanks for your quick response and hope to see your project finished soon, I am a big Mopar fan so this is one I will be following!!

Good to see you posting your work again, definitely one of my favorite builders here in the forum. This thing looks gorgeous man!! Question, do you thin that clear? First time I hear about it. Care to share how you use it, what you use for thinning it and where is it available? Looks like a great clear!!

Completed a bit of the interior, used embossing powder for the carpet and some other details like a P/E CD and a Detail Master shifter knob and gauge set. Painted everything w/ Testor's semi gloss black enamel paint. The bucket seats are from a '69 Revell Camaro that I had in my parts box, the ones from the Vega kit were molded in place and I wasn't too crazy about them.... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki I think the shifter knob is slightly out of scale but my excuse is that this is Bill Geary's Vega and he needs that big knob for those huge hands of his when at the track!!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Very cool, while I'm not crazy about your choice of wheels I think you did a fantastic job on the kit!!!!

Great job overall specially on your weathering, it's something I am also practicing and learning how to do, you pretty much have it mastered!!!

My question is which type of rattle cam paint do i use is it Acylic paint, which is the one i use. Okay, can you somehow ask this question again? Is it a question?

Very cool Rodney, I have to someday do something like that to transport some of my finished models!!!

Take off the emblem and put a nice big rainbow sticker on that sucker!!!!

Wouldn't you get better responses to your question if you go to an RC website? I am not being rude or anything and I am sure you have a handful of guys that like RC here but the question just doesn't fit quite right in this forum.....

Would a "slack-jawed yokel" now be known as a "mandibularly challenged ruralist?" That was a good one Harry!!!!

I will install the headers at the point where the engine meets the bay, I will need the flexibility of the moving headers when accomodating the engine block at that point. Here is more or less how it will look at the end..... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Still have to do a little bending here and there but that's at least an idea of what I want to achieve. Thanks for looking!!!

Thanks Jay, I too am happy I opted for the Rotary engine! For the headers, I was going to use solder like a lot of the guys do here to make them out of scratch but I prefer using Wire Form, it is slightly harder to bend than solder but soft enough to be easily bent. It's sold @ Michael's just in case someone wants to know. Hosted on Fotki This one is actually thicker than the one I use, it's just that it still has the brand name stuck to it just in case you guys need the info. I also had some K&S brand tubing for the installation of the header collector at the end. Also, it's cool if you have a tube cutter, you want these cuts to be clean! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Took me several tries before I was able to make the correct bends. I have another Rotary engine in my stash so I used it for mock-up purposes, didn't want to take any risks and mess the other one up specially after Alclading some parts on it. Found out that it is better to do your bends with the wire form installed on the engine first, from that point I was able to be more easily creative. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

You guys are reta...ummmm....mentally challenged

The best way to grow is through critisism, as you guys know I post a lot of my WIP stuff when it comes to my builds here in the forum and I look at it as a way to sometimes take a different and sometimes better aproach to complete my builds specially when I hear suggestions and ideas from people here. If there is critisism I will welcome it also, I know for a fact that I am no Bill Geary or David Thibodeau but I am happy where I am, I really enjoy sharing the little bit of stuff I know and I have FUN doing it!!

Didn't think that color would work on that car but I was wrong, very cool man!!!

I have taken advantage of the little bit of time I had this weekend and Acladed several parts and put together others around the engine! Hosted on Fotki This is the front bumper and scraped grill, I am happy with the results!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki This is the intake manifold and the small velocity stacks, was gonna go with the previously shown Holley carb set-up but thought it was a bit out of scale. Hosted on Fotki Here I added the oil filter, oil filler tube and did a mockup/install on the engine bay to have an idea how it will look sitting in the engine bay. I also installed the intake manifold and stacks!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Beautiful as always my brother!!!! Can't wait to see it in person!

I do not know the number bro! Your spanish is better than my chinese!!!

He is saying to check out the old scale auto magazines, his P.O. address is there, I just don't know how much each sheet is....

Gave the engine a black wash and installed the ditributor wires..... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

I am still looking for the '71 Dodge Demon decals, someone at ebay keeps taking away my possibilities of obtaining one Wish I could contact Fred

Hosted on Fotki These are the parts that will make up the Rotary engine w/ some probable changes like headers and carburetor options.

Okay guys, I promise this will be the last change on this build. I will have to go w/ Bill Geary's suggestion and incorporate a Rotary engine on this thing. After putting together the Grand National engine I was having troubles with the oil pan being too close to the ground and since I want this thing in the weeds that became a problem. I can bring the model up and make the stance a bit higher but I don't want to do that. Some people suggested that I install a scoop on the hood but I want this model as stock and quiet as possible on the outside so that option is out the window. I started working w/ the Rotary engine and I am starting to like it, it will definitely be unique!!! Hosted on Fotki This is more or less what I'm going for, this is just the block (or cylinder if you will) of the engine. Hosted on Fotki This is a souped up version of a 1/1 Rotary engine. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Believe it or not, I lost a distributor once, was going crazy looking for it and found it 2 days later in the back of one of my Yorkies. Happened to be petting him and felt something weird near the tail, thought it was a tick or something Told my wife to keep them trimmed more often now!!!