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I fired up the paint booth this afternoon and shot the Impala with a good coat of Model Master White Lacquer primer. Now for some sanding and then back to the paint booth for some Model Master Flame Red Lacquer. More to come...

I finally decided to pull the tape off the Transit after another painting session and did a mockup with the chassis. I still need to add decals and paint some trim. The side doors came out fairly well. Some cleanup and installation. The rear door doesn't like me as I had issues paint it. Some cleanup and polishing should make it look better. More to come...

The Story A couple of nights later and it's very late and a man dressed all in black is trying to break into McNally's house through the back slider. The lock gives way and the man enters the house and he shines his flashlight around the kitchen and he finds McNally's Louisville Slugger baseball bat leaning against the wall in the corner. He takes the bat, searches the first floor and then he goes upstairs and he finds McNally's bedroom, raises the bat and swings at the bed with a whoopf! He then feels something cold against his neck and a voice saying to drop the bat and to put his hands on top of his head. He is handcuffed and told to sit on the floor as the lights in the bedroom are turned on and he sees McNally standing there with a Walther PPKs .380 in his hand and he is reaching for his telephone to call the cops. McNally calls 9-1-1 and he identifies himself and reports an intruder he has captured in his house and is being held at gunpoint and the dispatcher tells him that a patrol unit is on it's way to his address. The patrol unit arrives and they take the man into custody who is identified as Authur Jacobson, the man who had challenged McNally to a drag race the other night. A couple other patrol units and a couple of detectives arrive a short time later. Artie is arrested and taken to jail as McNally finds a piece of 2X4 in the garage and he cuts the board to length to fit in the slider door track for the night. He'll get a new lock for the slider in the morning. The Build Well, I screwed up! I installed the wrong intake and exhaust manifolds on the engine. It's a good thing they came off easily. The second picture shows the correct pieces for the engine. I'll detail them and install them on the 5.0 engine. I wanted a full exhaust system, but with some mods, so I removed the head pipes and cats and replaced them with the head pipes and crossover box from the shorter exhaust system. McNally will return...

Thanks Tom! This is a nice kit to build as it is my third '90 Mustang kit. This Mustang is easy to modify with all the aftermarket bits and pieces available plus the mods I am making.

The Story Later that morning, McNally is sitting on his front porch in an Adirondack chair that his father had built many years ago. He is drinking from a bottle of water and cooling off when a Boston Police Ford Explorer stops at the curb in front of his house. A tall cop gets out and walks over to the front porch and identifies himself as Officer Robert Gennile. A complaint was lodged against McNally for assault by Arthur Jacobson of Chelsea, Ma. McNally explains the story of how Artie had challenged him to a drag race and how he had avoided the race, Artie showing up at his house and assaulted him first and McNally defending himself and how his neighbor, Calvin O'Donnell saw the entire thing. Officer Gennile goes over and talks to Calvin about what he saw and writes everything down in his notebook. Officer Gennile will transfer everything into a report and it appears that Artie maybe arrested for filing a false Police report. For now, McNally is in the clear and Officer Gennile will send his report over to the Detectives for further investigation. The Build The engine has been assembled and wired minus a few toucups and a couple of decals. I found this shifter in the parts box and it looks better than the stock shifter that the instructions say to use. McNally will return...

I had to modify the nose of the body behind the grille in order for it to fit. The grille is not meant for the AMT body, but a little clearence of the sections behind the grille will allow the grille to fit perfectly. I think the grille was originally made for the JoHan '69 body. Good luck!

Hart's Resin has a '69 Road runner grille. https://hartspartsresin.com/product/69-plymouth-road-runner-grill/ Here's the Roadrunner I built with the Hart's Resin grille.

Thanks Keith! Not really sure why I bought this kit, maybe out of curiosity as I wondered what was in the kit. One night I started writing a story and I drew this kit into the storyline and Wrong Turn started to take shape. I finished the story in a few weeks.

Fresh out of the Easy-Off bath. I got most of the Model Master Flame Red paint off the body. Some sanding and a good coat of Model Master Lacquer White Primer to restart the painting process. Other than what has been explained to me by others in my Club that had issues with older Lindberg plastic and new paint, I am clueless as to why this plastic has cracked. I'll sand all this down and then reprime the surface. More to come...

The Story The following morning finds McNally driving over to the Chelsea Police station to talk with the officer in charge of patrol. He talks to Sgt. Derrick Cassell and asks who may have encountered the Mustang the previous night. Sgt. Cassell finds the computer report and the driver is a fellow by the name of Arthur "Artie" Jacobson who was given a summons and told to report to Traffic Court. Artie has a long record of street racing, burglery, and excessive speeding. Why he has had his license revoked is beyond the Patrol Sergeant. Several days later, McNally is out cutting his lawn when a blue Mustang stops at the curb in front of his house. He recognizes the driver from the other night who had challenged him to a drag race in Chelsea and the driver gets out of is car and yells, "You can't challenge me to a race and let me get caught by the cops!" The driver raises his fist and strikes the Boston PI on the shoulder as he tried to avoid the blow and then he takes a stance and hits the driver several times in the face and once in the stomach. McNally's next door neighbor, who is watching all this, comes over and asks if McNally if he needs any help, to which McNally says that he has the situation well in hand. He grabs the driver by the shirt and drags him over to his car and throws him across the hood and tells him to leave before he has reall trouble. The Build I started the build with tire and wheel assembly. These are the front and the rear wheels. A little trimming of the ribs on the wheels and the cheater slicks fit perfectly. The basic 5.0 engine has been assembled. More to come...

Thank you guys! I found out a lot more about the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am GTA during my research. It is quite the car!

My new project and the return of McNally, Boston PI. The Story is called Wrong Turn. No one in this story is related to anyone living or deceased. The Build I am using Revell's '90 Mustang LX 5.0 Drag Racer kit for this project. My paint will be Testors Icy Blue with a grey interior. A set of wide treaded tires from my parts box unless I can find a set of street slicks. I originally wanted a ducktail spoiler, but I couldn't find one that I liked, so I'll be using the kit spoiler instead. I also want to make an "on-off" switch for the rear of the car. The Story Having been born and raised in Boston and knowing it's many neighborhoods for years, McNally knows how to find his way around. Tonight, he is driving back through Chelsea in his Challenger SRT8 and he stops at an intersection signal light. While he is waiting for the light to change, a blue Mustang pulls up and the driver is revving his engine and yelling at McNally to race him. McNally revs the 6.1 Ltr. Hemi a couple of times and the light changes and the Mustang takes off in a cloud of tire smoke and McNally turns on his right directional indicator, takes a right turn and drives away from the intersection, avoiding the race. What he saw that the other driver didn't see was the nose of a Chelsea Police Cruiser sticking out of an alley on the other side of the intersection and he wasn't about to race the Mustang anyway. McNally will return...

Thank you Joe! It took me about 30 minutes to mask everything, so I got the paint booth running to help get rid of the fuzz and dirt flying in the air.

I spent a half hour masking off the body of this Transit. I hope I did a good job when I pull off the tape after the paint dries. More to come...

My '89 Firebird Trans Am GTA is finished and posted in Under Glass. I would like to thank all those who have viewed and commented on my WIP.

This is my '89 Firebird TA GTA painted with Testors Classic White Lacquer with a Model Master Dark Tan interior. The center console was modified for an automatic transmission and shifter as it was set up for a manual transmission. The Buick Turbo V6 was cleaned and rewired and the transmission was repainted with Model Master Aluminium Metalizer.

Thank you Ron!

Thanks Eric and D Ryberg!

Thanks Vince!

Thanks Jacob!

Thank you Jim N!

Thanks Curtis! I started reassembling the Firebird today. More to come...

The body is in the stripper and I'll start over again with a clean body, and Model Master primer and paint. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Well, my bad painting luck has returned! The paint cracked on top of the primer. I think I'll strip the paint and start all over again with the same brand primer and paint. This is the chassis and it is supposed to be semi-gloss black and it looks like gloss black. This is enamel paint, so I'll have to clear coat it with Acryl Semi-Gloss Clear. More to come...

Thanks Scott! It's always nice to find something that reminds us of our past. Yesyerday, I spent some time on the Firebird GTA by reassembling the chassis. The interior is done with the revised center console. and repainted interior. The body has been repainted and reassembled. More to come...