mrmike

I spent some time on the Transit yesterday at my "Play Date" with some of my fellow Club members. I got the seats painted and dash decaled and painted and I glued the floor pan onto the chassis. I need to do some touchups on the seats and on the interior pan. More to come...

Thank you Jeremy and Doug! Doug, you can try contacting Steven Zimmerman through his Facebook page.

Thank you Gene!

Thank you Adam!

I just got the last of the parts out of the Easy-Off Oven Cleaner and gave them a good washing with a scrub brush and Dawn Dish Detergent. The nose. The rear view mirrors. The transmission pan which was chrome plated. When this is dry, I'll give a squirt of primer and then a good dosing of Model Master Classic White Lacquer and the transmission pan a good coating of Model Master Aluminium Metalizer. More to come...

Thank you, Thomas!

Thank you Larry, Gary and Jeff!

Thanks Vince!

Try pushing the pen up and down on its tip intil the chrome ink starts coming out. Do this on a piece of paper towel. I found this out with my Molotow 1mm pen.

Last night, I sat down with a circle templet, a mechanical pencil and a piece of sheet styrene and drew out four circles at 9/64 inch diameter. I cut them out with a chisel point knife, glued them to the wheel openings and painted them with Model Master Aluminium Metalizer and a brush. Easy and done! More to come...

Thanks Vince, Andre and Ismael! What you see here is a hole cut into the console for an automatic shifter. The kit is set up for a manual shifter and the engine has a automatic transmission attached to it. I cut out a rectangle piece of styrene for the shifter plate. The shifter plate is nearly complete and it just needs to painted, decaled and installed. Here's the completed shifter plate installed in the center console. More to come...

I decided to work on assembling the chassis this afternoon. Fairly easy to put together and some parts didn't need glue. I happen to like the wheels better without the wheel covers, so now I have to find something to use as a wheelcap in the center of the wheel. More to come...

Thank you Vince! I have left this in the paintbooth to really dry good, then I'll start detailing and rebuilding it.

There is something I truly like about this kit. Must be the subject matter as I now want to get other versions of this kit. And, build them with right-hand drive! Plus, I want to get the Range Rover Police car. And, I still can't get over the size of the kit box! It's huge for a curbside! I have built a couple of vans over the years, but I have never been as excited about building one like I am with this kit! This body is nicely molded, but has a couple of small issues with it. There is a small sink hole on the right rear of the body. A couple of small mold lines under the windshield which are now gone. And, three ejector pin marks near the windshield inside the body. Once these are taken care of, I'll wash the body and get it into a coat of primer. More to come...

Thank you guys! This Grand Cherokee practically built itself! I guess not having to paint a body really helps.

Thanks JC and Brian!

Thank you Michelle!

While I had the paintbooth up and running, I painted the Impala with Model Master Flame Red Lacquer. I painted the chassis with Rustoleum Painters Touch Semi-Gloss Black. It's a touch glossy and tacky, so some time in the dehydrator is in order. More to come...

Thanks Tom! I got the Firebird out of the Easy-Off Oven Cleaner the other day and washed it off with Dawn dish detergent and a scrub brush. I set them aside to dry and forgot about them until a short while ago. I grabbed a can of Model Master Classic White Lacquer and sprayed the body and hood. They appear to have turned out very nicely. I always start by painting the bottom of the hood first. When that is dry, I'll flip it over and spray the top. As usual, I forgot to put something in the Oven Cleaner. Something being the front nose and the side mirrors. More to come...

This is my Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd. The body has been polished and waxed. I made a grille guard to mount the fog lights on and filled the slots in the front bumper for the lights. The interior has been flocked the ceiling was painted with Model Master Acryl Neutral Gray. The tires were lettered by hand.

The Story The Police arrive and swarm Alderman Portis' home. The snub-nose .38 revolver is bagged and tagged for forensic evidence as it may be the weapon used to kill Alderman Camillo. Lt. Det. Troy tries to question Alderman Portis and all she will say is "lawyer". Lt. Troy walks into the living room and notices McNally sitting in an armchair writing notes in his notebook. Adam asks, "What are you doing?" McNally replies, "Just jotting down a few notes for my report. Don't want to leave anything out." Adam replies, "Stop by Headquarters in the morning and we'll go over everything." McNally closes his notebook, gets up from the chair and puts his coat on that was hanging by the front door. He walks outside and sees that it is snowing again, but very lightly. He gets into the Grand Cherokee Ltd. and starts it up and lets the Jeep warm up a bit before leaving for home. A cop comes out to move his cruiser out of the way so McNally can leave and the cop takes the spot that the Jeep was parked in. Tomorrow is another day for the Boston PI. The Build I have finished my Tamiya Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited V8. I would like to thank all those who have taken the time to view and to comment on my WIP.

The Story McNally knocks on the door of Alderman Portis' home and she answers the door and allows the Boston PI in. She offers to take his coat and hang it up, but he tells her he is carrying his gun. "That doesn't bother me, Mr. McNally," and he takes off his coat and she hangs it up next to the door on a coat hook. She offers him a cup of coffee to which her refuses since he has had too much coffee already today. They sit in the kithcen and he asks her about Alderman Camillo and Louie Bailer. She says she doesn't know Louie, but she praises Adlerman Camillo as a great man. He asks her about Louie Bailer and his henchmen and she why she had Camillo killed and she produces a snub-nose .38 from her sweater pocket and demands his gun. He says that the cops know he is at her house and that they have surrounded her home. She says, "You can't fool me like that," as she turns her head towards the window and McNally grabs her wrist and shakes the gun from her hand and cuffs her. He calls the Police and Lt. Det. Adam Troy from his cellphone. The Build The head and taillights have been detailed. The fog lights normally go on the front bumper of the Jeep. I made a set of brackets to mount the lights on the grille guard. The grille guard has been mounted to the front bumper. More to come...

I must be getting lazy in my old age as this is a curbside kit. This is the Italeri Ford Transit Mk2 and the year is unknown so it could be anywhere from 1977-1986. Having watch a TV series on Velocity now Motor Trend called For The Love Of Cars and presented by Philip Glenister and Ant Anstead, I became enamored with the van when Ant restored a Ford Transit Mk1. The Mk2 is a restyling of the Mk1 with no mechanical changes other than a small horsepower boost. I may use this van in the Club Challenge for the Classic Plastic Model Exhibition instead of my '61 Impala SS 409. My paint for this build will be Tamiya TS-10 French Blue and Tamiya TS-26 Pure White. More to come...

The Story McNally drives out to visit Alderman Jamie Portis at her home. Alderman Portis is a strong willed person and McNally suspects her of leading Louie Bailer since he is only good at taking orders from a higher up. She once said that the Construction Bill was a waste of time all the while she was kind of promoting it. It is possible that she gave to order to have Alderman David Camillo killed so that the Construction Bill would die in Committee. It is believed that tearing down a building and building a new one in it's place would cost more money in the long run than rehabbing an old building and that extra money would be going into someone else's pocket. The Build The engine compartment is nearly complete and the interior is done! McNally will return...

The Story Louie Bailer and his remaining henchman Ian, are being questioned in Interrogation and the questioning stops when they both say, "lawyer". McNally takes a copy of The Herald and goes into the Interrogation room where Louie is sitting and sits down at the table, puts his feet up and opens the paper and starts reading. Louie complains that he is in pain from slipping on the ice in his construction yard and McNally ignores him. Louie continues to complain with McMally eventually saying, "Yeah, yeah , yeah." Louie finally says, "You probably think that Alderman Portis is leading me around by the nose, don't you?" McNally finishes reading his article, folds the newspaper and quietly walks out of the Interrogation Room. He tell Lt. Troy that he has to check something out and he leaves BPD Headquarters. The Build Been working on the dash and other smaller parts for the Grand Cherokee Ltd. The woodgrain decals for the dash gave me fits, so I used an orange Sharpie with black stipling to create woodgrain for a smaller space. McNally will return...