mrmike

I fired up the paintbooth this afternoon and did some painting on the '56 Ford interior. I have some cleanup to do on the dash.

This is my Jeep CJ-5 from the 1971 TV series, Cade's County starring the late Glenn Ford. Painted with Tamiya TS-48 German Grey and weathered to represent a vehicle that has spent its life in the desert.

Randy, that looks great!

Look under Photo-Etch Detail Sets-General Motors. It is 1970 Buick GSX Detail Set.

You didn't say where your sent the email to. Several months ago, I was trying to get replacement parts for the '70 Hemi 'Cuda where I got no stock suspension or the dual scoop hood, but two shaker hoods and double the rear springs for the custom. Can't build stock with that stuff. They sent me the wrong hood for a replacement so I now have three shaker hoods and I got caught in the middle of the Revell USA shutdown when I sent them a query on the dual scoop hood. Someone there referred me to Revell of Germany for help. I ended up getting the dual scoop hood from someone local.

That's a good idea, Tom! Thanks!

I made some seat belts today with seat belt hardware from Model Car Garage and some strips of Tamiya 1/4 inch masking tape. I cut the strips of tape with my hobby knife at 3/32 inch and fed it through the hardware. I doubled over the tape and stuck them together on the sticky side. I used an orange Sharpie to color the tape. This is just a quicky mockup for illustration purposes. More to come...

Thank you Andre! I always wanted one and ended up with this instead.

I did a little painting this morning. Model Master Go-Mango on the interior pieces and Tamiya TS-17 Gloss Aluminium on the splash pan.

Thank you guys!

I finished assembly of the front bench seat. I filled in the sides between the seats with some strips of sheet plastic. More to come...

Randy, that is a great looking model! Great job!

Been thinking about the front bench seat and I decided to open the splt backs. I used a chisel-point and a No. 11 pointed blade to cut out and to trim the seat back. I just need to fill in the inside of the seat backs with some styrene. More to come...

Thanks Tulio!

Thanks JC! These older cars are great candidates for customization. Mine will be a street machine.

I did a mockup this morning to check my progress. The rake looks spot on for what I am looking for. I wanted to see what the engine mounting would be like since I replaced the manual trans with a C4 auto trans. I was worried that the fan would be hitting the radiator, but it seems to clear it easily. But, the engine mounting is only at the oil pan and there are no frame mounts for the engine. I'll have to make a set of frame mounts that go to the engine mounts. Other than the engine mounting issue, I am very happy with the mockup and now I can move forward with bodywork and painting the two-tone paint scheme. More to come...

Well, my usual luck is running with me again. The "340" decal I had disintegrated when it touched the water. No problem I said to myself. I'll just grab my sheet of decal paper and pull an image off the internet. I couldn't find my decal paper! Arrggghhh!!! Until I can get some more decal paper, I'll just glue the air cleaner onto the carb and call it done for now.

Thank you Dan! It's will have paint soon as I started primer today.

I finally fired up the paintbooth and did a little painting tonight. I painted the hood with Acryl Flat Clear to help cover the gloss of the star decals and the front bumper got a coat of Tamiya TS-14 Gloss Black. More to come...

Thank you Carl! And, I just noticed that the air cleaner is on backwards. Good thing I didn't glue it on!

I have finished the 292 CID engine for my '56 Fairlane Victoria. More to come...

Looking good, Randy! I just wish there was an easy way to lower one of these...

Thank you Bill!

Thank you Andy! The plugs wires were installed via a technique I had learned partially from Tim Boyd. It is a technique applied to funny car distributors and I used it on stock builds. I had started originally doing this years ago and Tim's method allowed me to refine the technique.

Thank you Jacob! They will be coming!