mrmike

My fix for the lack of trim around the rear window seemed to be a rather easy fix. Just something for the foil to grab onto. Right now I am thinking about prepping the second hood for paint by filling in the score line under the hood and sanding smooth the top of the hood since the score line shows on top as well.

My wife is experiencing the same with her tennis elbow. The doc deadened the nerve to block the pain and after 48 hours, the pain is coming back. BTW, cake is for eating, not walking!

Here's the hard tonneau that I made from sheet styrene. I used a medium sanding stick to bevel the edges and make the rounded corners with. Paint was flowing today! More to come.....

That's exactly what it is!

Looks great, but I see one thing wrong with it...the shifter is backwards. It's probably be more trouble than it's worth to correct it, but I thought you should know. Other than that, it looks great!

Thanks Rodney! I did take Mr. Zinns advice to heart and after an one hours time, I had the side skirts on and hopefully, properly aligned. The truck needed a hood scoop and even though it willl not be functional, it give the truck a racier look. I have been working on a hard tonneau cover and it is coming along rather well. I measured the bed for the correct measurements and cut it out of a piece of sheet styrene. I should have pictures of it later.

Thanks guys! I have seen this score on other AMT kits over the years and I have largely ignored it and just built the model. Now, I have used a chemically hot paint and must deal with the outcome that has been handed to me. I have the other hood and I may fill the score on that and paint it. We shall see... Thanks George! That is the paint treatment that I was going for until my issue with the hood arose. Right now, my enthusiasm for this project has gotten up and left me, so I'll come back to it later. It's still on the bench, I'm just not working on it right now.

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Thanks for the support and suggestions, guys! This was a tough part of this kit...adding the ground effects skirts! I added the front clip and the hood scoop. This was the worst part of all...the tailgate! The opening was pinched at the bottom and flared out at the top. I had to place the tailgate into position and glue it from the inside of the fenders and from inside the box and clamp it with a rubber band. I'll be cleaning this one up! This kit definitely could have been better engineered in regards to the body, side skirts, and tailgate. I wonder what other surprises are in store for me. More to come.....

I haven't done a truck in a little while and I thought that it was time to build this one. I got this when the kit first came out as evident by the one-piece box design and the thick looking plastic. And, there will be a few changes made. A set of Pegasus 19" Chrome T's and disc brakes, a resin K&N air filter from Scale Dreams, a hood scoop from the AMT '87 Mustang kit, stripe decals from three '06 Mustang GT kits, and a hard cover for the pick up bed. My paint will be Tamiya TS-8 Italian Red with a gray interior. More to come.....

Rob, this is true, but I want to do the Performance Hood Treatment and part of the hood has the body color on it. Give me a day or two so I can restart with a fresh approach.

As my parts box grows in size and capacity, I am starting to forget where certain parts came from. I guess I can just give up and be happy with the fact that what I need might be in there. :)

Thank you guys for the support and the suggestions. I really appreciate it. I think I need to push this on aside for a day or two to consider my options on how I want to proceed. This is where a second project comes in handy and I can keep my hands busy until I am ready to resume this project. To have the paint on the hood go south on me like this has taken my enthusiasm away for this project, so I'll come back to it later. Thanks again!

I sat down yesterday afternoon and started sanding the hood as sort of an exploratory surgery to see how smooth I could get the hood and to see just how deep the paint burned it's way into the plastic. I got the hood quite smooth and judging by the outline, the paint pretty much went through the thin plastic. I held up the hood in front of my shop light to see just how thin this plastic is. This hood came in a '69 GTX kit I bought years ago for the chassis on my '69 Charger 500 project. You can see just how much of the score line shows on top of the hood. This was how my hood for the RR was before I sanded and added primer. I am contemplating carefully filling in the score line underneath the hood. I am also thinking of putting this one aside and moving on to another project until I feel like continuing working on the RR. We shall see... More to come.....maybe.

The best thing you can do is to read your owners manual on all the various settings and decide which ones you'll need. For closeups, you definitely need a macro setting. This setting and allows you to be able to get close to your subject and take a clear picture.

Well guys, I have my suspicions as to what may have happened. I might have not had a good enough coating of primer on the hood and the hot paint ate it's way through the thin plastic on the score line underneath. I'll sand down the hood and remove any damage and reprime and repaint. I had planned on adding the Performance Hood Treatment which is not a decal, but flat black paint. BTW, I am still using the same paintbooth that I always have. I recently replaced the filter which I buy in a 3-Pack at Home Depot for around $5.00 a pack. I gve the booth a really good cleaning and check the fan for proper operation.

Well Brandon, I have said this before and I have to say it again. Your paint detailing of the body is sloppy and I hope that you can clean this up easily. The body paint looks good, but the detail painting distracks from it. This critique is not meant to hurt you, but to encourage you to do better.

Thanks guys! Thursday afternoon, I painted the body parts of the Road Runner. Then I looked at the hood this morning and was not happy with it. The heat of the lacquer paint got through the thin plastic that is scored for removal and melted the plastic on top. This is going to take more than just wet sanding to fix. More to come.....

Is that how you describe yourself? Scary?!! I thought you were different, just like me and everyone else!

I can't imagine taking that Hummer off-road!

Thanks George! I did notice the lack of molding around 3/4 of the rear window and I took steps to add something for molding. A little more progress! I have reshaped the fender openings. I added a thin strip of styrene around the rest of the window to act as a molding and to aid me when I BMF the rear window. I got the engine into a coat of paint this morning. Mopar Street Hemi Orange Engine Enamel. More to come.....

Thanks Bill! The whole body seems to be "off", especially when compared to the Johan '69 Road Runner. To me, the simplest fix is with the rear fender openings and that is one I am willing to do. But as for the rest of the body, I can live with it as is.

Thanks Richard! I have transferred the new fender opening line onto the RR body. I'll start grinding and sanding soon. I clipped these parts from the chrome tree for a bath in the purple pond. I have assembled the Hemi and it is ready for paint. More to come.....

Thanks guys! Erik, I glued the interior into the body before I added the chassis. Since there are no really mounting points on the chassis for the interior, mounting it to the body was the logical way to go.

I'll be there!