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Thanks David! The repair does look good, but I still hate doing bodywork!

Keep watching, Mattias! The Story Jenny calls McNally the following afternoon and says that Danny had called her and he wanted to meet her near his apartment in Chinatown around 9 PM and give her some money for the house and kids. Jenny doesn't like this part of Boston and asks if McNally could accompany her and the Boston PI says yes. At 8:55 PM, they arrive near Danny's apartment in Jenny's Volvo and at 9 PM Danny comes walking up the street from his apartment bulding. As they stand in front of the diner, McNally sees a broken couple with Jenny holding her sweater closed with her arms crossed in front of her and Danny with his hands shoved into his jacket pockets. Sitting in the Volvo with the window down, McNally hears an engine roaring and he sees a pair of headlights racing up the street. Getting out of the car, he pulls his SIG Sauer P227 from his holster and aims it at the racing SUV and yells at Danny and Jenny to take cover just as bullets start ringing out from the SUV. McNally and Danny return fire and the SUV hits a telephone pole and stops and the lights in the neighborhood go out. McNally runs over to the SUV and finds two young hoodlums inside dead, then Jenny yells for McNally. Danny has been hit several times and is bleeding with Jenny trying to stop the bleeding with her sweater. The Build I squared off the hole on the fender and glued in a patch made from a piece of sheet styrene. I applied a coating of Mr. Dissolved Putty and did a quick sanding when it was dry. When this has dried completely, I'll coat this with some primer and check my work. McNally will return...

The Story As McNally and Danny walk away from a nearby diner with their cups of coffee, Danny pauses to pour out some coffee and pour in some whiskey from a hip flask into the cup. They talk and laugh about old times at Boston Police Dept. McNally finally tells Danny that he saw Jenny at the grocery store today. He tell him the fears that Jenny has about losing the house and needing a place to stay and the welfare of his children. Danny gets mad that McNally had brought this part of his life that wants to forget about. "Just who do you think you are, Dr. Phil? You gonna make everything ok so Jenny and I can be a couple again? Mind your own business," Danny yells as he throws his coffee and cup into the gutter and storms up the steps of his apartment building. McNally stands there at the bottom of the steps, takes a sip of coffee, gets into his car and drives on home. The Build I took apart the engine and repainted it. I changed the color of some parts for the better. I repainted the exhaust system and buffed it and installed the exhaust and the suspensions into the chassis. I've been thinking about how I am going to fix the right front fender. I may cut a sliver from the fender and match a piece of sheet styrene to fill the hole. McNally will return...

The Story As the sun sets, all is quiet on Chagness St. in Chinatown this evening as McNally stops his Challenger SRT8 at the curb in front of Danny's apartment building. At the front door, he looks at the call panel and finds D. Carlisle 2B. He pushes the button several times before he decides to open the front door and walk in where he is immediately assualted by variety of smells, some of them not too pleasant. He knocks on 2B and he hears movement inside and the door opens and Danny is standing there, his stomach hanging over his belt, his hairline is receding, his badge clipped to his belt could use a good polishing and he probably could use a shower. "McNally!" he says grabbing the Boston PI and giving him a big hug. "Danny, long time! How are you?" Danny tells him he is well and working for Vice Squad. McNally says to get his coat on and to go grab a cup of coffee with him. Danny says that he has booze in his apartment, so why go out? McNally insists they go for a coffee and Danny relunctantly agrees to go. Then a skinny woman walks out of the bedroom and she takes a cigarette from a pack on the kitchen table, lights it and goes back into the bedroom. "Who's that," ask McNally and Danny only says that she's a friend and he goes to put on a clean, but wrinkled shirt and his jacket to hide his gun and clip-on holster. The Build I have modified the front and rear suspensions to lower the Volvo 760 GLE and the result is much better! McNally will return...

The Story That afternoon finds McNally stopping at BPD Headquarters and Burglary/Robbery Division to visit with Lt. Ferris. “Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in.” “Good to see you too, Lieutenant! How’s it going?” “Busy as usual. Been a long time since I’ve seen you, McNally. How are you?” “Good. I’m busy as well. Where’s Danny Carlisle?” “Danny hasn’t worked here for over a year. He’s transferred over to the Vice Squad and I’ve lost touch with him.” “Why did he transfer?” “Said he needed a fresh start. Something new for him. You’re looking for him?” “Yeah. I ran into his wife this morning and it got me to thinking about him. I thought I would reach out and get in touch with him.” “Well, after he left, I lost contact with him. All I know is that he requested the transfer after I got a couple of new detectives and I approved it. He left and I haven’t heard hide nor hair from him.” “Who’s running Vice now?” “That would be Captain Stirelli. You know him?” “No, Can’t say that I do. What’s he like?” “You won’t like him. He’s tough and abusive. Runs an extremely tight ship.” “Okay. Thanks for the warning, Lieutenant.” “You’re welcome Mc. Stop back sometime. We’ll chat some more.” “Will do. See you later!” and McNally walks out of the Squad Room and heading towards Vice. McNally walks into Vice and there is only one detective in the Squad Room. “I’m looking for Captain Stirelli,” says McNally. The lone detective looks up from his desk and says, “He’s not here right now. I don’t know where he is. Can I help you?” “The name’s McNally. I’m a PI. Any idea when he’ll be back?” “No, I don’t. Something I can do for you?” McNally thinks for a moment and then says, “No thanks,” and he turns and walks out of the Squad Room. He’ll go down to Human Resources and get Danny’s address from there. The Build I started to modify the suspensions of the Volvo to lower it some. It's a little lower, but not a lot. More modification is needed. I got the rear suspension apart. I can cut a coil off of the springs, but I'll have to figure out what to do with the structure next to the differential. McNally will return...

Thanks Curtis! I did think of using a tan interior and grey would be nice as well.

I took six new photos of the Range Rover Police in British Transport Police Livery.

Thanks Jonathan! This Volvo was made by Italeri many, many years ago. This was back before I was concerned with adding detail and such. My main focus is to lower the car a bit without compromising the chassis too much.

Thank you Steve! It was pointed out to me that the windows were not mounted correctly since I have mis-interpeted the instructions and I went and corrected that issue. But, in order to fix the windows, I had to remove the chassis and I corrected another issue that had been bugging me...the front of the body doesn't sit correctly on the chassis. The dash sits too high and lowering the dash required more surgery to the bottom of the dash and the center console. It opened up a can of worms that I didn't want to deal with, but I corrected that issue. Now to clean up the mess I created...

Another rebuild project and the return of McNally, Boston PI. The story is called The Ex-partner. Anyone in this story is not related to anyone living or deceased. The Build I built this Volvo so many years ago! I don't remember when, but it was painted with Model Master Anthracite Grey Metallic through my Badger 200 airbrush. A color that is no longer produced. I'm thinking of a dark green metallic this time around. The chassis will be rebuilt and lowered a bit since it is near 4X4 heights. It should be fairly easy to accomplish. The interior will be repainted and detailed. The Story In need of food for home, McNally Boston PI heads over to his favorite grocery store in Dorchester called Mannion's. As he approaches the front of the store, a shopping cart rolls out between two cars and nearly hits him. He grabs the runaway carriage and looks at the shopper who is trying to get her wiggling four year old child into her carseat and grab the errant carriage at the same time, without any success. Jenny Carlysle, a woman he hasn't seen in years since they both had worked for the Boston Police Department at one time. After securing four year old Annie into her carseat she give McNally a big hug and they start to chat a little bit. McNally asks about her husand Danny, who use to be his partner when he worked in Burglary/Robbery Division at BPD. Jenny relunctantly says that they had been separated for over six months and that she was filing for divorce. She doesn't know where he moved to other than to Chinatown and she is worried that she'll lose the house since Danny hasn't sent her any money to help pay bills and care for their two children. McNally offers his home to her and her kids if she should need a place to stay and he will help get herself back on her feet again. Jenny looks at her watch and says she has to get home to put groceries away and to get Annie to her Pediatrician's appointment and they both hug and she give him a kiss on the cheek. McNally will return...

This is my Italeri Range Rover Police also known as a "jam sandwich". It is painted with Tamiya TS-26 Pure White with a Tamiya Light Grey interior. I added a resin 2-way radio with a whip antenna. The first picture is with the lightbar I prefer.

I have finished my Italeri Range Rover Police and it is posted in Under Glass. I would like to thank all those who have viewed and commented on my WIP.

I found these plans on a model railroad site years ago and I have used them to build my paintbooth. It's not perfect, but it does work rather well. I also use it for a photobooth by adding large sheets of colored poster board. Like I said, it's not perfect, but it does work.

WOW! That's nice! I have the same kit with all the custom van parts, plus a few more that I tossed in.

Thanks Curtis!

It seems as if I am changing my mind a lot lately. I wanted Acapulco Blue, but Testors no longer makes it and I don't want to order any paint from an outside source like MCW or ScaleFinishes. I stopped at my LHS and got a can of Tamiya TS-89 Pearl Blue. Should look good!

I went to mount the body permanently to the chassis and noticed that the nose of the body needed to be clamped. I suspected that the instrument panel sat a little high and I discovered a way to lower the panel. I removed the two ridges on the transmission hump and remounted the dash. I remounted the body and it sits 100% better! More to come...

Thanks Guido!

Thank you Curtis for the offer. I appreciate it, but much as I wanted this build to come to fruition, it wasn't going to happen. Too many thing started to work against me and the paint job was the final nail in the coffin. I may come back to it someday. I hope you can find all your missing parts, John!

Those engine stands come in real handy when you need something to place the engine on. Without an engine stand, they don't sit right. I have done a little work on the Boss 302. The engine is mostly assembled and partially painted. I added some Detailer to the carb to bring out some detail. I'll paint the transmission before it is installed in the chassis. More to come...

Yes, it is frustrating! I have had two other people elsewhere tell me that there was crazing of the plastic on my first attempt at painting the Impala, and I know for a fact that there wasn't any! I have lost interest in building this kit. Everything is back in the box and the box is on the shelf. I'll work on it some other time when I regain interest in it again.

Yesterday, I installed the windshield, or I tried to install the windshield. It didn't matter which way I tried or how much glue I used, the windshield was the same size as the opening and it just wouldn't fit in straight. This morning, I cut a piece of bubble packing, that clear plastic wrapping that many products come in, slightly larger than the windshield frame and glued it in. It's nice and clear and will not fall out! I assembled both light bars, but I am leaning towards the one in front, although the instructions indicate using the one in the rear. Based on my research, they all had different light bars. More to come...

Looks really good, Keith! Your detailing looks just fantastic, too!

Well guys, I conducted an experiment today using a white plastic spoon, Model Master White Primer, Model Master Flame Red Lacquer paint and I painted the spoon. The spoon is completely dry to the touch! Just like I thought, the plastic body and hood that is in the old Lindberg kit was the culprit for tacky paint. Just for the heck of it, I painted the other side of the spoon with just the paint and it is completely dry to the touch.

Carl, I used Model Master White Primer with Model Master Flame Red Lacquer paint. Curtis, I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting for the results. It'll be a while before I can get back to the experiment. I don't have 2-part poly, so sealing is out of the question. Like I said before, the kit has been boxed up and put away. I have too many things going on right now...