Darren B

wow im liking it too you are an artist, not easy doing sculpts...........

Yeah like everyone else has said awesome work, as usual I can not come up with anything original just that your work blows me away and how fast your pace is, can not wait to see this one done, which should be next week!!LOL

setting up rear end and laying out the hoses for the front hydros...

You guys watching are what is keeping me going! and its gonna wiegh about 5 lbs when done!!

Thanks Virgil. Working on the front setup now.

got the mock up of the hydros and how they will be installed upside down under the bed and added some boiler plate to cover up the soddy looking texture of under the bed.

Starting the hydraulic pumps...

I was first planning on it as I wanted the traditional candy red burgundy flake but now looking at the interior it may need to look more rat rod and go flat, not sure yet, i know i have to make a decision cause its really painting time now.......... Thanks Chris yeah im getting anxious to finally painting this thing cause after that it will be almost done. so now i have to come to a decision and come up with a color, or colors.....,

Thank you Virgil Im getting close to painting the body now.

Thank you Luis

Interior foam is pretty much done. The dashboard is the only thing that needs to be painted with the door panels but not sure on a color yet.

Ok everyone, I want to thank everybody that has followed this build and has given me great encouragement, that means a great deal to me. So again thank you, my situation is not over by far but it seems manageable and as this hobby is so therapeutic to me I am going to need all of the therapeutic I can get so I need to keep at it as I really want to see this thing to the end, so enough of my personal ###### lets get back to it, I had some time to add the subwoofers to the bed and ill work on the amps soon also painted the wood slats and trying to get all the interior paint done so i can get to the paint on the exterior, now i painted the severed heads but let me be straight forward and let you know I am not a figure painter and suck at it but I think these look kinda ok but wont be the focal point of the enterior.

Wow John it truly amazes me how fast you can pump these incredible pieces of artwork out one right after the other one, i guess i just cant stay focused to keep on track and start and stop other projects, you are a truly inspiring builder for me and cant wait to see your next piece of artwork congrats another another beauty...........

wow then truly an artist indeed what great building skills that I hope to emulate some day, I can not wait to see this one done and is your datsun done yet, the 1/12th scale datsun that you were building on a while back? One of the reasons that I had asked about the lathe is that some of your plastic looks milled and machined so that means you have great skills.

this thing is very cool , way cool and the idea, the build and everything is just totally amazing, that is one of the reasons i love this hobby and the artist on this board, some of the best i have ever seen, i will for sure be keeping on eye on this one........................................

Greg, I can not believe how good you are with scratchbuilding, and im sure you have heard it all so for me to come up with new words to say what an awesome build this is and what an artist you are, i have a question for you if you dont mind, do you do all your scratchbuilding, and buidling not using a lathe or mill? being just all scratchbuilt with regular modeling tools? anyway keep it up with building like this i can just imagine what you could do with a real car..............

With deep regret I am writing this to inform all my followers that for the time being I have to give up building, something has come up that due to my other obligations I must quit. Hopefully some day i can return but just not sure when that will be. In fact will have to let all my stash, tools and everything else go as well. Thank you for the camaraderie, all the help you all have given me and hope to be back some day..................

Knock off painted and mocked up to see how they will look, not too bad.

painted the rats and the stone in the bed.

Thank you for all your thoughts ideas and comments its what keeps me going. some updates, painting the little miniatures and i should have left a lot of them off of the stone work for easier painting well for the next major build ill know better, its hard to paint them without getting paint on the stone.

I have this kit cant wait to see how it comes together...............will be watchin this one, love that nail polish silver look.

I wanted to figure out what would look good for the stone, and i played around with some colors but a wash with flat black and a dry brushing of light grey gave this effect, for the sake of spending to much time on trying other colors and techniques im gonna go with this for the concrete/stone look. Now Im thinking to contrast all the grey it will have to be a burgundy or blood red paint job, so getting on with the stone work is pushing me to finalize a paint scheme now.....

Thank you Rob, trying to keep my focus on this build.... Thank you Rick.