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John... Awesome work Brother. Everything is looking great. You sure have been a busy bee and I see you have put your minions to work....lol looking forward to the next update.

Sanded the bondo down and the dash is taking shape: Here is the tin in the body and test fitted on the chassis: Looking in from the other side:

As Promised here are some pics from the progress I made last night.... I started out with getting the steering cover for the tins done: The Other side: Test fitting it on the Tins: Got some Bondo laid on the dash:

Dave... Thank you sir Scott... Thank you so much. I will count how many rivets are in the tins at the moment and get back to you...lol Oh for sure when its done it will have a tally of how many nuts and bolts were used where...lol yes I am that nuts to break it down on this build... haha

John.... thank buddy.... i think ibam gonna toss a few more rivets in the mix to drive them crazy.... haha Mike... thanks buddy. You dont know how ready I am to move onto the next part....lol i am so tired of tin work haha Ok fellas.... I did work on it some more last night and made some good progress. I didnt get a chance tonpost pics last bight but I will post them when i get home from work today. I have just a couple more items on the to do list for the tins and then I can call them done....phew! Lol

Thanks guys... I will start with the V-1... its one I have wanted to build for a while. Maybe I will break it out later and take a break from my Vega funny car...lol

I have started to do some more work on the tins today. I am getting closer to being able to call the fabrication done on this one. I feel its been a long road just for this tin work but I know in the end it will all be worth the hard work I have been putting into it. I started today by making the clearance bump that will go on the tin for the steering linkage. I have also started to sand the dash again to smooth out the added pieces to it. will show pics of the sanded dash later. Here is the start of the clearance bump with a few pieces: Here is the parts glued together: Opposite side: Setting it on the Tin work to see how it fits and looks: Here is the other side, looks like I need to bring the height down a tad and make the rounded portion have a bigger radius and not such a sharp point so to speak:

Mike... Thank you my friend. I appreciate the encouragment Danno... Thank you sir!!

I had to go with model.... Just a guess

Johnny Boy... that is some fantastic work man. I am loving the progress. You are an artist man!!

So I have another small update for you all. I worked a little more on the dash. starting with adding the bottom portion of the top of the dash trying to replicate from the actual shot I showed earlier a few post up. and then I decided that my fire window bezels were a little to big and i cut them down and then drilled holes for the rivets/bolts. Here are a few pics..... Here is the top portion where I added some more .010" thick plastic. I am waiting for the glue to dry and I will trim off the plastic that is not needed: Here is the updated fire window bezels along with the bolts/rivets that will hold them in place: Here is the other one:

Bob.... thank you. Dave... thank you my friend. I think vy now i would have stock in scale hardware...lol even though i am burnt on it. I know that i only have a little more to fabricate for it then i can do the final body work and ger it in primer. All though i am ready to get back on the engine and body. Thank you my friend. Was great to chat with you today and thank you for the help and advice. Jim... thank you. I made the change and am putting the bezel on the driver side as well as I made the bezel a little narrower since I made it too big to begin with.

So... I have gotten a little more done to the tin work. got all of the rivets marked and drilled out for the dash area. And then I have been going round and round on the placement of the retaining ring for the fire windows. From all of my reference pictures I have, I don't have any that show it really well and its making me question which side of the tin it is supposed to go on. I will show you pics of both sides I have drilled all and installed the rivets on the dash. I think it looks pretty good with the spacing: Now onto my dilema about which side the retaining ring for the fire window should be on...... Driver side??: Engine side??: I am confused... LMAO

Bill... Thank you. I think you guys are right that I am nuts for some of the things I am doing on this build... Tyrone.... Thank you my friend.

Joe.... Here are the 4 kits I have narrowed it down to...lol but I am thinking about holding off on the Russian Tractor and the KettenKraftrad because I would like to do some weathering on those but need to improve my weathering skills first and I would love to do a little diorama with both (seperate diorama's though), but I guess it wouldn't hurt to start either of them...lol. Here is a pic of the kits:

John... Fantastic work. This is looking awesome!! You are hitting this one out of the park.

John... Thanks Brother. I am chipping away at this tin work and getting closer to being able to call the fabrication done on it...lol Alright so last night I was able to add a little more to the dash. I am trying to replicate this portion of the dash that you can see here. This is also the only picture I have that is a clear pictures to work this from: Here is where I started, I started with some .250 wide by .010" thick Evergreen styrene and got the angle of the bottom one where I wanted and then added the second piece on top: I have trimmed the top portion off and now I need to sand everything flat and then start drilling the holes for the rivets on this portion of the dash:

Wow... This is one outstanding build. I love what you have done here. The base is also really cool too. Nice work.

Rom.... Fantastic work my friend. You are setting bar up there for the little details. Keep up the great work.

Ok so I have an afternoon teaser for you guys. Been working on the tin work some more and here is what I have gotten done so far.... I started making the bezels to go around the fire windows. Started out with .010" thick styrene: Upclose shot of the start of the bezels, started out from 4 pieces of plastic: Added pieces in the corner to shape the round areas: Here is the look of what it will look like on the firewall:

Gabe..... Thank you My friend. I think you are right that there will be enough rivets to keep them busy for a while...lol Mike... Thank you my friend!! Aaron... Thank you my friend. Little by little I am getting there with it. You are right that the finished product will be worth it and I really want to finish it by later this year.

Oh Johnny..... Come out Come out where ever you are... I am waiting on an update Brother.... I have got Sidewinder on the Brain!!!!

Ken... Aqua and white would be nice... Here are a few more two tone ideas

Well guys... I sat down and drilled the location of the rivets on the firewall and going to continue with some work on the tin work but I feel that I am getting a little burnt out of this tin work and may switch back over to the engine for a little bit or the body and even the body cart. I am planning on pretty much building most of the day. So I hope I make some good progress to show you guys later. Thanks for looking and apologize I haven't posted much lately. I have been pretty busy with work this past week. Here is the fire wall with the rivets in place. The top row of rivets I need to cut the length down on them so they will sit flush:

Brad.... Thank you buddy!! I am trying not to miss anything although I probably have....lol Danno.... LMAO.... I am guess the picture was supposed to be of a frog?? Ribbet.... Ribbet Darryl.... Thank you sir. Larry.... Thank you. Dave... Thank you very much. I keep trying to push myself on things. When I do get this build done. I am planning on making a power point presentation pretty much with all of the pictures here to basically make a build book that I can place next to the car at shows. But I am sure if people would like a copy I would be more than happy to send the digital file of it when done.