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Thanks wayne. those springs look perfect. that body sure looks great with the extra set of decals over it. Nice work!

Hey everyone Thanks again for all of the great comments. They are always welcome as well a suggestions. Really appreciate you guys following along. Just wish I could make progress faster on it. I have had family in town since last week so I haven't had a whole lot of time to get much done but will be getting back to it sunday evening for sure and should start having more progress to share with you guys. Charlie.... You are right about being able to get rid of those molded in buckles. Its going to be lots of sanding and lots of Bondo....lol Brad.... you are right about trying to make it out of aluminum. I will probably end up doing this plastic one and then trying to make it out of brass or aluminum. I know twice the work but that way I can fall back to the plastic if need be. The only reason I am thinking brass is that I would be able to Solder it much easier. I honestly think it would look so much better out of aluminum or brass. Tyrone... Thanks Scott (futurattraction).... Thank you for the kind words about going above and beyond. Bart... the Scale Hardware bolts that I used for the oil pan and timing cover are the Simulated Hex Bolt 0.85 mm head Part # SMHB-08-B ( you can also get nickle plated brass, part # is SMHB-08N) Scott... Thanks and glad you have been enjoying following along. Joe... you are right about not having to make a Jig but rather a template. You just gave me an idea. I may actually try and model this in solidworks making it a sheet metal part and I can make a flat pattern from it and will give me my template to cut the material from.... Hmmm My wheels are turning now maybe it won't be as hard as I was thinking. Niko... Thanks buddy. I can't wait to finally get some primer on this engine. I need to fill a few of the small pin holes with some bondo and was trying to get all of my holes drilled out for bolts before primer. One of the next things I need to start working on for the engine is I will need to modify or scratch build valve covers to match the pics that I have or I will probably start drilling holes in the blower and get that ready. super excited to start shooting some alclad on the block. I look forward to seeing your Vega FC when you get it. I know you will do some great things with it.

Nice work Wayne.... It's looking great!! Where did you get your springs from? Its a nice looking spring. I look forward to seeing more progress on the whole Wheelie bar set up.

Awesome Bart... Look forward to the pics. Thanks. I have to agree with you on the whole "keeping it Simple" theory, makes it much easier too.

Don... I don't see a problem at all painting Acrylic over Lacquers. You make have some bite issues if you were shooting a Lacquer over an acrylic or enamal. you need to take a look at John Teresi's '49 Merc Convertable over in "On the Workbench". He shot the body with Alclad and then air brushed some tamiya clear red, blue and yellow. Its pretty neat and those tamiya paints should be acrylic. I know all of my bottled Tamiya paints are.

I personally use the same stuff as Harry posted as well as some Evercoat 2 part filler. I won't use anything other than a two part filler anymore. I don't care of glazing putty of any kind as it steams to shrink as well it takes some time to cure. the 2 part fillers you can be off and sanding in 15 mins or so. Even sooner if you happen to mix it a little hot by accident . Here is a pic of the Evercoat Filler:

Thanks John for explaining the process of how you do it. It will help me for sure since I have never shot alclad before but sounds like its very similar to how I shoot my automotive paints. I also have a single action airbrush other than its a badger. As promised, took a pick of the two different clears I picked up for the Alclad and here they are:

Was able to sit down tonight and do a little more work on the workbench. I decided to go a different direction tonight and started working on the driver seat. I am taking the kit seat and modifying it. I have cut some of the edges off and then splitting the seat in half to make the seat wider. It is just the start of the seat and now I am debating if I should possibly try an make it from brass or not. Anyway its not much work I got done but a start on it. Here are the pics I started out by cutting all of the side pieces off the top area: Next, started cutting the seat down the middle to make it wider and to fit up against the chassis: After I had cut the seat in half: Tapped off the sides to cut more material off to follow the chassis: Started sanding the upholstery off the plastic, will finish sanding and then lay bondo down to smooth out to have a smooth seat:

I am a PPG DBC & OMNI Base Coats, House of Kolor Base Coats. & PPG's Concept Urathane clear Type of guy.

John... I have to first off say this paint just is just plain Wicked..... Man it is totally cool. I love how you added the tamiya paint to the front end. it sure looks great. As far as clear coat goes for the Alclad... was going to say that I have picked some up from Alclad in a gloss and matt finish. I haven't gotten to shoot any of it yet on my funny car build but i am super excited to seeing the results you get from it. I will take a pic of the bottle of clears for you and post to show you them. Any tips spraying this stuff?? certain air pressure?? Thanks man!!

Bart that is just plain Awesome!!! I have to agree with Joe... any pics of the inside. Would love to see how you make the working door handles. I may have to borrow your idea for them one day. Keep up the great work. Love seeing updates on this. Thanks for sharing with us.

Ken... awesome work on the Russ Davis Funny Car and I love the Yellow Dragster... it is just too cool. what kit is that? I may have to do one of those early dragsters one of these days.

Brad this is looking great. This is so aweome and you are doing an awesome job. So cool to see something totally different. Sometimes we need those breaks from other builds. Keep up the great work on this.

Ken... thanks for posting a few more pics of the Fiat, It looks awesome and you did a great job on it. Both of your other build are very nice as well. Simple and clean looking. Great work!

Charlie.... That engine looks great all hooked up. The detail is just wonderful. You have me inspired to get my engine done on my funny car.cant wait to put all of your great products in use.

Looking good Niko...keep up the great work!

Brett... that is looking great with the decals and all. Nice Job!

Joe... nice work you got going on this. its coming along great!

Nice job on these builds!

This is very cool and looking great!! Nice job on this so far.

Niko... what you have done with the rear part of the chassis looks amazing. It turned out very nice. Nice work on it. Keep it up.

I was able to make some more progress on this today. Put a couple of hours in working on a few items on the engine. I had finished cutting all of the bolt heads off the front timing plate and did the same with the oil pan. Its pretty teadious work drilling all of those holes out but the results are worth it. Won't bore you anymore by talking, so here are a couple of pics of the progress today. thanks for looking.... Front Timing Cover with all bolt heads cut off and drilled out. Along with Scale Hardware bolts: Oil Pan with all bolt heads cut off and replaced:

Joe... Thanks for the compliments man, much appreciated. Bart.... I know its kind of scarey to keep track at how much you have in a build but not every build is done like this. This was one of those that I was planning on doing alot too. But yeah I probably don't want to know how much will be into it when Its done. John... Thanks buddy, I appreciate you following along and that you are enjoying the progress on it. I am really anxious to have more of this done but this project requires alot of patience. Randy... Thanks man, its fun to mock up the parts to kind of get the feel of how its gonna look.

Thanks Bart, Appreciate it

Nice job Wayne. they look great!