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Thanks Romell... I am 95% sure that I will be there that weekend. Been wanting to make it back up for that show for the past few years and this next year I am just gonna make it happen... Looking forward to meeting you and seeing your builds. I am pretty sure that I will have this build complete before the end of the year maybe sooner, Keeping fingers crossed . Thank you Kane... appreciate the kind words, can't wait to have it completed... Cheers!

Thanks Greg.... I have been really enjoying this build and so glad I decided to add all of the extra hardware and change things around to make it look as correct as possible. Cheers

Thanks Paul....Can't wait to show you and your dad this build in person.

Looking Good... These projects are coming along nice.

Brad... Looking good man. Really loving this build. Love the front wire wheels. I have the same set of rims except in 1/16th scale for my Front Engine Dragster that I have on the work bench along with the funny car build. Keep up the great work. and as far as those bolts from Scale hardware goes.....I feel the pain of grabbing them with tweezers and have them go flying... not fun at all. I have picked up an OptiVisor and it totally helps for small items like that. It was worth the 40 bucks I spent on it too. I would highly recommend one of them.

Great Job on this build man.... It looks great!!

John... all is can day is WOW .... That detail on the engine is amazing and looking good. Can't wait to see the body in putty and Primer. I think you are doing a fantastic job on this build. Keep up the great work.

Thanks Rick.... Feel free to use any of my ideas and methods. ...Even save the pics if you want. If you want pictures of anything specific just let me know.

Brad.... Thanks man, I will have to look up sone print shops in my area to see if I can find any mom and pop places. What thickness of.material have you gotten from them. I realy like your idea on adding a brace between the rear end housing and the taller tab. I am gonna borrow your idea and do that for both top and bottom tabs. Thanks for your suggesion on that. John.... Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I am not sure if I am the next sherrif in town. That is some big shoes to fill . Your builds have been a insperation to me and makes ne want to build better. I am shooting to have this build done by the NNL West next year in Santa Clara. If i can get it done sooner that would be even better. Would like to make it up for that show, I haven't been there since 1996. I also look forward to seeing your builds in person and meeting you as well.

Hey brett i should have that decal sheet since i have thatjit and started it just for.the rolling chassis idea. If you want the decals from my kit just let me know and i can send them to you.

Hey Brad where at in the valley do you get your prining plate from. I want to pick some of that up if I can.

Very Nice build!!! I really like how you painted the bumpers to match the body color, it flows great. The stance is awesome. I am a big fan of El Camino's I have a '71 1:1 sitting in my garage.

John Looking great Man!! I am with Tony on the scratch building stuff... I try to figure out how you do it so fast. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing the progress.. we will see more pics tomorrow right?? have a good one.

You are welcome Richard, Anytime...thats what we are all here for is to learn from and help one another. Looking forward to seeing some of your builds. I go thru spurts with building it seems like, sometimes I will have a bunch of time to build then other times I can't find time to work on my models and go thru widthdrawls

Very cool build. I like the colors and the stance. Great job on this.

Greg... this is turning out great. Those pulleys look awesome. did you get the blower belt from McMaster-Carr?? I ordered a few different sizes to see if I could use it as my blower pulleys for my 1/16th scale builds...lol. Looking forward to more progress on this.

Brad... thanks man, Good to see you back posting on here and loving your fiat build you have going on. I am looking forward to doing my 1/16th sacle Fiat as well. Where can I pick up some of those printing plates here in the valley?? I saw that you must of used that for your seat on your fiat and it looks great. I definitely have some things I could use those printing plates on and will have to pick some of it up. Richard.... I will tell you that yes it does take patientience with builds this involved. As of right now I have 75 hours into this build so far and I have a long ways to go and I started this back in March of this year. May sound funny but I am keeping track of my time on some 3x5 cards. Not every build I do I put this amount of detail into it, for one I couldnt' afford to do every kit like this. I can only imagine at this point how much I will have invested in to this build. In the midst of this build I am thinking of doing a curbside build to get something build up pretty quick and completed as well as jumping back to my 1/16th scale FED build I have going.... Actually the FED is really close to being done and will be finished before I finish this Funny Car. I am definitely with you on using modified pins as bolts. if you noticed on the rear end on this build I am using a pin since it was the closest thing I could find for a drain plug...lol One piece of advice I can give you on doing highly detailed builds is you definitely need patience a lot of it and when you get to a point during the build if you get fustrated or need a break from it, stop and put it on the shelf for a bit and work on another kit, then get back to it when you are ready. another thing I do is I try not to rush myself and take my time building. I have learned quite a bit along the way since I really started getting into building models when I was 15... which was 20 years ago. I also had a period of time where life got in the way... college and early in my career where I didn't build at all. Missed it and Loving that I am back into it, Got back into it in Jan of 2010 didn't realize how much I was missing it until this past year. Now all I want to do is just build build build... as well as improve my skills and get better at them.

Brad... This is an awesome build so far. Man it sure looks nice. The detail on the front end is incredeble. I can't wait to see this in person and look forward to more pics of this build. Love the tach and the buttons on the panel. What did you use for those anyway, casue they look great. Any ideas on paint yet for this?? Keep up the great work and glad to see you back on here.

Definitely a very cool Bus. This is going to be a great build. I have seen pics of this and thought that it would be cool to see it as a model. Can't wait for more pics as you progress with this build.

Very Nice looking Merc. Color and graphics look great. The rest is just as clean.

Nice looking Chopper and great color combo.

Very Nice build. that looks great.

Hey Marcos....No Worries man. I was able search his name and find his email address online. Shot him an email and he got back to me and talked to him on the phone. Got some parts coming in the mail and should have them this week. Thanks again for giving his name to me. I appreciate it, He is a really nice guy too. I was stoked that I was able to get a couple sets of those Hubcaps Looking forward to putting them on a build that I have them planned for.

Thanks Romell... You bet i will have more pics. Hoping to maybe get to work ob it today but i.have to do sone house chores first when i et home from work.

This is one Beautiful build. Nicely done so far. The detail work is top notch. Great job on this. can't wait to see it completed.