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Andy... that Color looks great. I like the purple you went with and like how you painted the hood black. Nice Job!

I was out of town for the weekend and was able to tinker on the rear end for a little bit tonight after I got home. Here are some more progress Pics..... Thanks for looking. After getting the Rear ends initial primer coat on it was time to cut the kit bolts off the rear end: Drilled the holes for the new bolts: Adding detail to the rear end for a filler cap: Checking out what it looks like with the cap in place: Put the bolts in place to see how it looks mocked up: Taking a look at the rear end with the bolts and filler cap in place:

John, Thanks for the kind words my friend. Danno Thank you sir!

Very nice start on this project. Going to be a great build.

I have been a big fan of Weld-on #3. Been using it for years. it is similar to Tenax but they don't bottle it for the hobby industry anymore. I usually get a quart can from a plastics shop and it lasts me quite a while.

Nice job on this. it looks great. Thanks for sharing with us.

Looking good so far.

You are welcome. Terry is a really nice guy to talk to and do business with

Here is Terry's Contact Information: email: terry.kinnear@yahoo.com Phone: (814) 282-9244

Thanks! Trust me i made sure the beer can was empty

Very nice build. That thing looks great!!

Brett.... She is looking good and coming right along. Great choice in the color. really like that blue. Looks great!

Nice Build, this turned out great!

Job well done. Very Nice build.

I was finally able to sit down tonight and work on this project for a while. Felt good to be back building and working on this. I was able to finish drilling holes in the blower for all of my bolts and then I ended up working on the rear end and fuel tank. Here are some pics. Thanks for looking. Started tonight by muding up the rear end and fuel tank with Bondo: Then it was onto drilling the rest of the holes for the Scale Hardware on the blower: Then I worked on sanding the bondo and adding more and sanding more. Now it's ready for an initial coat of primer. I will be cutting the kit bolt heads off and drilling holes to add Scale Hardware bolts to the front housing of the rear end: Next was the fuel tank. Took and sanding the first coat of Bondo, then added another one on a few spots that needed a little more filler. This is also ready for it's initial coat of primer. Once dry I will be drilling holes for the A/N Fittings from RB Motion that will be going on this build: Then I worked on setting the fuel tank in the Chassis and started to make a template from a 3x5 card for the fuel tank tie down. Cut and files the cross member which I will be adding a tab to connect a fuel hole down strap Once I get the correct shape out of the 3x5 card and am happy with it, I will be using an empty Beer can that I cut up and will transfer the shape to it and use that thin aluminum for my hold down strap:

I feel I fall into all 4 categories. It usually depends on the build I am working on. Sometimes I like to do something that is straight out of the box, other times I may kit bash a project using various parts from different models. Then on builds that I want to do very detailed I will use purchased aftermarket and Resin Items. Then when there is scratch building I will do that as well. If I had a miniture lathe and mill, I would machine some of the parts myself but since I don't and cant afford one I will buy turned parts. There are various Items that I will draw up in my 3D CAD program and plan on having some of it machined for me but some of it is for me to make out of plastic as well. I have a couple builds that i want to do in the near future which I am going to draw some chassis's up so I can figure out how i want to scrach build it. I even have one project where I am going to draw up the body and the frame and scratch build it out of plastic.

Thats awesome Cliff... Looking good... Cheers!

Hey Bob.... I haven't been able to do much the past few weeks due to work and having family visiting. I am keeping fingers crossed that I will get to do some work tonight and tomorrow. So stay tuned and I will be posting more pics. I am so ready for the 4th of july weekend and my plan is to work on my models all weekend..... I have that itch and its killing me that I haven't been able to work on anything lately.

Beautiful. That Detail is amazing. Loving this build.

Looking good. glad to see you got her back up and running again

Holy Smokes Derrick.... You made some fast progress with this or maybe it was because I was away for a week or two Nice Job man. She turned out beautiful and is gorgeous. great job man.

Very Nice and clean. Looks great. Love the paint!

Nice looking build. You did a fantastic job. Looks great!!

Wayne... this is looking great man. Look forward to more progress on this

Brett This thing is looking great. Nice work on the chassis so far. I know this will be a beauty when its done. i need to get my butt in gear and start working on some builds again. Hard to keep up with everyone making some great progress on their builds. This week I am planning on being able to spend some more time on the models since things have slowed down a little bit for me. Looking forward to your next update.