Mooneyzs

Another Side Shot on the Body Cart: I apologize for the delay on the rest of the pics..... Photobucket is being a Turd at the moment. I will load the rest when It starts working again.

The Back: The Mock up of the rear wing: Here it is on the body stand: Here is an up-close shot of the fender and bumper where I had to add material behind the bumper and fix the crappy job revell did on it: Front End Again:

Alright Fellas.... As I mentioned earlier that I was going to post pics when I got home from work. I apologize for the Delay had some other stuff going on when I got home and it took me a little longer to crop and resize the pics to upload to photobucket. Well as a few have probably already seen some of the pics of the Desert Scale Classic, so I can let the cat out of the bag. I have hit another Huge Milestone on this project. It's Official..... the Body is finally in Primer, I will need to add a little more body filler in a few spots and I will be blocking the body out and adding another coat of primer on it but with this first coat of primer it feels great to have it in this state. For the Primer I shot PPG's Omini 2K automotive primer on it. I am very happy with this material. I shot only 2 coats of primer on it. I also Painted the Body tins, although I need to touch it up because on the last coat of the black I shot when I went to put it in the car board box it fell off the Popsicle stick that I glued on to the side to hold it while I painted it. Well it fell off my work bench in my garage and slid under my El Camino. Needless to say my stomach turned when it happened but I was lucky enough that nothing broke on it and all that happened was it chipped the paint in a couple minor spots. I will touch those spots up and then it will be ready for rivets to be installed into it. I have a bunch of pictures to upload of this. Not sure I will give a description of every picture but I also had the chassis Mocked up with the engine and everything for the Desert Scale Classic. I hope you guys enjoy what I am calling a Milestone that I have hit with this. I am motivated more than ever to make a lot more progress now that I am seeing it come along more. Well Here is the start of getting the body in primer. Here is the Materials that I used. PPG's Omni 2K Ureathane Primer: Here is the body and escape hatch sitting on the hood of my car after I was done shooting 2 coats of primer letting it dry. This Material is awesome it is fully dry in 2 to 3 hours where you can sand and shoot the top coat on it after then if you would like: Here is the Body after it was dry: Front End Shot: Another Shot:

Tim.. thank you. I am starting to make some headway in this. All of that sanding the body filler got old but well worth it. I will post some pics later. Ray... thank you it was an absolute pleasure meeting you at the show. Iblook forward to chatting more with you at the the next show here. Danno... thank you so much. I always have a great time with you guys. I know i keep saying it will be done next year. I have been keeping to my plan that I wasnt going to rush anything as much as I want this build done now I just want it to be as best as I can make it. I know its not perfect but ubam happy with it. Well I really think it will be done sometime this year Joe... thank you. It was a blast meeting you this past weekend. Yep the goal is to have it done by next years show... well before then actually. lol. Well fellas stay tuned and I will get an update with some pics when I get home from work today. I actually should of done the update on sunday after the show.

I wanted to say thank you to Bernie, Danno and all of the Cactus Car modelers for putting in such a wonderful event for us this year. It was an awesome event as usual. I have downloaded the pics I took and put them in photobucket.... i am going to apologize ahead of time for some if the pics not completely focused. It wqs also great to meet many new faces and people from modeld csrs magazine forum. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Mooneyzs/library/Plastic%20Model%20Shows/Desert%20Scale%20Classic%202015?sort=3&page=1

Clayton... Thank you at the time I started that body bracing I had never seen anyone do it before and thought I would try it. the body bracing bracket I made from styrene. I believe Dirt Modeler has them in photo etch, which UI would of loved to of used and save me some time...lol... will use them on my next build Bob... thanks... I will have to go back and take a look at that post. Dave.... thank you... how did you know I was going to polish the lug nuts... lol I am hoping to have an update soon for you guys. I may not have pics up ubtil sunday since i am trying to mock up the car for the Desert Scale Classic on saturday. Mark... thank you. I will be honest I can't wait until more is accomplished on this but I feel I am making a pretty good head way it now, especially since the body work is pretty much finished. now I need to jump back and get a few more parts drawn up and printed so I can get the engine finished.

Joe... this build is looking great. Sorry to hear about the set backs with the tape tack on the paint. Sadurday I will talk to you what I found works best for me with that issue. I use HOK inner coat clear in between color coat and it eliminated any tape tack or bleeding in my opinion. figured it would be easier to explain in person. Keep uo the great work and looking forward to meeting you at the DCS.

John... thanks brother, its getting closer... i cant wait to see it out of bare plastic .... LMAO Kris.... thabks for the props on this build. I will have to go check your build out. I love the idea of reicas of some of the Riddler award cars. I do ebjoy other builds besides Drag Builds but 1/16th Drag builds are at the top of my list now. I do have a custom '49 merc I have been wanting to start forever. Bob... thank you, it is just about ready to go and get some paint squirted on it. It is a little aways from the red, white and blue bir definitely getting closer. Joe... that would be an awesome idea of having it on a rotisserie. I donhabe some cool ideas to display it. Umm I have no clue as to where the insanity comes from. I think i am going to get locked up after this build or be out on meds...lol

John... this is a beauty and turned out great. I just love the colors. You sure know how to work an airbrush. I can not wait to see it in person.

Paul... Holy Smokes buddy this is looking great... You are starting to scare me you are building just as fast as Johnny boy now. This is gorgeous.

Here is a full shot of the whole inside of the body with all of the tabs fixed... Phew....lol: Upclose shot of the rear panel: Another shot of the front: Ok so here is the parachute mount, I need to Give Credit to Bob the Hobby guy on here. He gave me the idea about connecting the parachute with a small magnet since I want to have 2 different parachutes to use depending on how the car is displayed. I am still going to add two holes for pins to clock the parachute. But this method is a much better way than I was originally planning to do this. So thank you Bob, I appreciate your help: Here it is with the magnet in place. After the body gets painted I will attache with 5 or 3 min epoxy:

Alright Fellas.... As mentioned earlier I wasn't able to upload pics last night and well I have some pics to share with everyone. They may seem a little repetitive but its the joy of all the fun body work...lol Here is the Right side body work all finished at the moment: Here is the front fender body work behind the bumper that I had to rework to make look better than the kit: Here is the left hand Side of the front fender that was reworked as well: Left side full Shot: Here is under the body, where you see the arrows were many of the the tabs that I had to remake and fix because I broke about 12 of them while I was doing the body work on the inside of the body:

Tyrone... I loved both sets of wheels and I couldn't choose between either of them. I am digging the ones you decided to go with. This is going to be another beauty.

Tyrone... This is going to be another Awesome build. I say build this in a "Murder Nova" style.... . I can't wait to see this one come to life.

Brad... I didnt even think of that. That material is a possibility too. I am sure that I will be making a few samples and going with what looks the best....lol. I Took some pics last night but I wasnt able to upload them. I will tonight.

Darryl... thabk you very much in the kind words. This has beem a fun build sharing with everyone. I will have to admot that i can't wait to have it dine so I can share my next few builds with everyone. Danno.... thanks for the heads up on that episode. I am going to have to see if ai can find it and watch it. If you of a link to it or anyone..let me know. Randy... thank you. Yep there wqs a body but with the body work almost done means primer will hit this body soon. Which then means it will be cloae for paint...lol well there is still minor work on the body but ylu know what I mean. Looking forward to seeing you at the DSC this weekend. David... thank you very muh. I think its a little of both...lol. I love building 1/16 Drag Cars and I think i hae gotten a little obsessed with trying to capture as much detail of the real car I possibly could with this build. John... my big brother. I am sorry to keep you waiting on some pics. I will have some to share with you toinight. AL... I have to tell you thank you for the info on the umbrella material. I never thought of that and I think that it would work perfect to use for the chute pack material. I jus hope I could find some in a shiny material. I did buy a window cover that I tought I could uae for material but I am sure I will make a few of them from different materials and see what looks best to go with. Alright fellas, i should have another update for you guys tonight. Last night i finished fixing all of the tabs that I broke off while I was doing body work to the inside of the body. So stay tuned

Tim... That Engine is just Unreal... It makes me want to have so much more done on my funny car engine. Man that thing is gorgeous. You are a Machine!!! I just love your work. Now for the two pics of the chassis and penny... you need to quit teasing us with a full size chassis and Huge Penny that you machined....lol . The work on the chassis is is just incredible. I need to challenge myself to make a brass chassis for my next build.

Frank... I have never heard of soaking the TDR parts in Campfuel does it help smoothing them out a little. I have soaked some of my TDR parts in Acetone which will remove the waxy material from the parts. I also just got an email recently from Shapeway that they are going to be getting rid of the Frosted Ultra Detail Material and they are going to be going to a Frosted Xtreme Detail material which should be able to have better and crisper detail to it from what it said. I am curious as to what it will look like myself.

I can't wait to see this one in person. Johnny Boy you did an awesome job on this bad boy. Paul... did john fool us and actually built this in 1:1 scale... haha

Wow Paul... this is getting better and better. Those cannons are totally cool with the ropes. Nice job my friend

Greg... cool pic.... I shot pics of this car when it was at Goodguys one year. Crazy little hot rod...lol

John... Simply Amazing. Your talent shows that you can replicate just about anything. I swear I need to make a thread to post pics of ideas of crazy builds because you are the one I know could knock any one of them out of the park.

Danno... Thank you. the body has been a lot of work so far but I am sure that I will be happy with the end result. Martin... Thank you. I am sure there are a few spots I have missed... lol. Congrats on your 100th post Mike... Thank you very much on the kind words. I have been thinking about having a mirror that goes under the chassis as well as under the body cart and body when displayed body off. I have had some jack ramps that I drew up 3D printed in which I will put the chassis on and my plan it to have at least one of the tires off so you can see the the detail of the hubs and disk brakes on the rear end. I think it should be pretty cool. I just need to figure it out but before that I need to finish the car first....lol Dave... Thank you. looking forward to seeing you at the DSC. Scott... Thanks brother. you and me both on seeing it in primer...lol Bob.... I am totally liking the magnet idea. Just wait til you see my next update. It was inspired by this Idea of yours and I think you will like it. I had never thought of that and I think its a much better idea than what I originally had planned on doing. Brad... It was an idea I never though of. and glad Bob mentioned it to me. Joe... it was a killer idea. I love how we all can learn from one another on this forum. Alan... I appreciate the kind words on the funny car. Joe... I remember some of those kits that had the molded open chutes. Pretty cool. That is a cool idea too. Thank you for the kind comments on my attention to detail. I appreciate you following along on this long Journey. I am hoping to finish it this year so I can start some other very cool builds. I wanted to show you a few ideas of how I was thinking of displaying the parachute when the body is on the body cart: This was a corvette funny car that was displayed at the Las Vegas Drag Strip. I wanted to make a chute pack that was open while sitting on the body cart: Here are a couple of Top Alcohol Funny Cars that were here in Phoenix last year: Here is another one, although it won't have the springs because back in the day the deploy chute had the spring built into it: Brad.... I am looking forward to seeing you next week. It will be a good day and I can't wait to see the new area for the show.

Brad... I comoletely respect your decision. I can understand and relate. As bad as I want to have my funny car done there is no way I am rushing andy of it just to make a show. I think you have made the right decission not to rush the last details of this beautiful and gorgeous build. its best not to rush anything. I hope you still bring it to DSC and out on the in progress/display table.

Tim... that is some gorgeous work. Everything is perfect and precise. I havr to agree with John that you are a Master builder. I would love to be able to meet you as well one day and see your work in person especially this build. I will have to plan to come out to one of the the shows back in your guy's area so I can meet you and as well Dave. I have so much respect for what you are doing and your work. if anyone can relate you about the multiple hours put in, I can totally relate. It doesnt seem like much work When in reality there is alot of test fits and measurements until it is right in our eyes. Keep up the great work and continue what you are doing.