ian ashton

Is that a sneak peak at a future super charger you'll be selling? I like it!

Wowzer thats a lot of work! Excellent job! I especially like the scratch building in the interior, very nice!

Same here. The iPhone skin works awesome, although the iPhone app is absolutely terrible compared to Tapatalk.

Those PE parts are insane! I have a hard enough time with the wirelooms and carb linkage, that would make me mental!

It must be eurethane. The store didn't have Alumilite so I got some AcuMark (or something like that) and it seems to work OK. I was able to make a great mold of my AMT drag boat, score.

Nearing completion! The engine bay with a few more details: (SORRY FOR THE UNFOCUSED PICS - ###### DSLR!) Test fitting the engine: I had to make some risers for the small block to sit level in the big block K member. Seems to work just fine. I did a quick wash on my '68 Road Runner grille, which is the closest I can get to a '69 Satellite: I also got the first coat of paint laid down, and did a little wet sanding. The eBay Satellite hood, I am elated with how nice it is! Wet sanded, ready for a second coat:

Looks very nice, but I must ask - why are the plug wires so long?

Very cool. Will your real truck have a 6.1L in it as well? Funny you posted the pic of the dog, mine is always sitting right next to me on the desk (3 pound t-cup poodle) BTW - your package went out today

The paint looks awesome!

I think I'm just going to stick to Alumilite anyway, not a fan of the Smooth-On stuff - the Alumilite that I've used was so easy.

Looks good, keep it up!

I decided to give the Smooth-On products a fair shake I should make sure I'm properly measuring, so I went and bought a scale today and started to tinker with making a mold of an AMT drag boat (also my first attempt at a 2 part mold for the bottom of the hull, but thats a different subject. The mold came out great, however I did not use mold release, and the resin completely stuck into the mold, destroying it. I've never used any sort of mold release on my Alumilite molds, so I find this very weird. Is it possibly related to using Alumilite resin with Smooth-On mold? On a side note, I really like using the scale for all parts of casting, it really helps in mixing the right amount of resin when pouring to avoid waste

Good start! MAD makes very nice stuff!

Brake and fuel lines, not yet connected.

Too many pics for 1 post - here is the rest of my progress to date: Every AMT Mopar kit that I have seems to have a totally wrong battery, so I figured I'd do my best to fix it. I started by sanding it flat, then drilled 6 holes for where the caps will go: Again, I used some push pins for teh caps, glued in place and painted the whole thing black: Painted the caps (I did 2, since I'll probably need another for my next project): Finshed battery with Detail Master Photo Etched battery terminals and wired up: Did a few test fittings with the body to make sure my suspension height looks right and my wheels are level and such: Chassis with all 4 wheels and no body: Just gotta do some paint work on the body and put it all togather!

In 1969 for just $70.90 you could upgrade the tires on your 318 Convertable fo E70 x 14 RSW (Red Side Wall).

Thanks for the positive comments The project is coming right along, here are some more updates. For tires I decided to go with redlines, I just think they look so good on B5 blue B-bodies (my dad had a B5 blue '69 440 GTX with AC and redlines when I was a kid. - always loved that car.) Anyway, I used some parts bin tires and the redline decals from the Revell Hemi Dart with a little Testors DullCoat, they came out OK, some flaws but the best I could get 'em. Decals applied, ready for Dull Coat: After Dull Coat: I cast a bunch of these Mopar Steelies and painted them to see which came out best (some of the castings were iffy) and I just picked the best 4: Wheels and Tires: I have since added valve stems and lug nuts. Got the exhaust installed, as well as the rear suspension and rear wheels (still have to hook up the rear brake lines): Installed the firewall and fender wells, and did a small amount of detail painting. I used a Revell clear washer bottle, I think they are so cool - in retrospect I wish I would have sanded the fender wells smooth and ran the wires myself: My finished woodgrain (upgrade) steering wheel with collum shift - The wheel is from an AMT '70 Super Bee kit, BMF'd the trim ring and used a push pin with some superglue on the tip for the shifter:

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I absolutely love it! Is that the Fujimi (if I remember correctly) bike?

Very nice! I want one of those Kenworths, I want to make a toterhome!

The Nova is a weird car to make, as I there weren't any COPO Novas made in '69 at all, only '68 and '70.

Mopar B5 from a Chrysler dealership. I'll post the part number shortly for you.

Cool, thanks!

I would like to get a few parts made, not sure if anyone knows of 1 off services out there?

Very cool, I think I might have to do something like this in my basement for winter time projects