JustBill

I like the wheel choice. Solid, clean build so far. Best of luck with it!

The '55 is prolly one of my all time favorite cars. I love seeing it as a lowrider too. Very nice James!

Clay, with your fabricating skills and talents have you ever concidered or tried building a scale engine that will actually run in one of your projects? You already go to extream measures to build accurately and incorperate everything that is on your subject it just doesn't seam that you would be that far off from accomplishing such an idea. Just wondering brother. Either way I'm enjoying watching your progress as usual and thank you for sharing it with us. I always learn something from you and look forward to more.

I agree, that is awesome! My most favorite Batman movie ever! Great job and thanks for sharing! Welcome to the forum. I look forward to seeing some more of your work.

Very nicely done brother! Glad to see you got it done for the show this weekend. I wish you luck and have fun man. Take some pics for us if you can.

Guys I gotta say, thanks for having me. This is a wounderful thread with some insperation for sure! I came across this thread last night and it got me all pumped up to hit the bench. Its funny that Cranky has picked a Ranchero cause that's on my lowrider build list as well so I'm real interested to see what he has bubbling in his head and watch it come to life. I could go on about all the builds happening in this thread but you guys would be here awhile! Haha! On to what's on the bench..... I started this Olds Cutlass at the end of last year but life and lack of interest got in the way. Here's some pics I took as I went through to where I am now plus the last two pics will be as it sits tonight as I just pilled everything on the bench to take pics and get my marbles together. I have the ride height set, and wheels picked out. I'm not gona have this much camber this is just a mock up... After sanding on the plastic body for three days to smooth the plastic I primed with Dupli white, then shot a base coat of Testers Diamond dust, then shot MM Plum Crazy, and cleared with Dupli acrylic lacquer. I have the trunk and left side of the car polished, still have to do the hood and right side. And finally what it looks like on the bench right now. I got some engine pieces painted but nothing assembled. I had the chassis painted but had to strip. I hope the community is cool with this and I will start working tonight and keep you guys posted. The builds on this thread are looking GREAT guys! Keep it up!

Hey Mark, I'm assuming started builds are ok? I have a '72 Olds Cutlass convertable I started but got away from. After seeing this thread and the great builds that are happening its given me some insperation to want to pick it back up. I think this will give me great motivation to hopefuly finish the build. So far I only have the body painted and half polished, some engine parts painted, and ride hieght set. I did have the chassis painted but had to strip it. If you guys are cool with me getting in I'll post some pics of the progress as of now and get to building. I have some other subjects in mind as well but don't need to start another one till I get some of the ones that's on my bench now finished.

Steve, this thing is looking SUPER nice bro! Your hard work is payong off BIG TIME! Its nice to be apart of this build with you man. Gona be something to be proud of for sure. Keep digging my friend keep digging.

Um.... excuse me sir! I believe the class and I have been lied too. Its states here that there were to be updates?

Absolutly Steve, that would be great!

Looking good Steve. I really like those seatbelts. I will have to get me some for my builds.

I'm willing to try anything at least once. The R.B. Motion parts are prolly your best bet I agree. But I like to try my hand at things, if it looks like dung then I'll go a different route. With Paul's idea I could also make the 45 degree boot ends. My general opinion on making boot ends using insulation is too fat in diameter anyway. The best example I've seen used for boot ends is hypadermic needles but they're very strong and hard to bend, plus they will prolly just crimp when you try to bend them.

Paul, I feel like a big dummy for not thinking of that myself. I think its a great idea and I will be using your technic for sure! Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me! Haha!

That's coming along very nicely my friend. Your hard work is paying off. Good stuff! For those interested the seat is from Revell's 2007 Tony Stewart Monte Carlo. Also too, the seat was in all the kits from that era. I believe there was a Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon kit as well. Basically you will want to look for Revell 2006-07 Monte Carlo's.

All I use is cans.

Very nice. You do outstanding work my friend! The craftsmanship is top notch!

Thanks guys! I've been able to put in some good bench time today. I'm working on smoothing the headlights and started on the interior. I also got the dash ready for paint. After painting the dash I'm gona use Detail Master photo etch gauges. I "framed" out the interior panels and am going to make wood inserts out of the veneer then use Replicas & Miniatures parts for details. The trim I used for "framing" is .030 quarter round stock. Hopefully I can finish smoothing out the rest of the body tonight and weather permitting, get this thing in primer tomorrow. Also too guys, going back to our engine conversation, I have the Revell 427 engine pack, or I was thinking of taking a Nascar engine I have and updating it to fuel injection. Any thoughts?!?!?? So yea, this means basically I was beaten up and pressured into putting a engine in this thing! Haha! I only bring up the engines mentioned because I have those already. Anything else I would have to buy a kit just to steal its engine.

Making a little progress here. I got the wheels about done. I got the headlights roughed in. Its starting to show its personality. I was gona use balsa wood for the interior but I had a kind, generous, gentlemen from the forum here offer some veneer in its place. I've never used veneer before but it looks freaking sweet and I can't wait to get started on the interior. Here's a few mock ups.

I was checking this kit out and thinking of getting it. I like what your doing so far. Keep us posted.

That's a pic of a Richard Petty Driving Experience school car. So its very well possible it was taken last year as those cars are not kept up to date. Great job on the model. Very clean build and a pleasure to the eye to look at.

I know about using superglue. I will use it every now and again but I can't use it like I want to. It never seems to fail that if I use superglue for any length of time it gives me a sinus infection. It sounds crazy and I feel like a big old wussy but I have to go with scraping paint.

I'm gona have to agree with the class as far as sanding the seams and pin marks and such being a pain. But I really hate scraping paint to glue parts together. I do as much cleaning and gluing of parts as possible before paint. For obvious reasons like engine halves and such, but I will try and construct as much of the model as possible so I don't have to scrape paint. All the body work and painting the body is my favorite. Sometimes I actually loose interest in a build after the body is done.

I really enjoyed you sharing this build. Very nice!! I want one! Haha! Thank you.

Come on guys! Dunderpoop!?!? Really!?!? That my friends is a 1968 Tugamypudin! I can see how you would be confused though as it shares the same "Cloud-O-Fog" hood ornament.

Chris, I love your enthusiasm dude! That doesn't sound too bad man I actually may give that some research and investigation. Good call! I've been sanding my rear end off over here. Not to much to look at right now, just shaping and smoothing. I'll get some more pics up when I have some progress going. The hood is really fighting me so I need to slow down and really message the thing carefully so as to not go too far with removing too much plastic. The rooster crows at midnight.