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Well executed Ken. One to be proud of certainly. cheers, tim

I see what you're describing Joe with the ZM engine. A lot more to work with, hopefully it fits well for you. Great subject on a pretty rare plane. Will be sure to follow your progress too. cheers, tim

Charlie, I'm remiss in getting caught up on your build. Loving this engine come together and the set-ups you shared to make it in the first place. VERY interesting and helpful. cheers, tim

Ian, Seat looks really good in position and I enjoyed the process you shared on how you did yours. You're clipping right along for sure. cheers, tim

Chris......Good one.......sadly no, they're not sponsoring me. cheers,tim Tony Coomer, I apologize for not acknowledging your earlier post and wanted to say thanks. "Master of Sherline" is quite a stretch but I do appreciate the sentiment. They make great equipment. cheers, tim Thank you Bob!! cheers, tim Francis, thanks and you're right, Tamiya makes an excellent product, we're lucky as hobbyists to have such a resource. You've talked me into it btw on the doors. They will be coming out too and I've settled upon how the car will be presented when finished. Should be pretty cool. cheers, tim Randy D. Whatever I do I assure you it will have zero on your Birdcage Maserati. I'm going to do a 75' Don Hardy style chassis and will do my best to be 95% accurate with it. Most of the bits I've made to date should be perfect with it. Plan is do get the bulk of the body work done over the next couple months and then draw up the chassis so I can get it made. I'll paint the car next Spring and then assemble it all by Summer 25'........keep your posts coming too please! cheers, tim Daniel, thank you too, that grille was time consuming but when it all comes together at the end it should add that little bit of interest to the build. cheers, tim

That's absolutely stunning Jim. Can't wait to see the finished car but I'd be happy to have her just the way she is today. Gorgeous. The mica pearl, did you use Pearl-X ? Just curious. cheers, tim

I love the V-10 era of F1 and stance of this car to my eye was one of the best. If only they could have run with 70's era fat slick rubber all around it would have been even better. Great job sir! cheers, tim

What a tremendous display of talent Francois. I learned a lot while cruising through this thread. Its definitely one to go thru multiple times as I know I've missed some things while going thru it just now. Thanks for sharing. cheers, tim

That's fantastic JT. The color is gorgeous and you lay down some great paint. Oh, and that engine ain't too shabby either. I'll be sure to follow along. cheers, tim

You are one talented individual Bill. If this is where "modeling" is going I'd say it has a bright future indeed. This type of creativity and excellence should excite anyone young enough and ambitious enough to learn the skills to do that.......marry it will some basic fabrication skills and the sky is the limit. Congrats, a big fan! cheers, tim

The camaro IS nice Bruce.........but having a soft spot for Ford's I have to say the Mustang is just stellar. Great job my friend. cheers, Tim

For the life of me I don't know how to delete the last 2 pics which were downloaded by mistake of the tool mentioned earlier in the thread......sorry bout' that.

Roger & Chris, thanks fellas for taking a moment to check it out, yes, I was away far too long....... Claude, That glue, PolyZap in the pic that I posted was a dud I'm afraid. I was messing with something on the body and the part on the hood popped right off. What I've discovered is that my best results is either Super Thin Glue by Ammo/MIG or Tamiya's Super Thin glue, either one that sets in 10 or 30 seconds. Just for good measure, after joining certain parts I add Zap-A-Gap either thin or medium. So far now, so good.........but man these bodies are SOOO fragile. All the recent body work I've been undertaking has been quite delicate to say the least. Glad I bought the additional promo bodies as I can experiment on certain techniques before trying them on the build body itself. Thanks for your note too! cheers, tim Today I'm posting some bodywork updates & progress "report". First you can see the under-hood support I came up with to replicate the fiberglass hood. I don't know why the aluminum plate looks crooked in the pic as it's not. I was going to use hood pins to secure the hood but by 75' dzus fasteners were the more common method used. In anticipation of opening up the doors, trunk and removing the front clip from the car I fabbed a pair of brass rocker panels (the chassis will be all brass) and messed around with a technique of forming windshield frames using sq. brass rod. The test worked well and if I decide to take the doors out, that's what I'll do. This tool by Tamiya is the bomb for scribing btw........this one is the .2mm blade. This next tool I stumbled across and I experimented on the practice body with it to remove the drip rails.......it works great and I highly recommend it. In this pic the red arrow clearly shows the remaining drip rail and the blue arrow shows where I removed it and scribed out the window frame using the Tamiya scriber. These next pics show the new door handles ( I removed the molded in handles and used modified parts box handles that I modified to get the right shape) I also added the door lock and re-located it as the stock location on the kit is wrong. The side marker lights front and rear were removed. The front lower valance was filled & smoothed in. The windshield wipers were removed & the cowl vents eliminated (that was a mess) which necessitated that I add the windshield/cowl trim back that had to be removed. The mock-up shows a possible 4" spoiler that I'm considering on the final build. The 75' rules stipulated that one could be added even if the actual car didn't have one but it couldn't be an aerofoil & could not exceed 4" in height. Still debating it and comments are welcome on adding it. Next step is to thin out the body where needed before starting to cut out / off the doors etc. that I mentioned before. I'll add the brass rockers for strength and to help keep everything aligned and I have to remove the drip rails. Another good pass of body work refinement and I think I'll almost be done with this initial part of the bodywork. To everyone, cheers !! Tim

Very nicely done Ian. This is gonna be a sweet build. cheers, tim

Hi Francis, well I had a solid 6 pages or so of catching up to do but all of the things you've accomplished we fantastic. Loving the results AND the methods shared. Keep em' coming! cheers, tim

Morning too Charlie, I'd be remiss not to say that I always learn something when I stop by your builds. thanks for sharing with all of us. cheers, tim

Charlie, man what I wouldn't do to see his pro stocks up close.......didn't know you worked for him no less. Very cool! Francis, it would be great to finally meet you one day just to chat at large. btw, you should see the other side of the room.....lol! Chris, a most sincere thank you for the comment. I hope not to disappoint as things progress....cheers Daniel, thank you as well. Regarding the rack, it's pretty hand and best of all keeps things OFF the bench.....I'm glad I bought it. Zack, I'm flattered that you asked but unfortunately there's just some things I can't make and sadly, more time isn't one of them. I'll have to pass as I can "see" another 18 months of time trying to get the Mav finally done. cheers, tim Randy, always a pleasure.......and thanks for the 3 thumbs up. I'm anxious to see YOUR next update as well sir. cheers, tim Sadly, no pics today.....just had oral surgery yesterday (first and hopefully last time) but I will get bench time today at some point. Like the nice lady at the Rite-Aid pharmacy told me..... "getting old isn't for sissy's"...... cheers to all! tim

Jason, that year of the Camaro was always one of my favorites and it's nice to see this one brought to life. Must have been pretty sweet to chat with Butch himself. His car, Barry Setzers and the BaldwinMotion cars stand out! Good luck with her! cheers, tim

Morning Tim, On the forum right now it seems like we're raining 70's Pro Stocks and it's great to see another Ford too. Can't wait to see how yours turn out! Cheers, tim

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Oops, forgot the 2 pics. Here there are.

Good morning Bob & Ian.....thank you for stopping by....I'm trying to maintain some steady progress on her instead of all the stop and go so I can actually finish her. I actually put in more than 20 hours of bench time this week which has been quite a while. I'll post some comments along with the pics I'm posting. Cheers to everyone! More bodywork this week......Francis knocks out a a dozen cool details in the time it takes me to get 3.....I wish I could match his productivity. From the look of my work area, it would appear that bodywork requires a LOT of tools/stuff. The car is a "winter" build for the Pro Stock 74' for the 75' season. My inspiration for the bodywork details is the Gapp & Roush "Taxi". A lot of subtle details in the clean-up of the body. Aero was gaining more focus at this point for speed. You'll note side marker lights are gone, the grille is quite different and cleaned up. They went with the simpler early Maverick grille v. the later one with the turn signals in the grille & 2/3 of the grille opening is blocked off. The bumpers were "shrunk" and reshaped. No Maverick script on the body anywhere besides the front grille and the gas cap. Anyways, some pics of the Taxi to give an idea. It also made me go back and reconsider the stance and I dropped the front and rear another 1.0mm in total. Got the "swoop" I was looking for finally. The paint scheme will mirror the color of the Taxi as well. The grille took me 2 days to thin out from the backside to expose the grille openings. It is THIN now. The gap you see between the bumper top (where it meets the grille) and the gap below the bumper (cooling slot below the radiator) will be filled in as well. The orange grille came from one of my Johan "promo" cars. This stuff is thick and it's not made of typical styrene. I had to thin the hood quite a bit and the inner fenders on the actual kit will get the same treatment. The following pic shows the chopped up car and the glue that I had to use. I tried typical CA and the "melting" stuff but neither worked. In closing, 2 pics of a quick mock-up again showing the new stance. This coming week I'm going to finish the bumper & the hood scoop and get to cleaning up details on the body that shouldn't be there. The trunk will be opened and the plan is to open at least the drivers side door if not both. Francis, if you'd care to do the door removal I'd be more than happy to share in that "joy". Your efforts on your car are top notch.

Great looking build Christopher. The details and the paint make her pop. cheers, tim

Beautiful work Robert. The interior looks fantastic as does the entire car. cheers, tim

That is nice but I AM partial Francis..... ☺️ great job as always....always fascinating to see how different people machine or fabricate something in different ways to get the desired piece. cheers, tim