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really, truly amazing!

I knew I was going to get some BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH about letting him spray without a mask…LOL. Well, I have few masks and would definitely protect him. This was such a small job, that we decided to run without it. Not much surface on this model to be covered. He keeps looking at models that will be pain to build. Lil Coffin, Mysterion, Beatnik Bandit……He loves the show rods, but some of them are hard for anyone, let alone for a novice. The closest hobby shop is almost a two hour drive from home and yesterday I went all the way there just to get him gold BMF. He was really excited about it, so we'll tackle it tonight. edit: wow!, just noticed that my post got censored and got c-r-a-p replaced with blah-blah. No disrespect was meant to anyone.

Really cool. Love the deep blue color and especially the pinstriped flames on the side. Are they decals? Looks like one hell of a build so far.

Awesome paint. I think it suits the the model perfectly.

The pic of the body mocked up on the chassis, is that before or after the yellow pearl was added? Dave, I'll let Ryan read the comments after he gets home from school, so he can answer your questions. About the paint, the picture of the body mocked up on the chassis is just the base starfire paint that Ryan sprayed. On the second to last picture, where he's painting the curtains, the body already has the yellow pearl. Today when he comes home from school, I am introducing him to BMF.

Wooow,,nothing "street" in that frame IMO. Looking great.

I'm sorry, but I just can't get over the reflection in the roof on the second picture from top of page. LOL Seriously, great build so far. nice paint

I went to my buddy who owns a paint shop and asked him for some paint for the model. We looked at pictures on the net and then he came up with some paint that is basically just a base coat called starfire. I gave my kid an introduction to all the parts of an airbrush and then explained to him how everything works. Then loaded it up and let him have at it. I had to guide his hand a couple of times to show him how to make smooth passes, but he did pretty great actually. This is the body mocked up Later when dry, he applied semi gloss black to the curtains and gold to the trim. I had to touch it up here or there, but over all he handled it like a champ. Oh…and by the way, I was not that happy with the color, so I took just the second part of giallo tristrati (a Ferrari tri-coat pearl) and sprayed it over the starfire base. It gave it a goldish tint, as it is basically a clear yellow pearl. I think the color is dead on now.

Thank you guys. Actually I did make the springs for the shocks. I bought a bag of little neckless clasps that are meant to be used on rubber string or something. So they look like springs and they are just the right size. I'll take pictures and post them.

This is really cool. Honestly, I didn't even know this kit existed. I love mini trucks and would love to see what comes of it.

Thanks a lot guys. It is really appreciated to see the encouragement. He is at school right now, but I'll show him the thread when he comes back. I hope it pumps him up and motivates him to keep going. As for glue bombs at this age - this is where I come in in this project. Not as much doing stuff, but showing him how to do them the right way himself.

I had a chopped one that I was building into a Volksrod, but it got destroyed. Looking good so far.

Wow! This redefines scratchbuilding.

Thank you. It sucks, but we are dealing with it. There is still legal fighting going on. But models are my escape from reality and it actually helps me deal with the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH life serves me.

I mentioned in the other thread that I had some unfortunate events to deal with , which put me out of my building for over a year. All of it was followed by some sort of builder's block. My kid, Ryan, helped me overcome it, by asking to build a model with me. His choice was the Boothill Express. This reignited the spark about this build, which survived the chaos in my house. Well, almost, as the chassis was broken in two. So I fixed the chassis and reinforced it. Then I picked an engine for it. It is the sbf from the Speedwagon with MCG resin heads and filter. They are really cool Edelbrock pieces with photoetched plates for the top of the heads and filter. For whatever reason the "Edelbrock" writings are upside down. So I filled them and I will figure out what to do with it. Then sprayed everything with black primer to show me the million holes I need to fill. Tamiya basic putty for the first round….

ohhh, snapppp! I think I have been dormant long enough…Let me see…I'll try to recap in few words. Had a fire in my house and like it wasn't enough, it resulted in a glycol flood. Fights with the HOA, court with insurance, a-hole contractors……Slowly rebuilt the house. All this resulted in all models , materials, tools etc., being either destroyed, damaged or lost. And by lost I mean put in a box ina hurry somewhere without any logic. So, now over a year later, I am trying to find bits and pieces here and there and jump start my building. Thankfully I have almost all the pieces for this build. Or at least I think so. Anyway, I started with fixing the shape of the coupe as I wasn't perfectly happy with it.

Thank you. Ryan (on the pictures) loves it. Tried last year to build a F14 Tomcat with him, but that never came to fruition. But he LOVES Hot Rods. About the Boothill Express….The one in Peterson is a replica. It was build not too long after the original and it was dubbed "the outdoor car", while the original was "the indoor car". The original one is in a private collection after it sold for $125 000 some years ago. The "outdoor car" was created for demonstrations and they even drag raced it. The idea was that the original was way too fragile and to preserve the real 1850 wooden hearse that the original was built using. The one in Petersen is actually fiberglass. This creates confusion when researching the car, because people think that it changed over the years and it didn't. Just different pictures from the same era showing two different cars. There are quite few detail differences between them. Thank God the model actually replicates the original "indoor car".

Not a fan of the color, but this is amazing work indeed. I like the great engineering effort put into this project and the execution seems flawless so far.

The other day I was in the hobby shop and my kid asked me to make a model together. He chose the Boothill Express. He likes the skeleton I guess and all the shiny pipes on the motor. Well that's mind of an eight year old. I had reservations about the project, because this kit is not exactly 8year old material, but to my great surprise and delight my kiddo is handling it like a champ so far.

This one I got from e-bay, waaaayyyy back. I don't remember who makes it, but I believe it came from Australia.

Box stock. All paint, not a single decal on it. Sorry for the crappy pictures and thanks for looking.

What kit is that?

Daaaaaaaaaamn. With all this Olds build ups, you guys are going to make me put the deuces aside for little. I am seriously thinking getting one of these. It looks absolutely stunning with the carson top.

holly thread resurrection, Batman !

Ha ha ha. I do the same thing and try to make them all slightly different. Nothing wrong with the small block Ford. Especially if you keep its top different. You can dress them up pretty good these little engines. MCG sells some pretty good kits for them too, which will give you different valve covers and matching filters. And yeah, I have at least a dozen Deuces. 3 Vickies - cabrio highboy, cabrio with fenders and a chopped top highboy 1 B400 3 Speedwagons - box stock, highboy and highboy cabrio 3 Tudors - a vintage highboy, chopped highboy and a chopped full rendered one. 2 5-windows - Eastcoast vintage highboy and a modern chopped highboy. 4 3-windows - the Lucky 13, two full rendered and one chopped highboy. And I still have not started the roadsters and some other ideas I have.