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Despite the weather yesterday, I was able to get it in the house last night and let it dry in the furnace room. It is real EV-2 Hemi Orange. Once the decals arrive, I will buzz the whole car down with 1200 wet, decal it, then clear coat it. It will then get wet sanded again with 2000 and get my three step polish procedure. Very happy with it. Thanks for looking.

Good job Brandon!

Great looking model Bruce. It really presents well. I love those boxy cars.

What if Daisy got jealous?

Paint day!! Luckily, I have a detached garage with heat, otherwise, I'd be out of luck today. Picture taken following second coat.

Your doing a great job and a monumental amount of work!! Anxious to see it done.

Better pics outside.

Ian, referred to by the production co. as "Lee 1", that car is actually the first real General Lee. It is the car seen, towards the end of the opening sequence, jumping over Roscoe's patrol car. Also used in episode four as a Richard Petty test car. Supposedly well documented, it was recently restored to pre-jump condition, after being found in a junkyard. A few things of note, the engine bay and other non-exterior areas where there is painted sheet metal, were painted in the original color, some kind of tan or pale gold, as I recall. When the production co. painted these cars, they only painted exterior sheet metal. Also, this is the only car in the entire series to have the wide chrome trim on the rocker panels. I know, I know, useless information. But building a big scale general will do this to you.

Yeah, Terry, I kind of wondered if you were on in Ct. Lot of friends on your dept. Wayne, if Mass. passes a casino bill our dept. is putting together a similar unit. 100 or so troopers.

Got it in final primer today. It showed me a few flaws I missed , mostly on the drivers door and one or two on the rear valence. Nothing a little more sanding won't fix. Mostly related to scribing out the door/fender lines.Getting down to the wire with this thing. Paint...maybe next week. Thanks for looking.

This is the Revell 1/24th Davey Allison diecast from 1992. It is packaged with contingency decals to make a '91,'92, or '93 version. For the most part, it appears to be intended as a childs toy. The body contours are off a bit and it lacks significant detail, compared to the adult collectible level cars. My wife brought it home to me from a yard sale and clearly, it had been thoroughly played with by some youngster and it showed it. The first two pics are the before shots. I stripped it down and repainted with Dupont black. I added powerslide decals, as well as detail decals. All covered in Dupont clear and polished to a high shine. I added nine bars to the roll cage and added some color and detail to the interior and engine. Thanks for looking

Rookie?? Hahaha, let me guess Wayne, i'm still digesting academy food compared to you, right?? Thanks for the compliments on the paint work.

Yes terry, I am, 16 years now. It has made it a bit easier to get the colors I need and see certain details up close, since the antique cars are stored in the same garage as our spare motorcycles and I'm in the M/C unit. Thanks for the nice comments.

Fisrt off, let me preface this by saying, this is the type of car that has spawned much conversation with MRM's Ferrari thread. This is a diecast that is for the most part, a simple repaint. I did not assemble this car, aside from putting the body back on it, when complete. This is the type of car I would not feel comfortable putting into a show and calling it my own. I did not touch the interior, engine or chassis. This was actually my first airbrushed car. It started out as a B/W sherrifs car with a red bubblegum light and a fender mount siren. I built it to replicate the real one in our antique fleet. The first pic is of the real car. Someday I may go back and go through the whole model and really detail it, but its fine for now. Thanks for looking.

Michael, beautiful work on the VW. This is just me, but I fail to see the difference in taking a diecast apart and making it your own, as opposed to building a plastic kit. The kit contains a pre-molded body that you have to assemble and paint. A diecast, once apart, is a pre-molded body, that you have to repaint and re-assemble. A plastic kit is laid out for you with directions, a diecast is not. Granted, I believe that in order for a person to call a diecast, "his work", it should be completely disassembled and gone through/detailed, just as if you are assembling a plastic kit. A simple repaint doesn't cut it IMHO. Now the only problem with Mikes Ferrari that I can see, from a judging standpoint, is that it was done so cleanly, that perhaps the judges didn't recognize all his work and mistoke it for factory work. Its not a radical custom, but rather a bone stock looking car, that you might expect to see come out of a box. If the judges/spectators failed to recognize Mikes work, then that may be a compliment to the cleanliness of it. Keep in mind that the aformentioned are just my loose opinions, not meant to harm anyone.

Mike, are the flames decals, or did you mask and paint them? Assuming you airbrushed them, but how in the hell did you tape them on a 1/25th?? Super thin tape, or am I missing something? Great job on the box stock theme. Very smart looking rod.

Stu, everything about this model looks fantastic. Paint, interior, engine, chassis. Great job!

Great paint job and engine detail. I love your idea about using the CD case for glass.

This is the Revell snap-tite kit, that I built about 15 years ago as a CHP cruiser. I restored it to its present condition last year. For a snap kit, it is incredibly well detailed. I had a spare parts kit on hand and was able to cobble together a dual exhaust system for it. Other then the lightbar, decals and scratchbuilt antennas, it is box stock. We had these cars when they were introduced back in 1991 and while you were always happy to get issued a new cruiser, they were not popular. Except for the chrome hubcaps ( we had the plastic dull silver ones) this model closely resembles one we have in our antique fleet, right down to the cruiser number. Thanks for looking.

Great looking build!!

Inspired builds, what a wonderful tribute. I have the Revell "Special Edition" '68 Charger kit that I will do a similar build with, to replicate my late brother-in-laws car from his high school days.

I like that Caprice kit you did Wayne. Very nice job. It looks like the Revell snap-tite Caprice with opened rear wheel wells. I have an MSP cruiser done using the same kit that I will post soon. Thanks to all for the great conversation and comments.

Crowe-t The window is just mocked in for the pic. Oddly, after attaching the window trim, it held the window in the opening because it is tight to the body. Thats what I wanted, but I didn't think it would hold the window in place.

You have already seen the wheel openings corrected, so now I am adding some goodies to spruce up the body just a bit and make it a little easier to detail. I added a strip of chrome around the back window, which it is missing, by bending styrene strips around the window using a little heat. I then attached the strip to the window and BMF'ed it. I also added strips along the top of the doors and a thin strip for the drip rails. This will aid in BMF'ing them since what was there was faint and shallow at best. The doors also got slightly modified donor door handles and door lock holes. I added another thin strip to the rear tail light valance that will also get BMF'ed following paint, as well as a trunk lock hole. The biggest pain right now are the front and rear roll pans, under the bumpers. Neither fits well at all and after extensive work, I discovered that they have to be attached after the body is painted and on the frame. Prior to paint would have been easier and potentially cleaner, but we'll see. Thanks for looking.

Very nice build. Where'd you find the right colors? Well, I'm one of them. The guy who runs the body shop ay HQ is a pretty good friend. He helps me out with paint. I've built a dozen or so over the years, including a replica of my assigned cruiser.