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Did anyone notice they are racing on what appears to be pit lane of a circle track? I'm no expert, but I doubt that's a good surface to be racing on.

Living Colour, Cult of Personality?

Kiss Me Deadly, Lita Ford

Trent Rezner, Atticus Ross doing Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song

It's on hold until it warms up a bit. My workbench is in the basement which isn't heated, but usually stays fairly worm. This year it's been fairly cool down there and I hate being cold. The good news is warm weather is in the 10 day forecast for my area, so I should be back on this soon.

Thanks Rich. I went to the modelhaus site and filled in the info on the search and nothing came up under bumpers and grilles. Then after you posted they had them I just tried "All parts types" and there it was!

Does anyone make a grille and bumper for a 50 Buick?

Shot in the Dark, Ozzy?

In my experience with dealing with this sort of thing you have to sand down past the surface of the plastic. Imagine the body being a road surface and your sanding a shallow pothole where the vents are, then filling it in. I use a styrene/MEK mix to make a filler. Use a thin layer and give it a few days to a week for the MEK to evaporate, then sand it smooth.

There are some pics of the chassis mods and LM Corvette suspension in this thread. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=88999&page=1 I really need to get back to that project and finish it up.

I cut out the corner of the drip rail and added a new piece. Next I used some .030 rod to make the wheelwell lips and used .020 rod for the bottom edge of the rockers. After a pass with some finishing putty and a quick sanding it's starting to really look like something.

I used .020 square rod to make a drip rail for the roof. I also was reminded of how much I hate working with Ca glue. I almost made it with one piece, but it was about a half inch to short. One of the front corners split, so seeing as the joint was going to be in the front anyway, I cut both sides.just behind the front doors to add the needed piece. It's crazy how a little detail like this changes the whole look ( at least to me it does) of the van. The corner closest in this pic split too. If I can't sand it round to follow the contour of the body, I'll cut it out and make a new section to fill in. I started looking through the inventory for some donor door handles. I found a pair from a 56 Nomad that looked close enough. Here's my rig for making the mold. I've never tried to cast something so small, I hope I don't screw it up.

I think I've found a way to scribe the doors. First I made a huge mess trying to scribe the lines straight and smooth. I then worked off of this disaster and kept carving until I had a shape I could deal with. I then filled it all in with finishing putty and before it set completely, I scribed the lines again. This was followed up with some sanding and re-scribing.

Thanks for the comments everyone! As I said in the last post, I found some waves in the body. I blocked the major surfaces with some 180 dry and found about 5 spots that needed to be addressed. Once I had them flat, I followed it up with some 320 wet and primed it to see how I'm doing. I don't think you can see it, but the body is recessed around the headlight bezels on the 1:1 so I started shaping them and the headlights fit pretty good.

I'm still plugging along on this thing. I'm tying to get the two coves that run down the body straight. I thought it would be easy, wrap some sandpaper around a rigid tube and be done,,,,,,,,,,,,,WRONG! It's taking forever for me to get them straight and even. One thing I noticed, I didn't have the body straight enough and where it bulged out would make the cove bigger. I've got them pretty straight, but have a ways to go.

Oops! I had "Dance to the Music" in my head, but sometimes my hands type what they want.

#5) All We Need Is A Drummer For People Who Only Need A Beat I'm Gonna Add A Little Guitar And Make It Easy To Move Your Feet #5) Sly and the Family Stone, Dancing in the Street?

Have you tried a coat or two of enamel over the parts before sending them out? The paint will level out a lot of tiny imperfections.

As Glenn said it's very rough, by the time you sand the body smooth you will have lost most of the details on it. The body was cast from a Strombecker body which is way too wide. When I contacted the guy at Newt's to mention to him that he might be worried about the quality of the body he defended it with some silly statements of the quality of other resin bodies. Even though I told him I would make this body useable, he sent my money back.

I'm currently working on a Corvair Van, in my research I've heard about a Rampside model built by Dean Milano. I've tried numerous searches for a picture of the model and could only find one. As the link from the pic is broken, I couldn't get any information on it so I don't know if it is the one Dean built. This is the picture. Does anyone know if this is the model in question?

Not a lot of progress lately. The body line above the headlights and grille had too much of an arch to it that needed to be addressed. It only took about three tries with the filler and shaping to get it right. Before, After, I also manged to drop one of the bumpers on the floor and broke an end off of it with my chair. I can't find the end that broke off, so I'll be casting and modifying another one. I've also run some tape as a guide to see how straight and parallel some of my lines were, they weren't as straight as I thought. I filled the areas with filler and as it started to set up, I pulled the tape which gave me a straight line that needed just a little sanding. I still have to straighten out the coves and the taillight panels, then it will be time to wetsand the body to get the scratches out.

Dogs, I'm sorry but the name of the band escapes me right now.

The new master for casting two sets of headlights. I just need to sand the bottom of the "feed tube" going to the original one so it will flow faster. Here's a shot of the front with a pair of reject headlights and the grille I cast, along with the bumper that is still in the making. The right headlight bucket is not done yet, which is why that assembly is crooked.

I'm going to cast another headlight, then if it comes out OK, I'll glue it to the original master and make a final mold. This way I will be able to cast a pair of headlights at a time. I've got the grille, grille bar, and headlights in silicone waiting to cure. Here's the setup for the headlights. After I shortened the back bumper I noticed it wasn't straight. I cast another one and got it right this time.

I cast the front bumper from a 65 Chevy P.U., then shortened it, narrowed it, and trimmed the ends. Unfortunately it needs to be a bit longer to fit the back, so I'll cast another and repeat the process. The stock P.U. bumper with my modified one. On the van.