Rocketman

How is the build comming? I have a '70's AMT LNT8000 that Im working on right now. Yours is looking good.

Thanks Ken. Wish I had an extra body to do the chassis test fit work though, I don't like handeling the painted body so much. Thankfully I have not decaled it yet

Tamiya TS-23

Cut to bars off as I'll have to shorten the height so she'll fit properly

Working along. Chassis is the basic Monogram Monte Carlo/Grand Prix chassis. Did a little grinding on the inside of the body for clearance. Ground off the back of the chassis, on the left is un cut, right is after grinding.

untaped

Moving right along, except for that bug that landed in the paint!

can't get anything to upload? fails everytime with every pic i try?

Wow!!!!!! very nice

Thanks Gregg. I emailed links to several of my projects to you. Mike

Greg: New to the group but i've kept in depth photo & records of my builds over the past 5 years. Including resin conversions, chassis corrections, different paintwork and paints, etc. I can ship/email an article with pics as a start if your interested.

Except for the curve on the nose all of the remaining edges are 6mm Tamiya tape, then blue, then 6 mm Tamiya to seal the blue tape which is how i got the rest of the lines clean. Problem around the nose is 6mm Tamiya won't curve tight enough and I'm taping on a body curve also. I used 1mmm tape then 3mm then Tamyia. But i did not effectilvely burnish it again before paint and it lifted. In the past i've cut a pattern for things like that nose area out of 40mm Tamiya and taped on butI just wasn't thinking this morning (not enough coffee) and goofed the bumper color in the center. We'll clean her up before adding the blue.

Tape removed. gonna need clean up around the nose and much to my horror i faled to pay attention and painted the fuller lower bumper red.ARRRRRGGGGGG From bumperette to bumperette its supposed to be blue. We'll have to fix it when the blue goes on.

Just painted

Decided to do one piece offering from "Mike's Scale Speed Shop"/Mike Dowd on this build http://mikesscalespeedshop.com/msss_resin_bodies.htm at the bottom of the page

After cleanup, sanding and shimminig we're ready for paint

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!