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While the site was down I got a bit of work in. I mostly spent my spare time moving stuff around in the storage the make room for the Artograph booth. Not to get off track here, but once I set it up I was able to open a gift I had received many years ago... am Iwata DA airbrush. Unfortunately as I was trying to practive with it, I may have burned out the badger compressor I was using. It is also brand new. Or well, 6 years ago it was.. but has never been used. AAfter about 5 minutes of being on it got very hot and stopped. after an hour it did turn back on, and sort of works.. but will get hot. I switched back to my Tamiya Surface pimer in the can and realized I was getting the paint to lay nice and smooth from the can, but rough and uneven from the airbush. I do not know if it was my lack of expedrience, impropert setup of the airbrush... or the busted compressor that did me in. For this build I will stick to the spray can! I really want to use the OEM style wheel from this kit, but I can not for the life of me get the inserts inside the tires. I am using the xtra Chrome wheels just to get an idea of what were looking at. Because I am gonna go stock, I dont think I will lower this one.

Thanks for the info Tom!

This build is incredible!

Fantastic build, will deff stay tuned for the new plans. I love that digital dash decal. Thats going to be a great touch on the interior. You wouldnt happen to have the box stock engine would you? I notice your scratchbuilding everything and my kit seems to be missing that.

oh man, this is awesome. Cant wait to see more

Cant wait to see the progress!

excellent job on the paint/polish! Looks great

Thanks George!

Very very nice.

This is going to be great!

I always think of Dukes first, because I loved the show as a kid, and at the time my mom had a 71. The first car I ever wanted!

Very nice, any photos of how you lowered it?

Apreciate the comment sir, I only get a hour here and there with planning the wedding and work.. but once I get my regular free time back.. I should be making some more changes. For now tho, it works just fine.

The level of detail is great. Down to the paint on the bolts. Where did you find a turned brass or did you make that your self?

It was fairly expensive, but all relative to my situation. If it gets too hot in the storage I can move this inside while wife and kids are not around and continue to work. I purchased it through amazon Prime, so I think it was liek $370 shipped to me

Nice touch on the white walls

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Artograph 1530 Hobby paint booth

Si it has DEFF been really hot in the storage room. I think I found the main source of heat tho. Its the attic access hole on the ceiling. The hot air flows in like a heater. So when I cover it up like it should have been already that should reduce A LOT of the heat coming in. Also, I had to rearrange some things because I bought this!

Did you get the parts?

So I guess I am ok with the ride height.. The front is a tad higher than the rear.. so I will use the hot water trick to bend it a bit. Also, not sure how I will approach the bed. The bed is detailed ot be wood so any pointers on that part would be cool.

Very very nice!

I made it 1:20 then had to stop it.. too much pain haha

I think I have decided to focus on getting back into the simple things.. so I will do this as stock as I can. Updates coming this week. I finally have a day off tomorrow and Monday so I can get some work done!

Nice color, looks like it laid down pretty evenly