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Hey Guys. Here are the photos from the last two weeks reloaded.

Hey guys. I went to logon last night into the "On The Workbench Forum" only to find that the last two weeks of my posts had disappeared. The same things seems to have happened to all the other posts as well. I scrolled down to the see the last visible date was the 26th of November. I Checked all the other categories as well and it appears to be the same problem. I am I imagining things or has anyone else noticed the same thing ?

Hey Guys ! No more new posts for the moment. I just found out the forum moved to new server and the last two weeks of posts were lost. The build will continue as normal and I will photographing each stage but for the moment I am more concerned with reloading the images from the last two weeks so that there is context for the new photos. I hope it won't take too long as I have all the photos saved in my Photobucket account. Once I have the images up I can resume uploading the images of the present build. Cheers.

The next task will be to get the boot and the rear panel to mate up and then continue adding the detail to this panel.

I used the angle grinder to cut out the basic openings and finished them off with the file. I also cut out the hole for the filler cap.

With that done a cut a piece of styrene to the same dimensions. I then drew a centreline that would determine the position of the tail light housing and the petrol filler cap and drew in these features.

The first thing I did was add up all the longitudinal dimensions to determine the width of the panel from the diagram.

Hey Guys. I got the dimensions for the rear of the body. Its quite a complex area with a flange that wraps around the twilight housing plus the bumper recess below. This is going to be one one of the most challenging parts to the build.

As best as I can be with my arm in a cast ! Cheers !

With that done I ground out the openings and compared the two sides. The next task will be to complete the rear section that sit under the boot and possibly joining the boot to it as well. This will give the rear of the body a tangible form of reinforcement when the time comes to join the two body sides to the roof which is something I am very keen to do shortly.

I then used a rule to trace the openings from the finished side over to the other side and then shaded in the areas for removal.

The recreate the openings on the other body half I came up with a simple solution. I made up a jig from timber and modelling clay to lock the two bodysides in end to end and I placed the too sides in.

To clean up the openings I used my modelling files.

I then used the angle grinder to carve out the openings, I was careful not to take too much material.

The next task was to get the rear of the body to the same shape as the diagram and then shade in the areas to be removed.

Hey Guys. Today I got the measurements for the tail light housing and number recesses. Normally I would go down take all the measurement draw up a diagram and scale everything down. This time I did the reverse. I grabbed two sheets of A4 printing paper and a pencil and headed down. The idea was to trace the shapes first and turn the template into a diagram. I needed to press the first sheet in firmly because I need the outline of the top of the body as well as the swage around the twilight surround. I used the same procedure for the bumper recess, joined the two sheets together and then turned it into the diagram. I then went back inside laid the two sheets down and measured all the major points. The shaded area with the arrows is where the swage is around the taillights. I will be using this technique for the rest of the body where the tail lights wrap around to the back because it save a lot of time.

Thanks for the compliment Stan !

Hey Guys. I managed to measure the rear of the body and the model's dimensions are very close to the 1:1. I just need to sand about 1mm off the rear. That was all I had time for as i have about four other projects on the go. Tomorrow I will get the measurement of the the tailight housing and bumper recesses and make them up.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I have one on the Automotive Forum, one on the Pick ups and Light Commercials forum and a third on the Big Rigs forum. i would like to put another build on the Automotive forum on the near future. Cheers.

Hey Guys. Is there a rule about only having one build up at a time ?

With the rear of this body side finally looking right i took some time out to get the other side up to speed. The first thing I did was thicken the C Pillar. I then lengthened the rear. Like the other side I am using body filler in the inside to smooth it out. Its superior bonding also makes it stronger. The next task will be to finish the measurements of the rear body and then start cutting out the tail light and bumper housing.

I sketched out a rough template for the taillights and and number housing. This looks close the right size, off course I won't begin cutting them until I have the exact measurements of the rear body and the housing themselves.