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James, that is just gorgeous. I can only hope that the one that I will eventually be working on will look half as good. Great job.

Tulio, that looks really great. Did you have any trouble getting the inner fenders / firewall / chassis / interior assembly fitting properly up into the body..??

So tune in tomorrow folks for the next thrill-packed episode.

Sean, that looks really great.

The above post doesn't show up, so I am "bumping" it.

Wellnow...... a very Happy Birthday wish to you Bob. I hope you have a fantastic day.

My day with A.J. was awesome. The first words out of him when he walked in the door were "Let's build a model." Before we started (actually, before I started), I gave him a stakebed pickup truck that had a liftgate on the back and stacks of oil cans and oil drums as a truck load. It had AAA batteries so the head and taillights lit. He was more happy playing with that truck than he was interested in building a model. I wound up putting together an Impala Police Car for him, which he loved. He did "help" a little by squeezing the sprue cutter to get some of the parts free. Then he wound up removing the stakebed sides of the truck and carrying the Police Car as a flatbed load. http://images60.fotki.com/v224/photos/9/3018309/13031096/007-vi.jpg http://images60.fotki.com/v224/photos/9/3018309/13031096/009-vi.jpg

Things are starting to look good. I can't wait to see more.

Steven, that is a gorgeous model. I'll bet you had "loads of fun" doing the BMF work on that beast. I know I had fun doing mine.

You did your usual excellent job on this car Tom.

That looks pretty cool Manny.

That really looks great Jim. It's nice to see this car done as a "street car".

Thank you Chris, Gene and Teddy. Chris, I've been building all the time. I just hadn't had anything posted On The Workbench since I switched from Photobucket to Fotki for posting pics. Plus the '51 Chevy Fleetline gave me fits and hassles at final assembly so it wound up back in its box for awhile. I'll get back to it down the road sometime with a fresh outlook and maybe be able to win the battle.

Ditto to all of the above.

John, that is some great work you're doing on this Bonnie. I love it.

Thank you all very much for your kind comments. Harry, do you think Ralph could get his belly behind that wheel?

Thanks a lot guys. Your encouraging words are greatly appreciated.

Alan, you did a great job on an unusual subject.

Thanks very much for all of your kind comments everyone. Charlie, Bob and Steven, this car was an unwarped and unassembled promo that I was able to get for a very low price on EBAY. Mike, that is the way the steering wheel was attached. I did remove it when painting and detailing everything, but I just glued it back on the way it was. Yes, it looks like a "bus" steering wheel angle. Carl, I thank you very much for your great and very kind words. Re the '51 Chevy...... Well...... It's back in its box for the time being. When I first tried putting it all together at final assembly, the inner fenders and firewall were not touching the body anywhere. I used CA glue debonder to disassemble everything on the chassis from the dashboard forward (radiator and hoses, inner fenders, firewall, dashboard, battery cables, heater hoses, horn and washer fluid line) and then reassembled everything to what I guesstimated to be the correct placement, and then touched up all the paint, etc. When I tried refitting everything back into the body again it all still would not seat correctly...!!! As you can well imagine I WAS REALLY P.O.'d. Instead of throwing the whole thing against the cinder block wall in my basement workshop, or, putting it on the floor and stepping on it, I just put it all back in its box. I'll get back to it some day down the road with a fresh outlook and calmer demeanor and will hopefully solve the problem and win the final assembly battle. I was just very, very P.O.'d that everything went so well, and all the parts of the model came out so good...... until the very last step.

I just tried Tamiya tape on the last 2 models I finished and it worked GREAT for masking off the edges on 2 tone paint jobs. Absolutely NO paint bleed and it DID NOT pull up any paint when peeling it off. Just use it at the edges and use regular masking tape for the rest. Yes it is sort of pricey, but, like BMF, you get GREAT results that are well worth the price.

That's a cool model Danno. As has been said, it's a lot of fun to build a car that you've owned.

That's a nice looking car Bill.

I picked up a '57 Pontiac Star Chief promo on EBAY at the end of last year. It is one of those Cycolac plastic promos with a metal friction chassis. I had to get replacement grille & bumpers and the side spears from Modelhaus at NNL East. The windshield glass was "fused" to the windshield frame. I tried prying it off and also immersed the whole thing in water and stuck it in the freezer for a few hours, but it would not come off. I had to mask it off completely before priming, painting and clearcoating. The body is painted Duplicolor Bright Silver Metallic and Tamiya Coral Blue. The grille was given a blackwash. The whitewall tires are from my parts box as are the mirrors and door handles. The antenna is a piece of guitar string inside a piece of surgical stainless steel tubing. I still have to add interior visors. The interior is painted Tamiya Coral Blue and Silver. The carpet is flocked in Black and the dashboard is painted body color with BMF and blackwash with clear epoxy gauge lenses. Pieces of shirt pins were used for shift and turn signal levers. Resin cranks and handles replaced the molded in ones. I'm not totally happy with it, but it looks good on the shelf. Any and all comments are welcomed and appreciated. On to the next victim.

Thank you all so very much for all the great comments. I'm really looking forward to this. Harry, your time will come soon enough my man.

That's a cool and ambitious project Kenn.... converting a '57 Chevy into a '57 Buick..?