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Well, yesterday was NOT a good day here at Blackrock. First Photobucket decided to play hardball and hold my pictures hostage until I pay for increased bandwidth. While I'm not overly cheap, PB just honked me off enough that I decided that they can go scratch my half Polish A$$..!! Apparently, the last time PB sent the "You're Approaching Your Bandwidth Limit" warning a little over 7 months ago I had looked into, and set up an account on Fotki. After I deleted a bunch of pictures on PB 7 months ago everything went back to normal and I completely forgot about the Fotki account. Well, now I "rediscovered my Fotki account and just have to get accustomed, or, figure out, the best way to get my pictures from Fotki onto this Forum. Part 2 of the bad day at Blackrock is that after finishing up all of the subassemblies on this '51 Chevy, I cannot seem to get the entire chassis/engine/interior piece to properly seat itself up into the body. I fiddled with it for over an hour late last night but no dice..!! Instead of getting frustrated and annoyed and doing something to it that I'd regret I shut off the lights and went to bed. I'll try playing with it again later today after I take care of some household chores that I need to get done first. Worst case scenario is that I'll bring it to NNL East unassembled for display on the WIP table. I know that I will eventually win the battle but it's really frustrating to have this happen on the very last step after everything else came out looking so good.

James, that Easter Egg picture just cracked me up..!!

Looks really great Art.

Love it...... Love it...... Love it...!!! Of course I love it, I used to own one. Great job Steven.

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Friggin Frackin Photobucket...!!! I've deleted pages of old pictures and they still play this game??? Looks like I'll be changing to another service REAL SOON.

First of all, let me wish a Happy Easter to all of you. I hope the Easter Bunny hopped all over you..!! Don't eat too much chocolate. OK, now on with the show. After mocking up several different choices for wheels on this car, I decided to go with my first choice...... the '48 Dodge Royal Lancer 4 Bar Spinner hubcap from Modelhaus. I mounted them in the whitrwall tires from the Revell Custom '48 Ford kit and I detailed them with a Blue & White checkerboard pattern and some Detailer in the center. Valve stems were also added and the tire treads were lightly sanded for a used look. This afternoon I finally finished up the interior. The carpet is flocked in Gray and the seats, side panels and rear tray are flocked in Navy Blue to match the exterior. The tuck 'n roll on the seats was done with Evergreen half round strips (Item #243) and they were painted Model Master Wimbledon White along with the molded tuck 'n roll parts of the side panels (I obviously sprayed the Wimbledon White on before the flocking went on. Additional trim was with BMF. The dash was painted the body color and a White pinstripe decal was added to match the exterior pinstripes. BestModelCarParts gauges, clock and radio faces were attached with clear enamel and covered with clear epoxy for lenses. Two PE pieces were added for ignition and glove box keyholes and the dash buttons were hit with chrome silver paint using a sharpened toothpick. BMF was applied to the center of the dash and given a coat of Detailer to darken the recesses. . I also finished up the engine compartment today. The battery cables and Beehive oil filter lines are connected. The radiator has a piece of wire for an overflow line and a PE cap. Heater hoses were installed with chrome silver paint rings for hose clamps. The rubber radiator hose has PE hose clamps attached. Now all I have to do tomorrow is get this whole chassis/interior/engine assembly up into the body without breaking anything or chipping any paint on the body. It's gonna be a tight fit requiring gently spreading the body to get it in. Once that is successfully done I can mount the grille, spots, antennas & mirror. Then get rid of the smudges and fingerprints on the body and I can call it done. I can't wait. Thanks to all for following along on this project. Bring on the comments and critiques.

Great work so far Tommy.

That paint looks gorgeous John. Looks like you're just about to hit the "home stretch" on this project. Great work buddy.

Steven, that is just gorgeous. I love it...... of course I'm biased...... I used to own one. It is a beautiful car. You did a great job on it.

Yeah it would be great to have a bunch of those reissued. I got 2 of the Blueprinter Parts Packs with the engines and grilles way back when they offered them and I still have a lot of stuff left from them..

Drum roll in progress...... We're all waiting John...!!!

Neat pictures Greg, thanks for sharing with us.

Very nice work Brad. I love all the details.

That looks great. You did a wonderful job.

Congratulations Jim. Hope you have many, many more.

I worked a second job pumping gas back in the early 80's and it always seemed to rain on the nights that I was working. Those would be the times when all the buttheads would want you to check their oil...... in the pouring rain,,!! Then you'd get the dork who would pull up to the pump and give you a handful of loose change and tell you to give him that much gas,,,,,, of course you'd have to count it first 'cause the dumbbutt had no idea how much change he gave you. I hated that job.

Can't wait to see it John. Looks like we both might be working til the last minute to have our car done for the BIG party in Wayne, NJ.

James, that paint looks killer. Great job.

Thank you all so much guys. Michael, the flames on the side are decals from Revell's 1958 Chevy Impala kit. I used 3 separate decals that I pieced together. William, the taillight bezels are pictured above, installed on the car. Bob Dudek can no longer make any of his great aluminum parts because he is now retired and doesn't have access to a CNC machine that he used when he was working. I flowed Tamiya clear Red into the bezels several times to make lenses with some depth to them. I certainly wish that he was still making his parts. They were all fantastic in quality. Charlie, I am doing my best to get this car finished by next Thursday night. I'll be leaving here sometime Friday before noon for the trip to Wayne, NJ. I'll be at the host hotel get-together and at the Tilted Kilt for dinner.

That speckled paint is "different" but I kinda like it with the White. I also like the way you "peaked" the paint on the front of the hood.

That's a great looking car Jim, you did a nice job.

Thanks a lot guys. Tom, I'm glad that my pictures could help you with your build. I always download many different Google pictures of engines, etc. for reference details to try to get the details as right as I can in 1/25 scale. Michael, thanks for that info. As you can see, I'm pretty much running out of room on that firewall so I won't be adding a wiper motor. I'll have to use my imagination and say that it's behind the firewall under the dashboard somewhere...LOL. Today I'll be working on the wheels, tires and brakes, and hopefully getting as much of the interior put together as I can. I still have some work to do on the front seat. And the beat goes on. I REALLY want to be able to bring this finished car to NNL East. Just about a week to go..!!

That looks great Steve. Nice job.

I stocked up on Duplicolor spray cans when Advance Auto Parts had a 2 for 1 Sale last year, plus I have a bunch of Tamiya & Black Gold paint cans. I'm pretty much set for spray paints. I replace jar paints as I need them from my LHS.