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If I remember correctly (I think Tom Geiger can back me up on this, and may even have pictures) a guy named Joe Cavorley (no longer with us) built an old style NYC garbage truck about 20 or so years ago. It was awesome.

Hey Jim, you're on a roll. Great looking Bird. Very creative with the taillights.

That's a great looking truck Jim.

Great looking truck Bruce.

I get that Danno...... I was trying to be funny...... sorry if it didn't work.

Most excellent Harry. You do great work and obviously have great patience to get all those little details done.

Thanks Dan. If I was building this car as a Replica Stock I would have made the interior more Pontiac. I did take out the dashboard hump on the passenger side but I just didn't add the extra gauges, etc., that a Pontiac dash has. I polished out the paint today. I have to make rear glass using clear acetate from the top of a box of greeting cards. After that is cut to fit properly, then I'll foil the body and then glue in the glass. Doing model interiors is one of my favorite chores in building. First of all, I try to pick colors that will either match or at the very least, compliment the color(s) of the car. I always do any painting, decal or BMF work BEFORE applying any flocking, as it is just about impossible to apply BMF or decals after flocking has been applied to the surrounding area. I also give each color of flocking pretty close to a day for the adhesive to fully dry before applying a second color. That way there is no chance that a second color might mix with, or stick to the first color. My favorite adhesive for applying flocking is Floquil, flat, model railroad paints. I have a few jars of it in various colors to match the colors of the flocking being used. Now, since we won't be able to get Floquil paints anymore, I will also use thinned down Elmers glue (thinned with water), but since Elmers glue dries clear, I will paint the area being flocked with a flat paint that closely matches the color of the flocking being applied. That way if the flocking is too thin in spots, the color of the plastic underneath won't show through. Unless I'm doing a Custom or Street Rod interior I always use Google reference pictures to try to get the details as good as I can get them. Overall I plan it out and take my time. Patience is key. I go through kits that I've robbed other parts from, or know I'll never build, and build a stash of mirrors, pedals, window cranks and door handles, and gauge face decals, in addition to aftermarket gauges, pedals, cranks and handles. It pays to be organized.

John Teresi is probably still recovering from having to carry home all of the dozen or so awards he won at the GSL Show...

Jurgen, I love it. Your dashboards are gorgeous. Great work.

Thank you Codie. I'm glad that I can scratch your itch with my builds. Once I finish up this Pontiac I have only one more "outside the usual" car to work on......a 1956 Oldsmobile. After that I'll be working on some plastic kits......at least until I either find more Promo's, or pick up some resin kits.

Thanks George and Carl. I was able to clearcoat the car today and maybe I'll start polishing it out tomorrow. I'm trying to find clear glass to fit it in my stash because I really don't want to use the green glass that came with the Promo......it really wouldn't work with a red car. I think I found front glass that fits, but it looks like I'll have to wind up making the rear glass from clear acetate.

Sam that looks really great. The people really add a lot to the scenes and bring it all to life. The cars look great. Good job.

Great job so far Wayne. Very nice BMF work too. Gotta love '57 Chevy's.

Yeah that has happened to me Carl,but not for the past year or so. Since I got myself on this 1950's car building roll I have a line of cars waiting for their turn on the bench. Plus, I'll order a couple of resin kits for either my birthday in April, or for Christmas which adds to the pile. Then there are any new Promo's that I can find that I "need" to build. I don't think I'll have any problems picking what to build for quite a while now. Pick a "theme" and run with it...... sort of like what I've been doing lately. Whatever you decide on, the problem will pass and you'll have a bench full to work on before you know it.

That is one hot looking Hot Rod Jon. Good job.

Great looking model Carl. I love the color. Good job.

Thank you very much Dave and Ira. Yeah I'm really loving the way the interior turned out.

Thanks Tom. Yeah man, that really is a bright red isn't it..?? I'm thinking that this thing should really pop when I get the BMF on it. Too bad the interior will be hidden in a hardtop... it'd be way cool in a convertible.

Thanks a lot Larry... I'm real happy with it so far.

Doug that is a beautiful model. Great job.

Okeydokey...... Good weather for painting today, so I painted the Pontiac body with Duplicolor Flame Red, which came out great. I'll let that dry for a day or so and then give it some clearcoat. I also finally finished up the interior for this little puppy, and I'm very happy to say that it came out GREAT......!!! The carpet is flocked in charcoal gray and the driver's mat and pedals are painted semi-gloss black. I added some thin styrene strip to the side panels and covered them with BMF. I removed the molded on cranks and handles, drilled holes where they were and installed resin cranks and handles from ReplMinCoMD which I painted chrome silver. I applied seat panel upholstery decals from the Revell '58 Impala kit after which I gave them a coat of dullcoat to knock down the shine. I then flocked the seats and side panels in red. The dashboard and steering wheel are painted body color. I trimmed the dash with BMF and a piece of the Galaxie '48 Chevy's chrome trim. The gauge and radio face are from BestModelCarParts which I covered with clear epoxy for lens covers. The shifter and turn signal lever are pieces of shirt pins. Thanks for checking out the progress on this build. So far it's coming along great. Additional updates as they happen.

Thank you Dave and Gary. Your encouraging comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much Danno, James and David. I appreciate your kind and encouraging words.

Thanks Tom. I know I can always count on you for a good word or two... Thank you Skip... I love ALL of GM's (and Fords & Mopars) from the 50's. Dan, I'm using the interior bucket from the AMT '55 Chevy. I added some half round strips to the outside edges of the top of the sides to widen it a bit. I sanded the texture from the seats and will be using some upholstery decals from my stash. I also added some thin styrene strips to the side panels which I will cover with BMF. The interior will NOT be a "Pontiac" interior, but hey, it's a Custom. I removed the passenger side hump on the Chevy dashboard and am in the process of filling in the gap and smoothing it all out. As I say, it will not be an "exact" Pontiac dashboard, but what the heck... The paint is drying on it now, and tomorrow I'll be adding foil and some flocking. I also removed the molded on cranks and door handles, drilled holes where they were and will be installing resin cranks and handles from ReplMinCoMD. The interior bucket is for a 2 door car, and this Pontiac is a 4 door. Fortunately for me, the front seat back will pretty much obscure where the "correct" door lines should be, except at the very tops of the panels where I scribed new lines. The flocking that I'll be applying will cover the original molded inner door lines. I'll also have to sand down a new "sweetheart dip" in the sides of the bucket to match the dip on the Pontiac body. Lots of work but so far I'm happy with the way it's coming out, and I'm hoping to be able to put up some progress pictures tomorrow.

Nice looking truck Brad. I love the color.