Revell '54 Chevy Sedan Delivery-Now in "Under Glass" Section-09/16

[slusher]

Middle Tennessee my friend... it's terrible here

Humidity is the same here in West Tennessee. No painting until September..

[mustang1989]

You know.....I thought of something this morning. Although it is humid here, no other paint or gloss I have in the arsenal behaves like this. Will have to dispense it to see if anything different happens.

Today's progress:

I shot a primer coat on the door panels on Tuesday, a Tamiya X-7 Red coat on Wedensday and a Gloss coat on yesterday. Before today:

Still gotta pick out the details and BMF the bottom scuff plate door/ window cranks and the insert strip on the door panels but I managed to 1.)strip the hood, dry and primer that ,2.) strip the rear door and repair not only the bottom of the door but the top where it broke on me this morning???!!!!! Wow! and 3.) paint the center insert of the door panels. The boo-boo at the bottom of the door panel wont be seen as the seat will take care of hiding that.

Overall progress in one photo shot for today:

Edited July 8, 2016 by mustang1989

[espo]

Thanks Dave! Yeah I live here in good ol Corpus Christi. If that aint the definition of humidity then I don't know what is.

Middle Tennessee my friend... it's terrible here

It seems that this year is the worst humidity in years. The KC metro is looking at 80% today and has been in the 70% plus for sometime now. When I work in the yard I'm afraid I might drown. Luckily I have a corner of the basement with a dehumidifier going full blast and I'm able to do just about all of my painting except Testers clear with very few problems.  

[mustang1989]

It stays that way down here. Hot and muggy..................and windy. It could be worse though. Where I'm originally from it's unbearably hot with NO wind.

Had to strip the door panels and had to repaint the hood and rear door. I had a dissimilar paint issue with the panels and I sanded down to the primer on the edges with the hood and rear door. As of now the paints on the door panels and body parts and now just waiting cure out times........

[afx]

Not the easiest kit to build, you're doing some good work here Joe.

[mustang1989]

Thanks JC!

I've been working on my PE electric cooling fan from Model Car Garage for the last few days and finally got it underway. I still need to run the electrical ckts to it but the base fan is completed.


 

I'm also continuing work on my interior door panels which have given me a lot of grief. I've stripped them 4 times so far. Just wasn't happy with the way the paint was behaving. I used acrylic for the white inserts and after I applied the gloss coat to seal it all in the acrylic paint started cracking. Then it was a masking issue that looked really bad and then I had a paint boo boo that went bad when I was sanding to correct it. You know, the typical stuff. I used white primer this time around as a base coat so we'll see what happens this time round.

[Randy D]

Hi Joe,

   Looking good here Joe,  hope you get happy with those door panels !  Nice looking job on that fan.

 

Randy

[mustang1989]

Thanks for the encouragement Randy! Haven't made much forward progress over the last couple of days but hope to get something going this weekend.

[mustang1989]

Well after 3 attempts and strippings of the door panels I think I've finally got 'em down. I finished up the BMF job this morning on them.

[afx]

Door panel looks great Joe.

[David G.]

Nice work on the door panel!

David G.

[KWT]

Good job.. Those door panels look awesome!

[mustang1989]

Thanks fellas! I'll be working on the interior color next.

[slusher]

Fine work on the door panels Joe..

[Roadrunner]

Wow! That door panel looks just great.

[mustang1989]

Thanks Carl and Kevin.

[DumpyDan]

Ya what a difference a little paint and foil make.  Awesome!

[mustang1989]

Thank you Dan.

It's at this point where I tend to want to rush things to get it done but am resisting that urge and instead just trudging along taking my time. I've probably got another two months on this bad boy still.

I started on the battery today. I robbed an Delco battery out of my AMT '51 Chevy kit and I followed suit with a lot of builders around here and cut the molded in battery terminals from the battery and sanded the top smooth at their previous locations. After that I drilled holes out where they were and grabbed a diode that I bought at Radio Shack with the perfect .028" diameter rod to be used as steel battery posts:



Inserted through the holes in the bottom of the battery they look something like this:



I still have a little clean up to do on the terminal ends but here's what it all will look like with it all together:



I'm ALOT happier with this than the standard molded battery terminals. Next up will be the battery cables................

 

 

Edited July 22, 2016 by mustang1989

[Mopar - D]

Joe your door panels look great and your battery terminals are just too cool. 

[crazyrichard]

nice work !

[mustang1989]

Thanks Dan and Richard.

Got the battery painted and detailed today. Gotta work on those cables and terminal ends maybe late tonight or tomorrow morning.

[Crazy Ed]

Thanks Dan and Richard.

Got the battery painted and detailed today. Gotta work on those cables and terminal ends maybe late tonight or tomorrow morning.
 

   Wow Joe That LOOKS GREAT!

[Mopar - D]

Joe will it hold a charge?  Man that looks incredible!!

[Roadrunner]

I never thought I'd see myself say this, but what an excellent looking battery you have there.

[mustang1989]

LOL! Thanks Ed, Dan and Kevin!  I'll be attaching the battery cables in the next couple of days.