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

[mustang1989]

Thanks Bruce and Richard.

I got the TV glued down to the table yesterday but had some difficulty in getting the body to fit right on the chassis due to not positioning the TV in the right spot on the table. This morning I was able to remove the TV and reposition it on the table to allow the body to sit properly onto the rolling chassis. Looks like everything is fitting the way it's supposed to now. Looks like I'm down to the time consuming do-dats and what-not's of this build. A bunch of little stuff that always seems to take up the most time with little to show for in the way of updates so those'll be far and few between. I may wet sand the rear of the body around the back door and polish that up some as there are some rough spots back there. Meanwhile, here's where it's at now.

[geewhiz]

Great job on this build, Joe!!!  You've made an amazing transformation since you took her out of the box!!!  I'm looking forward to seeing the finished reveal!!!????????

[slusher]

I Dig the man cave you have in there Joe!!!!

[afx]

Hey Joe the Olympics are on can we change the channel!

[mustang1989]

Thank you Greg , Carl and JC.

I hit a snag that I hadn't anticipated concerning the rear door hinge. You see...............this is the available room that I have at the L/H side of the door opening between the opening and the couch:



and this is the OOB molded in door hinge which would normally work great but won't with the addition of that couch. It's not such a big deal at the bottom hinge but you can see that there's not enough room in there for that upper hinge. Yeah.............that aint happenin'



So I broke out my spare kit and robbed the inside door trim panel, removed the molded in OOB hinge and broke out a piece of 1/8" brass rod, adhered it to the door and formed a door hinge rod out of some thick ass wire. Believe me.....this stuff aint gonna bend for nothin'. The idea is that the pivot point is at the door and not the body and now I have all the room I need to open and close the door.

 

 

 

[Davewilly]

Hey Joe Its all looking pretty good!..Sounds like you got the rear door problem fixed.thats a good thing!

[Mopar - D]

Joe nice re-engineering on the back door problem. 

[KWT]

AWESOME job, Joe... it's all shaping up nice.

[slusher]

Joe, problems do not hold you up for very long brother....

[crazyrichard]

nice job !!

 

[Dogfish_7]

Where there's a will, there's a way!

[mustang1989]

Thanks for the encouragement here fellas. It's going really slow now the closer I get to the end of this build. This Thursday I'll have the funds to grab some more paint to finish that hood off. I just pray everything goes well so I don't have to strip it for a fourth time. If I have to strip one more painted area I'm gonna go crazy.

[mustang1989]

These days I'll take any encouragement / eggin' on with this thing that I can get. I had the door / hinge all set into the body yesterday. First off , my initial attempt on opening the door was frustrating because I forgot to allow proper spacing from the edge of the door to the door opening on the hinge side so there was interference there. I was able to remove the door and hinge assy and sand the edge of the door to allow for proper opening and closing with no interference. Secondly, once I fixed that and installed the door/ hinge for a second time I ran into the body not sitting down on the frame all the way in the back because.......................... I forgot about how low the hinge was positioned on the door. The hinge made contact with the floor before the body could be set all the way down on the frame.  So off comes the hinge again......only this time I created a noticeable vertical crease line on the exterior finish on the rear door. So I ended up separating the interior trim panel from the door skin, removing the door hinge rod from the interior panel and dunking it in brake fluid again. I was able to save the exterior finish on the door skin with wet sanding and polishing...............thankfully.

I cut another door hinge rod to a shorter length and shortened the hinge mount to the frame and will position the door hinge further up on the door panel. Here's an illustration that I modified to show what I did and what needs to be done here:



The short black line is where the floor is making contact with the hinge. I need to position it up well out of the way to allow some room so the lower part of the hinge needs to be where the red line is. A bit of overkill on the higher up position but it'll definitely be out of the way.

I'd like to refer to this as..............backwards progress to remain positive about all this.

[KWT]

You got this, bro... It's like Bob Ross always said, "We don't make mistakes. Only happy accidents."

[mustang1989]

Thanks Jeremy.

I'm moving past the last obstacle. I've stripped the paint job, replaced and relocated the hinge on the door and have primed and repainted the door trim panel. I've also added a filler/ seal strip at the rear of the flooring so that you can't see through the floor at the body/ floor joint at the end of the flooring. Additions to the interior include an issue of Hot Rod magazine on the coffee/ TV table and a pair of John Lennon sunglasses that I applied chrome BMF to the lenses on. Sorry....you just can't be too cool when you're builin' a street rod.

 

 

 

[Mopar - D]

Joe knowing how you will always come through when things get tuff and turn the impossible into possible. Your rear door will become the main show point with this build. Looking forward to see you get r done. 

[KWT]

Hahahah, love this.. I can see kickin' back in there.. good job!

[bob29579]

Maybe just put the hinge on the other side ?

[slusher]

Joe did you strip the body..???

[mustang1989]

Thanks Dan, Jeremy, Greg and Carl.

Greg: I've got the fix under way already but that's not a bad idea.

Carl: On HELL no!! If that were to happen I think I'd lose it. Naw really....that part is still ok.

Edited August 22, 2016 by mustang1989

[Randy D]

Progress looks good my friend !!  Like the way you overcome those 'little ' issues that always pop up on a build.

 

Randy

[mustang1989]

Thanks Randy. I'm slowly making my way back towards getting the door re-installed. I'm fairly close to having this one done I think but I just don't want to get "finishitis" and hurry through the last of it. Updates coming soon.

[KWT]

Looking forward to it, bro. Can't wait to see what culmination of genius apparatus's you have concocted... That's my big words for the day... Model on, bro...

[slusher]

 

Carl: On HELL no!! If that were to happen I think I'd lose it. Naw really....that part is still ok.

Man, I was worried !, Love this build..

[mustang1989]

Thank you gents.

The results of relocating the hinge, sanding the left hand edge of the door to allow for proper opening and closing and installing a door stop

Closed: (wouldn't you know there'd be a stupid dog hair in the middle of the door-no worries-it'll get dusted off)


I still have to shave some off of the floor at the door hinge area to allow for the body to sit low on the frame and for the door to open fully but here it is anyway with the body a slight bit off of the frame. Don't worry, the outer door edge at the R/H side of the door will be painted the proper body color. I'll get to it shortly

Open:

 

 

Oh and before I forget. I've been working on the headlight bezels. I had to strip the chrome on from them and try my luck with the Alclad II Chrome. I'm getting a lot more comfortable with my results.

Here the both of them are after polishing:

 

and the Alclad door handles are ready for installation as well:

Edited August 27, 2016 by mustang1989