426-Hemi Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 Looking good John, you're doing quite well addressing the challenges presented by this kit.David G.Thanks David! Yes this kit is a challenging one to say the least! WOW.... I'm fighting one of those challenges now..... fitting the interior to the body and then that whole sub-assembly to the frame, and adding all my added details and wires which some of them are kinda like "plug-in" mounted as the frame goes under the car! The fun never ends in this kit!
426-Hemi Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 So I was procrastinatin' the BMF, and it turned out great, so once all that was done I got right into adding the window glass!!!! Just to get this body as close done as possible. As I have a few details to finish up for the interior OR that would have been added to the body too!But the glass turned out great!Windshield.Drivers side rear window glass. (kinda hard to see its so clear!)Rear window glass.Passenger side rear window glass....I'm pleased with everything on the body so far, considering the trouble I had with the white paint originally! This one is coming right along!!!! This is all I've gotten done on this one in the short time from my last post till now, But, more will come! Thanks for following along, comments appreciated & welcome, ENJOY!
426-Hemi Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 Well every little bit counts, right? I got to looking at the interior to this car, a few things needed addressed, and added! In fact, what I had addressed was the cars interior from what I could see in different video clips there as we all know was several cars used to make the TV series, and I seen one car to have a gray interior, BUT found SEVERAL cars, to have the "common" tan interior, and when I began this model back when I returned to the hobby, I went with the gray interior that I had seen Granted, for all I know at this point (I can't find that video now as it was on youtube) and to that, I looked this all up in 2013!!! SO. and I wasn't "signed" for it to remember what video's I looked at! Dummy me! Thats a learned lesson I can tell ya!ANYWAY, I choose the less common interior not knowing if that was in the '78 Dodge Monaco, or the other Dodge Police Interceptors that was used in filming the show! SO, that means its either right, or its wrong, either way its to late to go back and change it now! So onward I went! I did NOT add the lights in the back of the car, that was to be mounted to what looks ot be the tops of the back seat! Just, I didn't see them being there, and I plugged the holes and painted the plugs to match. Onward again, in the interior, I seen a lot needed done when I first started this model, and lost a little interest due to the lack of correct details, but the one thing they should have included in the interior, more then all the guns they include (how many times did ya actually see ole Rosco, pull his pistol? OR have a long rifle, or even shot gun in his hand in the TV series!? WELL what they could have switched in interior details was the one thing he a LOT had with him in the car?Anyone?How about Flash!? Rosco's Dog? SURE enough, nothing in this kit, BUT Paul, helped me out with such a detail! I just didn't know one was made, and to that to be a Basset Hound too! SO I would up making a mold of this Dog to use in possibly other builds! Naturally, it in those builds will be painted differently but I made it as close as I could get it to look like Flash!Sitting on a stick so that I can handle it for painting all the different colors seen here UN-painted, to show that its one of my resin castings! Anyone need one for their own Rosco's police Interceptor build, PM me on it! I have extras made up! (This mold is over a year old now I do believe) and I'm just now, getting around using one of them for myself!Gotthe "white" on Flash's face.... A LONG ways to go and a LOT of color variations too.. and now its goes out the window! As the time passed, and the paint added, I FAILED to get pics of the stages..... So heres how that all turned out:Painting the doggy, was fun, interesting, and in some cases a PIMA!!!! LOL BUT I managed to do it, and its not the best, but its also not the worst..... BUT, I am happy with it, plus, its on the inside of a car interior, so truly seeing it isn't going to show all its imperfections! However thats OK, I'm good with how it turned out!Thats all for now! I am waiting for the body to dry as the interior is in it to stay, and will sit till I know I can handle it from all the clamps holding things together....With that, I have some more details to get onto the frame while that dries anyway! Its getting close to the finished car! YAY! Thats for looking. following along, and as always Comments welcome and appreciated! ~ENJOY!
72 Charger Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 Flash looks at home in there John . Coo choo choo
426-Hemi Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 Flash looks at home in there John . Coo choo choo Ha Ha Ha Ha Yeah LOVE the Imitation of ole Rosco!!!!! LOL I thought Flash look good on the front seat, thats where he rode with Rosco most the time!!!!
426-Hemi Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 So as everyone has read, this weekend was kinda the plan to finish 2 models (or so I thought) till a rather large box was found at my door step on Saturday then the finishing of the 2 models went right out the wind! BUT that didn't stop me up to that point! LOL I worked like a madman on Thursday & Friday and Friday night till the wee hours of the morning on one of them! As the other hung to dry! The one to hang to dry, was this one! I got that interior mounted into the body, and "hung" it up out of the way overhead with several clamps on it.... So.... And this is how that all turned out:Dang that looks GREAT! I'm so pleased with the looks and how well this model has came along, a far cry from what it once was!Looks GREAT with no camera flash too! Which a lot of times I find the camera flash changes how things look, it could be that the car is while as well.... I'm not sure, I just know that it looks great under any lighting as you can see!Other side looks great!Couple shots of "Flash" through the window....with and without the flash of the camera! I'm pleased with this and all the efforts I've put into it! Not to shabby for a model that asks for a lot to be desired of within!Over-all I'm happy with how this one has turned out!!!! Was trying kit, to say the very least, and I still have a little ways to go on it, but its coming along! (I question how the body is gonna set on the frame), and how the 2 sub-assemblies are going to mount together in the end, I remain optimistic on that one! (a lot of changes with body mounting was changed along the way in order to "seek" a factory height car), because as the kit was OOB it would have looked like a low-rider police car, as it was! The frame sat so high up in the body, that it was a 1/4 of a REAL inch up, which sunk the wheels into the wheel wells WAY TO FAR! so I had to bring the frame down out of the body, from the underside of the interior tub. Hopefully in the end, what I did works out for the best and not makes it impossible to mount and look right the frame to the body! -We'll see!Thanks for following along, Stay tuned more to come as things get completed, or while they're being completed!!! ~Enjoy!
wisco8 Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 Beautiful work John!! Really love the high details!! She is going to be a beauty!!!!!!!! Best regards, Steve !!
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Author Posted February 9, 2017 Hey Stevie, I was wondering where you been!? Go check out my '68 Roadrunner if you think this one is good! LOL That one turned out even better then this one I think! Thanks tho on the compliments of it! Much appreciated! -Stay tuned, more to come as this one is very close done!
72 Charger Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 John you don't give yourself enough credit with BMF your really good at it !.
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Author Posted February 9, 2017 LOL Dave, I guess!!!!! If you say so! I only say that as Rosco's car here.... is the FIRST true time I've actually gotten to use/try BMF on the exterior window trim believe it or not, I used it on the interiors of a couple other cars, and on one time section of one other car, and didn't think I was all that good at it.... BUT using it more & more, I'll get better feeling of it I guess..... -The very first EVER time I used it, I didn't think I was all that good with it, not that it looks "bad" on the car, I just think I could have done something better then what it is. side trim on the rear fenders of a '57 Chrysler 300C -Thee first time I EVER used BMF!
426-Hemi Posted February 13, 2017 Author Posted February 13, 2017 Beautiful work John!! Really love the high details!! She is going to be a beauty!!!!!!!! Best regards, Steve !!Sorry I missed your post Steve! I bet you posted the same I did that day and I missed it! Anyway, thanks! much appreciated it...... I been working on this one as well as the '68 Roadrunner trying to beat my one model a year record LOL So many started and so many half way done and then others that just need body paint and final assembly and they'll be done, I'm trying to get a bunch of those over half way projects on display.... instead of waiting for work in their dark cardboard homes! -Thanks a bunch for following along!
426-Hemi Posted March 3, 2017 Author Posted March 3, 2017 Well its been awhile since I've done an update on this build, so without further ado.... We'll get right to it huh? Yeah why not!Well in the last update, was getting "Flash" painted, and in-place on the passenger seat, NOW that interior being in the body, I actually got the frame in-place too! Have a look:As you can see by the pic, I got the A/C compressor line going in, with the pointed out fitting to it. It in this pic is just "posed" as I have to drill the hole and shape the line to the A/C compressor!In these pics you can see that A/C line on-plce to stay!!!!!Then I got to make and fit the line from the A/C compressor to the firewall, this line has a bit more to it then just a line and fitting... As you're about to see!In-place, and to the firewall!To the firewall it went! If you look close, just below the heater hose lines in the firewall to the heater core, you can see that black line going up into the lower portion of the heater core....To this point, there is only one "wire" to place.... The Horn wire! And thats coming too!Seen here, you notice the "gap" that needs sheet filing. This is the difference in how the frame fits the body! Its a quarter of an inch (ral 1:1 1/4 inch) off! Thats how far, I had to raise the body on the frame, to make the car sit factory height! As if I had monted it as the kit went together, it would have looked like a low rider!Once I get the filler sheet in-place, and painted to match the car, it will look pretty good! I'm pleased so far, with the outcome of work done, I just have to slide the frame forward just a tad to get it to fit tightly to the back sides of the inner fenders and then glued to "stay"..... Thats to follow!Frame is slide forward, to stay, and the Horn wire in-place, so now all that under the hood detail is DONE, all the wires in-place, all the hoses made and also in-place, and for pic sake, I put the Air Cleaner on just for kicks..... I have yet to make those fillers for the tops of the inner fenders, and then glued in-place and finish painted, I added a "lip" for the hood to sit on when its on as well, (just like the real 1:1 would have!) I've stopped on this for a short time as I have to figure out where the Antenna might be if only one and or find if there may have been 2 of them due to it being a Police Car, I want to be sure and add them as they would have been in the TV series!!!Stay tuned, More will follow as things are done! The END is NEAR!!!!!As always, comments welcome! ENJOY
David G. Posted March 4, 2017 Posted March 4, 2017 Wow John, you've given that kit much more than it deserves!David G.
426-Hemi Posted March 4, 2017 Author Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) David,Yeah you are right, that kit doesn't deserve all that, BUT my way of building, I just can't help myself sometimes (specially to know when, enough is enough!) So. BUT that kit needed serious help as you know so... I'm let 'er rip anyway!Thanks for the kudo's....... much appreciated! Edited March 4, 2017 by 426-Hemi Added Content
Dominik Posted March 28, 2017 Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) this is awesome! Your work on the engine is incredible! But why your WIP is not in the "on the workbench"-Section.? Edited March 28, 2017 by Dominik
426-Hemi Posted March 28, 2017 Author Posted March 28, 2017 this is awesome! Your work on the engine is incredible! But why your WIP is not in the "on the workbench"-Section.? Thanks man! Yeah, I really get into the engine building.... -The part I most enjoy, but you couldn't see that! I didn't post it in the Car area WIP, as it isn't exactly a "car" but a emergency vehicle.... (I didn't think it "fit" there but if the Staff would like, they could move it there!) I wouldn't be offended on the move!
426-Hemi Posted March 28, 2017 Author Posted March 28, 2017 Man that is nice work John buddy.Thanks Mark! MUCH appreciated!!!! (Took a break from this build), I have to get back to it as its really close done but I had other things within the shop take priority so...... New tools, new work, changing benches, adding things here, changing things there, ya kinda get caught up in it, and then once all set up. get to "test" it all out, which is what I have been sort of doing, with and on model parts I couldn't do before I got my recently aquired Unimat......
my80malibu Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 Very Cool. Lots of great details. Just an FYI flash the basset hound is available in the AMT 57 ford fairlane kit.
426-Hemi Posted March 31, 2017 Author Posted March 31, 2017 Very Cool. Lots of great details. Just an FYI flash the basset hound is available in the AMT 57 ford fairlane kit.Thanks! Yeah I know where the Dog was from (What Kit) I got it from a friend, and made a quick mold of it, and made one for this build. that way the friend could have his back for when he needs it!!!! So..... I'll have them for awhile.... As I made several of them at the time, for future use else where, painted differently.
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