When the Cat's Away: A Good Week's Work

[Snake45]

Last month, the Lovely Mrs. Snake went to visit her sister in Florida for a week. I lost no time in scheduling some days off I had coming, because you know what they say: “When the cat's away, the mice build model cars all over the dining room table.”

 

So here’s what I got done in that week:

 

*Revell Camaro Concept Snapper: This is actually the only built-completely-by-me-from-a-new-kit build in the group, though it wasn't all built in The Week, mainly just final detailing and assembly. I'd previously scribed out and darkened all the panel lines and polished the kit's pearly silver plastic.

*’70 El Camino: Motormax Diecast (bought recently at Walmart) on which I worked maybe six or eight hours of Model-Fu—grille, wheels, taillights, white on the headlight stems requiring disassembly, Sharpie chrome trim, and so forth. Accomplished completely during The Week.

*’65 Mustang 2+2 Pro Street (M2 diecast): Rework of a previous model-fu makeover. Removed the ugly black racing stripe with Walmart nail polish remover (thanks, MadHorseman!), which required some rubout/polish in the affected areas, which then required re-doing some of the chrome trim with my beloved Silver Sharpie. Also tried to improve the grille area a little. 3-4 hours. Accomplished completely during The Week.

*’74 Charger Resto: Disassembled, cleaned, touched up finish, polished glass, detailed taillights and grille, Sharpied all chrome, reassembled. 6-10 hours. Accomplished completely during The Week.

*Aston Martin DB4 Resto: Disassembled, cleaned, removed windshield, polished glue booger from inside of windshield, Reinstalled windshield, reassembled, detailed grille, touched up taillights and other details. 6-8 hours. Accomplished completely during The Week.

*’72 Chevelle Street Freak Resto/Refurb:  A recent Toy Show Rescue. Disassembled, fixed bent, near-broken left A-pillar with “fauxberglass,” replaced rear tires and all four wheels, polished body, polished glass, Silver Sharpied all window trim, painted taillights, detailed grille and front park lights, rigged up installation of Crower scoop. 8-10 hours. Accomplished completely during The Week.

*Monkeemobile Resto: Been working on this restoration of my 1966-built Monkeemobile for a few weeks, but spent about 6-10 hours in final reassembly and whatnot (2 hand-brushed coats of Future).  Glad to have this one OFF my workbench as I was getting tired of looking at it. I could have probably built a brand new one from a kit in the time I spent "restoring" this backbirth, but, ah shucks oh well.

*’66 MPC Corvette Gasser Resto/Refurb: Been working off and on on this one for months, but the big “sticking point” was applying a couple decals, a job I was dreading and putting off because it was a one-shot, make-or-break deal. Got that done, so I should be able to Drive On from here and get this one finished up very shortly. Might not look like much to you, but to me, this step was HUGE—I was developing  a darn-near phobia about it.

*’68 El Camino Resto/Refurb: This is a gluebomb-ish builtup I’m working on Snakifying. It’s already painted a lovely shade of royal blue that I’m working with, but had to fill the sinkmarks in the roof, then mask off all the blue and airbrush the black vinyl top, lower body sides, and rear panel, another task I had been dreading. Got all that done, so should be able to drag this one across the finish line at some point in the foreseeable future.

*'71 Cuda Glue Bomb-ish Resto (not shown): Disassembled, cleaned, stripped paint, scribed out all door and panel lines, began polishing the lovely black plastic. This might be the next thing I actually get finished.

 

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['70 Grande]

Beautiful work; all of it!  You've certainly been busy... dang, now I gotta figure out a way to get rid of my "Mrs's" for a week or so!

[PARTSMARTY]

You've been busy on some cool stuff !!!

[vintagercr]

Very nice!

[Hmann68]

Wow that's a lot in a week!! I wish I had that kind of energy. When you say model on you ain't kiddin'! They look great 

[DumpyDan]

Looks like you had a very productive week, good for you and nice work.  Bet your glad she is back, now clean up and get back to reality. 

[GeeBee]

Some fine work there, I wish I could get that much done in a week ....

[donb]

Super busy week! Very nice builds too. WOW!

[crazyjim]

Kept you out of the bars, huh?

[Snake45]

Kept you out of the bars, huh?

I had to give up the bars in 1984.

[XJ6]

It is about time......Sorry talking to myself... I need to do the same, like your collection

[Mr Stock]

Good work Snake !!, I couldn't get that lot done in 6 months let alone a week and I live on my own lol !.

[da_ashman]

Great Work!!! You Love them, but man you Love them so much more when theyre away! Always good to get time on your own doing your own thing, anywhere in the house!