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Worked building up the windshield frame and making it into a split window. Also messing around with wheel ideas and carriage on with the gear theme.

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A small update. 

Because I am lazy and have never learned how to measure and make bends I have to do the corners in pieces. Last night I was able to nail half with one piece. No luck tonight with the other half. So I decided to do each corner as a separate piece.  I am not sure what I am going to do with the window. As I type this I am thinking of actually making it wider and taller.

Did some more work on the windshield and started messing with the grill body. 

I started this build with chopped top only and the rest an OOB mindset, that has gone way off the rails. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Dazzler041 said:

Love this one, especially the chassis detailing looks awesome, looks great so far.

Thanks man.

Posted

Making a new tunnel ram intake. The carb mounting flanges are not very symmetrical but once the carbs are installed the flanges will not be seen, so I am not to concerned. 

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Posted

Holy BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, this is some awesome work!  Curtis the level of detailing is great love the gear thing, gonna be watching the detailing looks like this kit is 1/8 scale.  Great work!

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Thanks a lot Dan. 

I will be adding more gear detail to the fire wall as on the frame. Trying to work out where else I can use the gears with out over doing it. 

Posted (edited)

Thanks Mr D.

The spray booth is of my own design. It is a down draft design using a 6" sono tube, like the ones used for forming post holes, 6" ducting, a large server cabinet fan, grease grills for a large over head stove exhaust fan, reclaimed door windows, and a kitchen table ripped in half and mounted to the wall.  I added a small work area that which you see extended out. I still need to replace the foam core end piece, I dropped the glass for that end during the build. 

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Small update, I really had to work to get to this point with the intake. Once I got the first intake runner I made a fixture for my chopper, easy peasy. The intake looks pretty crude or racy right now, it will soften when it all comes together. At least I am hoping that is the case. 

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Man that spray booth is awesome, I think I am going to stop painting and just send them to you instead.  And that 32 project is very cool, I will send you some pictures of the Camaro I am working on.

Posted
On 2018-04-13 at 11:45 PM, DumpyDan said:

Man that spray booth is awesome, I think I am going to stop painting and just send them to you instead.  And that 32 project is very cool, I will send you some pictures of the Camaro I am working on.

Thanks Dan, ya send Camero pics my way, would dig seeing them. 

 

Got the intake together and shot it with some primer, still needs a good shape sanding and clean up.

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Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, DumpyDan said:

Man that is some good work, impressive detailing......I Like!

 

Thanks lots Dan.

12 hours ago, Dann Tier said:

Love the weld lines!!!  -this is so unique and impressive, that it should be in magazines!!!

It does look like welds, but unfortunately they are not, they are just airbubbles in the primer. 

 

 

I think this is as good good as it is going to get before paint. I am still tweaking the shell and the chop. I think I am going to go with large iron work rivets around the front and rear windows.

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15 hours ago, Rider said:

Thanks lots Dan.

It does look like welds, but unfortunately they are not, they are just airbubbles in the primer. 

 

 

I think this is as good good as it is going to get before paint. I am still tweaking the shell and the chop. I think I am going to go with large iron work rivets around the front and rear windows.

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Are those carbs from Fireball?

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I love the cogs on the frame. Never seen that before. 

The chop is spot on. You made it look easy.!

This is going to be excellent when it's done. Nice one!

oh, and I take my hat off to you, for your spray booth.

Anyone who knocks a hole through the wall of their house, in the name of model building, deserves respect ?

Posted
On 2018-04-20 at 8:29 AM, geetee66 said:

I love the cogs on the frame. Never seen that before. 

The chop is spot on. You made it look easy.!

This is going to be excellent when it's done. Nice one!

oh, and I take my hat off to you, for your spray booth.

Anyone who knocks a hole through the wall of their house, in the name of model building, deserves respect ?

Thanks Guy,  I appreciate the props. A man has to do what a man has to do to get his model room just right. Lol. I have lots to learn about when doing chops. 

 

  • 4 months later...
Posted

This one has been absent from the bench until recently. I've made some progress.  Really hoping I can get this done for a show the end of next month. 

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8 minutes ago, mustang1989 said:

I am definitely diggin' this build. Good ideas all the way around. Are those carburetors from FAB Resinworks?

Thanks man. Carbs are from Fireball  Modelworks, sooooo awesome and crazy accurate and detailed,. Worth every penny he charges. 

http://www.fireballmodelworks.com/

Posted (edited)

I have add some detailing to the windshield, the Molotow Chrome turned out ok. This is just a base,  I am not too concerned about the orange peel/rough surface, it will eventually get buried with multiple layers of 2x Poly-U clear. 

 

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