What Are You Building Today?

[oldcarfan]

Here in Austin, we are having hot days. It's gotten over 100 for 20-some days. Today it is also super low humidity so I am taking advantage of the good painting weather. I've got a coat of Krylon Smoke Gray on the Porsche and a good coat of Tamiya black on the Cannonball Countach. The low humidity lets it lay down pretty smooth, plus the heat creates a nice oven to bake it! 4 hours and it's dry to the touch. They won't be a perfect job, but they'll be decent 20-scale-footers.

Edited July 28, 2018 by oldcarfan

[Snake45]

Just finishing up a Glue Bomb Rescue '69 Chevelle, done late '70s street bomber style. Also working my Snake-Fu on an orange '75 Corvette coupe promo, but that one probably won't be finished for at least a couple weeks. Straightening and polishing out that body is turning out to be a bigger job than I'd planned. 

[BeakDoc]

Putting the finishing touches on a 1969 Barracuda and un-building a ‘70 GTX that I built in my teens for restoration.

[cobraman]

Nothing right now but thinking of pulling out one of my Cobra kits and building it as a gasser.

[iamsuperdan]

Been working on a Chev C1500, circa 1991. Building a replica of the truck my wife was driving when I met her.

 

[Spruslayer]

Compared to the Dodge L-700 i just did for TAT, this kit is giving me the warm fuzzies the way everything is properly designed to fit OOB with no Mikieengineering needed 

 

[Eshaver]

After over 2,000.00 in materials , a year and a half of work, I'm finally putting the final touches on a 1894 Queen Anne Victorian that was built as a residence , became a Parrish House for an Episcopal church and now houses an apartment for a church elder and offices along with the former Coffee house being turned over as an NA meeting place . Among some celebrities , Bruce Springsteen , Robin Thompson , Elizabeth Cotton , Richard Leigh, and Barry Fitzjerald who played this place sometime between 1967- and 1975. I've been connected with the maintenance , Board of Directors and served as Emcee once .

[cobraman]

Wow, that is very nice.

[OldTrucker]

I'm "trying" to build an AMT 72 GTO kit at the moment and it is slow going for a mostly out of box build.

The soft gray plastic is a real bear to clean up. Keep getting plastic fuzzys on the edges of everything.

[Bainford]

Picking away at some scratchbuilt interior details for a Fujimi Lotus Esprit S1. The rest of the build is done, just got to get the cockpit sorted.

[PatW]

I'm converting this............

To this.....................

[Anglia105E]

At the moment I am building a 1:24 Heller 1951 Talbot Lago T26 Record Cabriolet and so far I am very pleased with the progress. Decided on cream paintwork, rather than the more common French Blue, using rattle can Halfords Ford Ivory gloss enamel. The interior will be a shade of brown to compliment the cream. The owner of the Talbot company during the 1950's came over from France and produced some fine motor cars in England, which is why I chose to include this model in my 1958 diorama setting. This is my first Heller kit and it is very different to the Revell, Tamiya, Italeri, Emhar, Aoshima and Minicraft kits in terms of method and instructions.

David

[MrObsessive]

Still plugging away at the Shelby Green Hornet. Got a lot of the interior done including painting the seats, and got the green embossing powder on the interior floor for carpeting. I've hit a road block though as I'm starting to work on the dash however. l know that I bought another set of gauge faces from Bestmodelcarparts on eBay, but I'll be darned if I can't find them!

So, just last night I had to order another set..........thankfully he had two more sets available, now he's down to one! I don't want to do any drilling out of the dash until I get those gauges. He dropped me a line letting me know that they'll be in the mail tomorrow. I should get them by mid week.

No pics as of yet, maybe I can do an update before long. This time of year with outside stuff to do with the house, and we just had some VERY NASTY rains here recently which led once again to my basement taking on water. Not like 2011, but of course the sump pump quit working right at the height of the storms, and I spent most of the day yesterday bailing out water. Got a new pump in, and all's well--------------I hope as it is working!

Working third shift now, I've had to rearrange the model time so things are getting "normal" for me as time goes on.

[Janne Herajärvi]

Im havin fun with french cafe diorama project, based on Ebbro Citroen mobile kitchen.. So far i have not touched Citroen yet, but done some other detailing parts for diorama. Some of them are scracth build, some of them are 3D printed and all the rest are some aftermarket goodies.. I have not started topic for this build yet, but later it will be in diorama section.. 

 

[Gramps46]

Working on a rescued Porsche 904, the original Monogram issue based upon their slot car.  The blue is the before shot.  It had to be stripped and cleaned up.  Will be a red Filipinetti Le Mans entry. 

Edited July 29, 2018 by Gramps46

[oldcarfan]

13 hours ago, Eshaver said:

After over 2,000.00 in materials , a year and a half of work, I'm finally putting the final touches on a 1894 Queen Anne Victorian that was built as a residence , became a Parrish House for an Episcopal church and now houses an apartment for a church elder and offices along with the former Coffee house being turned over as an NA meeting place . Among some celebrities , Bruce Springsteen , Robin Thompson , Elizabeth Cotton , Richard Leigh, and Barry Fitzjerald who played this place sometime between 1967- and 1975. I've been connected with the maintenance , Board of Directors and served as Emcee once .

That's amazing!

[bbowser]

Stripping paint from a '59 Buick promo scored on eBay.  Building tool boxes and parts for my garage dio.

[MrObsessive]

3 minutes ago, bbowser said:

Stripping paint from a '59 Buick promo scored on eBay.  Building tool boxes and parts for my garage dio.

Bruce, how's the body on that? Each time I've seen one of those they appear mildly to severely warped.

I've got a '59 hardtop that I got from Paul Hettick (Robbbbbb57 on eBay) years ago that could stand a resto. Unfortunately, one of the C pillars is broken so it's a perfect candidate for turning it into a convertible. It has the 'vert interior anyway, so there's some work saved!

[Gt fan]

Working away. Working on the leaf springs. They are separate pcs. For each leaf. Finished the truck in the meantime for a break .

[bbowser]

44 minutes ago, MrObsessive said:

Bruce, how's the body on that? Each time I've seen one of those they appear mildly to severely warped.

I've got a '59 hardtop that I got from Paul Hettick (Robbbbbb57 on eBay) years ago that could stand a resto. Unfortunately, one of the C pillars is broken so it's a perfect candidate for turning it into a convertible. It has the 'vert interior anyway, so there's some work saved!

It's a convertible, 4 screw bottom.  Body is straight, I couldn't get the windshield out without breaking the windshield frame.  I'd prefer a hardtop but too many $$.  Do you think a '59 Chevy top would be suitable?  I don't know what it has for paint but 2 days in 91%, 4 days in the purple pond, and 2 days in Easy Off and it still has some stubborn spots!  

 

[espo]

I'm fitting a Corvette LS engine and Trans Axle in the rear of a '69 Corvair. Since the gear box is between the engine and the axle the engine is a little further into the interior than I would like but I think I'll be able to make it look believable.  

[MrObsessive]

29 minutes ago, bbowser said:

It's a convertible, 4 screw bottom.  Body is straight, I couldn't get the windshield out without breaking the windshield frame.  I'd prefer a hardtop but too many $$.  Do you think a '59 Chevy top would be suitable?  I don't know what it has for paint but 2 days in 91%, 4 days in the purple pond, and 2 days in Easy Off and it still has some stubborn spots!  

 

 

That looks to be an actual annual kit as opposed to a promo. Different plastic used (styrene for the kits) than the promos which used "Cycolac" or something like that which warped terribly. Sounds like whoever painted that way back when used actual automotive lacquer which explains why it's terribly difficult to strip. The paint has etched itself into the plastic, and short of sanding it out where the tough spots are, I'm not sure what else can be done.

Yes, the Monogram '59 Chevy up-top should work with some tweaking. All GM '59-'60 top frames were about the same between the divisions, and they all used the same convertible windshield frame. That's what I have planned for my '59------got all the bits and pieces to build it, it's just not struck my fancy as of yet since I built the hardtop years ago.

[MrObsessive]

36 minutes ago, espo said:

I'm fitting a Corvette LS engine and Trans Axle in the rear of a '69 Corvair. Since the gear box is between the engine and the axle the engine is a little further into the interior than I would like but I think I'll be able to make it look believable.  

Years ago, I went to a local Corvair show and a fellow had a '65 or '66 two door hardtop which had a big block V8 sitting literally just behind the front seats. What was crazy was there was no firewall between the engine and the seats, so you're sitting there hearing this VERY LOUD engine for the entire ride!

Looked neat, but that had to be a BEAR to drive in summer traffic with no air conditioning and all that noise!

[Snake45]

3 minutes ago, MrObsessive said:

Years ago, I went to a local Corvair show and a fellow had a '65 or '66 two door hardtop which had a big block V8 sitting literally just behind the front seats. What was crazy was there was no firewall between the engine and the seats, so you're sitting there hearing this VERY LOUD engine for the entire ride!

Looked neat, but that had to be a BEAR to drive in summer traffic with no air conditioning and all that noise!

I started a model of such a thing back in the '70s. I really should dig that thing out and drag it across the finish line. (Mine had a SBC, though, not a BBC.) 

[espo]

2 minutes ago, MrObsessive said:

Years ago, I went to a local Corvair show and a fellow had a '65 or '66 two door hardtop which had a big block V8 sitting literally just behind the front seats. What was crazy was there was no firewall between the engine and the seats, so you're sitting there hearing this VERY LOUD engine for the entire ride!

Looked neat, but that had to be a BEAR to drive in summer traffic with no air conditioning and all that noise!

Part of my motivation is based on an experience in the late '60's living in Southern California. There was a company I think was called Crown Engineering that offered kits and installations of small block Chevys in Corvairs. I actually got into an impromptu road race in the Santa Ana Canyon with one. He was kind enough to stop and wait for me to catch up to him.  He gave me a chance to examine his car and we parted. With this build I plan on a low fire wall between the front seats and the engine. I'll place a clear plastic see thru lid on the engine compartment. The Radiator is were the Corvair engine was and the air will exit from the stock location under the rear bumper. This is how his was built, the only difference being he had a solid cover over the engine so it just looked like a cover over the back seat. That thing was unbelievably fast and easily pulled away from my 396/350 H.P. 4 speed '67 El Camino.