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On 5/5/2020 at 6:56 AM, Koellefornia Kid said:

a rotating plate

Very innovative... When running from the law this would be a good feature to have... 

I'm still trying to figure out the science behind the black to white paint deiquse. I love the black but the white was just as stealth (IMO)?

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On 5/6/2020 at 5:19 PM, disconovaman said:

Very innovative... When running from the law this would be a good feature to have...

Thanks, Anthony!

Before I can build the custom front and grille of the Black Beauty I had to fix some issues with the hood.

I was pleased that the resin kit had a separate hood but the problem was there was nothing to support it. Thought about to glue it shut but I want to have an engine in there so I installed a "frame" from sheet styrene to hold the hood in place:

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The hood itself was too narrow on the driver's side, resulting a gap.I added a strip of styrene and some putty. Now it fits:

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03 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry Charger is complete!  Not a show car, its a stole car.  Decals by Keith Parks, wheels and carb by Fireball Modelworks.  I wired and added a little detail to engine. Distributor from MAD.1671815432_DMCLLRQUARTER.jpg.baf27d1ef07a1e942486963acb6cc5ad.jpg Added a cb in the interior and made the antenna.  I'm not a scratchbuilder so everything else is pretty much box stock.  Good  kit, better than my abilities. I had to do a repaint after a gluing accident, the paint is Vallejo yellow green acrylic.

Could have been a fun build but I tried too hard and stressed myself out a bit being this was my first community build attempt.  Still glad I participated.  Comments are welcome.

 

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7 minutes ago, fivesuns said:

03 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry Charger is complete!  Not a show car, its a stole car.  Decals by Keith Parks, wheels and carb by Fireball Modelworks. 

I think it came out great !!

Nice job on the engine bay!!

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2 hours ago, fivesuns said:

03 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry Charger is complete!  Not a show car, its a stole car.  Decals by Keith Parks, wheels and carb by Fireball Modelworks.  I wired and added a little detail to engine. Distributor from MAD.1671815432_DMCLLRQUARTER.jpg.baf27d1ef07a1e942486963acb6cc5ad.jpg Added a cb in the interior and made the antenna.  I'm not a scratchbuilder so everything else is pretty much box stock.  Good  kit, better than my abilities. I had to do a repaint after a gluing accident, the paint is Vallejo yellow green acrylic.

Could have been a fun build but I tried too hard and stressed myself out a bit being this was my first community build attempt.  Still glad I participated.  Comments are welcome.

 

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DMCL R QUARTER.jpg

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it turned out great!!

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#40 Black Beauty update:

Had some fitting issues withe front grille, large gaps between the grille and the fenders:12.jpg.e27eb3186cac89edfc9081eb362e2349.jpg

Tried to fix it with putty, still needs refining:

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I wasn't too happy with the look of the headlights, so I cut them free and made new bezels from strip styrene and fitted small lenses from my parts box:

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Looks much better, now:

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On 6/6/2020 at 3:59 AM, Koellefornia Kid said:

Thanks, Sam!

Just a little more progress: I scratch built a custom front grille from sheet styrene...

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...and started to create a grille housing with a a matching extension along the hood:

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Great work on this build!

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19 hours ago, Koellefornia Kid said:

The grille, front and rear bumpers will now be sent out of house for chrome plating. This will take a few weeks, which gives me the time to turn the coupe body into a four-door.

So long...

Impressive fabrication you're doing on this.

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