What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[catpack68]

I primed and put some spot putty on on the body of this Hasagawa Type 2 67 VW pick up this evening that I started on in April of last year.Because of paint issues,I’ve had to strip it twice.Trying to finish this and another build for a local show coming up in August.

Edited June 27 by catpack68

[slusher]

On 6/25/2025 at 4:20 PM, johnyrotten said:

Back on track. Little touch ups needed, enough dash work for today. 

Great. Dash work!

[johnyrotten]

5 hours ago, slusher said:

Great. Dash work!

Thanks Carl.

[Falcon Ranchero]

Started yet again another old build re-build, my 1966 GTO. About 3 years ago I painted it the thickest brush-on coat of purple ever   applied on a model car (no joke) so just now this morning I disassembled it and sanded the body and hood. Plan is to do a triple black GTO, (gloss black paint, black vinyl top, and interior is already black) offset by a red side stripe.

[Lownslow]

Built a mockup car to show off assembled and painted wheels on Cults

[meechum68]

I got home, and unpacked the truck I am working on, nothing broken from the flight.  Will unpack my goody box I sent home tomorrow as well.  

I am hoping to sit sometime tomorrow .. if things go right, I want to get the truck body and bed in primer and tape off things so I can shoot the tan interior then the body blue. 

 

[catpack68]

I got my Hasegawa Celica LB 1600 GT body painted today.The color is Tamiya TS-9 British Green. Going to clear it in a day or two.I painted and detailed the M3 Modelshop Work Meister S1 deep dish wheels.I’m working on the interior now.The plaid inserts on the seats are decals from Mr.Model.The photoetched seatbelt buckles are from Gofer.

Edited July 1 by catpack68

[meechum68]

41 minutes ago, catpack68 said:

I got my Hasegawa Celica LB 1600 GT body painted today.The color is Tamiya TS-9 British Green. Going to clear it in a day or two.I painted and detailed the M3 Modelshop Work Meister S1 deep dish wheels.I’m working on the interior now.The plaid inserts on the seats are decals from Mr.Model.The photoetched seatbelt buckles are from Gofer.

That's fantastic! 

I will say this, I normally build American made stuff, but as I see more imports, I am gonna get me some for my stash, such neat kits. And take certain mods better than American stuff.

 

[catpack68]

46 minutes ago, meechum68 said:

That's fantastic! 

I will say this, I normally build American made stuff, but as I see more imports, I am gonna get me some for my stash, such neat kits. And take certain mods better than American stuff.

 

Thanks man! I have never built any imports before, but I definitely have a few in my stash that I need to build besides this one.I am having fun with it and will definitely build more JDM/Import cars in the future.

Edited July 2 by catpack68

[meechum68]

So I got a bit of things done on my 34 Ford Truck   

I really need to work on the kit for the wife. She changed her mind on colors so good thing its been in Purple Power for a bit. 

[johnyrotten]

Tonight I spent entirely too much time making an alternator bracket. Probably could have made the full size one in the same amount of time.

[meechum68]

Excellent job!!

 

[johnyrotten]

19 minutes ago, meechum68 said:

Excellent job!!

 

Thanks. It was a royal pain.

[meechum68]

And the result was excellent!
 

[Wickersham Humble]

Boxed the frame for a Monogram "BIG T" gloo-bomb kit I bought at last years Dragonlady IPMS show.  I want to rebuild it as a hauler for my Mono customizing V-8 kit that I bought in '62 and saved.  I never could afford the monster-scale kits back then, but then they're hard to display being so big.  I used epoxy to soldily attach the boxing plastic, and included some high-tensile steel wire inside the rails for some extra stiffness.  Then, since I was priming the door on my daughters 1/1 '57 Ford business coupe project, I shot it with epoxy primer.  The original builder used so much adhesive to put the rear leaf spring into the spring X-member I had to leave it in place, and will possibly sand the leaves smoother and shoot them with Molotow when it's ready.  The rims are getting the bling treatment, too.  A few light-weight bits are damaged, and some real nuts/bolts hardware may come into play as I finish it.  Wonder where one can source such stuff for this scale?  

Wick

 

[meechum68]

I built my new Paint rack, and realized... I need to inventory them, and also need more room for my paint racks ... 

 

[JollySipper]

Working on an NSX........... Got all the rear suspension done! I'll put the exhaust tips on very last.......

 

[meechum68]

Looking good!

 

 

[JollySipper]

21 minutes ago, meechum68 said:

Looking good!

 

 

Thank you! It looks like more parts than it really is...........