bluestringer Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 Started this today. Paint will be Createx Transparent Dark Red. Straight OOB build. All comments welcome. 1
Zippi Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 Holy smokes James. You didn't let the dust settle did ya ☺ Good start on the Mustang man. I'll be watching.
bluestringer Posted January 12, 2022 Author Posted January 12, 2022 5 hours ago, Zippi said: Holy smokes James. You didn't let the dust settle did ya ☺ Good start on the Mustang man. I'll be watching. LOL.....yea, I'm running out of room for my stash and wanted to get a few out of the way so I can buy some more. This one will be slow as the weather has got too cool for me to stay in my work shed for very long. Hope to get it painted this in a few days.
bluestringer Posted January 13, 2022 Author Posted January 13, 2022 I was going for a burgundy/maroon. Used Createx Transparent Deep Red over a black base. Think I need to put on another coat. Have not put on the clear yet, should look ok after I get it on.
bluestringer Posted January 13, 2022 Author Posted January 13, 2022 Looking online at images of this 4.6L Ford engine, it looked like the plugs were at the top of the heads. I hope that's correct, that's the way I ran the wires.
MarvinGardens Posted January 14, 2022 Posted January 14, 2022 Except for the fact that your coil pack drilling/routing is a bit off; good start. Yes, the 4.6 SOHC has both the plugs and injectors at the top of the head (and located pretty much beside each other in both 1:1 and in scale); same with the 3V 4.6L of 2005-2010 GTs. Your upper intake tract and lower intake plenum are correctly colored; the only tip to scale accuracy is dull both (the lower is thermoformed plastic and is semi-gloss Black on its' best day). Valve covers and Power steering reservoir are looking good!
bluestringer Posted January 14, 2022 Author Posted January 14, 2022 5 hours ago, MarvinGardens said: Except for the fact that your coil pack drilling/routing is a bit off; good start. Yes, the 4.6 SOHC has both the plugs and injectors at the top of the head (and located pretty much beside each other in both 1:1 and in scale); same with the 3V 4.6L of 2005-2010 GTs. Your upper intake tract and lower intake plenum are correctly colored; the only tip to scale accuracy is dull both (the lower is thermoformed plastic and is semi-gloss Black on its' best day). Valve covers and Power steering reservoir are looking good! Thanks. Yea, I knew the routing would be off, just wanted to be sure they terminated at the right location. Drilling those little coils packs was a chore, did the best I could. I still need to do some touch up painting. The instructions did call for semi-gloss black on the lower plenum but I just used what I had. I may can dull it down some with some dullcote, but I'm not really going for precise accuracy, just wanted the wires to end somewhere close to plugs.
bluestringer Posted January 15, 2022 Author Posted January 15, 2022 Another color coat and 2 coats of clear............
bluestringer Posted January 19, 2022 Author Posted January 19, 2022 No more updates on this one. I'll post some photos in under glass when it's done.
bluestringer Posted January 21, 2022 Author Posted January 21, 2022 12 hours ago, FLHCAHZ said: Looks great so far! Thanks Chaz.
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