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5 hours ago, customline said:

Hubcap theft was a popular practice back in those days. ?

Yea, I know. Stole some off a police car once?

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The weather of late has not been suitable for painting as most mornings the day has started out at 99% humidity. So for now the body sits waiting in primer.

 

In the meantime some other bits got the attention. Working out the dash I cut out the section with the rally gauges and filled the void with a flat piece of .030 styrene. Also removed the extra pedal.

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Then the dash inlay was applied. If you look at the pic posted previously of the inlay you will see a half moon on the bottom  favoring the right side. This is a cutout for the steering column. As this is meant for the 75-76 Dart kit it has one obvious difference on the Duster. The steering wheels on the two cars are not in the same place. The steering wheel should be pretty much centered with the speedometer on the Duster, but you can see that is not where the cutout is. I needed to paint in the missing section on the inlay to make it look presentable. Luckily it's hard to see.

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I also wanted to add a gear lever as this was a column shift automatic car. It came out a little bigger then I wanted but I was trying to keep it proportionate to the turn signal lever. I actually think the turn signal lever is about the right size for the gear shift lever. But I couldn't very well make them the same size. It will just have to do.

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Speaking of shift levers another minor inconvenience is the hump on the interior floor for the shifter. That needs to go.

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I cut out the hump and filled the hole with a couple of flat pieces of scrap. Patched it up with some styrene goop and now I'm waiting for it to fully cure.

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Hopefully the weather clears soon. In the meantime think I'm going to go build a slant six. See ya....

 

 

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I keep hoping for an easier, not gong to say easy, project. But looks more and more like this is not it as I keep finding more mods to do. Got a front bench seat from Hart Resin Parts. Which is on the left below next to the kit rear seat.

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It will still need a lot of work to make it look like the factory seat as the shape is wrong and the upholstery pattern is wrong. I shouldn't say wrong, different?

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I can understand why Hart went with the matching pattern but their seat is a split bench with an armrest. So it will need some work to make it correct.

 

As for the pattern I have copied a patch from the above seat with the intention of scaling it down and printing that section of material to lay over the seat and hopefully making a presentable looking seat. Unless anyone else has a better idea????

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If you are about to print it, you could do it on clear decal paper at highest print quality. You would have to fill and smooth the seats, but it could look really decent. After printing/ drying, you could cover it with semi gloss clear or a matte clear if you like. Just a thought.

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13 hours ago, Moparman18064 said:

If you are about to print it, you could do it on clear decal paper at highest print quality. You would have to fill and smooth the seats, but it could look really decent. After printing/ drying, you could cover it with semi gloss clear or a matte clear if you like. Just a thought.

That's pretty much what I had in mind. I'm glad someone else thinks the way I do. ?

17 minutes ago, customline said:

Rich's idea sounds good, Len,  or you could just use the seat out of one of your '41 Plymouth kits. ? 

 

 

Oh, I locked all my 41 Plymouth stuff up in the attic. And it's not coming out ever again....?

Posted
On 8/19/2024 at 1:48 AM, customline said:

 Always liked this body style, Len. Do you add anything to the purple power or just use it straight out of the jug?  A little birdie wants to know.

Full strength works the best, it removes chrome and the varnish underneath in minutes as well! 

Posted
3 hours ago, Bullybeef said:

Full strength works the best, it removes chrome and the varnish underneath in minutes as well! 

My experience with it hasn't been very good, Bil.  I've had to leave a body in full strength "Purple Power" for weeks before it did anything significant. Is there a particular brand that is preferable? The fastest chrome stripper I have found is a commercial grade grill and oven cleaner. That stuff did the job in a minute or less but original "Easy-Off" in the yellow can does a fairly good job but takes several minutes. I wear "Viper" gloves with all that stuff ?...and a mask.

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1 minute ago, customline said:

My experience with it hasn't been very good, Bil.  I've had to leave a body in full strength "Purple Power" for weeks before it did anything significant. Is there a particular brand that is preferable? The fastest chrome stripper I have found is a commercial grade grill and oven cleaner. That stuff did the job in a minute or less but original "Easy-Off" in the yellow can does a fairly good job but takes several minutes. I wear "Viper" gloves with all that stuff ?...and a mask.

I scribed door, hood, trunk lines before dipping, it helped, but it depends on type of paint, I used it mostly on old builds ie junk rebuilders. I have a small sealable container on my desk for quick removal of chrome. No mess and biggest perk, no f’n smell like oven cleaner!  

Posted
5 hours ago, LennyB said:

That's pretty much what I had in mind. I'm glad someone else thinks the way I do. ?

Oh, I locked all my 41 Plymouth stuff up in the attic. And it's not coming out ever again....?

Yeah, mine's going out in the garage with all the pre-war fenders from AMT kits.

Posted
3 minutes ago, Bullybeef said:

I scribed door, hood, trunk lines before dipping, it helped, but it depends on type of paint, I used it mostly on old builds ie junk rebuilders. I have a small sealable container on my desk for quick removal of chrome. No mess and biggest perk, no f’n smell like oven cleaner!  

OK, then. Good point about fumes. What about brand?

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24 minutes ago, customline said:

OK, then. Good point about fumes. What about brand?

It used to be a Castrol product, now it’s just listed as Super Clean! 
apologies to the OP for cluttering up the thread @LennyB

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G’day Len, I’ll be following this one. I love the back story as it’s similar to a couple of cars l owned that seemed to thrive on neglect and just kept on going. Sometimes it’s not always the coolest and most powerful cars that we own that get etched into our memories, it’s the humble ones.

Cheers, Stuart.

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34 minutes ago, STU111 said:

G’day Len, I’ll be following this one. I love the back story as it’s similar to a couple of cars l owned that seemed to thrive on neglect and just kept on going. Sometimes it’s not always the coolest and most powerful cars that we own that get etched into our memories, it’s the humble ones.

Cheers, Stuart.

Thanks Stuart, the vast majority of us don’t start out with the GTO’s and Hemi Cuba’s so we come to appreciate whatever we can get our hands on.  

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Spent a lot of time sanding last night to get rid of the pattern on the seats. Still have a ways to go on the front resin bench. Took some flat styrene to fill the gap in the center. Glued it in with some CA and will cut it down and shape it when it's good and set. Figuring I'm going to need to used some 1:1 scale auto body filler to smooth it out. WDYT?

 

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Got some more work done on the front bench. Filed down the block of styrene I inserted and cut a slot down the middle to separate the seat backs. Found the resin became a bit flimsy once I did this so I epoxied a piece of styrene sprue to the underside for support before I broke something...again.

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Dug out some 3M glaze and skimmed over the seat.

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Cleaned that up, added some .020 round stock to mimic the separation welt between the sections on the seat.

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And gave it a shot of flat black. Looks like my welting on the rear seat top is a bit crooked. Need to take that off and redo it.

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I thought I was going to get some painting done on the body this afternoon as the humidity finally subsided, but when I sprayed out the Tor RED I bought I found it to be too Orange. Looked on line at samples of that color and they appear orange also. Went back to ScaleFinishes.com where I bought the paint and their color swatch looks nothing like the actual color. Can't always trust what you see on the screen. So I ordered a batch of Rally Red and hope that comes out like I need it to.

 

We shall see next time....?

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55 minutes ago, LennyB said:

Got some more work done on the front bench. Filed down the block of styrene I inserted and cut a slot down the middle to separate the seat backs. Found the resin became a bit flimsy once I did this so I epoxied a piece of styrene sprue to the underside for support before I broke something...again.

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Dug out some 3M glaze and skimmed over the seat.

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Cleaned that up, added some .020 round stock to mimic the separation welt between the sections on the seat.

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And gave it a shot of flat black. Looks like my welting on the rear seat top is a bit crooked. Need to take that off and redo it.

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I thought I was going to get some painting done on the body this afternoon as the humidity finally subsided, but when I sprayed out the Tor RED I bought I found it to be too Orange. Looked on line at samples of that color and they appear orange also. Went back to ScaleFinishes.com where I bought the paint and their color swatch looks nothing like the actual color. Can't always trust what you see on the screen. So I ordered a batch of Rally Red and hope that comes out like I need it to.

 

We shall see next time....?

Seats are coming along nicely! Tor Red is Hemi Orange, you will be happy with Rally Red

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Printed up some  clear decal paper and tried to do the fabric insert on the seats. The concept worked but the execution leaves something to be desired.

 

I had painted the seats black and when I put the decals over the back they completely disappeared. You couldn't see the pattern. Then I painted the are on the seats where the decals  go medium grey. This worked a bit better as you could se the pattern but while working the decals into place some of the toner rubbed off. Perhaps I should have clear-coated the decals first. I'm completely out of decal paper so I"m not sure if I want to pick up some more and give it another go, or take a different approach.

 

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