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Brett... This is looking great Bud!! and its coming along nice. Very nice job what you have done to the body so far. Looks great with you removing the rear louvered window and adding in the sheet like you did as well as the "snorkle" on the hood. Is this 1/16th or 1/25th scale. Keep up the great work.

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Thanks guys. Chris, its the 25th scale Schumacher car. Gonna plumb and wire this one ( will give me something to do while the paint is drying :rolleyes: , as I have to paint all the graphics ) .

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Well I put some primer on and l took some primer off sanded for high low spots) then I put some primer on and when I sanded it back off I was pretty happy with it (dang there goes my song). In between primer drying times I painted a few bits and started engine detailing. Oil lines

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Yes I know the sumps not painted but I dont want the paint to rub off with all the handling

Blower manifold plumbed and plug wires done

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test fits one and two

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tomorrow I will mock the headers up for the body cutouts then start laying some colors down as That will be the most time consuming job of the whole build

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Brett... that engine is looking great and nice job on the primer. look forward to seeing.more on this build. you are doing a awesome job, keep up the great work.

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Thanks, Put some paint on , yellow was done yesterday masked for the orange last night.

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Orange was sprayed this morning did the masks about lunchtime then sprayed the black

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Cleaned the airbrush then started removing the masks. Few little touch up spots but overall I'm pretty happy with it. Will let it dry and then give it a light west sand then go from there.

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That's great idea to paint those graphics, as Wayne said. I hate installing bigger decals. Paintjob looks good, after wetsand, are you going to clear it. Maybe that would give smooth and shiny look for it... B)

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I have to agree with the others, nice job on the execution on the Painting of the body instead of using decals. That is a task in itself, and you pulled it off very well. Like you said, just some small touch-ups, but it will look fantastic.

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Thanks guys, appreciate it :), Well I know why I dont do low riders now. 2hrs of masking to do the yellow pin strips and looks like another 2 to do the orange ones ::). Anyways pretty happy with how they've come out and gave free handing the name a go as my mask didnt work.

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little bit more work on the name I think it will be fine, hope you all have a safe and merry xmas

ps Niko, no clear yet

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Thanks Darryl, nearly made myself go blind today (no not like that ) I did the rest of the engine detailing (well most of it ). All A/N fittings are scratch built out of toys twist ties and hex styrene drilled then rounded off ends. Fuel shut off and throttle linkages are bits of coke can.

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test fit

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as you can see the body's being remasked for the orange pinstirping and tiding up some of the orange bits,

all hooked up in the chassis

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still need to do the accelerator linkages and spring paint the sump and redo the headers in flat black.

Thanks for checking in

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thanks guys. appreciate the nice comments

Now you're cookin' with gas, or nitro, whatever. Nice job of making the fittings and throttle links. Drilling that hex is lots of fun, right?

In a word no :D but I'm too tight to buy the pro stuff :lol::wacko: . Just a pity you gotta make five to get two :( ( when they shoot out of the tweezers to the modelling gods)

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thanks guys. appreciate the nice comments

In a word no :D but I'm too tight to buy the pro stuff :lol::wacko: . Just a pity you gotta make five to get two :( ( when they shoot out of the tweezers to the modelling gods)

I thought I was the only one that happened tooo! Edited by vintagedragfan
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I thought I was the only one that happened tooo!

:D Kinda the reason I'm too tight to buy them, afraid I'ld lose them all :lol:

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