6th Annual 24hr Build

[martinfan5]

I am almost done with all the major painting, should be putting it all together soon

[Terry Sumner]

I painted the top of this with some slower drying stuff. Might be a big problem. Even in the dehydrator it's taking a lonnnnnnnng time. Might have to just let it cook for quite a few hours before I can finish up the top section....

[martinfan5]

Getting some work done now, baby is asleep, so its time to rock and roll and get some modeling done.

Here is the body, still a little tacky, painted with cheap wally world blue

here is the chassis going to together

and here are the tires and wheels, dullcoated the tires, wheels are paint tamyia gunmetal

Edited January 29, 2012 by martinfan5

[Terry Sumner]

Well I'm done for the night. The paint on the roof of the top section wrinkled and bubbled so I have to strip it. And I have nothing here to strip it with. Gotta go to the market in the morning and get some Easyoff oven cleaner and get that ###### paint off. Everything else is done to this point that I need the roof to build the walls of the top section...so I'm screwed for now. Sorry guys...

[martinfan5]

Terry, sorry to hear that, that suck, I hope you can over come this set back

[Rob McKee]

9 hours into the build and I feel good about the progress.

Decalling is going to be a big job but it will really bring the body to life.

[Rob McKee]

OK, enough for today.

[martinfan5]

Looking good

[martinfan5]

almost finished with it

[jeffs396]

WOW everyone! Terrific work you're all doing, and fast too!

It's gonna be tight for me getting done completely, but we'll see...

[Dr. Cranky]

Good work fellas. Terry, sorry to hear about the paint, you still got time. Hope everyone got a chance to rest and are ready for the second half of the build. Cheers, DC

[Rob McKee]

It is now 7:42 PST and I am back at her.

More decals and details in on the engine and chassis.

[tim08]

Got mine done about 11:30. Really had to rush this morning.

All my build pics are here.

http://s1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc438/tbaker3/24%20Hour%20Build/

Spent most time cleaning up the parts. Next year I will pick a newer kit.

[jeffs396]

Looks great Tim! Did you get 100% done by noon?

[jeffs396]

Here's where I ended up at noon...not complete

But, the paint turned out so well, I just couldn't rush it at the end. I've got to give it a chance to cure completely, then I'll polish. My OCD tendencies won't let me finish without making it the best I can, probably why I never get any builds to 100%

Build pics here:

http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad46/jeffs396/6th%20Annual%2024HR%20build%20jeffs396/

[hotrod59f100]

Wow Jeff and Tim both looks great.

[Dr. Cranky]

Wow, Jeff, J, and Rob, those are looking excellent. Tim, I like your car too.

Great work, and definitely builds to be proud of for only 24 hours worth of work.

[martinfan5]

I did not make it, I decided I wanted to sleep in, so I was close, only had some small details to finish up, but not bad for statring 3 hours past the starting time

[Rob McKee]

Well the knives and the brushes are all down now.

I started this model at 12:19 yesterday afternoon and just stopped. There are a few more decals to apply and plumbing and wiring on the engine. Just ran out of time for the finer details.

Challanges I had were waiting for the paint to dry. I used Tamiya Laquer and Acylics as well as Krylon. All are fairly fast drying but I still would prefer to allow paint to dry for a couple of days before working with it.

I bought this kit for 9.99 on a clearance table at the hobby shop. It was opened, the box was in rough shape, but the decals were old and had a little water damage. It took a long time and decal set to get the larger decals done.

All in all I had a blast. With a little more work I'll have my second build completed by the end of the day. I spent almost 10 hours yesterday and 4 1/2 hours today. Man, how in the world did we ever pound out kits in a few hours as kids?

[tim08]

Great job and thanx guys. Jeff, yes, at around 1120. It turned into a curbside build. I was a little shakey this morning, broke one of the trim parts, so I left them off. The windows were a real pain. The molds are shot for this kit. Almost more flash that parts. Anyway, turned out pretty good, considering I haven't built a model this fast in probably 40 years!

[martinfan5]

Everyones build look great, you guys all did a great job, I have learned one thing from doing this, is not use a race car for a build

[steve7119]

Great work from ALL of you! I am impressed with what you were able to accomplish in such a short time!

[Terry Sumner]

Well I didn't make the deadline but I have the offending part in the EasyOff right now. Once it's back to bare plastic I can restart. That was a bummer as I was so close. But I was so dang tired I didn't even get out of bed till NOON!!!

[Dr. Cranky]

Look at it this way, Terry, you are about to finish another wonderful model for your collection 24 hours or not!

Rob, that's a great build. Congratulations!

[Rob McKee]

Thanks Doc.

I don't know why I had such a tuff time with the 3 day build. That seems like a lot of time now. lol