MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Marking out locations Adding detail now Under the hood side too Checking out the fitments
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Starting to look more like a charger grill plate now
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Checking for clearance The hood One piece was to high and facing a little off Adding more detail
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Mock up. without the grill and with the grill in Hook on for a mock up All in primer to see what needs attending to yet
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Okay, I reprimered it and got a little more done Testing the grill and hood alinement It's hard to see things when they are white Reprimed again
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Checking things out I am going to removing the hood latch unit
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Under side of the hood Checking things out with the real one and the model version Okay, I decided to take another hood that I had in the parts box and draw the stuff out on it and go thinner and it be a lot faster to
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Here is the original hood I used to draw on to the temp I mad First primer to see where I need to work at more While I work here and there on the under side of the hood, I also moved to rear of the project redoing a frame rail to make into a master to make a brass one
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Trying to get the right angles Here you can see the differents in the rails, the pass side one is being shape into the right angles The on for a mock up
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 A few more mock ups here I hope you all like the update. Sorry for all the photos.
Tony T Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 Looks like you are having fun, Jim...nice work you are doing there...some details that many of us would miss for sure.
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 21, 2013 Author Posted July 21, 2013 Looks like you are having fun, Jim...nice work you are doing there...some details that many of us would miss for sure. Thanks Tony, to be honest, I always thought Revell was good at details and got there stuff right on. I was surprise when I was looking at the grill plate and realized something didn't look right. Then I notice the grill was more squeezed in place on there charger models. Now don't get me wrong here, Revell does some good models and at times even the good company's can over look stuff in details and place them in the wrong location or make them to thick LOL. I know making the rear frame rails with the correct bends is hard even with me looking at my real '68 charger. I think of Revell and Meabus(sp) is the two goodest model car company's out there. With me rebuilding things here. It makes it more fun for me.
hjracing Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 Awesome build! Great detailed. I like to see people like you taken a model to a more realistic level. Keep it coming!
TFchronos Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 Awesome work on it so far, all the detail you're putting into it is amazing, I will be watching this very closely for sure. Keep it up!
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 Thank you all for the kind comments, comments are always welcome. Yea I do like to push myself to do better on each project I do. I also like to get each project to look real much as I can. I like to open the door and trunks up on my projects and the worst thing if open a trunk up to a model that has a unrealistic trunk to it like these chargers does and a lot of other model vehicles out there that does. I understand why people put trunk mats in there models for LOL. Anyways I got some stuff done yesterday on this build. If things goes right, things for this build can help out yet another charger build that I have going on that is a AMT charger. Anyways here's some updates. I hope you enjoy them. Drilling new holes out in the frame
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 Marking things out Trying to locate the rear leaf hangers connection area on the rail Plus some work on the grill, I scribe out the areas around the grill face
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 Okay, back to the rear of the project.. ah ah rear of the project LOL Now the fun begins here... the trunk pan in the making
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 I know, I have the frame rail on the wrong side of the trunk pan.. it should be under it LOL Test fitting with another chassis to see how it looks, the front area will be up higher on the new frame
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 22, 2013 Author Posted July 22, 2013 Another looksee I hope you all enjoyed the update.
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 good stuff Jim, very nice work indeed! Thanks, Bill! You all, I have a update on this.
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 Hi you all, well I been busy at making another frame rail to match. I used two piece's or evergreen and a thin piece of a for sale sign as well. I also drilled holes in the close to correct spots as I could. I have alot of 1:1 ref photos
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 I glued the original modified rail to the evergreen and started to use a diemond cutter bit in the dremel Here you can see the two frame rails now, you can see where I also added a extra 4x4 piece of evergreen to build up the height. The green marks are location points for the rear shock cross member
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 Getting ready to add more to the rail, I'm adding the lip to the top
MoparWoman Jamie Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 Now here I was adding a small detail to the frame rails. The wheel wells will be one hair away from these. Adding the top lip bends to the other rail
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