mustang1989
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Man I haven't talked to you in a LONG while. How's it goin' bud?
- tucohoward and Martinnfb
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The master of 109's. VERY well built and displayed 109. Beautiful paint work!!!
- tucohoward and Martinnfb
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Thanks fellas!
I managed to shoot a coat of semi-gloss black on the chassis followed by a light over coat of super thinned out gray which helped to tone things down some and bring out some of the details. I also installed an engine oil dipstick on the drivers side of the engine. Here's everything all fitted up and ready to go now.
This is not the easiest of dashes to negotate in terms of modeling. I feel that I've turned out alot better ones than this, but you'll see what I have to work with.
I ended up cleaning a BUNCH of flash off of this thing and drilled through all of the gauge impressions.
I had some gauges from Goffer Racing that I used for the smaller gauges but used the OOB ones for the speedo and the tach to stay as close to OEM look as possible. I then cut them down to squares and glued them in from the back side. The swing pedal levers were then thinned out to a truer to scale thickness and the whole dash was pained up and detailed. The "Camaro" emblem on the glove box was a PE offering from Model Car Garage and the radio face station tuning decal was from the spares box.
I made a couple of changes and a few upgreades to what was already there OOB. I didn't like the fake looking OOB shifter so I made my own from a bobby pin. PE adorns areas of the dash and a set of keys now hang from the ignition switch.
- Archimedes, Pascal, LSP_Ray and 2 others
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Thanks Chris!!
Managed to get the engine mostly done on this rascal. I'm about 90% happy with this but that goofy looking fan clutch I'm glad to say will be hidden in the fan shroud.
- LSP_K2, Rockie Yarwood, A-10LOADER and 4 others
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Can't wait to see the finished shots. Beautiful lookin' bird man.
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Completed subframe with modified spindles to drop the front end a little bit along with the mostly completed bare engine:
I purchased my first two MAD prewired distributors. I've gotta say that I am definitely impressed. This cut my time in like 1/10th of the time from drilling the OOB distributors and inserting the ignition wire myself. They come in all kinds of cap and wire colors.
- Pascal, LSP_Ray, Rockie Yarwood and 1 other
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WOW!!!!!!!!! That's slap yo mama good right there!!!
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This is gonna be so frickin' cool to watch!!! Love what you're doing with it so far and yup.....you're gonna have your hands full in replicating all those details.
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On 9/19/2022 at 7:21 PM, LSP_K2 said:
I hate kit tires, especially Monogram/Revell and AMT, as they usually look like they belong on farm equipment. Choosing wheels is also a chore, as many that I want, are in kits that I don't have.
They've actually gotten a smidgen better in the later years Kevin. I can remember tires like what was on the old AMT 33 Willys gasser kits. I didn't even use those tires when I was in my early teens!! Just didn't look right....goofy is the word that comes to mind. lol
One of the shortcomings of this kit is in the exhaust area. First off, there's LOTS of clean up to do, more so on this kit than most any other of the models I've built in the past.
After that is the issue of the position of the tail pipe when it's all installed onto the vehicle and the fact that I'm not a big fan of square cut exhaust pipes exiting any give car.
OOB exhaust: (Note: the tires will be re-positioned in the wheel opening so I'm still working on that) This crazy right??
After tweaking the exhaust mounting points and bending the pipes to where I wanted them to exit the car (and adding my bevel cuts to the tail pipes and hollowing them out). That's MUCH better.
I still have some adjustments I'll make later on in regards to the final locations of each pipe but this is the preliminary result:
- themongoose, LSP_K2, chrish and 2 others
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This is certainly coming along nicely. This aircraft is big....even in 72nd scale!!
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The rear part of the chassis is about 70% finished now. Still have to install the rear sway bar, shock mounts and shocks but we're getting there. I had to take a break in the progress and narrow the rear end and arch the springs just a tad to achieve the stance I was looking for in the rear. I merely cut off the axle ends, shaved each end of the axle back about 3/16" , drilled holes in the axle and in the axle mounting ends and pinned them back to the axle. I've already done a test run and the wheel/ tire assemblies are right where I want em now.
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I've now got the wheels and tires selected for the Z-28 build. The rear tires will have those big ass GOODYEAR scripts shaved off and some BF Goodrich T/A ones will take their place. This'll be the stance/ look that I'll be going for.
- Pascal, LSP_K2 and themongoose
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22 hours ago, The Madhatter said:
thanks guys. I'm really sorry I haven't replied sooner - in all honesty; I completely forgot!
I will be starting the masking tomorrow as the base coat has now fully cured (after 3 weeks, it should be!)
Looking very much forward to it Simon!!
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'Bout time I got myself back in here and gave you guys some updates.
Starting on the engine build for the Z-28. Here's the base engine completed. I'll be going with a MAD pre-wired distributor on this to cut down on time spent drilling the distributor and putting the wires in.
Base chassis all laid out ready for painting. Actually, this aint a bad chassis having quite a number of parts. Per some of the reviews that I've read on these kits, I'll be attaching the front subframe assy at a later stage in the build for ease of assembly.
Quad 40 mm Bofors. 1/48 scratchbuiding.
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Now where does a guy start with a comment on THAT??!!