Ok so we continue on with the engine. I was at the point of deciding whether or not to add power steering to this thing:
But I opted out because I've seen a ton of 340 Challenger engine bays without P/S and I don't feel like adding P/S lines at this point. Got other plans though for detail.
Here I painted up the rocker covers that USED to be chrome:
and installed them:
and treated the whole engine to a light coat of dark wash to give it that slightly used look and to highlight detail and painted some of the detail on the rocker covers
Here I've got the starter, transmission bellhousing and transmission painted up and weathered.
I started installing a wire harness and initially used heat shrink to contain the alternator ckts but the heat shrink was WAY too big.
So I opted for the usage of telephone wire insulation with the core stripped out. The alternator is from a newer version of the Revell Challenger that there's no way in Hell that I'll ever build. It has a mounting bracket on it so I get to display and alternator that's not suspended in animation on the belt. I painted the belt and pulleys flat black and applied future over the pulleys for that gloss look and dry brushed ground up black pastel over the belt for the dead flat look on the belt. I inserted the alternator output and field wire into the phone wire insulation and painted the insulation black for the wire shrouding. I also drilled holes for the heater hoses and spark plug wires that will go on here.
Then I painted the carburetors a mix of aluminum tinted with some gold and applied a light wash over these prior to installation. Here the wash is still wet but dried with just the right amount of shadowing.
