The 2015 /16 Red Hot and Rollin Automotive Group Build--Ended

Hi guys!  Sorry I haven't been on here much to post, but I am tracking the status of everyone's builds.  I've been on the road a lot over the past few months, followed by the '66 build.  I am hoping to get some bench time in the winter when things slow down.

Here is what I am working on, if you are intersted.

Tim

Thanks simpilot34

Sprayed the first coat of yellow on and wet sanded it for the second coat finished detailing the slant 6 with wires and a fuel line. Started on the chassis with the front and rear suspensions also painted the black in the front grill. 

The front end will come down to make it sit level. 

Great work Mopar!!!

Thanks for the comments and recomendations. 

Decided to try using some chrome powder for the door handles and window cranks and wired up the slant. 

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All I got done in the mean time was to install the engine onto the floor, no biggy. 

And got out the next 43rd scale victim. It will be Olivier Panis' car he drove to his only victory in Monaco 96 in the rain. A previous generation model of Tameo, so that complex rear wing is a bit daunting, plus during cleanup of the body I saw the masses of holes to be drilled for attachments. This may be more of a challenge that I hoped for! But this is what the car is supposed to look like - here he is stopping at the unique Monaco parc ferme having done a lap with the French flag.

Loving the work here guys!!! Well done everyone!!

Still trying to complete my floater project before I commit here.

Dan actually had an almost similar decal situation with my E7K, mainly due to the age of the kit, well actually had some shattering. I coated the remaining decals with some Micro liquid decal film, couple of coats that leveled out beautifully. Application was then straightforward. Set and sol worked as normal with out the decals falling apart.

Seabe: You're really rockin' with that engine detail. Nice metallic color usage as well.

Dan: I hate to hear about that decal cracking on you. Hope you get it to "behave". I am looking forward to the body color and the continued engine detailing.

Seabe nice engine detail. 

Small update I've sprayed the interior and tried using some decal seat entail and they cracked when I was placing them. I'm going to try spraying them with some decal clear spray. Going with the tan and yellow for the build. Getting ready to wire up the 6. 

Glad you got those wheels sorted, Eric! And a cracking paintjob... 

Two quick shots to show the Jag is still alive. I've since decided that the detail set is... well... not going to really add much in real sense of the word. So skipping most of those.

Incredibly, I HAVE rotated them to be horisontal. Obviously that excersice counted for nothing. 

Dang that paint job is looking clean Eric!! Wow!!!!!

Thanks Dan,

Thanks Mustang, great work on the Master Cylinder, I'll have to up my game LOL. 

I did a light wet sand with 1200 grit on the clear coat today. I was going to spray a couple more coats but why tempt fate. After sanding I threw some polish on it and buffed it out and it looks good. And NO RUNS WOOOHOOOO! LOL I think I will put another coat of polish on it though.

All that's left is to put on the black chrome around the windows and install the glass.

I also got the rear wheel issue taken care of. Everything now lines up nice and the wheels sit inside the fender wells. I'll tackle the fronts this weekend.

L8TR,

Eric.

Seabe: That's a scale in autos I could never venture into for the same reasons as rommelkiste mentions so I have the utmost respect and appreciation for anyone who can pull an automotive build off and make it look as well as you did in that scale. I think the same can be said for alot of modelers that the closer to the end of a project we get , the more we tend to hurry things a bit. I know it's true for myself. These days I try to actually slow down by making  a physical list of things left to do and crossing them off one by one therefore making individual tasks that I need to complete instead of so much at once.

Eric: I really can't wait to see the outcome of that paint finish! That thing is looking totally killer!

rommelkiste: Brother I do know how that feels to do so much work and have just a few progress pics or little progress in the way of total outcome. Hang in there brother, all this work will pay off.

Everybody: So far for the past few days I've been able to finish up on the master cylinder and brake lines as well as get the battery cables started. My concern with the battery cables is that the PE parts are just unrealistically flat. I'm currently searching for more realistic cable ends but if I can't find any then these'll work. Still gotta form and paint the battery cables and form and paint the vacuum hose on the power brake booster but I'm getting there with every passing hour spent at the bench.

After three days of fitting, sanding, filling and changing this is all I have to show for it.  The two slat wing is just way too small so I used a second wing from a spare kit and hacked it up to make a full scale 64" wing.  Now another three days of sanding, putty and tweaking to get it right.  I will lose the rivit detail but I am not sure I care, I can always add that back later.  

I also have to fill and move the fuel filler back some.  In its kit molded location, it ends up in the drivers left ear. 

I dont think I am going to worry that much about "Accurate".  I will just worry about getting this thing finished.  I cant wait, I have always wondered what lipstick looks like on a pig.  

Eric your paint looks good it's going to be shiny when your done with it for sure. Your engine looks good to. 

Seabe,

Congrats on the finish! Sharp.

I hit a small snag with the Camaro. I did a test fit to see where I'm at with the wheels and they won't fit under the fenders with the rotors where they are. Looks like I need to move them in about 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch to clear. The back will be easy since I have enough axle to trim off, The front are gonna be difficult. I want to keep the same ride height and still have the upper control arms sit in their normal position. I may end up fabricating new spindles with a reversed lip to catch the outer edge of the upper control arm.

Now for other stuff, I sanded the body over the weekend and washed it today. After it dried, I sprayed 4 light coats and one wet coat of Model Master clear acrylic. I'll let it dry for a day or two and sand it with some 12000 grit and then spray another 2-3 coats. It's still wet in the photo giving it that milky look. :)

Also fabricated the upper alternator bracket out of solder, and the lower bracket out of round stock. Engine is just about done. Also finished up the headers. The one photo shows the result of welding them instead of glueing, getting rid of the seam.

Later,

Eric

Seabe, those little kits look great but I cant do them, just too durn small for my crappy eyesight and stiff club fingers.  I owned one but had to trade it off for something i could see.    Do em while you can, your day will come!  LOL!

Dan, I like the leaning tower of power stock stuff.  Back in the day of these cars, THAT is what I saw.  I never did see a street driven HEMI anything in those days.  The only time I saw a HEMI was when I went to a Drag Race somewhere or saw the Stockers.  I think the biggest engine on the street I saw back then in my home town was a 383.  Nobody could afford that big stuff.  I have seen more in the last 10 years at car shows than I ever saw when it was in production.  Keep building!

So, after a bit of "life getting in the way", I could snap a couple of quick pics today. Pics highlighted some cleanup still to be done, but won't put it through another photo shoot just for that! 

Like I said, the finish was a bit of "let's just get this done" after some issues with rear wing, decals and... I know there was something else as well. Oh yes, the masking - how could I forget?!

Here it is - some things really look horrible on these photo's that aren't even visible when you look at the kit.

Yes, even decals on the mirrors! You can hardly see them IRL!

and the obligatory side-on shot. (Sorry for the background!)

Not sure what I'll follow up with. Still busy with the Jag as well, in a more "visible" scale. That was in a bit of a hybernation due to this one's completion.

Eric: Those are some wild azz headers and all progress is looking great. Glad to hear that you recieved your part from Revell. I've found that when I ask for a part they don't hesitate.

simpilot: Thanks for dropping in and looking forward to your build.

Dan: Wow!! I'm not much on bone stock stuff but you are really doing this one justice. Nice to see something different in the auto world.

rommelkiste: That's looking spectacular so far!!!! Can't wait to see your progress in August!

Seabe: I feel your pain with the feelings toward the kit. I was really disgruntled with the Revell offering of the 56 Ford I built. Patiently waiting on those finishing photos bubba.

Got the battery painted and detailed. Gotta work on those cables and terminal ends maybe late tonight or tomorrow morning.

Made some progress on the body and sprayed some primer on it to see what else needed more clean up. Started on the slant 6. 

WOW I'm loving all this progress going on!! Great Work guys!!

Hey, Rommelkiste! Great to see you back. :)

Thanks Mustang, those clips come in handy for a lot of stuff.

Thanks Dan.

Mostly worked on the engine. Still can't find the runaway carburator base. Hate to leave it out but may have too.

Started putting all the little stuff on the engine, flattened out some solder to fabricate the top alternator bracket and welded the headers together. Hopefully there won't be too much of a seam on the collectors to clean up. Tomorrow I plan to start prepping the body for the clear coats.

L8TR, Eric

Good to have you back, Rommel! That looks like an awesome project you're busy with! Best of luck and enjoy it - work through the challenges and frustrating moments there surely will be. 

I finished up the Williams by adding the mirrors yesterday morning before work. So wanted to take a pic or two and post it, only to (fortunately!) realise that... I obviously leave the large sidepod decals off till the very last in order not to touch them too much after application! So that ought to be done within the hour, will post pics tomorrow. But was very disappointed with an aspect of the kit - the masking guides... there were none. Think I mentioned it at the time as well. Only rough indicated image on instructions and go away as you want... So that did not come out 100% and ruined the experience on the kit completely for me. I mean really, a mm too wide or narrow on this scale makes a huge difference, so why not at least have some thin guidelines scripted on the kit? Anyways, rant over - it was a nice kit to build, anyways! 

Mustang, I will be starting the Donohue M16B sometime after Aug.  Lance's new kit has some 3/D printed suspension and parts that should make it super cool.  It also uses the Indycals Offy with all the correct pieces.   As far as the one I am going to attempt now, I have more things to fix than assemble.  While working on the tub, I grabbed my tube of filler and its hard as a brick.  Gotta wait until the new stuff gets here so my first bad word of the day was spoken.  So, I started modifying the side pods for the radiators.  The kit has you glue them to the back so I made the change to make them fit flush, like the real car.

The rear wing really threw me.  Good ol AMT, they got it wrong again.  For the Indy version, the rear wing would have been 64 inches wide.  During Pocono in 73 USAC cut them down to 55 inches.  My scale ruler tells me this wing is only 43 inches wide.  The wing from the 74 Rutherford kit measures 54 inches.  Guess I will be cutting up two wings from the 73 kit to make one since the 73 wing is double slat.

 The end plates on my gloo bomb were not only the wrong shape, they were glued on up side down.  I cut new ones from plastic sheet about the thickness of photo-etch pieces.  The new one is on the Left.

Now I know, most people wont know the difference.  I will.  If I ever get all this cleaned up and the wrong parts corrected---mostly corrected, maybe I can start building and detailing the Offy engine.  I knew this kit had its flaws but it looks almost un-buildable out of the box.  I built this kit when it came out in 1973 and thought it was really cool.  Now, 40+ years later I think its a pile of junk.  I am surprised I even got it together back then.  I guess our skills and expectations change more than I thought.  

rommelkiste: Man is it good to see you around again and it's great having you back in the GB. Looking forward to seeing you work your magic with that  '72 Donohue  !!

Dan: Wow!! I'm gettin' stoked here just seeing what you'll be doing with this one! Proceed sir.

Eric nice progress

Rommelkiste looks like a very interesting project restoring a glue bomb and fixing AMT's errors. Looking forward to see how you proceed with this one. 

I've started on my 68 Belvedere with cleaning up the resin body and opening up the hood as I'm going with a slant 6 to keep it with the bottom base level model. I've also started test fitting the chassis, interior and body all together and it looks to fit together good. I'm going with steel rims and small hubs with black wall tires. "plane Jane"  Here's some pictures of where I'm at. 

Hello guys, been away much too long.  There has just been no time for my modeling projects the last year.  Now I have some time and find I must develope my skills after being idle so long-----its not like I had any skills in the first place but even the simple stuff is tough right now.  Maybe I can get this ONE project completed before this GB ends.  My intent on this project was to convert the AMT Penske Indy Special into the '72 Donohue winner.  I was notified that Lance Sellers was going to release his kit of this car in AUG. so I changed my plans for this build.   I am using the AMT kit and a built Gloo-Bomb I picked up on the cheap for parts.  It was not built well at all but I was able to tear it down and save all but 3 parts and dump it in the purple stuff.  

One thing I had forgotten about these old AMT kits is that NOTHING fits NOTHING.  I think every part needs to be re-engineered.  The cockpit surround on this kit sits crooked, no matter what you do.  After looking it over and doing some measuring, I took out 2mm at the line by the pencil to get everything level.  

Thats about all I have to show at this point.  All work is in clean-up and getting parts to fit where they are supposed to.  I will have more later.  I forgot to mention that this will be the the Gary Bettenhausen 5th place finisher in 73.  I hope I can get my skills back up and get these parts to fit because I would hate to start this Wip and only have a hole in the wall to show you guys in the end.  Mustang, you can add me to your list with a 73 Mclaren M16C/D.    Later

Lookin' good Eric!! Neat tip for installing the seats. I may have to try that one!