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

So far it's looking great Seabe! You got a photo of the entire car?

I ended up applying a coat of Tamiya Smoke to the wheels today which really brings them out more if you ask me. I intended to do this from the start but one thing lead to another and before I knew it the wheels & tires were on the vehicle. After I noticed it I was too chicken to attempt the coating but the more I looked at it the more I decided it had to be done to get rid of that toy chrome look.

Before: (notice the high glare from them here)

and after: (a more defined and realistic look and this picture has even been lightened)

Mustang, that is a thing of beauty! 

The Williams white barge board issue has been resolved by hand-painting it without too much colateral damage. My next challenge is the rear wing. Promise (not a note!) to self - this is the VERY LAST time CA will be used for rear wing assembly. Just so brittle you cannot move the end plates in place over the lower section to test fit, let alone glue in place. Will have about my 6th attempt at that shortly, with the one end plate having broken off and having to be re-attached (so expecting it not to end up 100% to my liking) each time.

But here she is, starting to near completion. For attachment I think only rear wing and mirrors left, as well as antennae on nose. Then decals - some my be required before detail such as mirrors. You'll also be able to see the carbon decals on front suspension arms. Somewhat rediculous detail, I really have to know it's there to be able to see it looking at the car itself! 

Thanks Stang! WOW she's looking good mate! Needless to say street legal isn't in it's vocabulary? lol Great Work!!

Seabe: Man I hate to hear your troubles on the Williams. Hang in there and post pics of progress when you can as I always like seeing what you come up with on these things.

Dan: This thing just gets better with every post it seems like. Glad your in the GB Dan!

simpilot: Whenever you're ready pal. I've already got you down in the intro post.

Just a test fit of the body on the chassis so far. I've got to wet sand the body to get rid of some of the roughness and put one more gloss coat on this bad boy before I'll be satisfied.

Here are the fruits of 6 months work so far:

Looking Good Mopar!! Almost there!!

Just got my 1/72 Sopwith Camel finished so might break sprue on the Impala soon. Want to try and progress some unfinished business first. That 409 is calling to me though lol!

Worked on the interior and added the front grill and Brockway emblem. 

Wow Mustang - that is an awesome shine! Almost a pity that it had to be decalled over.

Speaking of decals, I have completed most of the major assembly on the Williams. So started looking at what had to be decalled before adding wings, wheels and mirrors. I sighed deeply and from the heart. 

The major barge board is painted SGB, as per instructions. I had the time to paint it any colour when not attached. But illustrations and the paint specs says SGB (TS29). So SGB it is. It is perfectly attached (perfect being a relative term, I know...) NOW I see the following on the decal images - a white barge board with wording on it! Nooo worries, the decal will then be white... Surely... you'd have guessed. Esp since much of the white sections on the kit will be white background decals. Look at the decal sheet... nope! Only the wording! 

I applied the first of the camera decals to calm down.

So now the barge board has to be hand-painted white on the one side. Which is interesting to start off with, because we all know white does not hand-paint very easily. But I must now also not inadvertendly touch and og the other car parts when wielding the brush! Why could they not have said upfront that it needs to be WHITE on the one side?! At the risk of repeating myself...  

Awesome! And thank you for your service as well mate! I was only over there from the first week in January to the cease fire in March. No joke, I had just come off leave from PCSing from Guam. The day after my first day, I rocked up for morning roll call and I was the only one there. Nearly half an hour later one of the Sgts saw me setting in our team's ready room and told me the news about Kuwait. I was like Where in the world......lol. So, I didn't get over till January, we were some of the first people to get back as our team chief was a CMSgt. close to retiring. I heard a story that he made a phone call as soon as it was over and told whoever to get him home NOW! I was on a battle damage repair team for C-130s.

LOL! Hey I was in about the time that Desert Shield was kicking off.  We were slated to go and all set and then we were put on "stand down" status. It wouldn't be until 2006 that I would go to Iraq and then it would be as a contractor. How long were you over there?

Thanks Stang! You're quite welcome! However I must say, that the Lt. Cmdr is ranks that were given in the Fleet Air Arm GB lol. However lol, I did serve in the USAF from 88-92, Desert Shield/Storm. Going to research some color combos while I'm doing other stuff.

Decals look great! Might try and order an MCG set that will help in the detailing.

I'll put you down for just that Lt. Cmdr. Thank you for your service BTW.

I broke out the decals that I had done over at Speedway decals. If you need decals for anything then I suggest this guy. All I've gotta say is .....WOW!! These things were a breeze to put on.

MOPAR she's looking great!! A big beauty!!

Stang WOW what a shine!!! Hope I can get a shine like that! Well, I had a look through my boxes and could not find my '58 Impala, however, I did find the other end of the 409 spectrum. It's Revell's '65 Impala SS convertible. My rother and I went to a Hobby Lobby when I was home years ago where they had the hardtop and the droptop. First thing I looked for was what was under the hood. I chose the 409 as it runs in my signette to have the years of the W series engines. Later on I got the '66 which has the 396. So I guess you can tentively put me down for Revell '65 Impala SS409 convertible. I truly need to get cracking on my aircraft so I might have a chance to do this long lady some justice. Now to download that wiring diagram I saw the other day.

Joe that is a awesome shine! Did you use your air brush to spray on the clear coat?

No problem Mr. Richie.

Dan: That thing is just drop dead gorgeous!!

All: I put a coat of Model Master Black Lacquer on the other day and came up with this:

and then I shot a coat of Model Master "Wet Look" on this morning and got this crazy shine ( the reflection was just too much for me to resist)

Nice !

Joe I like that leave the light on!

Not much change in the progress because I decided to change out the BMF I had on the grill to chrome powder and did not like the finish on the black fenders so I was redoing what was already done. Also painted the top section on the dump body. Started working on the interior to. I'm going to change out the white on the front grill to chrome in checking reference pictures it looks like they are painted/chrome depending on the owner so I'm going chrome. 

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We'll leave the light on for ya there simpilot:

 

Much abliged Stang! Will try and have a look this weekend. Really, thank you for that invite

We'll leave the light on for ya there simpilot:

Ooooohhhh I'm liking that Stang!! I will see what I can do mate! I have a few irons in th efire at the moment. Not much space to keep stuff either. So trying to finish what I have started. I have always had a car build in my mind about how I want it to look. Think I mentioned I had started AMT's '58 Impala and found an MCG PE set for it. I started the engine by getting the block, heads, covers, manifold all together. Started the detailing with the water pump to intake manifold coolant line, and thats where it stopped several yeas ago. So if I can't find that kit I'll see what I can come up with as I really want to do a Muscle car some justice. I have a signette happening, I have Impalas from '58 to '67 and every one of them is a big block

Dan: That truck is looking totally killer man. I've got a rig in the stash and may tackle it........one day. lol.

crown: I told you those decals would set that thing off. I really like the paint finish you put on these builds of yours. Let me know which picture you want me to put on the intro post and I'll get it there for you. Got another one in you?

Eric: Looks like you're makin some progress there good buddy!

Seabe: Great stuff outta you. The detail looks great!  Keep it coming with the updates as I really enjoy these builds from you!

simpilot: Grab and kit and get in here brutha!

Ok everybody. Between going to Kansas for a week and the doctor visits with my wife it's been hit or miss with the GB but now that that has passed I'm back in here full swing. I'm going to take off with some progress in here.

For a couple of days I was just stuck. I had the body primed and was going to test fit the body on the chassis so I could figure out where to make the hood cuts at when......I noticed that the body wasn't going all the way down on the chassis. Long story short I had to take the couch back out in the back as it was too close to the L/H wall of the body. It took me a minute to find it because I noticed a couple of things that I overlooked when installing the floor onto the chassis that'll help with body/chassis alignment later. Those are fixed as well.

As of this morning I was able to test fit the body and mark the hood for cuts later. One more primer coat and this'll be ready for paint.

WOW All round great work guys!!!!

looking good seabe ! Im having an error when I upload the 2016 badge every thing else posts ok but this badge?

Great job Crown! That is really looking good...

Some progress pics from the Jag - not too much there, but at least something.

Chassis and the initial cockpit and firewall have been added together.

Leading nicely into the start of the enigine work...

On the 43rd Williams, some more progress...

One of the wheels - all are at the same stage of "almost ready".

All came together thusfar.

And a quick pick of the CF decals on the suspension arms - not all are visible in the shot, but every suspension arms has been decalled. Yet strangely nothing for the rear winlet behinf the "shark fin" or the bottom section of the rear wing?! 

Sorry for the picture quality, taken by cell to just get something done! Hoping to get the Williams done "shortly"... but still some building and a lot of decalling to come!

Passionate poncho II is complete thanks for your comments and for watching.Your camaro is looking good.

Hey all,

Did some work on the Camaro this weekend. The body is still soaking in purple power. It would normally be clean now but it had one layer of a failed experiment LOL.

Got the exhaust done. I'll dry brush the red with steel to give it a metallic sheen.

Finished one door panel with chrome trim and knobs.

The rims that came wit this kit are not so great so I'm going to modify an extra set out of a 55 Chevy kit I have so I started laying those to see what modifications I need to make.

L8TR,

Eric.

thank you .that chassis is comming along nicely

Thanks Joe I picked the tires up at Double Take Replicas he has a small selection of resin truck tires,wheels and parts. Very good quality and quick service I bought them on a Fri and had them on Mon. 

Crown 7 nice work on the Pontac 

Worked on the exaust system today. 

drivers side and trunk decals done with rear bumper in place

Gotcha covered Steve! It's already there. Again, thank you for being a part of this GB. You're always welcome back so don't be a stranger.