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

D, I love the car carrier. Watching the new cars come in was always one of my favorite things about working at a dealer. Really jumping around on this build. I think it's because I am still trying to figure out how to do some things. Anyhow, tonight I finished up the door trim panels. Tired of fussing with them so I will live with them and move on. I will add the straps to raise the windows later.

Jay

Worked on the frame and the interior today. I had to cut and trim the interior tub so it would fit. Next I will cut down the dash board. It's looks like I will also need to cut a little out of the front axel to bring the wheels into the fenders.

Joe - let's use the 3 rd picture for the gallery

Finally a sunny day and my son with his camera for some out side pictures. The cars on the truck are all 1968 model year: Fury station wagon, Fury III, Imperial, Fury I, Charger R/T, 300, Dart, Road Runner and a Barracuda  

Thanks guys!  The frame was a little warp/twisted, so its in the vice right now.  I had to glue the interior bottom with the fenderwells into the frame to try and get it to straighten out.  Once I put tension on the vice, it straightened out.  Now, just to wait for a day or so and see what happens.  Hopefully it will straighten out like I need it to.  I didn't notice it until I started putting the suspension together.

Tim

Probably a little unorthodox... but it works.  lol

Tim - night and day difference on those springs great job they will add a very nice touch to the suspension.

Springs look fantastic!!

Not too far from me, Jay.

I made some coil springs tonight... another coat of red and they will be set.

Tim

Tim nice work today I'm with Joe a light wash will bring out the detail.

Tim, I am in Laurel, MD. I will probably have to go back to work tomorrow, but my wife is going away for the weekend so I should get some quality building time then. Nice progress btw, looking very good indeed.

Jay

Thanks, Joe!  Yep, we got a good little storm... good thing I get paid regardless of snow days!  lo

I figured a light wash will do it.  I working on a couple of other suspension parts and will have pics in a bit.  Thanks!

Tim

Jay: 8 inches of snow..................keep it!! lol . Man I really like how that Dart body is turning out!

Tim: 10 inches of snow......................Jeez!!!  A light wash on that engine will bring out a lot of detail.....a lot ! What you have here is another great build in the makin's man!

Rob Gronovius: You sir.............are added to the roster. Let's roll!

Thanks to the snow day, I was able to get most of the painting done to get started with the build.

Should I give the motor a light wash, or leave it?  I was thinking very, very light wash would do it.  Thoughts?  Yes, those plug wires are white.  I figured it was different...

I got the top half of the body painted with the base coat (pearl red) and gave it two light coats of clear.  The dividing line will be in the middle of the body molding, which will be BMF'd once its complete.  The lower portion where the primer is will be black.  That pearl red is a really pretty color, but its hard to bring it out in these pics.

I thought this would be a little different than just plain old semi-gloss black.  I always try to paint my radiators aluminum, if I can.

The engine bay and firewall are pearl red as well.

Jay - Where are you at?  I'm a little West of D.C.  We got a good 10 inches or so, maybe more.

Tim

We got about 8 inches in our area. Made for a nice day of painting.

Jay

Rob - welcome to the Auto GB your Porsche looks good in yellow.

Jay - your Dart looks nice with the blue. Did you much snow/ice from the storm.

Snow day here so I will try to make some progress. Primed body with Mr. Surfacer 1200. Base coat is HOK Orion Silver and then topped with HOK Kandy Oriental Blue. Having trouble with the hood. Paint does not adhere very well at the base of the scoop. Had this problem with the first one as well.

Jay

Dan: I would make it flat myself just because it'll look a little off if a tire that's not exactly the size of the cut out is in there. I'm really looking forward to this build!

Rob: I'll get you in the intro post pal. It's great to have you in here!!

I just started to build my first car model in ages and saw this GB while heading to another GB I was following. I am building a Revell Porsche 928. It's the same kit I built in the late 70s or early 80s in high school and it was my dream car back then. I found it on eBay and bought it on impulse. I built it out of box as a rally car, but this time I am just building it as a plain jane stock car.

I happened to have a can of gloss yellow spray paint handy and used it to paint the body. I sprayed the wheel sprue chrome silver and sprayed the underside of the chassis flat black so far.

Here's some pictures of where I'm at. 

Tim - the red and white will look very sharp

Jay - looking good I use the same pre wired distribors and have had good results with them.

I will be making progress on cleaning the resin cab up and cutting down the Ford interior tub so it will fit into the Dodge. I also got some better pictures of what the 39 Dodge really looked like and may be adding some more details to make it look more like the real ones. I'm also working on cutting down the ramps that stick up. I'm not sure if I'm going to remove the indents that they have for the front wheels. Should I keep them or remove them and make it all flat??

It took a stupid amount of time for such a small return, decaling something the size of a large grain of rice, and then sticking four resin connectors in it. mad but strangely satisfying.

Tim: Man I really can't wait to see some more of that great paint work that you pull off! I've been eyeing a kit that I built as a kid and will apply your techniques that you have shared here (and abroad) on it. Check it out. I'll have it on the way tomorrow!!

Jay: Those seats you have freekin' rock man! That interior is gonna look great!

MOPAR - D

Looking good Jay

Thanks! Tried to get a little more done tonight. If you keep taking lilltle steps, once in a while you actually end up with a finished model. Stripped and repainted the door trim panels. I think I can work with them now. Assembled and painted the seats which are from Competition Resins. While I had paint in the airbrush I shot the engine compartment to check my work where I removed the battery tray and painted the inside of the body. Not a big fan of the four large ejector pin marks at the corners of the headliner, but would be difficult to remove and probably very hard to see anyway. Dug out a Morgan Automotive Detail distributor which I like a lot. They are prewired and come in 4,6,8 cylinders and choice of wire colors and cap color. Glued a piece of styrene rod to the distributor body to simulate the mechanical tach drive.

Jay

I wanted to try and knock the exterior paint out in the next couple of days since that takes the longest to dry, so I panel scribed and primed the main body parts.  I also did the spoon test since I haven't sprayed with the Testors Aztek series acrylics yet.  I chose pearl red for the lower portion of the body, and pearl white for the upper portion.  I am not totally sold on the pearl white just yet because it didn't seem to flow like I wanted it too, but we will see.  If I don't like it, I might go with bright white or titanium... haven't decided yet. Clear coat will be Tamiya with a light brown/beige interior.

My plan is the split the car right at the top of the molding line that runs the length of the car and divide it in half.  Top half pearl white, lower half pearl red.  We will see...

Tim

It's hard to tell that the white is pearl.

I ordered the Master Tools-Line Engraver off of Amazon and it's a useful little tool.  Well worth the $10.00.

The panel/body lines are really defined now, which I really like.  One day I will venture into cutting the doors and trunk out.  One day... lol

Here is what I envision the stance to be.  I know, I know... not many people are a fan of the "big wheels", but they fit so good in the big wheel wells.

Thanks, Joe and Jay!  Looking forward to seeing both of your builds complete.

Tim

I'm really gravitating towards replacing all kit supplied chrome with alclad after seeing this and other examples of its results. Looks really good Jay!!

Well I got the windshield wiper motor and ballast resistor wired up and ready to go this morning:

and got the exhaust installed yesterday!

Looking good Jay

Nice job all around, Tim. I like it a lot. Did a little bit today on the powertrain. Transmission painted Alclad steel, valve covers in Alclad chrome.

Jay