SPA Modeler

That is looking fantastic! Man, I feel like I could just sit right down and pull a cold one out to enjoy the game. This rocks!

Lyle: LOL! Thanks man!

Bruce: Oh hell yeah I am! I'll be cutting the door from the body in the back and opening that bad boy up.

Mark: I'll make sure I throw in a couple of brewski's then.

As for what paint scheme I'll be going with? I'm sticking with the box top on that. I just recently got my reprint of the originals in the mail....and for a great deal. I'd probably do 'em myself but I don't want to experiment with this one.

Scheme:



Decals: (The plates weren't part of the original sheet- I just had to do it!)

Oh, so this IS a gasser after all. How cute. Anyway, Joe, you are killing it.

Thanks Paul!! No Gasser though....lol

Well I took a break from all the test fit and prep work to get this thing to fit together. All that is going ok so far though. I mentioned that I was going to work on the wheel center caps for the front wheels. I just couldn't stand leaving the front wheels the way they were with no cap:



I then took the two rear wheels that did have a center cap and sanded the backs of the wheels down until all I had left were......well ....the center caps:



I then test fitted them to the spare front wheel that still attached to sprue. This'll work is all I've gotta say:



Some clean up left to do but looks like I'm in business!

I've really been working hard on getting this thing under way in the last few days as progress throughout the last couple of months has been fairly slow.

Front wheels are completed in regards to wheel center caps and the flooring is now installed/ adhered to the chassis:

Now you is just a-showin' off! I stand amazed in the presence of greatness.

LOL!!! Thanks Lyle!

Ok I'm mostly finished with the rolling chassis and interior. I still have to build a master cylinder and power brake booster for it and add the brake lines but I figured that I'd start on the body some. To say that the body has it's fair share of problems would be an understatement.
I usually see mold lines down around the corners and "what-not" but on top of the front fender? Really????????



This is pretty bad too....



and this is just nasty!!



and then there's the fact that there's not a headlight bucket one for the headlamp lenses. That's right! There aint nothin behind the lenses 'cept atmosphere! Good grief!! I'll be Frenching in some headlight buckets later on..............

I'm really getting a workout with my body work skills with this ride. I forgot to mention these areas too:

The seam line that looks like an upside down "L" beneath that body line there. Wow!



and this:



What's fairly surprising to me, even for Revell, is the total lack of headlight buckets for the lenses. No bucket, no bezels...just pop a lens into a hole and that's it.

I bought this guy here to rob the buckets/bezels from ...( Hey, I got it for 40% off at HL so it wasn't too expensive of an addition)



I frenched this one in there to show the difference this is gonna make by cutting the headlight opening back to match the headlight buckets diameter and trimming the inside of the opening so it would fit. In the following pictures you can see where I've gotten rid of a lot of the riff-raff in regards to seam/mold lines with the initial sanding. Wet sanding is to follow. I'll be taking care of the hood hinge cut-outs as well by filling those in.

Viva la difference:





I've still got a looooooooooooong way to go on the clean up just on the front end though. As tough as it's gonna be , it's far from impossible I can promise you that!

Oohhh...with enough scotch, you will never see those lines.