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I hear ya Dave. Being a pre-painted model also meant that the engine block was all one color too. All of it. Orange starter, orange oil filter......all of that stuff. lol Continuing on with this one. I managed to get the front and rear axles into place and still have some work to do to the brake rotors to adapt the Tru Wires to this car. I've already cut the stubs/ axle mounting bosses off of the front hubs and drilled holes for the new axle / wheel retainers. Engine is all mounted up as well. That was a feat in itself and required grinding of the "engine mounts" to slide the engine into place as it wasn't fitting into the mounts at all. I had ordered lug nuts for the wheels so now I can start on getting the wheels together at any point.

Off to a great start with this one Topher! Watching..........

Make that two of us!!

YESSSS!! Dann’s back!!

Let's get started.....shall we? I didn't like the rather predominant seam going right down the middle of the oil pan as well as the top and bottom of the transmission, so I glued the engine halves together instead of using the screw supplied in the kit to join the halves. Then I busted out with the sanding sticks and went to work removing all seams and primed everything in black. Started here with the pre-painted long block freshly sanded with all seams and sprue joins removed. It was a shame to remove all of the pre-painted orange from the block but I think I've got just the right shade of orange to go right back on. Then black based everything. No more seam lines! http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t469/bf109g430mm/Emotiocons/Chewy_zpsdjygjnjt.gif And shot the engine color right back on..... Here's after a couple of touch ups with some Tamiya Smoke applications over the kit chrome, painting a few details on the engine and adding some eye candy like a lettering decal on the blower drive belt and an AC Delco decal on the oil filter. I also spent some time picking out some of the details on the drive belt pulleys. I've still got some things to do in the clean-up department. Believe it or not, this kit comes with a prewired distributor and blued chrome for the headers right there in the box. Pretty cool feature and I'll be adding that coming up next. One thing I did NOT like was the blower drive belt idler just hanging out there with no kind of bracketry. Can't win 'em all. lol

The work that's going into these two builds is nothing short of amazing. I finished a 67 fastback in early 2022 and now want to tackle a Bullitt Mustang after seeing this thread. Highly inspirational stuff going on in here.

You're gonna have to let us know how the presentation turned out Steve. That shot of the interior and engine bay are just mind blowing and I REALLY like that 8 track player. Dad had one of those aftermarket players mounted to the bottom of his dash on his old 62 Chevrolet Stepside truck. I think we must've listened to the two 8 tracks Charley Pride-Greatest Hits and Elvis Presley-Blue Hawaii a million frickin' times.

I know a few other folks who use the 2K clear with some VERY good results like what you have here. I may be switching to this stuff.

After a looooooooong awaited silence on this thing.....we now have......paint!!! Using Vallejo Air colors on this and you can see all of the prep work if you look at the colors closely. I'm liking how it's turning out so far....

Truthfully, the only thing that's really an "extra" in the whole box is the pre-wired distributor and the blued exhaust headers Dave and it's surprising to me that these would go for that much back then. These need a little help in the "ultra detail" area. lol

That is the one reason I took up the T-Bucket build of mine was to get at least something completed by years end. Fingers crossed man........I'm hoping to pull one build off this year!!!!

Alright gang. We start...... Those of you who know me, know that I can't leave well enough alone.....even for a pre-painted kit. For starters, I had to do something with the wheel and tire arrangement on this. This is not to say that the ones that came in the kit were all that bad BUT.......I've been itchin' for an opportunity to use some wheels and tires that I've had in the parts stash for such an occasion. The wire wheels included in the kit are among the best I've seen in plastic, and I will keep them around for a future build. What's really going to help throw this build over the top is the use of these Tru Wires from Minicurtr8zing. A quick side by side comparison will show that the kit wheels aren't all that bad but these Tru Wires are definitely "all that". Rear wheels in the kit were a Cragar SS design but I had something more in mind. I got these from Teds Modeling Marketplace and these IMO are the best wheels anywhere in being aluminum and PE. I also had a set of 1/25 tires in the parts stash that these will fit perfectly in.

This is one way of doing just that FO SHO Dave.

Mister.......that is some really clean paint and BMF work!!

You are a true WILDMAN Dave.