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Looking forward to seeing more updates on this crazy cuztom build.  You are the 25th scale George Barris - and I mean that in a good way.  Some wild ideas, some subtle ones added in and some great build techniques.  Did you every find where that dash came from?  It would suit a project I just got the body for.

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Remember this thing?   to be honest I completely forgot about it.. However I booked my room for NNL East, and I want to take something...  I went into my workshop to take inventory and look for a model I can have completed by April and this one jumped out at me.   So here we go!   NNL East of Bust!

There were a few things that I was stumped on back in 2018 that caused this to get set on the WIP shelf of doom, so first things first lets get those out of the way.

  • taillights
  • bike ramp
  • hood

So first up were the taillights, I grabbed some parts box bezels and then altered the body line with some thick styrene. I'm going to use some epoxy putty to mold all this together.
This helps make those cruiser skirts look less foreign and gives me a nice flat surface to do some 1956 ford inspired copper trim!

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God, I remember this! I was, (and still am.), amazed by what you planned and the the execution. This'll be awesome when completed. 

 

 

 

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Awesome! Love your thought process.😎 That frame and suspension work is insane!

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Progress!  Hood reworked/shortened, scratchbuilt cowl vent, frenched side pipes, firewall detail added, bulkhead constructed, and epoxy putty applied and smoothed… I think I just need to work on a reversed hood hinge and scribe some door lines and its time for some primer!

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A little more progress... primed, hinged , lots of little detail added... some more filler and cleanup to do, hoping to display on the "in progress" table this Saturday in Columbus Ohio for the Buckeye Classic!

 

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