1969 Torino Talladega Resto-Mod

[Jim0205]

Great build Mike, really like the details your putting into this.

[Blake Rogers]

everyone give Hemi a big round of applause dude ill give him a beer great work mike .S ill be looking over ur builds to get ideas for mine.

hey marc what rims are those on ur car i love them and would love a pair

[Custom Mike]

Here's another update, I have my front brake line in place, my block is ready for the feed from the master cylinder, and all is good on the brake system. And a buddy of mine on another Forum has a Boss 429 heading my way, so I'll have the engine I want in this one after all! Here's the new pics, enjoy!

[oldscool]

For someone that's not a rivet counter, you are doing some very nice detailing! please keep posting.

oldscool

Edited March 23, 2010 by oldscool

[whale392]

Some rivet-counter habits are good ones to keep! The detailing on this is shaping up to be beautiful.......also wanting to see this in 'Under Glass'.

[MrObsessive]

Superb Work!! Love the detailing------especially that chassis!

[camaroman]

Great job so far Mike!

[Jon Cole]

I like this! In fact, I am saving some chassis plumbing pics for reference! Two thumbs up!

[AlanNZ]

Jeez, this really gives me something to aspire to!

[Custom Mike]

Thanks guys, it's not 100% accurate (Flexible lines out to the brakes on the back axle? Not in the 1:1 world unless you've got steerable back wheels or IRS), but it looks good enough to make me happy, and that's all I shoot for. Now onto an update or six, I've got a ton of progress to show since I've been away. Here's where I show just how much work goes into getting these Aoshima rims onto a Revell kit like they were meant to be on it. I take the original Revell wheel backers, some snips, and a whole lot of time shaping with a bunch of sanding sticks until they fit inside the Aoshima rims nice and snug. Yup, it's tedious, time consuming, and aggravating, but totally worth it. This time, I'm going to try casting all four of the modified backers so I can use them again just by pouring some resin into a mold, hopefully saving me a ton of time on the next set I use. Here's the pics, the original backer is on the left, the finished one is on the right, and the middle two are the stages between start and finish. I also threw in a pair of pics of the Pegasus Hobbies disc brakes I'm using, the original is on the left, modified on the right. The center has to be opened up to slide onto the Aoshima rims, and the tube on the front side needs to be removed so it'll go far enough onto the rim to look right.

Edited June 6, 2010 by Mike S.

[Custom Mike]

And some mock-ups of the disc brake rotor on the rim, front suspension, and the painted disc brake, I used Metalizer Aluminum Plate and Tamiya Clear Red for the rotor....

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[Custom Mike]

I've got all four rims in place, my brake lines are connected, and the chassis is complete. I did have one snag though, since I'm too "manly" to use those wimpy instructions, I ended up with my leaf springs on the wrong sides. No big deal until you try to mount the shocks, then you realize why the instructions are there. I fixed it, but my shocks are super-glued to my leaf springs now. Yeah, I'm a world-class screw up sometimes, all this work and a stupid mistake had to bite me on the butt.

Here's the best shots I could get of the lines attached to the rotors, enjoy the view, because you'll never be able to see 'em once the body's on this baby!

[Custom Mike]

And some close-ups of the rims, and the body on the chassis. The interior is up to bat next......

[Custom Mike]

I found some Dupli-Color Vinyl & Fabric paint in Sliver, so it'll used on this baby, bringing the Silver on the body in to the interior. Black accents, some BMF on the door panels, and some Gray flocking will be used. I painted the rings on the gauge cluster with some Metalizer Aluminum Plate, the gauge faces were given some Flat Black, then the center of the gauges was painted with Metalizer Steel and buffed out with a Q-Tip. A little dry brushing of Flat Black, and that's where the dash sits now. The steering column and steering wheel were painted. Here's the pics, more in a minute!

Edited April 6, 2010 by Mike S.

[Custom Mike]

I painted the seats, but need to find a good flat Silver or Gray to use for the inserts, since they're fabric and not vinyl. I painted the floor mat and pedals Semi-Gloss Black, the speakers Flat Black, and the outer edges of the speakers got some Aluminum Plate, which was buffed out. The door panels got some Flat Black on the inserts, then they were given a finger rubbing to give them a satin sheen. BMF was applied to the window cranks and trim at the top of the door panels, then I painted the window crank handles with some Semi-Gloss Black and called it good....

Edited April 6, 2010 by Mike S.

[Custom Mike]

I added some Purple nail polish to the tops of the door panels, the package tray, and repainted the dash in Purple just for fun. The bottoms of the door panels got a little flocking, along with the floor pan. I decided to add the Purple to bring all the body colors into the interior....not exactly what Ol' Henry would have done, but I ain't afraid of no ghost!

Edited April 6, 2010 by Mike S.

[Custom Mike]

And finally the seats get some Purple. I masked 'em both up real quick, fired up the airbrush, and sprayed away. I now have some killer Purple and Silver seats! The best 15 minutes of work I've ever had!

Edited April 6, 2010 by Mike S.

[Custom Mike]

And now, my completed interior, and some mock-up shots in the body. I'm going to get started on the foiling and engine tomorrow night, and hopefully have this one wrapped up by the weekend.

[brett]

very very nice Mike, some great work you're putting in here

[pharr7226]

Great job on the interior. I like the use of color and the integration of the interior and exterior colors.

[Custom Mike]

Thanks guys, I would have left it Silver and Black, but it just looked so plain I had to throw some Purple in to jazz it up. Now onto the foiling, I ran out of Detail Master's Krome foil, and fell back to my old stand-by, MicroScale's Metal Foil Adhesive and cheap aluminum foil. There's a thread over in Rants and Raves about this right now, I'll be showing how I use this stuff fully here. I start out by "painting" the adhesive onto the trim I want the foil on, much like how us old farts used to paint Testor's #1146 Silver onto the trim. I let it dry for about 15 minutes, then lay a piece of aluminum foil on the "painted" trim. I burnish it down good, then trim it as you would with BMF. Once it's trimmed up and I'm happy with it, I break out my Mequiar's #7 and polish it up until it's nice and shiny. Here's the pics, enjoy!

Edited April 10, 2010 by Mike S.

[nails3825]

That's going to be sweet when it's finished! I like what you did with the interior, blends in nicely with the rest of the car Interesting technique with the aluminum foil too... and much cheaper!

[Custom Mike]

Sorry about the long delay on this one, but life can do that to ya sometimes, I've got a nasty pinched nerve in my left shoulder that has got me all kinds of messed up, but I'll get through it, I always do. I hit a snag with the brake booster/master cylinder assembly. When I mocked it up, I noticed that the master cylinder was right up against the shock tower, meaning no brake lines coming off of it. I couldn't allow that to happen, so a buddy of mine on another Forum (Sir Shaggy) suggested I cut the booster down. Here's the original booster assembly, the modifications, and the new, tighter twist brake lines, now we're back in business!

[Custom Mike]

Next, I painted my battery and washer bottle, it's not perfect, but it's good enough for me. When Kevin painted this, he applied some liquid masking to the washer bottle and battery, but forgot to tell me about it. So I applied some DuPont Nason Clear to everything, making that liquid masking very difficult to get off cleanly, hence the rough looking surface on the battery. That, and I really hate using White paint on a model, I never can seem to get it to either cover well, or go on without brush stokes in it. I painted the top of the battery Flat Black, painted the battery caps White, then covered the White with Red, and painted the clamps Metalizer Dark Andonic Gray. I have no clue what that color is actually intended for, but it looks like lead to me! I put the decals on the battery, then I painted the shock retainers Metalizer Steel just to bring some more color into the engine compartment. Next I went to work on the air cleaner, I filled in the opening on the bottom of the snorkel with a piece of sheet styrene, then added a bit of Mr Hobby White putty to fill in the gaps. Here's some pics just to prove I actually did something other than type a lot of gibberish....

[Custom Mike]

And the last update for the night, after some sanding, stripping the chrome (I know, I should have done that prior to actually modifying it, but I'm a bit behind the curve sometimes!) and removing the little "shoulders" that are at the end of the snorkel (Where it meets the air cleaner itself), I laid down some primer, then some Ford Engine Blue. I'm going to mask off the top of the air cleaner once the paint cures, and spray it with some Metalizer Aluminum Plate and buff it up nice and shiny. It should look a whole lot better once I've got it done, that chrome was just too much!