Post by lo51merc on Apr 9, 2009 9:28:46 GMT -5
Now that I've got my Photobucket difficulty resolved I can post pictures of this build. But first I'll apologize for the crappy pictures as I haven't mastered my new camera yet. Since I do my model building in my unheated garage, I haven't had too many opportunities to work on this one. Now what we're getting some warmer breaks I've gotten a little bit more done on it. I'll start with the bobbed rear fenders first. I seperated them from the fender assembly by scoring at the inside corner with the back of a # 11 blade keeping the blade parallel with the inside. After cleaning them up so they fit cleanly with the inner fender wells, I trimmed them front and rear to where I felt they'd look good to me. I removed the factory bead on the outer edge, and rounded all the corners. I attached the fenders to the inner wheel wells after getting everything properly located, but they aren't attached to the frame yet. Other things I've done were to clean up the frame rails including smoothing the factory reveals. I opened up the "boxed" front frame rails, rounded the frame rail ends, and added a spreader bar. For the firewall, I first filled in the recess. I tried to add the stock factory stiffening beads, but wasn't happy with the way they were looking, so I took what I had off, re puttied and sanded again. Then I added the flange around the outer edge of the firewall, which still needs trimming. Thanks for looking! Gary
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