SPA Modeler

LOL!! Thanks Lyle!!
Well the hard efforts of Saturday night at the hotel and this morning have paid off finally. I've got the cut out cleaned up and ended up having to shave some plastic off of the bottom of the hood scoop so that the chrome air intake horn would clear the scoop. That thing is tight on the clearance!!! The scoop is only about .032" thick now in the center and I started with .058" !!!! I have the holes drilled in the hood and in the edges of the scoop so I will be able to pin it in place to make things easier to install later.

Still gotta prime it and paint but here it is so far:

This is almost monumental considering that I tried to prime this yesterday and the exterior of the hood turned out looking like somebody sprayed gray Rhino Liner on it. I have since stripped it all the way back down to the plastic and now have re primed. I ended up pinning the hood scoop so it will be a lot easier to install once everything is painted.

Well I ended up shooting some paint late last night on my hood and scoop. I've still got some work to do on the clean up and polishing of it as I've got some dust particles in the paint and one or two small bubbles to contend with but with a little finesse I think I'll be in the green. I'll just set this aside for the next couple of weeks and then start to work on smoothing it all out. Mean while I'll turn the attention back to the brake linkage as I think I have that one figured out now.

Ok fellas. Now for an oversight on my part. I initially sanded off and removed the hood emblem from the front of the hood. What I forgot about is that given the fact that I am going to stick with the body look on the box top with the red paint and the flames I neglected to look at the decal sheet which clearly has a cut out for the hood emblem!!



I've got two more hoods if I need 'em so I got this bright idea to use one. I cut the area containing the hood emblem out of one of my two usable spares:



and sanded the area down on the backside until I had my emblem back.



a little closer...



and then BMF'd it with the "chrome" stuff.



I was wondering at first how I was going to get through that obstacle and am glad that problem is solved.......
Now..............to the next challenge............

That was a brilliant idea! This actually will make it look even better. Nice thinking there!

Thank you Mark!!
I was working on the hood and firewall to stall myself long enough for a problem to resolve itself and I think it did. I was looking on my work bench at a broken 1/8" drill bit and was about to toss when I had another thought. I could use the smooth /arbor side of the drill bit for a master cylinder pivot point for the brake input linkage and rods. I cut the drill bit about 9/16" long, drilled a hole in the frame at just about the right point and pushed 'er through. It worked perfectly.....





Something else also crossed my mind when I was doing some of the paint and body work pertaining to return springs. While I liked the idea of the wrist watch band retaining pin spring I was searching for a spring still yet smaller and more to scale. I do like a lot of the scratch work that goes on with home made wound springs but I just wanted something with a little more uniformity in the coils. I think I might have found what I'm looking for. My headlight burned out in my truck yesterday and wouldn't ya know there's a filament that looks like a spring in there? LOL. While a headlight bulb filament is NOT the right scale, a 3157 light bulb...................is! Today I broke a bulb on a spare bulb I had in my spare parts drawer of my box (all you automotive style mechanics out there know the drawer I'm talking about too--spare bolts, nuts , fuses, electrical stuff, and just about everything to put a car together and run with drawer) . Inside there were two filaments: One larger than the other and both more than perfect for what my use for them was.







The next obstacle.............lengthening the driveshaft by about 1/4".

Pretty nice work. For a FORD...

LOLOLOL!! Hey man ya gotta cut a guy some slack here. The ol' 56 F-100 is a good lookin' truck!

I'm just joking. At least it is American made

Exactly!! LOL. I am wrapping up the rear wheel mini-tubs and hopefully will have pics of that soon.