BIG General

harron68 wrote:Coming along well, so far!  I believe you're right.  Original engine had that odd NASCAR styled single carb manifold.  It may have been a Petty large scale car (?).  If it had dual front shocks you can bet on it.

Yeah, Another modeler said the front wheel openings were NASCAR and it has a fuel cell in back otherr things point to a race car.
All I did today was make a gauge to put on one of the fuel runners.  

You are doing excellent work on the big General Clay,well done.  

Reinforced the cowl with piano wire before trying to hog out the underside if the grill.

A sneak peak at a Willys?   

LOL. The Willys was in my care package. Just took it out of some brake fluid !

Cool!

Adhering to my usual practice of minimal effort interiors, I am going Mincraft one better over their sad effort of re-tooling the one on the Gen Lee. Not wanting to try to get something from that, I am simply gluing the interior side panels to the inside of the body.


  One of my peeves are tires extending outside of the fender lines. I realize that the Gen Lee is  a redneck thing where xtra wide wheel track is common, despite thinning the inside of the wheel openings as much as possible, I fear I'm going top have a problem. Wish I had the forethought to narrow the rear end at the time.   

The final mod. I'll clean this up and will be starting the painting. Then we'll see how the rest of this Mincraft abortion will go together !


  

You are being to hard on yourself Clay.... It's looking good.

I agree, it looks good to me.

Nice job Clay! It looks great!

Looks good from here.

This model is alive and well. Just been sitting in white base coat, waiting. I know what I want to do. I did a similar piece by hand on a smaller model . It was a tad sloppy.


I needed a special decal for the current WIP, the care package #1, so I have ordered the starter pack DIY decals from MIcro Mark, and hopefully, I can make a decal of this version I have worked up for the Big General.I need to overcome a new editing program (Picasa) to get this cropped and resized.  The starter decal pack is probably limited, so I hope I can get some usable stuff before the supply runs dry. But, This is the basis that I want to incorporate in the paint job.

Lot of new stuff to try with out mucking it up!
  

If you are not mucking up sometimes Clay, you're not learning!!

Bit the bullet this morning and laid the color. I used Krylon 'Rust Tough  Enamel', so it will have to do some serious waiting time before I try to touch up the bleed throughs and remove glue residue where I masked off for the decals.



  

I like the colour you picked out Clay.  I caught up with this and you did an incredible job on that engine.  Next best thing to the real thing in my books.

A real knock out color, Clay.

  

Now that's a nice "in your face" blue.
It'll look awesome when it's all together, and to be honest...... I can't wait to see it!

Sweet. Nice shade of blue. You are right the Krylon paint is slow curing.

I have the decals applied. There are a few wrinkles formed as the solvent is drying. Hopefully it will be alright. If not I'll have to do some camouflaging.
When this dries, I'll be coating it with a couple coats of clear for protection, then it's airbrush enhancement time!

 

Looks good!

Looks good, Clay.

looks sharp to me too !

Looks great. It's a good shade to pick. Good luck on the clear coat later.