ULTIMATE SCRATCHBUILD: 1:12 Hot Rod-Updated 03/12/06

[ImolaEK]

Looks very clean indeed. Keep up the great progress Mike. Im not of a big American Cars guy but this includes custom stuff therefor it attracts me to this project. Hope to see you finish this soon because its looking real cool. Hope everything turns out how you want it to.

Get on AIM man.

[mike@af]

Whats new?

Well today was pretty much a clean up day for the trans. I spent hours puttying and sanding, puttying and sanding, puttying and sanding. Then after that I did some more puttying and sanding. I finally feel close to putting the ribs on, then I notice a dimple, a rather large dimple, in the styrene from where earlier putty got chemically hot. So I had to apply the Tamiya Epoxy putty, wait 6 damn hours for it to dry. Normally the "half-ass want to get it done for pete's sake" me would have just let it be, but it was too noticeable.

So, about an hour left of dry time and I get sucked into "The Shawshank Redemption". And you all know TV, especially American TV, there are commercials every 15 minutes to make a movie last 3 hours. Needless to say I could have put the ribbing on, but got sucked into watching a movie.

All in all, Im waiting for some touch up putty to dry and then Ill sand the last of it and put some ribbing on tomorrow. Hopefully.

[customminatures]

kool, but why are there NO pics?

[IImportSupra]

Hey mike,

Im not hotrod guy neither, but this is one cool/interesting project you've got going on. Surry I couldn't post sooner, progress was going to slow lol j/k

Your always comming up with creative and inovative ideas, Keep it up man.

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by customminatures

kool, but why are there NO pics?

Coz it looks the same as it did the other day. Just cleaner. Hopefully it will be done today, keyword hopefully. I dont want to rush it.

Originally Posted by IImportSupra

Hey mike,

Im not hotrod guy neither, but this is one cool/interesting project you've got going on. Surry I couldn't post sooner, progress was going to slow lol j/k

Your always comming up with creative and inovative ideas, Keep it up man.

Its good to see you here Josh. I know you arent a hot rod, your the import guy, hence your user name, but glad to see you here as well.

Yes, a couple weeks ago progress was going slower than a stoned turtle, but now school is out, and I can work on it more, except for my job.

You know me, always different, always way out there.

[GT-Alex]

Awesome scratchbuilding mike !
You should call guiness book for the longest thread of the world ! 38 pages and you're at +/- 20% of the project !
This will be a masterpiece for sure.

[mike@af]

UPDATES:

Several hours of ribbing have just passed, seven hours of ribbing. Its not almost 1:30AM and Im tired as hell so Ill post the details of what went on tomorrow mornin'. Just look for now, its almost complete, one section left.

Enjoy. Now Im going to sleep.

[white97ex]

holy cow mike. that is simply gorgeous. even more awesome seeing as how it is simply modeled after a 1:24/1:25 tranny.

[KustmAce]

Good-looking transmission Mikey

[vwman]

How you can be so good??

[GvEman]

Looks great mike!

[Howielong]

Looks outstanding mike.

[Blowncivic1320]

amazing, greatwork

[mike@af]

Thanks a lot guys. Its greatly appreciated. Good to see you here Andrew.

As far as the details, I'm crunching some numbers right now. The RC wheels I have picked are 3-1/2" when to scale they are approximately 21" rims. Those are way to big for a hot rod, most hot rods have rims that are 17"-18.5". So what I am doing is making it 1/5 scale, it wont be a huge difference, but maybe enough to make the rims look proportional as well as the engine.

[EMAXX]

Dang. This build looks amazing. It'll be very nice to see what this thing looks like completed.
I've been gone for about a month, and now you, GTmike400 have 200,000 posts. How in the world did you manage that?