Jo-Han Dyno Don Maverick-Now In "On The Road" Section

Looking good Joe, I'm getting excited to see this completed

After a weekend I've made some more progress on this bad boy.


After robbing the foot pedal assemblies from the AMT Mustang kit I cut the grossly over scale swing levers from the back of each pedal






Then I formed up the levers and made some mounts on the back side of the dash in which to "swing" the pedals with...



I finished this part up this morning by painting the swing levers and pedals. I also darkened the steering wheel wood just a tad...



 

Thanks Dale. Man the shifter is what's gonna kick MY butt.

Nicely done mate, i'll be trying the same on the heb soon cos i have a nice set of pe pedals

Thanks Leon, Les and Mike for the great comments!

Well I got some more done on her this week. I cut the rear and two side windows out of thin clear styrene and decaled the side windows up with racing stickers. Just waiting on those to dry so I can dunk 'em in some Future so I should be going in with those tomorrow it looks like.



Then came the moment I've been waiting for at the rear of the car. Upon close inspection of the deck lid you can see some lock studs, quick release pins and cables at the rear most corners of the lid. I received my lock pin set two days ago so I was able to get some progress done on that.



Going back to that reference shot:





Progress so far. Still have to dot the 4 spots on each plate to simulate screws with some Molotow and add the cables later but here we are for now:

Thanks Les....I was hoping to take it to the Nationals Show in August but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. There is, however, an LMS contest coming up here later on in the year. The title is.....RED I think. 

Excellent detail work!

Thanks Martin, Dennis and Bruce! I really appreciate the comments guys.

You know fellas.....every once in a while you have to negotiate a TRUE hurdle in modeling. Sometimes it's paint, sometimes it's fit and sometimes it's things like I've been going through for the past week.....the assembly process. I've been building models for a long time and lemme tell ya.....nothing....I mean NOTHING has tested my patience and my abilities as a modeler as much as this aftermarket Liberty shifter from Futureattraction. To put it lightly...this shifter looks absolutely fantastic after it's all been put together. But therein lies the hurdle.....the assembly. At 26 pieces it is one of the most intricate PE items that I have taken on yet. I kid you not....I've got every bit of 7 hours wrapped up in this thing. I had half of it pieced together one morning after spending an hour + on it and the very next day upon picking it up to continue......it all came apart.  Yeah....stuff like that and then being under the optivisor the whole time.   icon_shocked_zpsq7jmp5d6  Eyes hurt...got a headache...got pissed off......contemplated throwing stuff and I think I made up new curse words along the way.  Feel free to contact me on the updated curse word list. 

I've still got to cut that one long pin off ( I'm leaving it in place to be able to work with it for shift rods install) and have just a little clean up left to go as far as glue smears but a little thinner and that'll go away. I felt a TRUE sense of accomplishment when I got up from the bench this morning and wanted to show that to you all.



The Liberty Shifter:





and to show you all just how small this thing is:

Thank you Dale and yeah....this could qualify as its own model. It's not the correct shifter for the car but I just had to have it in there.

That shifter is amazing! Lokks darn real! I can certainly appreciate the effort that would have gone into it. Well done.

Nice work on the interior mods Joe!

Still on this one gang. I hated to drop out of the 3 month build but there's just too much going on with this build to rush it. Will be starting back up this weekend on the drivers seat and seat belt harness.

WOW!!great job on that shifter Joe!

Thanks Les, Mike and Dean. It was enough that I had to take a small break on it and concentrate on another build that I could actually finish and get some results from. I'll be back on this one soon.