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Well, there's good news and bad news.

The good news is.. the silkscreen system works GREAT... so fluorescent decals are much easier now.. and i don't have the same limitations i did in the past.

I got the fluorescent paints a couple days ago and finally opened the kit.. It took a few tries to get everything right, but i've successfully ran a few sheets of fluorescent orange and they look awesome.. the orange is so bright it's almost blinding!

The bad news is... I wanted to see how the Moyer body would look with the fluoro orange on it. so i printed out a set of decals and put them in place... and the red was just too dark.. it looked ok bare red, but when i put on the decals the red looked almost maroon.. which wasn't going to work.

So i tossed everything into an acetone bath.. Acetone is great because the paint falls right off in minutes back to the shiny brass.

I'll prime and paint them again tonight.

The red i have is actually a dead perfect match, I used the Dupont Color codes straight from Performance Bodies to get the paint mixed, but I painted the red right over a dark grey primer. This version i'm going to paint over a white undercoat and it will brighten it up significantly.

Moments like that are why I usually don't set a target for completion on the cars.. one day the model can be sailing along great, and suddenly I have to fix something that takes days.

Live and learn as they say, i'm always improving how i'm doing things in an ongoing process.

Mike,

Thanks for caring enough to get it right. You know I don't want you to feel hurried at all. Take whatever time you need to produce a replica you are proud of and satisfied is as accurate as you can make it.

Looking forward to seeing those flourescent decals!

HPD

The past few days i've been concentrating on making parts in quantity, so there hasn't been much to show. I've been mainly concentrating on shocks, since i ran out of the ones i had already completed.

For the working shocks, unfortunately i'm going to have to dump the colors on the springs. I'd purchased a powder coating system some time ago, and its been nothing but problems that's taking way too much time to make a set of colored shocks that look nice. So the springs will be available only in Black or Silver.

I will be purchasing a kit so i can coat the springs in Black Oxide. All i'll have to do is dip the springs in the 'magic stuff', so it will be so much easier for me.

I also solved one of the Achilles heels of the cars that i'm really happy about. What it was exactly will remain a company secret unfortunately.

I've been doing a lot of casting of parts as well, and gearing up for building a batch of motors.

I hope to put the final bars on the Mueller frame tonight and get it painted. I was dragging my heels on it for a while because i've been figuring out the best way to do the cockpit shroud on the car. It's a Mastersbilt, that has a different setup then a Rocket and doesn't fit in very well with the design i use now. I've got it figured out now, so it's time to place the bars and button it up.

I'll try and get something to look at up in the next few days.

Michael S. Crowley
Intersection Masterpiece Replicas

Awesome, thanks for the updates!

I haven't been very productive lately, I had a big stretch of back to back days at my 'day job' that was followed by catching a nasty flu bug.

I've been working on mostly the computer work when I was feeling up to anything, getting all the decal artwork done for the Mueller car for instance.

I'm hoping to get back on my feet in the next day or two and get back in stride as I really hate feeling like i'm falling behind.

I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks for stopping by!

Michael S. Crowley
Intersection Masterpiece Replicas

Since all 3 cars are about at the same stage, i thought i'd combine the updates into a single thread.

The motors are the main focus now as the 'guts' of the cars are nearing completion.

The live Webcam is coming soon, I'm hoping to have it up and running by the end of the week.

That's awesome.....I like how you have the difference in motors for Ford and Chevy!! That's something that people like ADC doesn't do......that's pretty cool!!

Thanks Tim! we're rounding the corner now, and should have these complete fairly soon. My goal right now is to have them all shipped by Thanksgiving.

Here are some drivelines that i worked on today.. each is composed of 17 components. I'll be priming and painting the first coat on them tonight.. The drivelines themselves will be white, but the u-joints will be a grimy gunmetal and look a little weathered.

They actually work too.. when you compress the suspension on the car, you will be able to see the u-joints moving. The prototype didn't actually have the driveline in it, but of course the production cars do!

After some Primer, Paint, a decal, and some 'griming up'.. this how they look.

Sounds great man! Will you be starting the Bloomer cars right away?? or taking at holiday break...

Those driveshafts look slick!! Will the yoke actually slide in and out of the transmission when the rear end "walks forward"??

I had to 'cheat' a little bit to get the drive lines to be mountable. If you'll notice the left side of the shafts, there is a silver shaft sticking out of the white one... The White portion is actually a tube. The yokes will be epoxied in place, but the silver shaft will slide to give extra length if needed. This isn't entirely correct, but since the amount of required movement is so small, it's not really noticeable.

As for the Bloomquist cars, I will start working on them right away. I'll first have to sit down and do some design work on the computer so i can get the chassis design adjusted to match the Warrior/Bloomquist style, and the 'Bloomer Fuel Cell'.

There are actually quite a few pieces already completed for the Bloomquist cars, as i was building multiple quantities If i needed to build something for this first batch of cars.

I'll keep everyone posted.. I'm really excited about getting these cars complete and seeing them fully decaled.. and i'm also looking forward to the Bloomquist Batch!

timhollerbach96 wrote:Sounds great man! Will you be starting the Bloomer cars right away?? or taking at holiday break...

Those driveshafts look slick!! Will the yoke actually slide in and out of the transmission when the rear end "walks forward"??

Quick update before I call it a day.

Today was decal day, and I did a lot of decal work on all the cars. I'll have photos of the finished body panels in a day or two when i get them finalized and clear coated. They look great! I can't wait to get the bodies mounted on the cars.. I'm still awaiting some final parts for the 'guts' of the cars that should arrive this week.. after those are installed, i'll be ready to mount up the bodies, put the finishing touches on the cars, and ship them out.

Thanks everybody! hope everyone had a good weekend.

p.s. I'm glad Eddie Carrier is ok after that flip!

imrdirtcars wrote:
p.s. I'm glad Eddie Carrier is ok after that flip!

I seen the video for that.....looks like he just went into the corner, must have caught a rut and over he went!!