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CDW

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  1. CDW
    Beautiful model. With that big V-8 engine, the car could pass everything except the gas station. Remember when that was the saying at the time?
  2. CDW
    After the Christmas festivities ended, I was able to spend a little time today with a start on the stock engine. After taking a close look at the stock and custom pieces, decided to build the engine stock. I have other variations of the '48 Chevy, the Fleetline and Coupe versions, so will save the custom features for one of those at a future date. Still more work to do detailing the engine, will continue the process tomorrow.
  3. CDW
    Looks great Rob! Looking forward to more.
  4. CDW
    Wow, what a gorgeous engine. Merry Christmas Andy.
  5. CDW
    Great looking model, Dan! Merry Christmas.
  6. CDW
    Merry Christmas OC
  7. CDW
    Search for the 1:350 Merit International kit version of the Ark Royal. Alternatively, the 1:700 Flyhawk Hermes is an amazing kit.
  8. CDW
    What a nice haul! It’s a bummer you have to swat down that bug over the holidays. Take your vitamins and supplements and you’ll be good to go in short order.
  9. CDW
    American iron. Big iron.
  10. CDW
    The Aztec color combination is interesting to me. This two-tone green combination looks like the actual factory paint on a '54 Pontiac Chieftan I once owned. I guess nostalgia makes this combination interesting to me.
  11. CDW
    Some examples of the model all painted up will help me decide how I might want to do this one. I don't particularly like either choice of body colors used here, but the chassis and running gear looks real nice.
  12. CDW
    Post WW2 Chevy model cars were few and far between (maybe nonexistent?) before Galaxie Limited came out with the '46-'47-'48 Sedan Delivery, the Sedan, and the Coupe models in the late '90's. Besides these Chevys, the company out of Wisconsin also produced a series of single, double, and triple axel trailer models. Other than that, I'm not aware of any other kits they produced. The company disappeared almost as quickly as they came upon the scene. Their Chevy models are excellent IMO, and the same goes for the trailers. There are not a lot of quality plastic injection molded trailer kits out there so the Galaxie Limited kits filled that void very nicely. You can still acquire their kits on sites such as Ebay as well as swap meets but you will be lucky to find one at a hobby shop. I don't know a thing about who currently owns the molds or if there are any plans for these to become available again one day in the near future. For the quality of their products, I am surprised someone else hasn't already run another production line of them. Here, I'll lay out photos of the instructions, decal sheet, and parts trees for you to see before I start taking the parts off the sprues. Very cleanly molded, nice, thin plastic with no flash.
  13. CDW
    Very good idea, Bruce. Indeed I do have a trailer.
  14. CDW
    Batter up! Next up is the 1:25 Galaxie Limited 1948 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery. I may build this as a mild custom. Will make my mind up as I move along on the build.
  15. CDW
    Beautiful model!
  16. CDW
    I didn't expect to find the time to do what I did today, but since I did, I'm going to call this one finished for now. I yet need to install all the plumbing but that will be a little tedious and time consuming and I want to do it when I'm good and ready to sit down a few more hours to finish that task. I can always update the post with some more photos later if they seem worth posting. There are some other things I want to move on to soon.
  17. CDW
    Thanks Rob. Those pens come in very handy for that.
  18. CDW
    Great model. It brings back a lot of memories for me as I once had a '73 Datsun 240Z. When my carburetors started giving me trouble, I bought a set of Webers to replace them. Back then, spare parts were more difficult to acquire for a foreign car and the Weber carbs were a big improvement over my faulty ones. My brother liked it so well, he bought a 260 ZX the very first year they came out. The domestic, Fairlady version has a few notable cosmetic differences but for all intent and purpose, it's pretty much the same as the 240Z as far as I can see.
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    Got a nice white lacquer paint job on the body now. Will give it a day or two before placement of decals. Chassis is 90% or more complete now with a hand brake/master cylinder package, a gear shifter, and a clutch pedal to add before doing the plumbing. Oh, there’s a fuel tank to add as well as the parachute package. I can see the finish line now. Maybe this weekend will wrap it up?
  22. CDW
    Beautiful engine, Yves. What all is involved in a complete engine overhaul such as what you mentioned. Is it mostly a matter of disassembly, cleaning, oiling, and reassembly? With some of the engines, it must be a chore finding spare parts, or is it?
  23. CDW
    I fashioned some support brackets with a bar/tube as a hinge point for the body. Without completely butchering the body for clearance, I could not get a satisfactory hinge that would allow the body to clear the engine and wheelie bars if swung upward. So, I opted for the next best thing and made some mounting attachments for the read body support to the frame. The fiberglass body would be lifted off the chassis for engine, chassis, and drive train maintenance in this configuration.
  24. CDW
    I went to my local auto body supply shop today to pick up a few items I needed. They had these 16 ounce 3 in 1 primer spray cans on sale for just $2 each! Needless to say, I loaded up.
  25. CDW
    Light gray or white would have probably been best in this case. Live and learn I say. Here, I went ahead and shot AK Xtreme metal steel over the Alclad. This is closer to what I wanted, maybe a little too light. I would say this looks more like stainless steel but still preferable over what I had before. I'll live with it. I'll add a few touches of chrome parts here and there to break it up a bit. Front axle will definitely get chrome, probably the radius arms, too.

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