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It's almost got that weathered look on it as it sits. I figure you've already washed the parts down already once?

The basic set up here with the master cylinder/ brake booster set up: I primed the front brake rotors (washers) with black gloss and shot 'em with a coat of Alclad . You'll notice that I flattened one side of the washers. This allows my calipers to sit perfectly on the rotors instead of looking like they are resting on the outside edge of them. I also cut some brass rod to .180" length to mount the rotors onto. The short length allowed for the "step down" to mount up the wheels later. I'll be drilling out the brake calipers for brake lines and painting the calipers red. I removed the chrome from both of the calipers yesterday in order to prep for all of the painting. I've also got the brake pedal and throttle return springs figured out now. Got these from inside a wristwatch band retaining pin:

Must post more builds like this please. :D

Thanks Mark! I'm hoping I can keep up with this thing. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. lol

I almost forgot to go through the front wheel to spindle fit problem I had. Here is the wheel as it sits on the kit supplied spindle-not exactly fitting here: So..........I got some 1/8" brass rod and cut about a 1/4" long section and slid it onto the spindles and cut and rounded the ends of the spindle: and although it looks rough here in the macro photo, you can't see anything but perfect fit with the naked eye: I sanded my L bracket for the power brake booster/master cylinder assy this morning and set that aside. While all that was drying I flattened some concave washers I found with rubber backing on them. After flattening the washers I sanded all of the rubber backing off of them and will polish them up over the weekend to give them that "brake rotor look". I robbed some brake rotors from a 1/24 scale Monogram F-100 kit , trimmed them to scale length a little and cut a groove in the middle of them with my dremel to get them to fit over the rotor. At this point I still had to cut one side of the outside edge of the washer flat so the calipers would look like they were mounted correctly instead of one the edge of the rotor. I'm also unhappy with the wheel bearing caps but I'm workin' on it.

The detail and weathering.....................................Just spectacular! I could look at builds like this all day and see something new every time.

Looks like it's all coming together nicely there Warren! Man doncha just hate covering all that detail up? How much of the engine is gonna be visible on the finished build?

Welcome aboard Dennis! Great pics and great work on those houses!!

Sounds like some of the other folks who built this thing didn't do their homework before setting the engine into place. lol . Nice job on the fit.

Lot's of detail and hard work! What are you using regarding paint?

Lookin' forward to it Mark!

Rained here today too and I managed to get home for the afternoon.......................with the wife at work as well. I made some satisfactory progress today I think. Lookin' for the your progress.......................

I had been slackin' on progress pics of this thing at this point. I had "modelers block" but worked my way through it after a few days. I was trying to figure out the whole brake system dilemma and finally got something started. I found a master cylinder / power brake booster combo that is going to work. The problem was that the bottom of the power brake booster was hollow as seen from the bottom but the benefit here is that instead of being rounded on the bottom , it's flat. This is perfect in the fact that I cut the master cylinder from the booster and rotated the master cylinder 180 degrees in order to mount the flat portion of the brake booster to the bottom of the cab floor. I also cut an L bracket out from some spare parts of another frame and drilled a hole in it for the booster to "mount" to. Perhaps I could explain it better in photos. Here's the brake booster/ master cylinder assy: (sorry for the blurred image on the first pic) Here is the brake booster and L bracket test fitted. I pinned the brake booster so that the master cylinder mount up to the booster would be a bit more solid. I also had to thin that L bracket a bit to scale thickness as well. While keeping in mind that my results aren't going to look exactly like it, this is what I'm going for but with a slightly longer rod and another stand off L bracket for a brake booster actuating rod guide that's coming soon: From a different angle.............

I got an invite back to that forum from Lyle (who is also an awesome guy) and my being DEEP into automotive as of late I decided to go back, even though it's an aircraft modeler forum, under the automotive side and help out from there. I do need to start on my 109 again though.............

Got the distributor in and the L/H bank of plug wires on... (these were a pain in the butt to do!!! Normal V-8's I can just drill a hole in the head and have somewhere to put 'em. These? Not a chance!)

Lookin' sharp Warren! Real sharp!

Now that..................is what I'm talkin' about!!!! Mister, you've definitely got your act together in the modeling realm.

Thanks Gil! What a compliment. I owe those skills to the help of some really good folks at FSM.

Lookin' great man!!! I like all that rivet detail.

Not shown earlier were a couple of pics that I had along the way on the build..... Overall interior shot:( I did end up changing the shifter out to the correct wood grain shifter handle) Dash: and a couple more from the engine bay:

I'm on SPAM also but I stick mostly to the automotive section. I'm pretty much the only one in that section but hey, for now that's what I'm in to. I am looking very much forward to building my 109 for my 109 GB over at FSM. I was actually a member of SPAR for a while before the big blow up and subsequent shut down. Thomas M and Lyle and now stikpusher are really trying to get SPAM off the ground. I hope they do it. I'm doing my part to help 'em out.

It wasn't the MBI forums Mark. I was thinking you were in on the now dissolved SPAR forum as well?

Here's with the spark plug wires and boots installed. I used wire from Lex's scale modeling and cut sections of wire insulation one gauge thicker than the spark plug wires and slid over the wires to create the "boots". I really started getting the hang of this whole alclad thing at this point and was freekin' loving it!!! I also had just installed the brass rod section in the center of the front wheels to take up the extra "slack". The rear wheels are painted!!! I'm happy!!!! and the product of the planning and suspension re-work so far.....(I've been just waitin' for the opportunity to do this) and to recap I 'm going from this: to this:

Z: I went all out and brought out every skill I had in the book. I had just learned about washes at that time but still had a ways to go in the "worn look" department. Given those facts, it was my very best effort at that time. Warren: 'Preciate it bud!! :)

Thanks Dave! I'm going to try to have some better pictures of it in the coming days. I've still got this model and my photography has gotten better so I'll try to do the ol' bird a little more justice.