Wednesday 7:12
Posted by Dr Diecast at 6/25/2008 7:11 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
I have decided I will be time dating the blog for a few days to see if I can keep within my 30 minute allotted time frame. So as the saying goes. time is money and I better get to it.
Yesterday started with my final sanding the CC Cuda for paint..... that is now done and ready. I will get that painted today as it has to get finished and shipped ASAP.
Next up was the Torana. This became a little problem when I realized that the windows had been protected with the bad masking tape I was using way back last year before I knew it was bad. So....... once the tape was removed I have hard glue stuck to the windows. I mean hard..... as in 30+ minutes of just polishing them out to get it off both sides of the plastic on all four windows. Then I assembled and did some final detail to the car and its now done and ready to ship. Below you will see pictures of the finished product. While not a wild blown race car it is what I do the majority of the time. Duplicating a persons real car. This is a GTR which they don't make in diecast so this customer is happy now. This by the way took hours to finish putting together and detail... of course it includes the time spent taking the pictures, uploading, cropping and emailing the customer.
Next up I did some sanding work on the hoods of both the 69 Coronet R/T and the 99 Mustang hood. While neither are ready I have to do things in stages and this stage is now done.
I had a local customer stop by for some pricing on a few projects he wants done. Basically it was 4 cars and with that I of course had to research the cars, what I need to do and what kinda cost would be involved. While not overly consuming since his cars are pretty simple it still took at least an hour of my time. I also took a few minutes to contact a couple people I emailed contracts too last week that were faxing them back to me which had not happened as of yesterday. Both gave me the ive been busy line..... one faxed his yesterday the other today supposedly.
Late yesterday I was working on the wild blown straight axle 63 Galaxy suspension. While I originally thought I could use any rear suspension for the leaf springs I was wrong. But what happened while trying to figure it out was kinda interesting. I was removing the stock chrome wheels from the starter car and realized that my T-Bird customer had wheels like this on his diecast which I had resin cast and painted chrome. Figuring these would look better I did a wheel swap on his 57 to these perfect chrome wheels and will have a picture tomorrow.
So Pete of your reading you scored a great set of chrome Ford wheels for free.
Back to the suspension ....... since the stock plastic type leaf springs suck at what I needed to do I decided to play parts chopper and removed the suspension from a GMP 67 Fairlane. These cars have real metal leaf springs so.... I fit that suspension under the Galaxy and with a little bending and changing of the shackle location got the back end jacked up to the sky. Once this was done I needed to find tires to fit and came across a set of drag slicks from a different GMP product which are tall enough. I then viewed the customers pictures to realized that he has Anson slotted deep dish wheels on the back. Cool thing is I made a mold of this wheel back in like 02-03 based off a production car that was made. I dug through my mold box and found the old wheel mold which was filled with dust and dirt but after it was washed I poured the wheels and have a perfect set of rears for the car. I repeated the same suspension process on the front and now have what I call a 4X4 type suspension on this car. Might sound stupid but its correct. I have though trashed 2 GMP Fairlane suspensions to make it though. There was of course a lot more to this then just swapping parts and you will see some of that in the pictures.
This pretty much filled my day to the end so.... on that note as I say.
Im out !
7:42....... I was done typing within 30 minutes..... the picture upload and placement put me over... bastard pictures, LMAO.
Yesterday started with my final sanding the CC Cuda for paint..... that is now done and ready. I will get that painted today as it has to get finished and shipped ASAP.
Next up was the Torana. This became a little problem when I realized that the windows had been protected with the bad masking tape I was using way back last year before I knew it was bad. So....... once the tape was removed I have hard glue stuck to the windows. I mean hard..... as in 30+ minutes of just polishing them out to get it off both sides of the plastic on all four windows. Then I assembled and did some final detail to the car and its now done and ready to ship. Below you will see pictures of the finished product. While not a wild blown race car it is what I do the majority of the time. Duplicating a persons real car. This is a GTR which they don't make in diecast so this customer is happy now. This by the way took hours to finish putting together and detail... of course it includes the time spent taking the pictures, uploading, cropping and emailing the customer.
Next up I did some sanding work on the hoods of both the 69 Coronet R/T and the 99 Mustang hood. While neither are ready I have to do things in stages and this stage is now done.
I had a local customer stop by for some pricing on a few projects he wants done. Basically it was 4 cars and with that I of course had to research the cars, what I need to do and what kinda cost would be involved. While not overly consuming since his cars are pretty simple it still took at least an hour of my time. I also took a few minutes to contact a couple people I emailed contracts too last week that were faxing them back to me which had not happened as of yesterday. Both gave me the ive been busy line..... one faxed his yesterday the other today supposedly.
Late yesterday I was working on the wild blown straight axle 63 Galaxy suspension. While I originally thought I could use any rear suspension for the leaf springs I was wrong. But what happened while trying to figure it out was kinda interesting. I was removing the stock chrome wheels from the starter car and realized that my T-Bird customer had wheels like this on his diecast which I had resin cast and painted chrome. Figuring these would look better I did a wheel swap on his 57 to these perfect chrome wheels and will have a picture tomorrow.
So Pete of your reading you scored a great set of chrome Ford wheels for free.
Back to the suspension ....... since the stock plastic type leaf springs suck at what I needed to do I decided to play parts chopper and removed the suspension from a GMP 67 Fairlane. These cars have real metal leaf springs so.... I fit that suspension under the Galaxy and with a little bending and changing of the shackle location got the back end jacked up to the sky. Once this was done I needed to find tires to fit and came across a set of drag slicks from a different GMP product which are tall enough. I then viewed the customers pictures to realized that he has Anson slotted deep dish wheels on the back. Cool thing is I made a mold of this wheel back in like 02-03 based off a production car that was made. I dug through my mold box and found the old wheel mold which was filled with dust and dirt but after it was washed I poured the wheels and have a perfect set of rears for the car. I repeated the same suspension process on the front and now have what I call a 4X4 type suspension on this car. Might sound stupid but its correct. I have though trashed 2 GMP Fairlane suspensions to make it though. There was of course a lot more to this then just swapping parts and you will see some of that in the pictures.
This pretty much filled my day to the end so.... on that note as I say.
Im out !
7:42....... I was done typing within 30 minutes..... the picture upload and placement put me over... bastard pictures, LMAO.
Free? Okay what is the catch…..Just kidding…..Thanks for the update John.
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CAN'NT WAIT TO SEE THE PICS OF EVERTHING
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