Short Track and NASCAR modeling

Decals are done. Chassis is done. All that is left is to glue the body to the chassis, glue the glass in place and situate the exhaust.

Should be in the showroom in the next day or two.

At first, I wasn't sure what to do about the brakes but I found out that, after drilling out the center of the ones straight from the Mustang kit, they fit the wheels perfectly! I'm sticking with the drum brakes for the rear since, at least at Bowman Gray, I'm pretty sure you're only allowed stock brakes.

looks good from the side




left headlight is off, these were kinda a pain, had to saturate them in decal setting solution to get them to lay down




and you can see how bad the rear taillights cracked and went down...

Having some issues with the red decals, i think this sheet was printed before Mike used Cartograf... he had (and may still have) a warning for certain early sheets that had a lot of red (ie. Jeff Gordon #67 Outback) that it could be brittle and crack. The tail lights and Raybestos contingencies are red, the Raybestos cracked going over a curve on the nose and the taillights simply cracked a few times each. I replaced the Raybestos with a new one and pieced the taillights together and hit them with MicroSol. Hopefully they stay together when the 01 and WM decals go over *fingers crossed*

wish i had some sort of extra decal sheet from this era that was newer so i coulda replaced the taillights

Only 2 more weeks until race 1!!

I moved the race from Saturday the 6th to Friday the 5th because I'll be out of town that Saturday.

  So, you do actually build models ? 

Thanks Dave! Yes, Mark, that's the car! Wish me luck..

Tom

Nice start. Keep up good work.

Looking good, I'm guessing that is the Daytona car. That was Gann Racing, didn't they get absorbed up in that Earnhardt Ganassi deal? Really thought Mark ended up with a good team after that 500 finish.

got the right side cutout done, not quite as pretty as the left side but whatever... tested out the exhaust fit.





interior was just painted, should have the body primed and painted in the next few days