2001Dodge Intrepid NASCAR-#9 Bill Elliot

[BarleyBop]

Looking forward to more on this one

@Ledsled , me too! Your solution worked out great.

On my very first car build this summer I had a similar issue, except there were no decals at all!
So I ended up drawing simple gauges from reference photos, inkjet printing them scaled down onto photo paper, then peeling off the emulsion (image) to be thin enough, and sticking them onto the dash.
The things we all come up with in this hobby!

 

[Demolition]

I do pretty much what you did here in regard to instrument panel gauge faces with the backing strip. I will say that I find gauge face decals that are about the same size to use. Let me show you what I mean and you'll be able to see more clearly:

After drilling out the gauge display face from the instrument panel I took a decal with the backing and all and glued it onto the plastic piece in the foreground:

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I did the very same with the gauge cluster in the center of the dash except I glued all gauges to one plastic piece of stock and glued that to the rear of the panel.

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It's important for me to convey to you that this is meant in a helpful manner and not of a nitpicking one. What you're doing with this build is indeed good.

I've actually never thought to drill the OG gauges out, that seams like I nice route to take for a lot of kits I've built. Noted.

 

[Deleted member 22781]

It just needs the top of the roll cage and on to the suspension and drive train.

 

[Demolition]

Hell yeah! Looking good, even has the vent tube for the helmet it looks like?

 

[BarleyBop]

roll cage

... love how you are literally wrapping the car around the driver as you go!

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Hell yeah! Looking good, even has the vent tube for the helmet it looks like?

Just curious and always wanting to learn new things, what's a vent tube for the helmet? The only things I see are fresh air vent tubes that come in from the windows. Maybe I am missing something I don't see?

 

[Demolition]

Connects to the upper back of the helmet and introduces clean filtered cooled air to the driver, it gets well over 100°f inside the car plus they wear a fire suit and gloves so the can overheat very quickly. When it's really hot the use cooling suits that run cold water through tubes but they often fail.

 

[BarleyBop]

back of the helmet

Geez, the Helmet should say NASA, not NAPA!

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Nice but there is no fitting on my drivers helmet and one hose goes from a window to a point in front of the drivers face and the other hose goes from another window to the oil cooler in the floor.

 

[Demolition]

Nice but there is no fitting on my drivers helmet and one hose goes from a window to a point in front of the drivers face and the other hose goes from another window to the oil cooler in the floor.

Oh gotcha, looked like it in the picture but I see what's going on now. Non the less it's looking badass.

 

[Deleted member 22781]

The interior is done. On to the suspension and drivetrain.

 

[BarleyBop]

interior is done

Lookin fast without even an engine. Or wheels!

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Took a break from the chassis to figure out the roof rails. I never used them on my last build as the car I built didn't have them. I had to trim them about a mm each then laid out a line where they went just behind the roof camera. I then had to bend them a bit to fit the roofs slight bow side to side. They worked pretty well.

 

[Demolition]

This is coming together nicely, makes me want to breakout my Kyle Larson kit….

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Rear suspension assembled and installed.

 

[Demolition]

The red, blue and black pop!

 

[Deleted member 22781]

The red, blue and black pop!

A-1 Skyraider?

 

[Deleted member 22781]

OOOOOPPPPPSSSSS that was red, white and black.

 

[Demolition]

A-1 Skyraider?

Arnt those camouflage?

 

[Edbert]

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville!

I have a pair of (Monogram?) Thunderbirds in the closet. One is a Davey Allison (my favorite) Thunderbird and the McDonalds Thunderbird for Bill E.

I've not built a car, wait I did make the 1/24 McLaren MP4, in a long time, feeling the urge now.

 

[BarleyBop]

feeling the urge now

Go for it, lots of auto action happening lately!

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Arnt those camouflage?

USAF were SEA camo, USN were gull gray over white.

 

[Deleted member 22781]

Speaking of Skyraiders I just purchased this kit, am building my last plane in my stash so I decided to add this one.

 

[Deleted member 22781]

The engine and exhaust are installed.