Going to resurrect a Daisy Dukes CJ Jeep!
Well, as I mentioned I had "secrets" to this build, right? WELL, so far you asll have seen 2 of those "secrets" BUT I've added a NEW one!!!!!!!
Ohh yeah, let it up to me to add in a LOT of detail, WELL, your about to see some of that extreme detailing I speak of!
To get to a little story to the build, as you all read by now, I wasn't adding that rear seat in regards to "loading" Daisy's Jeep for a trip to Cooters Garage, for parts to keep the 2 cousins Bo & Luke, out of trouble and the General Lee running!!!! WELL I decided a while back I was gonna add in a head, DETAILED to the max, for how its gonna be loaded into the back of daisy's Jeep. WELL I got to thinkin' they wreck and get themself into trouble a bit, what happens if its not just the heads that they want to use, brutalize, and have trouble? WELL I'm adding a spare 426 Hemi BLOCK too! Now to get right to it, heres what it began as:
One of my Resin casted 426 Hemi Blocks, the master copy is of a AMT-Ertl engine, that came in the '70 Dodge Coronet Super Bee kit, I molded it and added a little to it.
I'm also adding in the timing chain recess too! Also seen in the pic above, and ALSO one of my resin castings!
This pic shows WHY I choose this block! PERFECT cylinder start for detailing! Remember, I want to keep the detail level on both the heads as well as this block equal! SO that means boring the block to show actual cylinder walls..... I then also choose this block as it of all that I have, has thee BEST "valley" detail for the valve gear push rods and such.
This now is saying something, if your all following me!
This pic is showing the valley, not the greatest, but it will come. I took and milled the block to remove the molded in, "push rods" for the valve gear..... I think your getting warmer as to where I'm going with this!
I had set up my Unimat milling machine, to mill off all that cast-in detail, so I can add my own "real looking" detail! Here you see me milling off all that push rod detail that was originally molded into the block.....
This is the crazy one...... Instead of typing it out what I was in the process of doing, I'll show you!!!!!
I bored out the resin casting to have a set of 4 in-line cylinder walls and able to be SUPER DETAILED! I only did one side! WHY? WELL, thats the trick here, when the block is "loaded" into the back of Daisy's Jeep, its going to look as tho it was partly assembled, one head and valve cover in-place, the other head is the detailed one, with the valves that I added, setting loose, with it up-side-down to show the valve work in the head. The other head, will be on the block, detailed for what you'll be able to see, AND possibly have a valve cover on it. (I'm not sure I am going to detail the TOP of the 426 Hemi head, we'll see! Which if I do, would mean I'd have to leave the valve cover off of it, and have it on the floor of the back of Daisy's Jeep! AND it would, if I go that route!
The other part I noticed with this block is it had no "ear" or tail where the transmission would bolt to the blocks "flange" for the transmission. I built it up with CA and baking Soda, to then mill to what it should resemble, closely (its not 100% exact, the resin base makes some milling nearly impossible, so it has to be done VERY lightly, when you do it, as you will see!
Have a look:
Thats it for now.............. MORE will follow when more progress has been made!!!!! (I really am enjoying this part of the build), to see just how close to a real one I can get a model, that I made in my own molds!!!!!!
ENJOY!
Well, as I mentioned I had "secrets" to this build, right? WELL, so far you asll have seen 2 of those "secrets" BUT I've added a NEW one!!!!!!!
Ohh yeah, let it up to me to add in a LOT of detail, WELL, your about to see some of that extreme detailing I speak of!
To get to a little story to the build, as you all read by now, I wasn't adding that rear seat in regards to "loading" Daisy's Jeep for a trip to Cooters Garage, for parts to keep the 2 cousins Bo & Luke, out of trouble and the General Lee running!!!! WELL I decided a while back I was gonna add in a head, DETAILED to the max, for how its gonna be loaded into the back of daisy's Jeep. WELL I got to thinkin' they wreck and get themself into trouble a bit, what happens if its not just the heads that they want to use, brutalize, and have trouble? WELL I'm adding a spare 426 Hemi BLOCK too! Now to get right to it, heres what it began as:
One of my Resin casted 426 Hemi Blocks, the master copy is of a AMT-Ertl engine, that came in the '70 Dodge Coronet Super Bee kit, I molded it and added a little to it.
I'm also adding in the timing chain recess too! Also seen in the pic above, and ALSO one of my resin castings!
This pic shows WHY I choose this block! PERFECT cylinder start for detailing! Remember, I want to keep the detail level on both the heads as well as this block equal! SO that means boring the block to show actual cylinder walls..... I then also choose this block as it of all that I have, has thee BEST "valley" detail for the valve gear push rods and such.
This now is saying something, if your all following me!
This pic is showing the valley, not the greatest, but it will come. I took and milled the block to remove the molded in, "push rods" for the valve gear..... I think your getting warmer as to where I'm going with this!
I had set up my Unimat milling machine, to mill off all that cast-in detail, so I can add my own "real looking" detail! Here you see me milling off all that push rod detail that was originally molded into the block.....
This is the crazy one...... Instead of typing it out what I was in the process of doing, I'll show you!!!!!
I bored out the resin casting to have a set of 4 in-line cylinder walls and able to be SUPER DETAILED! I only did one side! WHY? WELL, thats the trick here, when the block is "loaded" into the back of Daisy's Jeep, its going to look as tho it was partly assembled, one head and valve cover in-place, the other head is the detailed one, with the valves that I added, setting loose, with it up-side-down to show the valve work in the head. The other head, will be on the block, detailed for what you'll be able to see, AND possibly have a valve cover on it. (I'm not sure I am going to detail the TOP of the 426 Hemi head, we'll see! Which if I do, would mean I'd have to leave the valve cover off of it, and have it on the floor of the back of Daisy's Jeep! AND it would, if I go that route!
The other part I noticed with this block is it had no "ear" or tail where the transmission would bolt to the blocks "flange" for the transmission. I built it up with CA and baking Soda, to then mill to what it should resemble, closely (its not 100% exact, the resin base makes some milling nearly impossible, so it has to be done VERY lightly, when you do it, as you will see!
Have a look:
Thats it for now.............. MORE will follow when more progress has been made!!!!! (I really am enjoying this part of the build), to see just how close to a real one I can get a model, that I made in my own molds!!!!!!
ENJOY!
