Going to resurrect a Daisy Dukes CJ Jeep!
So guys, how about some REAL updates on this build? Shall we? YEAH lets go..... LOL
I took and got to the point of the back getting the engine in, as well as the separated head, and just, that passenger side was well, LACKING badly... it needed something, but what? -You know, I GOT IT! PERFECT!!!!
The engine, as I add to the story, was bought, for the General Lee, in case they tired the 426 Hemi in the Generals limitations. SO, they found one, that was being built, locally, and the owner, well sort of ran out of money to complete the build, and with that, he decided to sell it to catch up a few bills. Cooter on a tow truck run, and the boys Bo & Luke, both out somewhere not answering their CB as Daisy yelled for 'em. SO Uncle Jesse, told her to take the Jeep to this guys house and pick up the engine.... As he had paid for it. SO, with that.....
I took that thought, and began thinking of that "empty" space, the engine was missing THE INTAKE!!!!
This part was from a kit!!!! NOT my casting, and for what I had done to it, I could NOT have done with my resin! Why? WELL its simple, the inside of an intake is "open" for the porting, and the carburetors to feed that..... The resin ones I make are cast SOLID. Meaning that open interior was unobtainable due to the resin being solid, AND I could have "milled" it out, sure, BUT I have so many of the 2x4 barrel "Inline" intakes, whats one for a detail! Plus if I need one for a build, I'd be then lookin' for its exterior looks, NOT the ability to have open insides, SO, having said that. I milled a little inside, flat, and then plated the bottom. Then only to drill out the carburetor feed openings, as well as the carburetor mount bolt holes!
I think it turned pretty good, I see a few things now that I would have (SHOULD HAVE) done differently, BUT thats OK, it fits the purpose here!!!!
After all the drilling was done, and the bottom was plated to have a nice sight inside-wise, I then painted it with Testors model masters "Metalizer" paint color of Aluminum NON-Polish. I did not however "seal" it as they say as I didn't even "polish" it, It looked GREAT as-is when it dried! So it got painted, and sat aside, to dry.....
While the intake was drying, I turned my focus on the CB whip Antenna..... The kit-supplied part was not going on this model! NO WAY NO HOW it looked horrible!!!
SO, I cut it off the sprue, and then tried my hand at cleaning up the parting line on it, to a decent look. BUT the "antenna" part, had nothing round about it! I just then cut off the what is to be round, from the flex stress-relief. And then center drilled it to take .020" stainless steel wire, that I had laying on the bench, glued one end into it, and then got to looking for that "ball" part, to see what I had, and low-and-behold, I have beads in the shop, for all sorts of different modeling reasons (I use them a lot on model train stuff for the telephone poles to look like anti-conductor cups) BUT this time the other way around, on a model car, they work for gear shift knobs, as well as what your about to see, and measured in 1/25th scale come out to be around 2 inches in diameter.... NOT to bad I have to say, so I figured out the length of the Antenna and cut it to length, and then BEFORE I added the ball to the end, I thought, the flex Stress-Relief needs something more too.... Thinking of this, don't they have a sort-of spring in them to "whip" the antenna up and down vertical? OR is that so-called "spring" just part of the stress-relief? Anyway, I took out my spring arbor, and wrapped one, to just to touch over what it was going to go around.... Got the nice "start" on it, and then got a equally nice "finish" where the wraps of the spring are close together.....
I think it turned out pretty damned good!
As it was, the parts made had to be CA glued together, so drying did not take long at all.... SO once it was all thought out, I sat right out to begin painting the antenna WITHOUT the spring in-place or the ball end! The Flex stress-relief was done first in semi-gloss black, let to dry. Once dry, it got the spring slide over it, and then CA glued from the back side, and then held the black mount with an alligator clip, and glued the ball onto the end,again, with CA. I then painted the wire part, and the ball end gloss white....
The actual spring I made, will remain un-painted.... Its made from stainless steel music wire!
I'm pleased in how that all came out!
It sure will look good in-place on the Jeep when the time comes, (and that time is VERY close!)
More to come, stay tuned and as always comments welcome, ~ENJOY!!!!
So guys, how about some REAL updates on this build? Shall we? YEAH lets go..... LOL
I took and got to the point of the back getting the engine in, as well as the separated head, and just, that passenger side was well, LACKING badly... it needed something, but what? -You know, I GOT IT! PERFECT!!!!
The engine, as I add to the story, was bought, for the General Lee, in case they tired the 426 Hemi in the Generals limitations. SO, they found one, that was being built, locally, and the owner, well sort of ran out of money to complete the build, and with that, he decided to sell it to catch up a few bills. Cooter on a tow truck run, and the boys Bo & Luke, both out somewhere not answering their CB as Daisy yelled for 'em. SO Uncle Jesse, told her to take the Jeep to this guys house and pick up the engine.... As he had paid for it. SO, with that.....
I took that thought, and began thinking of that "empty" space, the engine was missing THE INTAKE!!!!
This part was from a kit!!!! NOT my casting, and for what I had done to it, I could NOT have done with my resin! Why? WELL its simple, the inside of an intake is "open" for the porting, and the carburetors to feed that..... The resin ones I make are cast SOLID. Meaning that open interior was unobtainable due to the resin being solid, AND I could have "milled" it out, sure, BUT I have so many of the 2x4 barrel "Inline" intakes, whats one for a detail! Plus if I need one for a build, I'd be then lookin' for its exterior looks, NOT the ability to have open insides, SO, having said that. I milled a little inside, flat, and then plated the bottom. Then only to drill out the carburetor feed openings, as well as the carburetor mount bolt holes!
I think it turned pretty good, I see a few things now that I would have (SHOULD HAVE) done differently, BUT thats OK, it fits the purpose here!!!!
After all the drilling was done, and the bottom was plated to have a nice sight inside-wise, I then painted it with Testors model masters "Metalizer" paint color of Aluminum NON-Polish. I did not however "seal" it as they say as I didn't even "polish" it, It looked GREAT as-is when it dried! So it got painted, and sat aside, to dry.....
While the intake was drying, I turned my focus on the CB whip Antenna..... The kit-supplied part was not going on this model! NO WAY NO HOW it looked horrible!!!
SO, I cut it off the sprue, and then tried my hand at cleaning up the parting line on it, to a decent look. BUT the "antenna" part, had nothing round about it! I just then cut off the what is to be round, from the flex stress-relief. And then center drilled it to take .020" stainless steel wire, that I had laying on the bench, glued one end into it, and then got to looking for that "ball" part, to see what I had, and low-and-behold, I have beads in the shop, for all sorts of different modeling reasons (I use them a lot on model train stuff for the telephone poles to look like anti-conductor cups) BUT this time the other way around, on a model car, they work for gear shift knobs, as well as what your about to see, and measured in 1/25th scale come out to be around 2 inches in diameter.... NOT to bad I have to say, so I figured out the length of the Antenna and cut it to length, and then BEFORE I added the ball to the end, I thought, the flex Stress-Relief needs something more too.... Thinking of this, don't they have a sort-of spring in them to "whip" the antenna up and down vertical? OR is that so-called "spring" just part of the stress-relief? Anyway, I took out my spring arbor, and wrapped one, to just to touch over what it was going to go around.... Got the nice "start" on it, and then got a equally nice "finish" where the wraps of the spring are close together.....
I think it turned out pretty damned good!
As it was, the parts made had to be CA glued together, so drying did not take long at all.... SO once it was all thought out, I sat right out to begin painting the antenna WITHOUT the spring in-place or the ball end! The Flex stress-relief was done first in semi-gloss black, let to dry. Once dry, it got the spring slide over it, and then CA glued from the back side, and then held the black mount with an alligator clip, and glued the ball onto the end,again, with CA. I then painted the wire part, and the ball end gloss white....
The actual spring I made, will remain un-painted.... Its made from stainless steel music wire!
I'm pleased in how that all came out!
It sure will look good in-place on the Jeep when the time comes, (and that time is VERY close!)
More to come, stay tuned and as always comments welcome, ~ENJOY!!!!
