Hi guys more Nascar's from me lol
this time Jeff's 2004 car.



JWTBM decals


some progress on the chassis, I removed the molded on oil coolers... and made the roll bars with some .080 tubing







the duct hoses are home made using electronic solder wrapped around a welding rod. and then dipped in enamel paint.










and heres some work on the dash. like normal just made the recess for the igniton boxes and made an access panel for the gauges.

You have developed some wonderful techniques. I love the idea of the duct work - simple and effective.

The dash is beautifully done. The guages are so crystal clear.

Wonderful work so far James.
The duct hose looks really great. That trick is now in my notebook.
The dash looks amazing. As Scott says, crystal clear.

Looks great so far, thanks for the tip on the duct work, as I have a project on the burner that needs something similar, and that just may work.

Nice work James as others have said the hoses look great, can't wait to see some more of your scratch built details.

did a bit of decals today.

all of the orange is decal. i used TS-50 for the blue
tomorrow i'll clear coat over these and then apply the rest of the decals

The decals look really great. How did you get the front decal to wrap so smoothly around the front of the car?

I used some micro-sol and the good old hair dryer lol

i got the rest of the decals on today.

I really want to go out and start a glossy car collection

small update,

I scratch built all the ignition parts and put them in place.

Damn, you're good.

I decided to make a second hood for the tribute to the 10 people (Hendrick family & team members) who died in the plane crash on the way to Martinsville Speedway in 2004
for more info on that you can read here http://www.nascarnuts.org/hendrick.html

I'll display this black hood along side the finished car.

I added some tire details today..

got some interior stuff added

this is getting close to bein done now..

i just have to add the rear end, tires, exhaust, window clips, hood pins, and some other small details around on the body

You're a wizard James. Awesome amount of details. Even the tires/wheels are full of great looking details. I love this stuff.

I just totally enjoy your projects!

The tires - are they decals on them? Is the GoodYear stenceled? Please share a bit on your technique there. Do you have to do anything special over the rubber vs. styrene?

I noticed on the 8/12 post there is a red and blue wire running down the middle of the cockpit - it doesn't have any ziptie holding it to the roll cage. Will that come later?

thanks guys, the red &blue wire does have zip ties, 3 of them there, but the go around the padding so its hard to see them there,,,

for the tires, its all decals, a good tip is spray the tires with gloss lacquer clear , then decal, then brush on microset on the decals, when everything is dry spray the tires with dullcoat lacquer.

and if you then want a shine on them wipe on some pledge furniture polish