HAWK flathead rebuild

[spinellid82]

Yerp, all is well and finally over. Just got home from grampa's memorial, smokes dead people are a LOT of work! Slopped some glue around earlier, got into a fight with a fresh bottle of CA and lost miserably. I went for over a month without gluefiners...that's gotta be some kind of record! Plannign to work on the valve cover for the Ardun later, anybody got any ideas of how to do the lettering? I need to do ARDUN YEW YORK and 1002 3182 and they have to be raised.

[Don Garrett]

Gunny, you could go the alphabet macaroni route or click the link & scroll down to post #5.....

http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/...ard-racer.html

[spinellid82]

Thanks a ton Don! That is a great start and now I am on the hunt. Time to take a trip down to Whistle Stop, my LHS that is centered around choochoos.

[spinellid82]

Okay, got the lettering for the haeds on order. Making other progress as well. Some parts in primer ready for mold boxes, I'll take pics in a bit of the masters that are ready.

[comp1839]

it's a little late but, plastruct also has those letters in case it helps. they are the ones i used on the donovan block, the lenco trans and the ardun block.

[spinellid82]

I looked all over the Plastruct site and couldn't find them. It really is not a very user friendly site.

[spinellid82]

DANG! I didn't look hard enough! There they are on page 127 of the new catalog! Made, sold and bought in AMERICA by AMERICANS (I hope) with AMERICAN money!

[spinellid82]

Been working on the valve cover for the Ardun head. I can only build the basic shape for now as I think that other then all the markings for detail placement the lettering needs to be applied first. I find it amazing how many different angles there are in just a "basic" box! I'll be sure to get a pic of the raw shape for sure.

[chassisdude]

DANG! I didn't look hard enough! There they are on page 127 of the new catalog! Made, sold and bought in AMERICA by AMERICANS (I hope) with AMERICAN money!

No there site is pretty hard to navigate I still have a tough time using it..Usually buy more than i need so i dont have to use it as often...

[spinellid82]

And that aint a cheap alternative!

[chassisdude]

[B]Hope[/B] to see some pics of the flatty soon....Sounds like its going to be cool dude...

[spinellid82]

Took tons of pics today, all of them of the new puppies. Two Chinese Hairless/Chihuahua mixes, both males 1 darker brown, 1 tan.
Both weight in at 3.75 ounces and mamma is doing a great job with her first and LAST litter. I'll post pics as soon as Susan get's them from the camera.

[chassisdude]

Congrats on the new additions Gunny....

[spinellid82]

The proud mamma and her babies. I have a funny feeling that we now have two more dogs cuz I'm already getting attached!

[chassisdude]

The wolfman T shirt in the pics adds a bit of character .. Tiny little things aren't they....