{"id":182,"date":"2018-06-10T19:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:28:59","slug":"workin-on-the-82-mustang-gl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/workin-on-the-82-mustang-gl\/","title":{"rendered":"Workin’ on the ’82 Mustang GL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, so it’s been almost 2 months since I last posted any progress. Been all sorts of busy, and just hadn’t gotten back to it in awhile. I picked up some embossing powder and decided to make some ‘carpet’ for the Mustang. Yeah… that turned out like crap. I picked up the ‘extra thick’ embossing powder, thinking that the bigger bottle of clear would be what I needed for many years of scale model carpet goodness. Nope – it looks like I’ve effectively spread tan gravel on the floor of the kit. Whatever… it’ll be inside and nobody will be looking that close, anyway.<\/p>\n

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I played around a little bit today and worked on the center console and dashboard. I just need to touch up a couple of tan spots on both and maybe print some gauge faces (haven’t decided yet). The kit came with front wheels that could be steered (or posed, rather), but didn’t have a tie rod connecting the two. So, I busted out the trusty pin vise and drilled some holes through the ‘spindles’ and made some tie rod ends out of a paper clip along with an old school tie rod to span the gap between the two. I’ll dress it up to look like the rack & pinion which is also missing on the chassis.<\/p>\n

Baby steps, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, so it’s been almost 2 months since I last posted any progress. Been all sorts of busy, and just hadn’t gotten back to it in awhile. I picked up some embossing powder and decided to make some ‘carpet’ for the Mustang. Yeah… that turned out like crap. I picked up the ‘extra thick’ embossing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-models"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}