70 Blue Max

My adhd must be kicking in again ;D. Building the Polar Lights 70 Blue Max as part of a facebook groups build off. Nothing real fancy, added sparkplug wires and the injectors been drilled for fuel lines but thats about all I plan to add to this one but we"ll see. Not a lot of updates because I didn't really think about taking pics till most of the chassis and motor were done. Still have to put the front end together the rear end on, do the plumbing and wetsand, polish and decal the body.paint is some Dupont custom mixed blue with a little candy blue in the clear coat to darken it up a little.

Will be watching this one,got a blue max to build one day.

NIIIIICCEE !!!

Saw the real Blue Max years ago at Tri-City Dragway in Michigan. Your build looks good.

thanks guys, gave it a quick polish this morning, just starting the hood

pretty happy with it

Looking real good DSF, love the paint.

Nice paint job............ ..........Shiny...........

Thanks guys ,well I knew it was gonna happen, the decals are crap. The white stripes four pieces, Blue Max name in three, drivers name in four and this side looks better than the ones on the sheet for the rest of the car, they're cracked to hell. Given them two coats of microscale liquid decal film, hoping to same the gold ones. Scanned the whole sheet before I started so cant print out all the white stripes with black pinstriping, once I get some ink :

Awesome...........

cool, I love the proportions on that one, do you have a regular mustang to take a picture with it next to it, just so we could see the size difference in kits?

Great decal work, you have ten times the patience as me

thanks guys, printed out the sheet and used the white stripes, a little translucent but liveable , Salvaged in a few pieces the graphics for the other side



but when I put a light coat of clear on the first side they went all brittle and fell apart ,



Worried about all my other ones now. Anyways, will try to get them off the car and use my printed ones, the gold Blue Max etc sure isnt gold (inkjet) but they'll have to do. Also had to pull the wiring and injector hat off (swapped for the Hilborn injectors) as they held up the tin work to high. Didnt have that problem on my PL Hawaiian.

KC, sorry didnt see your post till now. do you mean a built one? as in a built 69 or 70?

looking good so far.

Nice looking work, great finish with the paint.

This is looking real nice , great paint and decal work.

Thats looking slick DSF! Shame about the clear Yeah Iv always been interested in seeing how big these models are compared to a 'stock' version aye, Im guessing the drag version would be a bit lower aye.

That looks cool I just finished this one myself only difference is I painted the white stripes on cause the decals were brittle and cracked

So were mine, but a friend in the states sent me another set, arrived today so I'll test a couple out and see how they go.

Thats awesome that you were able to get replacement decals I made the mistake of putting a clear coat over the body once the decals were on and they reacted badly and started to bubble I had to buy another kit just to get the decals

Thats awesome that you were able to get replacement decals I made the mistake of putting a clear coat over the body once the decals were on and they reacted badly and started to bubble I had to buy another kit just to get the decals

Looking good Mr Race Car!

Carps wrote:Looking good Mr Race Car!

thanks Mr Traditional

well, mixed results with the new decals, of course the ones that cant be replicated or painted were the ones that completely toasted themselves so apart from a couple little things ( blower belt etc) this ones done till I can replace the decals, again.