The last weekend, I worked a lot on the Traveller's engine. I painted every pieces of the engine and then I recreated an air filter with plasticard and paperboard: the original one doesn't looks like the filter used on the real "Traveller", so I preferred to create a new one. Moreover, I added some decals to the body of the car, in particular the two license plates and the sun stripe on the windshield. Now, this model begin to be the "Traveller"!!

Posted by: Fabiano on Mon 7/2/2007 09:07

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   That's incredible!! Scott Romine has published a picture of my "Traveller" on "Collier & Co." site.
   Ok, the model is not finished but it's a pleasure for me that my diecast is displayed on the official site of "Collier & Co."
   I'm trying to do my best to recreate a good diecast replica of the original "Traveller" and then, when I will finish this model, I would try to create another replica, the "Traveller" #2 owned by Erik Dimitriou and used in the night racing scenes in the opening of "Collier & Co."
   This evening I will add other details to the model especially in the engine parts. Instead, the next days will be used to create an accurate interior of the car: I think that will be the more difficult part of this project.
   However, thanks Scott, thanks John! Yeeeeee Haaaa!!

Posted by: Fabiano on Tue 7/3/2007 17:39

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   Today, FIAT presents its new car, the New 500, a modern version of the original 500 created by FIAT in 1957! To celebrate the event, all the owners of old 500 have invaded Torino with their cars. Into this group of car, there are 2 awesome model that are connected with the theme of this site: a 500 with the "General Lee" livery, and a 500 "Luigi" in perfect "Cars" style. Thanks to Dimitrov for these pictures.

Posted by: Fabiano on Wed 7/4/2007 21:19

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   This evenening I've finished to add details to the engine, so in the next pictures you could see a detailed engine and the hood with the autographs of all the living original cast members and crew that were on "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV show.
   Moreover, I started to work on the internal rollbar: I created it using a plastic drinking straw and some pieces of the original rollbar installed when I bought the original model. Now this rollbar is raw, but tomorrow, I will paint it with opaque black, adding the protections for the passengers with sealing tape.

   Moreover, this morning I received a package from the US... on the package there is a label: "John Schneider Webstore". Yeaaa Haaa! In that package there was the "Collier & Co." posters (with autographs) that I bought on eBay from John. Now, I will wait the DVD with the movie. I hope it arrives as soon as possible!!

Posted by: Fabiano on Wed 7/5/2007 23:28

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   The next weekend I will go to visit my girlfriend in Verona, so I will stop my work on the "Traveller". I will restart to work on it monday. However, yesterday evening I've painted the roll bar with black spray and I tryed to see how it looks into the car: I'm enough satify but I need to see the final result when I will finish the car interior. Moreover, I replaced the original exhaust with two little tubes that I've painted with silver spray and now the rear is equal to the real "Traveller".
   Have a nice weekend and see you monday!!

P.S.: Yesterday evening I also received 2 new pictures from Roberto's Collection: the first is the '69 Dodge Charger "Cale Yarborough" version, and the second is a General Lee in "Dusty" version. To see Roberto's collection, please click here.

Posted by: Fabiano on Fri 7/6/2007 10:06

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   New week, new updates!! This time I propose you new pictures of the Traveller's dashboard: to prepare it, I preferred to create a homemade detailed decals, starting with a simple sketch obtained directly pressing a paper on the original dashboard. Then, I scanned my sketch and I acquired it on my PC; with a good graphic software I elaborated it (below, you could see an animation about the steps needed for this process) and when I finished it, I printed on adhesive paper.
   If you want to see more pictures about this step, click on the following picture.

Posted by: Fabiano on Mon 7/9/2007 20:24

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   Good news, good news!!! Other updates on the Traveller: Yesterday evening, I created the Overdrive box using a simple plasticard paper. I've modeled it with a cutter and at the end I've created a little box attaching every piece with a good glue. Then, I've painted the box with gloss black and I've attached a decals created using a picture of the real Traveller owned by John Schneider.
   But I've not finished... I also created the safety belts for the front seats. I used an old shoulder strap and with it I created 6 narrow stripe, 3 for every seat. Then, I glue the pieces and I realized the metal buckle with plasticard painted with silver spray.

Posted by: Fabiano on Thu 7/12/2007 08:59

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   As announced, during the last weekend I found the correct paint for the interior parts!!! It's a good tan spray, dug-up in a small paintshop in Erba (CO). So, yesterday evening I started to paint the 2 front seats and the right door panel. The result is very good and I like very much this color (in the pictures, you could notice the difference between the new color and the old plastic effect). This evening, I will paint all the other parts and then I will add some decals to the safety belts.

Posted by: Fabiano on Mon 7/16/2007 09:53

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   Do you remember my project to create a futuristic version of the General Lee? Ok, today it's arrived the moment to show you my last purchase. I bought the great orange Dodge Challenger Concept produced by Maisto: with the "General Lee" decals created by Bugsy's Junkers, I will convert it in a new car for the Hazzard County!! So,I will put together two my passions: the "General Lee" with the wonderful Dodge Challenger Concept!!

Posted by: Fabiano on Wed 7/18/2007 17:18

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   I started to load the "DVD Showroom" section. Now, I added only 3 TV series: The Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice and Starsky & Hutch, but in the next days I will add all my others TV Series and Movies about famous cars!! Stay tuned!

Posted by: Fabiano on Fri 7/20/2007 11:55

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   Yestarday, I worked hard on the Traveller. First of all, I corrected a problem on the passenger's door: originally, when I extracted the car from its box, I noticed that the passenger's door has been glued to the body, because a screw was broken. So, with a good pincer I extracted the screw and I substituted it with a new one.
   Moreover, I prepared the car carpet to simulate the internal moquette: to do this, I used a Vinavil glue diluted with water, and then I dredged Borotalco. When every components was dry, I painted the car carpet with opaque black. The result is very good!! Now to finish the Traveller I need only 2 things: the fire extinguisher (I order it on eBay) and the rear seats (I will order it monday or tuesday from Bugsy's Junkers).

Posted by: Fabiano on Sun 7/22/2007 11:05

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   Sunday, I visted my sister and my brother in law, but especially my niece. Maria Sole (this is the name of my niece) is a beautiful baby and she is 6 months old. For the occasion, I bring with me the General Lee (tan interior version) and I shot some pictures with it and the baby. It's superfluous to say that Maria Sole like this model, so I think that in the future I will buy a General for her.

Posted by: Fabiano on Tue 7/24/2007 14:06

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   Yesterday evening, I mounted the two front safety belts on the Traveller. If you notice, I also added 2 stickers with the brand "SIMPSON" (produced with my PC), like the real Traveller. This morning given that it's a sunny day, I shot some new pictures on the interior part and with the main body mounted. Now, the Traveller is near to be finished...

Posted by: Fabiano on Wed 7/25/2007 12:14

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   Yesterday, it's arrived a package with some new models: one of this is another '69 Dodge Charger "General Lee" that I will convert in the Traveller #2 owned by Erik Dimitriou. I think that I will create 3 replicas of this car: one for me, one for Erik and one for Roberto (the greatest collector of Hazzard diecast model in Italy).
   Anyway, before start to work on this model, I organized a new Charger Meeting: this time the presence was very high, infact there was 6 Charger (included the last oncoming). The next time, I think the meeting will be still larger!!

Posted by: Fabiano on Thu 7/26/2007 11:06

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   Finally, yesterday it's arrived another little package with the fire extinguishers I won on eBay. Now my Traveller, with this distinctive feature, is more similar to the original one. I have also unlocked the doors, so now it's possibile to open the doors and look the interior parts.

   Moreover, yesterday I visted a gentleman that I know on eBay and that lives near my town. Cristiano (this is his name) is a british car restorer but also a great diecast collector (on his body shop he has about 4000 pieces!!!). I visited his body shop and for the occasion I bought for few euros 3 models that I will restore in the next weeks: a black Dodge Viper R/T 10 (I will recreate the car used in the TV series "Viper"), a red Jaguar E-type Coupe (I will recreate the car used by "Diabolik") and a red Ferrari 348 GTB (I will restore it but I think I will sell it on eBay).

Posted by: Fabiano on Fri 7/27/2007 09:58

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   Yesterday, I started to work on 3 models: first of all, I created the correct license plates for the Traveller #2 (using some original pictures posted by Erik Dimitriou on CGLFC forum) and then I started to remove the paint from the Jaguar and Ferrari bodies. This evening, I think I will start to paint the Jaguar body with a good gloss black and then I will remove paint from the Viper body.

Posted by: Fabiano on Tue 7/31/2007 11:16

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