Interesting little dilemma here. The custom centre console looks very nice and fits quite neatly . . .
and looks quite good . . . until you fit the dashboard 
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Made some more progress here, installed the firewall, battery and radiator top tank and did some detail painting in the engine bay, then fitted the clear part (front and rear glass all one piece) which fitted quite well and is nice and clear with no distortions.
Almost ready for the major assembly now.
Cheers, D
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I just love the colour, D 
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Looks great!
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Thanks for the support guys, very much appreciated!
A little more progress to report, we are up on our feet now with the interior tub fitted and the body mounted on the rolling chassis. This is the first time I’ve done a build with such an angry stance, but I’m liking it! Rear cover is just dry fit in place to see how it looks. I won’t be gluing it down.
Started work on all of that delicious chrome, front end almost complete now.
Cheers, D
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A bit more tinkering today, rear end chrome, clear red tail lights and clear headlight covers fitted and some detail paint on the hood.
Lots of small touch-ups to do on the kit chrome parts, very inconvenient sprue attachment points.
Cheers, D
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Looking better and better. 
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Just need a set of keys and we’re good!
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I call shotgun!
—mike 
That looks sweet, D!
But you know what? The Yellow looks different now. While in Posts 12 and further it looks like a Lemon 
, in Posts 25 and 26 it looks more like Curry to me. What a difference light makes! And we have these endless (and fruitless) discussions on paints of military vehicles and aircrafts …
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Almost there folks, construction completed. Ended up with a slight twist so the front left wheel sits about 2mm off the deck. The side pipes didn’t line up neatly with the exhausts but it’s hard to pick that up with it sitting so low. The join in the tub between the side walls and inner guards is a bit wider than I had hoped but very difficult to deal with because they needed to be painted separately. As always, I need to clean up those greasy fingerprints
The rear cover is a very neat fit and looks good in place, I still need to detail paint the tray bolt heads.
The last bit of construction to add is the pair of lifters for the tray cover. I’ve cleaned them up and painted the bodies black now, just thinking about how to fit them securely in place to hold the cover, but easily removable. I’m thinking I might drill a very small pin of brass rod into the base of the lifter and a small matching hole in the tray to set it in.
Cheers, D
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Thanks for the update!
Maybe you try to wear cotton gloves, at least on the hand which holds the model
Jah 801 Baumwollhandschuh 12 Paar oekotex leicht weiß Gr. 7-13 : Amazon.de: Baumarkt
I always wear them when I have a model in hand, especially on model shows, to avoid these finger prints.
Have a great weekend!
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I have a couple of pairs, self-discipline in actually putting them on is the issue here
One day I will learn, and avoid the final clean-up labour task.
Cheers, D
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I’ve gone from cotton gloves to nitrile gloves as I found the static in the models was actually pulling fibres from the cotton gloves and causing havoc at painting 
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Great effect on those pics, excellent!
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HI D,
The El Camino looks great! the paint is remarkable, what a finish!
Cheers
Nick
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Beats me how I keep missing these threads but Damo, that’s a peach of the 1st order, bravo
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