Sidney Schwartz

That was my previous build.... 🙂

This kit is the devil's own dumpster fire...pretty much what you'd expect from a Lindberg kit. The body consists of 11 pieces, none of which fit very well. I had to tear it down and rebuild it several times before I could get it sort of OK. Chassis and engine detail are almost non-existant, and the interior is not much better. You've been warned. Enjoy and thanks for looking. This will probalby be my last post here. I'm feeling that I've gone about as far as I want to with this hobby, and there are other things I want to try my hand at. Thanks to all the folks here who were so helpful and encouraging.

Thanks, all. I think Lincoln's design team really nailed it with this one. They probably thought so too since it remained almost unchanged that entire decade.

What are these "instructions" you speak of? 😄

This is a very nicely designed kit...good detail and very good parts fit. Unfortunately, the kit was rather ancient and the plastic brittle, which meant frequent breakage of thin parts. You can see in the front shot that one of the wheels is crooked...it broke, again, as I was taking the pics. This was not a sealed box...maybe the plastic would have been in better shape if it was. It's all box stock except for the ignition wires and the tubes leading the wires from the distributor to the manifolds. The interior is pretty plain, but so is the real one. Enjoy, and thanks for looking and commenting.

Yes, that's the one.

Aleenes Quick Dry Tacky Glue.

We've all had problems like this, or will. This is why I decided to "test build" every kit. Before painting or even priming I put it together using Tacky Glue, which holds well enough and comes off easily. Any problems encountered are corrected and the model is disassembled, painted and rebuilt. Test building takes time, but it's not a race, and may actually save time over having to fix something and repaint. It also prevents a lot of frustration.

Forgot to mention that the Colorshot stuff is acrylic. Also that I use Krylon Crystal Clear for finishing. Polishes up nicely.

You did a much better job with the foiling than I usually manage. Beautiful model.

I pretty much always use Krylon Colormaxx gray primer. The body color is Orange Slice spray by Colorshot. This is the first time I've tried Colorshot for the body color and I really like it. Covers better than most spray paints I've tried, isn't overly heavy, and the color is very rich. The only place I've seen Colorshot paints locally is Michael's Crafts, but I've also seen it online. Their website is www.mycolorshot.com.

The folks on this forum are such a great resource! Thanks much. Now I can see that the distributor is molded into the engine. The wire routing tubes are also included, but may be too small to drill for wiring. Shouldn't be difficult to fabricate something more suitable. Cool!

Actually, where's the distributor on a 1941 Lincoln Continental engine? In the pics I've found you can see the wires are routed through two tubes that run along the top of the cylinder heads. I can't find a pic that shows the actual distributor, though. I'm guessing it's on the front of the engine somewhere? It's the Monogram kit I'm building, which doesn't come with a distributor, so I can't get the position from that. A pic of the 1:1 engine showing the distributor would be wonderful.

Great. Thanks, Joe.