Lovefordgalaxie

1962 Ford Sunliner

02 May 2013 - 04:25 AM

Just finished this one.

It's a rebuild of a 1962 issue AMT kit I bought on eBay. The old gal was built, but was all unpainted. Even tough it was not a glue bomb, the windshield was bad, it had some glue on it, and the glue had melted almost all the way trough, so I had to make a replacement glass, using my PET bottle technique. This was the only original part I was not able to salvage.

The Galaxie was originally built factory stock, but the original builder choose to use the optional custom wheels, so I didn't have the stock wheel covers to use, and it's the only non factory part.

I'll first post some pictures of how the car was when I bought it, and then the pictures of the finished product:

New Old Model by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

1962 Ford Galaxie Sunliner by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

1966 Ford Fairlane 500 427

09 April 2013 - 02:29 AM

Finished the Fairlane last night.

It's a box stock build, and the only things that were not included in the box are the paint, foil, and the custom licence plate decals.

The paint is PPG automotive synthetic enamel in Wimbledon White, the only color available from Ford for those cars. I usually don't work with PPG, but I got the paint from a friend that has a body shop, and I'm better find out more models to paint, bacause I got almost a liter of it!!!

The rest of the model was painted with a mix of Model Master, Revell enamels and Humbrol paints.

Mi first WIP here

07 April 2013 - 08:48 PM

Usually, my builds are quick, and there is barelly time to take some pictures of the process.

This model I'm building is taking a good while, as I'm in the middle of a big ptoject on work, so maybe a WIP would be possible with more than maybe six or seven pictures

Anyway, I started building this 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 about two weeks ago.

Right now I have all parts painted, and just final assembly is now remaining. To remedy my delay on posting here sooner, i'll be posting the pictures in about 3 or four replies untill I catch myself.

I'm sorry about that, and next time you will have real time updates.

When I start a kit, the very first part I like to paint is the body. Why? Well, because if I mess up on the body, I wouldn't even bother building the rest. Had some bad experiences detailing carefully frames, interiors and engines, and then messing up the body, having no way to finish the model up on the standard I would like it to be when finished.

On this build, I started with the hood. The real car has a fiberglass hood, with an air intake. The model by AMT has a two part hood, with a separate part for the air intake, and it has to be carefully glued and filled/sanded to merge the air intake into the hood without leaving any seam, or evidence that it was once a separate part.

This took me almost a week of after hours work.

Then I prepared the body to paint.

Those 1966 Ford Fairlane 500s with a R-Code 427 V8 were only produced in Wimbledon White, so Wimbledon White it would be!!

I went to my favorite 1/1 car paint store, and had a can of synthetic enamel mixed into tyhe correct color. I like working with synthetic enamels, and I even like the extra time they take to cure.

1966 Fairlane 500 WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

After the body had all tyhe mold lines sanded, and it was as smooth as I could get it, I airbrushed the paint on bare plastic.

1966 Fairlane 500 WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

1969 Ford Galaxie 500 in 1/43 scale

05 April 2013 - 01:05 PM

Just got this one. It's from IXO-Altaya.

Ford Galaxie 500 1969 by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

1957 Fairlane with new wheels

31 March 2013 - 04:17 PM

Last week, a friend of mine started building a AMT 1962 T-Bird, and he's going with the custom wheels. As he knew I was after a set of the factory stock wire wheels, he gave them to me. This is the result:

1957 Fairlane with new wheels by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr