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Andy- Thank you! Looking forward to your '30 Bill- Yes indeed, I've almost found it hard to fill the interior nicely now though.. Speaking of the interior, I modified a pair of bucket seats to fit and to get a different look to them... I am pretty satisfied but I'm not sure if I should raise them up a little.. Also shortened and later painted the steering rod from the Stinger dragster from Monogram. At the same time, I turned one end of it 90 degrees so it would fit properly. Also bought a helping hand yesterday and it instantly came into good use.

Now that's a really cool build!

Nice build, I love the livery! Five and a half years on, would you be able to fix the misalignment between the engine cover and chassis?

That's it.. The second Super Bee I've seen in the last couple of days.. Now I really have to get this kit hahah! You're off to a great start, perfect stance!

Nice save on the gluebomb, will be following this build. Your suicide front end reminded me to add some braces to the one on my rod.

Cool build, I love these Cortina's so it's even better

Lovely build, cool with a Merc gasser and not another lead sled!

Nice build so far, black with brown interior, like charlie8575 suggested, would look killer on this one!

Nice work on the engine, the build looks great! I may have to get myself one of these.. would build it like David Freiburger's orange Super Bee

+1 Really nice looking so far!

Thanks Bill! I've managed to get about 36 scale mm (1.4 scale inches) of ground clearance to the frame rails,but I'm going to build a rear end with airbags so that it would be be somewhat more drivable if it was real.

Thanks Mike, I'm very satisfied with that myself! It was something that I had to make to be able to fit the frame rails there so it's kind of function and form going hand in hand there. I thought about tapering it, but I decided to not test my luck and keep it slightly more basic since it's the first time doing framework. The top will be kept to the original height, I personally like the look of a car with superlow ground clearence but with a high bodywork so to say!

Here's a small update on the rod.. There wasn't as much progress done today as I had hoped for. 1. The steering is sorted out. 2. Front axle has been painted 3. Interior has been sorted out and is almost ready to go in, just need some modification to the seats and the dashboard and some paint. 4. Radiator has been shortened in height to suit the style better. Took off about 4 mm in total. Mounts for the radiator has also been made. 5. Body, frame, and floor are now finished and ready to be painted. Here's a few pics from the day.. I think it's starting to look pretty good actually. Thanks for looking, if you have any ideas on how I can improve things, do tell me! It's the first time for me doing a lot of the things I'm doing on this build so all help and ideas are welcome!

Nice start, very nicely done on the widened fenders and the window trim!

Lovely color, will be nice to see it complete!

Will be following this build, I really love the first gen T-bird!

Tom- Thanks, I'm very pleased with the look! Today there will be some updates on the suspension and steering, and there might be some work done to the interior too, if I'm being efficient. Bob- Thank you, glad you like it! Chris- That's one of the reasons I decided upon this engine, I too love the look and the insanity of having such an engine in such a car! I'll have to look up some details on the engine to make it more detailed but mostly to make it more streetable, it doesn't even have a starter motor now.. Thinking about going with ignition cables and such too, I've never done that though so I'll go slow with it.

Looking very nice, I love the Crusher Camaro and had to rewatch every Roadkill episode where Finnegan and Freiburger drives it after reading through your thread!

Thanks Craig! Like I said, it's the first time doing frame work, but I'm very satisfied with how it's turned out!

Here's a few mock up pics of the new engine. And the engine mounts which connects to the mounts on the engine of course, not the prettiest but they'll do the work. And I've also filled the rear axle, which had a big piece missing, since it'll be visible through the trunk... I'm going to add the steering to the front axle, build the interior using some bucket seats from the parts box, modify the radiator and radiator masking, and of course make the rear suspension, going with a four link setup with airbags. I'm hoping to be finished with the build so I can compete with it on one of Sweden's biggest modelshows, BUCK, which is held on the 31st of October, so I've got ten days to finish it. We'll have to see how that goes!

After the floor was completed and in the body, I started working on the chassis itself. Here you can see exactly the measurements of the framerails. And in the body.. And then I started adding some pieces to connect the framerails. The front piece is the mounting point for the suicide front end. The rear parts had to follow the bodyline to kick up enough to clear the rear axle. And then I decided to use another engine, because the Ford V8 isn's symmetric and a pain in the a** to fit nicely. It's from a Top Fuel dragster so it should pack quite the punch!

Hi guys, thought I'd share some of the progress of a Monogram Ford coupe '30. Started off with changing the front axle to a dropped front axle from Monogram's Stinger dragster, engine from an AMT Ford Victoria '55 and wheels from the parts box. Painted it solid red and was really satisfied with how it turned out.. That is, until the paint literally started falling off the body. So I removed it all, and wet sanded the entire body, but grew tired of it and put in storage for a few months. Fast forward until last week, I put it on the bench again... And started to mock up different things and stiles, and suddenly I had the look I wanted. Still using the engine and front axle like I planned from the start, but the original Monogram wheels and going with the channeled style. This meant I had to build my own frame and floor, haven't made any of those before but I started anyway. Using 0.5 mm styrene I made up the whole floor to fit the V8 and raised it about 12 scale cm. More is coming...

Thanks guys!

Here's finally my Nissan 300ZX which I started building in March, had some accidents with the paintjob which made me store it a few months, but I finished in today finally. I personally think the rear is the best part of the car, the taillights turned out excellent! But anyway, I'll let the pics do the talking.

I love it! Its gonna look ... (do I dare say it?) killer, when it's finished