1966* Ford J Car - April Trials

[Gramps46]

Ye olde Dremel turned aggressive on me and now I will have to sleeve down the vents.  On well.

Edited March 15, 2023 by Gramps46

[Rich Chernosky]

1 hour ago, Gramps46 said:

Ye olde Dremel turned aggressive on me and now I will have to sleeve down the vents.  On well.

High speed Dremel bits do have a taste for plastic....that's a fact.  At least you have a fix in mind. 

[Pierre Rivard]

The shakes...dremel's best friend. lol. ?

[Smilesperhour]

I'm not brave enough to even try a power tool ... I feel ill either trash the kit or find I've removed any hope of using finger ID

[Gramps46]

I really should have known better.  I drilled holes first thinking I could control the holes but as I tried to join the holds together and even out the top and bottom things got away from me.

[65slotcar]

nice  work Gary,  very cool project !    Love the  look of the Ford J car.   This is one of many future  projects.

[Gramps46]

Hey, it only took 3 days.  Maybe I should go back to carving my models from firewood. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

The save looks very good. 

[Pierre Rivard]

You've captured the look well. This should work out just fine sir.

[absmiami]

Time to splurge on Foredom hand drill - they go nice an slow unless you mash on the foot pedal - i swear by them - well actually - when its time to change the hand peice- I swear at them …

[Gramps46]

After finishing off the tail piece.

I decided the center and nose were not up to par paint wise.  So into the brake fluid they went.  Surprisingly the brake fluid took off the top coat of the Tamiya white paint but left the primer.  An added benefit was that the side windows were loosened enough that I could pop them out and buff and Future them to get the glue mark out.

Now the real challenge is to mask and spray on the dark blue.

Mockup of the body.

Edited March 23, 2023 by Gramps46

[Gramps46]

While waiting for some paint to dry I tired printing headlights from a photo in my files.  It took several tries to get the size right and then to print on photo paper.  They will look better once the headlight buckets are painted.

[Pierre Rivard]

The mockup looks really good Gary. What is the plan for headlights, printed photos or you have actual parts going in?

[Gramps46]

1 hour ago, Pierre Rivard said:

The mockup looks really good Gary. What is the plan for headlights, printed photos or you have actual parts going in?

I have the original chrome headlights which I am not fond of.

I have the Modellers Light Lens Set which I could back with BMF but have not had real good luck with.

Or try using the cut out photos which I have not done before.

Any suggestions anybody?

[absmiami]

Do you have some Molotow to paint the Modeler’s lenses ?

[Gramps46]

1 hour ago, absmiami said:

Do you have some Molotow to paint the Modeler’s lenses ?

Yup but not tried it yet.

[Pierre Rivard]

I would use 1/4 inch punch with 0.5 mm Evergreen to create the 4 bases/bexels, chrome paint it and fix the modelers lenses to it with Canopy or Krystal Clear glue

[Gramps46]

You beat me to posting Pierre.  I used the punch on duct tape and will attach some clear lenses from the parts box and see how that goes.  Thanks for the suggestions.

[absmiami]

Neat punch…

[Gramps46]

9 minutes ago, absmiami said:

Neat punch…

The punch is so old it was made in the USA.

[Bainford]

Looking good, Gary. Coming along nicely.

[vamach1]

Picture from Facebook of a “new” J car built to look as much like the original one as possible.

[Gramps46]

Just a mock up thus the panel gaps.  I am not happy with the masking and the blue is too dark so debating whether to strip and repaint.  My friend Scott Kercher taught me "if you can see it then others will too."

[Gramps46]

Splash!  That was the sound of the nose and mid-section body going in the brake fluid pond.  Then totally without explanation this showed up in a parts box.

[Pierre Rivard]

Jeez...how many J1's do you have Gary. I keep seeing new body parts popping up.

Now admit it, your parts box is a cargo container right?