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It's not a wild, blown, weed burner....just a very polite, modest hot rod. No fancy paint job. No chrome plated axle or chrome plated shocks. Black windshield frame. Stock body. Fabric roof insert. Love it.

See? SEE ?.....thank you Topher! (That didn't take very long 🙂)

This was a $10.00 bill plus 7 more for shipping. Somehow, I thought it would be better. I've got to stop doing this. I do have one more Revell chassis.....🤔

I thought I would get at least one guy to agree with me on this coupe. ☹

It's a '40 tudor. Lots of Testor's enamel applied with a brush. (Funny you should mention the Plymouth, though.) I think it's recoverable enough for a chop. The skirts have me fantasizing about a tail-dragger. I may explore the possibility of using the Plymouth chassis (ready-made I F S - just a thought 🥴) I'll post pix on my old '40 tudor thread; I don't want to devalue yours 🤣

I think this deuce is cool because it still has all the "old fart" hardware on it. 😉 And no bling! ....and maybe the original black paint, too. It looks like it was in a barn for the last 70 years under a tarp and dusted off and well..... anyway, that's how it hits me, QE. A survivor of sorts, but yes...a haircut would be nice....🤔

Hey! Here's a very cool deuce coupe I spotted at my breakfast haunt a few days ago. REALLY look at it closely. IF I OWNED IT I WOULD NOT CHANGE A SINGLE THING.. and how does it make YOU feel? I'm reeeeealy liking the nailhead buick under the open hood. Hardly any chrome. It's like this kid in 1954 took a $150.00 '32 coupe and removed the fenders, dropped the front, and dropped in the nailhead. It looks like a really old build but well cared for. It's friggin' sweet. 😎 hey, I know, but it is my thread.

Hmmmm....🤔. So it's the primer we all know and love? No 💩 ? 😟 what have you found to be a good time delay between coats of barrier paint and primer? ...and primer never touches putty? Thanks, Dennis, I'll will try it your way at the first opportunity.

Probably not, Len. It seems like y'all are revamping old beat-up roaches with eight layers of paint and every decal on the sheet and brown glass and broken A-pillars.....I thought I would join in the fun. 😏 ......ya really wanna see it?

I don't know about you, Michael, but we're ready for a mock-up 😛

Welcome back, Len. You have been scarce lately but family takes priority. I hope all is well on the home front. Now....this isn't the silk purse. It's more like getting King Tut breathing again. Amazing restoration so far, Len. You started with a total horror. (You should see what I just "won" 💩)

Dennis.....I'm confused. 🙁 you are using lacquer gloss color paint to seal what exactly? The putty? Or the primer?

There's nothing better than a cheap date, Len. 😉

I often use CA that way, Q.E., but not this time, for some reason I can't explain. And not this time, either. I was angry so I used Bondo.(probably because I like the smell 🤓)

You certainly won that one! It looks like that cheap sparkle stuff we loved in the late '50s 😊. Good on the paint plan. I did a satin black Krylon job on a '40 coupe. No hood, gold firewall...very hoodlum. 🥴

Nice wheels, Michael! I gotta see those wheels under that murder victim 😜. That clean interior is pretty cool too.

That sounds like a really good way to fill door lines, Greg. The next time this comes up I will certainly try it.

Thanks for your advice on this, gents. I didn't have ghosting, I had an actual physical manifestation. The filler actually swelled and produced tiny bubbles. I've never seen this before. It's freaky. When it happened after the first application of Tamiya white primer, it wasn't nearly as bad but I should have realized something was wrong. That primer coat was sanded and, maybe a week later, primed. When that coat was sufficiently dry I shot the color, and then into the dehydrator. OK, maybe not enough time between primer and color but never had a problem before. I have removed the Mr. Surfacer from the door lines and refilled with Bondo which is what I should have done to start with. Tomorrow I will prime with a cheap "automotive" primer I have used in the past. After that, the future is uncertain.

I think Tamiya lacquer may be too "hot" to go over the Mr. Surfacer, which has a very strange odor. I'm removing the surfacer from the door lines and will fill with Tamiya putty. That should make the problem go away, right? Theoretically 🤔....and then another flipping paint job. 😣

I wish I had this advice 3 hours ago, David. I put 2 more coats on the grille shell and the hood. The fenders will have to live with the lighter shade. I don't mind the painting; it was the removal of the grille that had me re-evaluating my sanity. 🤪

Congrats! Hey, you might be able, at this point, to drill holes on each side of the firewall at the top and also on the grille shell. Drill the firewall through so you can insert pins or stiff wire that are longer than they need to be and then pull them back to the holes in the shell. Maybe make some realistic looking brackets for the firewall end.

No optical trick. Just normal paint difficulties caused by my own ineptitude. The body has twice as much paint on it than the other items that were previously painted without issues. I wet-sanded the body because of the goof I made while the paint was still soft. The paint was from a second can but I don't suspect that was the cause. The fix is to add more paint on the stuff that's already glued on. ☹

I painted it yesterday. The result is making me want to set it down on the floor and stomp on it. I really want it to work but I think maybe there are incompatibility issues with the products I am using. Tamiya on top of Mr. Surfacer. The door lines were filled with Mr. Surfacer. When I primed the body with Tamiya white I noticed the lines became "swollen" and a few tiny bubbles erupted. I sanded the areas smooth and primed it again. It looked okay. Then the color was applied and, while drying, the lines popped out again along with tiny bubbles. 🤯 So, is it the Tamiya causing the problem or the Mr. Surfacer? If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten us all. And now....👇🤨 It's cursed. 😕

I got it painted yesterday, stuck it in the dehydrator for two hours, rubbed it out and polished with Scratch-X. There are some anomalies in the form of tiny bubbles that appear along character lines. It's disappointing but they are not easily observed if you don't know about them so don't tell anybody! The bigger problem is a color discrepancy between the previously painted parts and the twice painted body. I'm not too keen on removing the grille shell and fenders in order to add more paint but that is what's called for. It's that or a really difficult masking job. It's a good thing I got a haircut last week. 😩 Thanks for dropping in 🤓

Looks like you're down to those little PITA details now, Bill. Great detail work on the engine and surrounding mechanicals. Cool display, too. Nice show rod!