crazyrichard

awsome !! you know i love that stuff haha whats the plan with the firewall ? like checkers or a wash ?? you def. need to clean up the edges a bit where the white and black meet (ment well) and imo that white is so bright if it just stays white a wash is needed but that said i know you always do stuff like that so haha cool blair !!

awsome !

thnx all for the great replyes and yes i need to make some daylight pics like i promosed i was so busy on the 49 merc .. i forgot .. i will make some tomorrow

nice merc !! love the color ! maybe post some more pics in various angles ?

looks great , now not ment badly but that gold looks great the blue flames .. hmm not sure style wise with the colors , but the panellines def. need to be visible , try to cut through that will look wat better other then that cool !!

looks awsome !

thnx guys !!

whow never figured white steelies and white walls would look this good !! and a ford rod , you can wake me up for a build like this any day

thnx guys and yes it will be shiny sanded it flat and it looks great on the right side it looks odd but thats the chrome bumper reflecting on the hood , i have halogen spotlights on it

coming back on the rounded hood , when i went on a nother forum 2 guys came with a better idea , they said make the bar below one piece with the hood , and that to me sounded like a great plan so i imidiatly got the saw and blades out and > before cut out this part because the body became a tad instable i already glued in the radiator for stability glued it on the bottom of the hood and let it stick out just a hair .. so i could sand the transition better with minimal bondo i sanded it and even sanded a more extreme shape to the bottom , like prowling lips haha and gave the sanded seem a rough layer of bondo to make sure its gone when thats dry i can sand everything smooth fitted the bumper and grille to see the look now here you can see the result best flows so much nicer now

thnx guys !

ooh the gun metal one looks awome and btw thats the grille i will be putting in haha .. and no i', keeping the hood and doors as is .. i like them and the rounded hood thing for me it doesnt have enough whow factor to put in that work ...

nice job on the chrome !!

awsome cables !!

did the corners of the hood and made them longer , need to finsand the shape but the gaps are gone other side , this was easyer here i could heat the styrene and pull it out a tad and sand it again started on the taillights drilled holes i only had the kit tails , those dual caddilac style things that are one piece without a clear lense , nonono so i found 2 small great shaped lenses and made it so they fit tight in the holes , almost one with the body only sticking out a tiny bit on the back i glued round buckets that act as spacer and after paint i can use that to glue the lenses look at the pics below , my vision is like the proportions of the body and roof are great .. like if i would chop the roof the sides would be long .. i know i can dut the sides but naahh.. so my feeling was i actually like the stock roof hight

thnx mike and yes it was like whow .. i still need to fill the corners of the hood also big gaps there first removed the splash pan and fitted the one that already has mountings for the rear bumper this also sets it back more .. the idea of the closed splash pan was to let the bumper hug the car more but in the end that looks bad now the corners of the hood need work you can see the gaps

dryfit sitting on the wheels i could make a louvred hood .. not sure yet because thats what the other kits have and i want this to be kind of difefrent from the main style glued on the front lower pan , it should sit on the chassis but i want everything nice and tight so i changed that ... almost looks like primer already got the body pretty smooth this is why the left side shape is off so that needs reshaping bummer i love the chrome bumper at the front but on the rear i didnt really like it .. maybe i change some stuff on the rear so the bumper sits different

thnx mike ! well first i put in the rear splash pan , needed a lot of reshaping to fit then the trunk was next and mannnn.... amt figured you need to put the hinge on and on final assembly put the hinge inbetween te body and interiour tub ,, i could already see that would never work .. the sact where the hinges go was horrible to i cut the part that closes in the hinge of the interiourtub and sanded it and put the trunk on with tape and glued in the part thats holds the hinge now the thing is when the trunk is on and follows the round lines of the rear side wings there way a massive hight difefrence between the trunk and the part inbetween the trunk and rear window ..... the easyest solution for me was to make sure the trunk sat right on the round shapes and deal with the hight difefrence later , the material was uber thick so removing stuff was an option after the glue dryed the hinge was in placxe and luckely the trunk stayed in place , cant move around and opens perfect closed up you see the edge i drawn along it with a fineliner after a whole whole lot of filing , sanding i got it flush now also removed the edge along the rear window , the molding .. to match the rest of the smoothness ... from the rear windows to the trunk a also reshaped the line , there was a molding and i smoothened that out .. most work went into all the round shapes around the trunk and rear pillars.. also the transition from the trunk onto the rear window was a lot of work since i needed to make sure it flowed in a angle and i kept all the roundness a bit of bondo where i nicked the trunk with my file and i cleaned teh gas cap .. after i clean this up i can start custom taillights , frecnhed in the body

cut the fenderskirts so they fall in the wheel well // this is just after glue-ing them in on the bottom i need to sand them in shape so they flow into the bodyline sitting on al 4 wheels , this is the ride hight , i really tryed to go nice and low but still keep it realistic , everything runs free ..also glued in some styrene on the corner of the hood the seem was to wide there better shot of the ride hight

that came out great !!! really !!

blair that looks awsome !! maybe lay down some pipes on the frame

ooh whow , one of my favorite builds around

whouw thats some wild stuff and awsome scratching , the alu parts are just

i'll keep saying it .. just perfectionyour builds are some of the cleanest out there .. awsome

whouw that paint !! perfect !