Peter Lombardo

This is the original 1964 Dodge Charger Concept car. Many, many years ago I built this car. It is a little "long in the tooth" now and showing its age, but I dragged it out and took a couple of new pictures of it.

Wow, looks great, very period perfect. The off white interior is perfect for this car. Really nice smooth paint and a very convincing engine bay. All around, well done.

Normally I am not a big fan of "distressed" builds, but this one really works well. Very, very nice. This looks just right.

Very nice, love those old Drag Cars before everything got so Corporate and controlled. Great color. It may be too late, but if you are adding a few more items, consider added a racing harness seat belt. Overall, really nicely done.

Love it, really nice. These Fisher kits, obviously have a lot of potential. Looks great.

I reposted the pictures, see if this works any better.

This is the artwork that came in the kit. I really liked the color and the front end treatment so I thought I would build one similar to it. Never built this kit as a kid because by 1966 I was into real cars, young ladies and lot's of beer, so now, much later I am finally doing one. To begin with I did not like the roof line of the Grand Prix thinking that the Bonneville roof looked much better. So I added a vacuum formed roof I made and added a scale 4 inch chop. The A pillar was laid back giving the front windshield a sleeker look. The 4 grills in the front looked too bright to me so I stripped the chrome off them and painted them the body color. I opened and hinged the doors and added embedded tail lights in the rear keeping with the minimum chrome feeling of the design. The exhaust cluster in the center rear was added from the parts box. Wheels came from Pegasus and disc brakes from the parts box then I dropped the car down as low as I could. Not much done to the engine bay except wiring, heater lines, a/c compressor added and a body painted large air filter. The car was primed, sanded, dark blue base coat, sanded, topped with Testors "color shift" Emerald Turquoise (intended to be sprayed over black, but I went with dark blue) and then topped with Tamiya clear. A fairly simple build for me, but I am pleased with the finished product. P.S. I had a very nice paint job on it and then I got crazy and screwed it up completely. Because the original paint was fairly think from the multiple layers, stripping it was a bear and a half and the repaint just din't work out as well..... lesson learned. Also, sorry about the stray hair on the roof in a few of the shots..... another lesson learned again for the um''teeth time.

Really nice build..... too bad this car wasn't produced by Revell...... it is such a great looking Mustang.

really nice.... I have had this in the closet for years too... one of these days..... oh well and smart to get a new set of decals. looks great.

You gotta' love it....... loos just like the real one. NICE!

Beautiful build.... except for the very slight gap on the rear bumper to the body, it could pass for the real thing. Well done.

Great builds, love the colors, well done.

Really well done. Very clean. One of my favorite race cars fro the sixties. Too bad there was never a Tamiya or Fujimi kit of the Hall cars complete with engines. Missed opportunity Or even the Cobra Daytona Coupe, Ford GT Mark IV, the variations of the Chaparral and a nice blue King Cobra rear engine roadster . Too bad, but you did a great job on it. Many years ago I did a heavily modified "Modelers" Chaparral as I found the kit to be far too "toy like".

Yes, very well done, the paint sparkle is a bit much for me, but that is just me and I do love the color choice, very nice job though, and yes, your skills are improving. Keep it up.

Looking great.

Looks great... love the period correct Cragar mags on it. This looks good enough to hop in and drive away. Very well done...... Great detail all around.

Yeah, it still looks very good. Nice work.

different...... one of Chrysler's last hooray s before they just about went "Bye-Bye" if it hadn't been for Iaccoca pulling their butt out of the fire. Nice job, and I also prefer the car without the black hood scoop.... maybe if the scoop were the same color as the car, maybe, but not black.

Very nice..... well done..... got this kit when it first came out, but it is way down on the list to complete it.... very sharp.

pretty cool, very different and very well executed.

Look great to me..... very well done.

What is not to like? Very interesting and real well done.

Not a car you see every day..... very nicely done. If you didn't mention the decal and scope imperfections, I would have never know.

Beautiful, and rare I am sure, collection. Very nice work, I am very impressed.

I use both flocking and embossing powder depending on he vehicle. Embossing powder, in my eyes, makes a "tighter" looking result so it works best if you want to represent a carpet that is tightly woven. Flocking, also in my opinion, works best on a custom where you are looking for that 1960's custom car with the bright interior and a "shag" look to the carpet. With flocking, you get the color that the flocking is, with embossing powder, once dry, you can paint over the top of it to modify the final color............ like I said, both work fine for the application you are looking to represent.