Peter Lombardo

Okay... I will see if I can make it Functional.

Okay.... I know, some of you can't see the pictures.... sorry, but that is just the way it is since I take my photos with my phone, and google will not allow me to upload them to a hosting site.... so be it. If you can see these, great.... if not I am sorry... and anyway, many of you will not like it anyway. A few years ago I picked up the Revell 1953 Corvette kit, but had no interest in building it since it is pretty boring. A white blob with a red interior. Blah.....Blah....Blah. Don't misunderstand me, most Corvettes are great.... well, the early 80's ones were basically dogs, but after the Government regulations eased up, the car began to perform again. anyway, a few weeks ago while in a Barns and Noble looking at car magazines, I saw an issue of "Vette" and on the cover was this Cutaway Corvette and the story of how and why. It caught my interest and now I had a reason to build the kit... well half of it. So here is the model of the 1953 cutaway Vette.. If you are interested in the back story of the real car... just google it and you will find a great story on it from the magazine article. The model has far more scratch built and modifications to the kit to list. Both doors are hinged and open and all of the left side structures were made from brass rods. Fuel tank is fabricated and the driver seat, even though it is not visible here, has the padding, springs and frame built in it. Opposed wires are all represented and the license plates were custom made on a lazor printer on photo paper. The hubcaps were converted to baby moon centers, as the first 26 cars built did not have the spinner caps as come in the kit. My favorite part on it is the left rear tail-light structure with the two little winglets. Hopefully the link below will lead you to the pictures of it. If not, so be it. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMmzOO6PGfLK2eDst4VXYkLpY-0fX_SJGwFhM8y

This is a Jimmy Flintstone 1951 Chevy if I am not mistaken... I bought it many, many years ago.... I had opened the doors, trunk and hood, and that was not easy because the resin was very thick. The car sat around for years because I just was not motivated to do anything with it. Along the way, I made a vacuum formed copy of the body just because and never did anything with that either. So a few months ago while searching on the internet I came across a beautiful old Buick wagon, in brown metallic with light and dark wood around the windows and tail gate and surfboards on the roof..... and bang....... I had my inspiration. As is usually the case, I didn't know where the 51 was. I tore apart my work room and finally found it, but of course, it was missing the hood. 4 hours later after digging through everything, still no hood, but i remembered I has made a copy of the body. I cut out the hood and with a huge amount of work, I got the hood to fit well enough. as a side note, the roof from the copy body was later grafted onto the blue racing Camaro to make it into a true fastback . The top was cut off the 51 Chevy and new bass wood side panels and tail gates were made. The roof was made from scored polystyrene sheet. The two surfboards ( really too long by today's standards) came from a 31 Ford if I remember correctly. and the wood boards I shaped from basswood. Here they are unpainted. As of now, they are base painted white but I masked the center stringer area so it will remain wood once they are finished. If I did this correctly, here are some "in progress" shots of the woodie under construction. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipPz6IpUjkP5uBmAaKI64sGQfvh_bF2aHZIjo8I9 Hope this answered your question........

Thanks...... all are 1/24-1/25 except for the two 1/20 F1 cars

I no longer have a photo hosting site because 99% of my photos are taken with my cell phone now ( great resolution, so why not?) and Google automatically up-loads them to a huge free photo hosting platform. The problem for me is that this platform does not play well with the photo requirements on this site and it will not let me get these photos onto the site in the conventional manner. So, I have all of these, and there a many, many cars in this album, in this one album. I have not explained what they are or how I built them, but truth be told, I don't think most of you guys care about what it did, and many of you guys are experienced enough to know what I did here. So if you can open this and view them.... great.... if you can't I apologize here and now, but this is just how it is. And if you can open this and you have a question about something or another..... go ahead and ask.... I will be happy to explain what I did. hopefully, this link will get you to the right place. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOsezA_DBVN8UequQAhyLT4dMSwJdg0NRWvGTahbjEl-7wNarIW4iJA8LOP5wWXRQ?key=aFItdmY0TEYzQk5Qb1ZaYkp0Zld1V01HY2FVZFdR Later..........

Very nice pair there..... I owned a '73 with the Rally Sport option ( the big open grille, ) and I can tell you, I wish I still owned it now ( traded in for a Mustang Mach 1 ). I have a couple kits to build of that car one of these days.... yours are very well done. The Z28 looks really nice with the darker green paint..

different... that is for sure..... well done, not a build you see every day.

Real nice.... looks very convincing.

Looks nice..... I have two of these to build one of these days..... you did a really nice job here3.

Nice replica..... very well done and clean...I'd bet that many of us have built that kit..... I think that car ( 350GT-R) in Wembleton White with blue and the competition version of the 427 Cobra in Guardsman Blue with white, must be in nearly all of our collections..... and if they aren't..... they need to be. Again, nice built.

Very nice.... the wheels really make it though.

The paint looks great..... well done.

nice shot on the book page...... always thought that this car is the classic 33/34 Ford for me. looks great.

nice clean build.... very period correct color too.

looks great and the drive-in tray brings back a lot of memories for me. color is perfect. sharp!

Really nice job... the long bar taillight looks great on it..... sharp interior too.... very well done.

clean build of a very colorful car. Nicely done.

Super slick... great job... that is a car that desires to have a high-quality kit made of it...... this is a great build considering the starting point.

Okay, I am impressed... great job on the working features especially.

Yes, very nice... and yes, it is a difficult kit to make look this good.

Wow, pretty slick craftsmanship.... I love those old "Internals Exposed" engines..... really well done.

Jim.... really well done.... the color is just so period correct for that car.... love it.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the kind words, and yes, the headlights do look a little long on the bottom......... I could have built up the bottom of the overhang a bit more..... my bad. Next time I will get it right.

Harry, I will see if I can get that sorted out for you.... Pete

1949 to 1951 Fords are commonly referred to as “Shoebox” Fords mainly because of the flat slap sided look of the vehicles. I refer to this custom as “Satin Slipper” for obvious reasons. This vehicle began life as an AMT 1950 Ford Convertible “Nostalgia Edition” kit before I made major revisions to it. I had a roof which I removed from a Tamiya Lexus SC430 race car hanging around and I thought it could look pretty good on the Ford body….. which it did, but with one major issue. The roof was too short to look appropriate on the standard length car, but it would fit fine if the body was shortened. So I cut 14 scale inches out of the side just behind the doors and before the rear wheel well. Now the roof fit fine, but the body seemed a bit too tall for my liking. So I sectioned a scale 4 inches out from the side of the car to bring the proportions more in line with what I thought was right for a custom like this. You can see the two pieces of the body I cut out, and on the scale ruler, you can see the sizing issues. Next, I flared the wheel wells with a mild ridge, front and back, so to give the side a bit of a sculpture, which is in contradiction to the style of the “Shoebox” Ford. The body was shaved of all moldings and ornamentations. I grinded back the tops of the headlights and built up the bottoms and added rounded sloping headlights from the new Mini Copper. On the trunk, the license plate area was recessed in to the vertical wall. The doors and trunk were opened and hinged and the hinges on the hood were relocated and rebuilt. Inside the trunk there is a parts box spare tire cover, battery and tools from the old AMT ’49 Mercury kit. For the taillights, I omitted the chrome bezel because they appeared too chunky….. It looks more streamlined without them…..I think. In the interior, the inside door panels were lifted from a 1962 Thunderbird. The area behind the seats, which came from my parts box, has a new panel built in with 6 speakers with the amps being built-in behind that (if it were a real car). The windows are made from acetate. The engine is an old parts box Chevy small block 283 with 6 deuces and trumpets. Wheels and tires also were resurrected from the parts box and the car was dropped down as low as possible. The windshield wipers are photo-etched items I had made from my design when I had the Timbs’ Special photo-etched items produced a few years ago in Scotland. Finally, the body was sprayed flat black to give the vehicle a satin sheen, hence the name, Satin Slipper. see the google album below satin slipper