JTalmage

Sweet! I'll have to find some of that stuff and mess around with it! less ingredients than I thought!

Amazing work. Simply amazing. I have always wanted to build a diorama for model car placement pictures... but wow I would have never thought about the detail that you put in to this... and after seeing yours now, I dont think I could ever build one and be happy with it! haha I would love to have an exact copy of yours! but I dont know where I'd put it! lol

Wouldnt wetsanding the decals off with a fine grit sand paper be ideal? Would also give you a better surface for eventual paint.

Ahh good point. I was trying to thin testors flat black and stuff like that. I think thats what my issue was. Any particular ratio? Or just thin it til I like how it looks?

Hey folks, I've tried to search thru pages of the forums first before asking, but with no luck... but how can I make a good blackwash? I tried my hand at it last night, but it pulled the paint off the part I was working on once I wiped it away no matter how I mixed it. What is the ideal mixture and ingredients? I'd like to keep it in a small glass testors paint bottle to use whenever I need it. Thanks! and sorry for a question that I'm sure is asked a lot!! Jesse

The license plate on the DP Nova was JJZ 109? I never noticed. I know that's the Bullitt mustang plate number. Noticed the Duck as well... would be kinda neat to put that on the hood of a black Kenworth for a "Convoy" model.

Painted it. Wasn't decided on paint but I couldn't find anything that really spoke to me in my boxes of paint. So I went subtle. Good thing 12yr old spray paint still looks good! Waiting for my engine parts to arrive before I cut a hole in the hood and paint it. I also used a translucent red to spray the windows. This car is almost looking too good for me to want to make it rusty looking.... I also painted my front wheel centers gray, and cleared them with dullcoat

Wow. Dunno why but I never thought of using a wash on an engine. Looks fantasic

That made pretty good sense to me. Your english must not be that bad. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

My friend just finished his version of this. He just shaved down the intake a little and put 2 carbs and air cleaners on it. Can't tell it wasn't supposed to be that way.

I have this same kit... I want to lower it on some whitewall tires too. Where did you get the tires? And can you show more of what you did to lower it? This is the next kit I plan to build. Thanks!

Wow.... wow.... wow.... just... wow.

Very cool! I'm working on a '55 2 door over in the on the bench section, and using my Nomad for parts. I love gassers!

Sorry for the newb question, but I havent seen anything anywhere else... but has anyone seen or made some aftermarket resin Bullitt wheels for Mustangs? Not the wheels that came on the '08 Revell kit, but some 99-04 bodystyle Bullitt wheels? I've got an AMT '94 Mustang GT on the backburner in the closet, that I would LOVE to make exactly like my real '94 GT... 17x10.5" back wheels, 315 drag radials and all! Thanks!

Killer! I would love to see some 315/35/17 Nitto's, but MT's would do. I have a '94 Mustang GT model I would like to make look JUST like mine.... if only someone made staggered Bullitt wheels....

I always did like the Nascar convertibles from back in the 50's...

Found my front torq-thrust wheels. I threw them in my AMT '67 Mustang kit I guess thinking I was going to do a Bullitt.. then the Bullitt model came out... anyway.... I also ordered some M/T big block chevy valvecovers, Hillborn intake, and Hillborn stacks for the motor as well. All of this came from Speed City Resins. Now, I'm trying to decide on the color of the car. I'm going to weather it as well so I'm probably going to do something in layers. Then rust. I would also like to spray the windows w/ some translucent paint, for that 60's gasser look. But what color....

Thanks! I've also seemed to have misplaced the original chrome torq-thrust front wheels to the nomad, and I cant put the front suspension/wheels together with any other ones because of how the front axle is made. So I'll have to dig thru my parts to see where they ran off to. I think they're in my '62 impala convertible box.... for some reason if memory serves me right.

Cut the springs off the axle, and found some 68-69 Dodge Charger leaf springs in my parts box, and heated them up and bent them to give it more height on the rear end. The blue panel in the chassis is actually the tonneau bed cover for an old small scale bigfoot snaptight I had as a kid. Cut it down and molded it/glued it in place as the filler. glued the leaf springs to the axle, and got them settled in to place. I may add a small block to the back just to give it a touch more height, but overall it looks good in the rear. As you can see below, even w/ the extra height on the rear springs, the front straight axle set up just made the car sit too level for my liking. So, I cut the shocks in half that were molded to the front axle, and added some material in there to simulate "extended" shocks, then added a small block above the transverse leaf spring to bring it down from the cross-member. Not the greatest way to do it, but I got the results I wanted. Looks MUCH better now that it has the true gasser stance. I also ran into an issue w/ the motor, I think it's 1/24th scale, and this car is 1/25th scale, so the engine is bigger than it should be, so I cant run ANY front accessories to the motor. Going to have to think on that, may have to "clearance" the firewall and move the motor back a little.

Thanks! Didn't know that! I also did some googling and found some M/T valvecovers I would like to get, and some high boy front springs, along with some sweet dumped headers. Will probably get those in a few weeks.

Thanks guys, The leaf springs attached to the axle now are just too flat, and actually a bit short. Dont know what it came off of, I just found it in my stash and said "oh, an 9" ford" The nomad kit that I am using for the parts needed to complete it has ladder bars, and straight axle front end, but to get the height I want up, I may have to modify it. I'm not a scratch builder so we'll have to see what I got in terms of extra straight axles. it probably wont be pretty underneath w/ all the "modifying" that I have to do, but it will look good overall. I've got loads of models in need of a "2nd chance" so this wont be the last one.

Hi all, I just finished up my '68 Mustang Cobra Jet before I signed up, and I've moved on to my newest project. it's a '55 Chevy Bel Air, but it's a 2 door post. didnt think a 2dr post Bel Air existed... Not sure if that was a mistake by Ertl back in the day, but either way... this kit was originally built by another buddy of mine when he was like 9, and he gave all his old models to me a few years ago so I decided i was going to salvage what I could and use the rest for parts, and this '55 chevy was just too cool to use for parts. I knew from the get go I was going to make this car into a barn-find gasser. There was enough missing from this car I could get away with building it however I want. The kit I am using for the chassis and suspension parts, and other odds n ends is a '55 Nomad that I goofed up years ago and decided to part it. So, here's what I got so far: It's all about stance! I cut the single exhaust off the chassis and also removed the spare tire well and gas tank from the nomad chassis. Will patch that up a little later on. My methods of removal are crude, but effective.... a flaming hot exacto knife! lol Found a 9" appearing axle with a metal axle rod and wheel backs, so I decided on some goodyear slicks with deep steel wheels, just checking fitment.... will have to modify or replace leaf springs Also, it's not a true gasser if you dont radius the fenders... and I really didnt want to do it... but I googled some '55 chevy gassers for some inspiration before cutting... Prostreet gasser mix! Just kidding! here's the engine I'll be using, it's a big block chevy, 427 according to the valvecovers, and I found a high rise, carbs, and velocity stacks from a '70 Chevelle model I built years ago, so thats what it will get. I'd love for it to have a blower, but I dont have a spare that fits right. Hopefully posting more pics as soon as I can make some more progress!

I want to get another '49 Merc model and chop it. Had one years ago that fell apart... never got around to putting it all back together, and pretty much lost all the parts. I like yours a lot! Very vintage looking!

Hi everyone, my name is Jesse. Long time model car builder/enthusiast. Never ever thought there would be a forum for them! It's amazing what google will find for you!! Anyway, I'm an average model builder, nothing extremely detailed, but still do some very nice cars. I've seen some of the extremely impressive things that some of you have posted here (yes, I lurked for a little while before joining LOL) and I must say, I'm blown away at the quality of the builds here... I started google searching ways to make my rusty cars look more authentic, found a few builds here that really inspired me, and noticed most of my results kept bringing me here... so here I am! I took nearly a 10 year break on building model cars once I got my license and got a few of the real ones! But still try to build some in my spare time when I'm not wrenching or whatever. I'm a 1/24th and 1/25th scale builder. I used to crank 1 per week out when I was younger, no job, still in middle school/high school... now I'm lucky to do 1 a month, but quality and creativity has gone up! A friend of mine and his wife recently had a baby so he spends a lot of time in the basement LOL so he set us up a small space to work side by side on models, listen to rock and roll, drink beer, and not listen to screaming babies haha! He and I used to build years ago before growing up intervened, so this is like a back in time kinda thing for us.. Anyway sorry such a long intro! Hopefully I can start posting some pics soon to show you all, plus whatever I'm working on at the time (I'm bad at jumping back and forth... so expect a lot of work in progress threads LOL) Jesse