JTalmage

Just finished this one up. It's an older Fujimi kit reissued as Testors. I always liked the 2nd gen RX7's but not enough to own one without swapping a Ford engine into it. Anyway, I painted it Tamiya Titanium Gold and the interior is a rustoleum satin maroon. I built this one to replicate a car a friend of mine used to own many years ago as far as the color scheme goes. I didn't particularly care for how the interior and chassis goes together on this car. The body is really nice though. I added some foil behind the rear tailights and behind the front parking lights. I used maroon flocking on the interior floorboard because it was really basic and had no carpet texture... and looked as if it could have been set up as a battery powered car... so no floor detail at all. The decals were old and beginning to yellow, and luckily I was able to get the yellow crud off the back of most of them and they turned out just ok. I used some black wash and detailed out the panel lines as well as the wheel details. Oh, and I didnt realize until after I took the pictures...... my front wheels were on backwards. Whoops. So after I took pics I swapped the rears from side to side since I glued the chassis together already and the front wheels are screwed to the spindles. Oh well, looks better now. But these are the pics prior to that. Anyway, enjoy. Let me know what you think.

Yes, everything except the distributor was from the kit. I swapped the tires for older versions w/ the lettering. Thats the only other change I made.

It's a nice car, but it's DeSoto and Plymouth cousins were much more beautiful.

You're welcome. I have been wanting to make more salt flat cars lately. I know a guy who has a raggedy looking white/red Edsel wagon.... and he uses it at Bonneville as a push car. Wagons are way cool for that stuff. Some pop-sickle sticks cut, distressed, and "bolted" to a bracket on the nose.... good to go.

Great looking build! Love the Dinki Di can in there too

Flintstone wagon body.... hunkered down over some whitewalls and salt flat discs, set up for Bonneville.... either as a 2 tone push car, or a lettered up land speed car with the blower from the Fireball Roberts Ford?!?

I like what you've done there on the RR. But I'll only have shipping tied up in getting a body. No big deal. Plus, I'm not great at scale plastic bodywork. Especially after heavy mods like this. Real 1:1 body work I am great at though.... So if I can find some sections of a car that are exact proportions and shape, all I do is cut, superglue, brace, and go.

Well, hopefully if I can get this spare body, I'll be doing some slicing and dicing. I'm no perfectionist but I'll do my best. Oddly enough I am more afraid to slice and dice plastic than I am metal on a real car. Especially when these Lincoln kits aren't cheap to buy on the web.

Great looking build! But where are the GTX taillight housings? Also, with that intake and carb setup, it was meant to have holes in the hood, which is why they wouldnt fit. If you were wondering. I always love your use of HOK colors.

Welcome to the forum! I also know someone here in Ohio named Thierry who is also from France. What are the odds of that.

Bummer... sorry to hear that. Very talented fellow. R.I.P.

I haven't tried it. But I would imagine it would be pretty close. I used the Tbird engine bay because it has the area below the windshield that the Mark also has, and in greater detail. But the engine bay itself would be nice from the Mustang. I will pull it out of the box and take a look sometime this weekend.

Oh man!! I love it!! I was wanting to go with the same wheels but I couldn't remember what kit had them! Thanks for the tip. hopefully you don't mind me using the same idea. I really like the stance of yours as well. Once I get the wheelbase figured out and the chassis sorted out, I wanted mien to sit like that but a little lower out back. I am also going for the street performance car look. What mustang kit did you use the chassis from?

Wow. I missed the entire barn building segment! Amazing!

Thanks. I own a '93 Lincoln Mark VIII so the Mark series cars are very much loved by me.

I have found another body to hopefully take slices out of. So maybe I'll do this one justice. I'm going to start looking for another Tbird kit as well to get a better chassis and suspension than the gluebomb.

Thanks, see my post just above my last set of pictures referring to the kit.

Here's a few outdoor shots. Just got my new phone so still trying to get used to it. Unfortunately it was a little overcast as well.

I did check out some pictures in comparison and the rear wheel openings are definitely moved forward a couple inches. I MIGHT move them back a little. I haven't decided. I didn't want to cut up the body on this thing but I still might.

Yep, you heard me correctly, stock chassis. Not Pro Street. Car won't be stock, but the chassis of the car will be. I always loved the Revell Lincoln Pro Street kit. I finally got one to build up recently but I always thought about trying to turn it back into a stock chassis'd street car. Well, I went to a swap over the weekend and found the Lincoln Mark VII as a parts kit, and it was missing a lot of stuff but enough to do what I wanted to do with it. I also came across a glue bomb Revell Thunderbird Turbo Coupe as well. So I got them both. Got them home, and the hacking began. I scribed the sides of the Thunderbird engine bay until it popped out, and did the same with the Lincoln. I had to do a slight bit of sanding on the sides of the Tbird bay and it fit the Lincoln pretty well. And after a little bit of super glue it stayed in place. The interior will be modifed once I am at that point. I will be cutting out the sides and using the Mark VII door panels and dash. The seats and console will stay the same. The hood will be modified to be flat like a stock Mark VII. Other challenges I have ahead of me are a slight wheelbase issue. The front needs centered a little better, and the rear needs moved forward a lot. I think a slice from the chassis and a slice out of the interior tub will let the chassis move forward enough to put the wheels where they need to be. So here is where I am so far. Plans for the car are some Mustang Pony wheels from the 1/24 Revell/Monogram convertible. A 302 and 5 speed also from the 1/24 Revell/Monogram Mustangs. Then perhaps the supercharger setup from the Revell Saleen Mustang speedster.

I had a few hiccupa. The steering parts are fiddly and hard to place. My chassis was warped so it sits funny. And the hood tilt hinges are a real bear to install if you blended the valances in. Superglue is your friend in that case. I also had to slightly open up the holes in the wheels for them to go on after paint. Tilt nose doesn't quite line up with the body when shut but goes with a little force. Might help to also round off the bottom edges of the core support too which would help when the hood is flipped up.

Thanks folks. I got a new Samsung Galaxy S7 last night. Maybe I'll take more pics this weekend outdoors.

Did that last night actually. Just shared one picture. I didn't want to bombard him with like 20 pics hahaha but I did also thank him for his contributions to the hobby and his wonderful designs.

Great looking build!

That turned out really well! Is that on the same Revell/Monogram chassis as you had in the workbench thread?