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How does Alclad compare with regular model silver paint. That's what I was using mostly back in the day.

Thanks Harry.

How do you go about reducing a photograph so the image will print to a pre-determined size? For example I'd like to print this dash so the actual image is 2 1/8" to use it in a model.

Found a piece of plastic of the right thickness and cut an insert for the Ford window opening. Then with the help of French curves, I traced an approximation of the Chevy opening. The only thing that would write on that plastic was a leaky paint stick and it didn't shape well at all. I'm going to redo it in styrene. [url=http://s1176.photobucket.com/user/landman2/media/1934%20Chevrolet%20Master%20Coupe/IMG_0423.jpg.html]

Had a can of the same light chestnut paint as the 1:1 made up. Did some sanding on the body. Attempted to make a division bar for the vent window using sandpaper wrapped around a mail to shape a thin piece of plastruct. I think it looks out of scale. Then I saw a strip of 18 Ga. brads. That is more like it. Next, I have to reshape the rear window to look like the Chevy's. The Ford's is more square. I thought I'd reduce a photograph to scale and then transfer the shape of the opening to some sheet and make an insert to fit into the Ford opening. How do I do that? It will be similar with the dash. The first one is the diecast's (a Standard), the other is the one in my car (a Master). I was thinking or deducing the photo to scale and using the actual reduced photo as the dash panel. Is there an application which allows to measure the actual size of an image as you reduce it?

Assembled the K member and the gusset plates to the frame. Relocated the battery to the front where it is in a Master. The proportions are all wrong but at least it sort of looks like the frame of a Master. Added a bit of putty to the joint in the roof.

Thanks Tom

Is there a slant six kit available?

Still unpacking and came across this one which will be a definite rebuild. My wife had a 1976 Volaré for 12 years. This photo shows it in 1988 showing some rust along the bottom. Later I built a model of it. Somehow the paint on the hood had cracked or bubbled and my wife undertook to strip it ending up gouging it. I had applied filler and primer but obviously didn't finish it. So now I'd like like to redo it properly. I'll need one taillight and one mirror. The kit has bucket seats and a console as well as a 318. Where should I look for a bench seat , a slant 6 and the proper hubcaps?

Just bought this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/361022479854?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648

What is the actual difference in the roofs shown in post #2? The height of the crown? I don't see it.

Where did you get the trailer?

Jeff, how did you make that shifter, a pin?

Seth, I am following this with great interest as I want to build a replica of my own Mustang later. We can hear you think while reading the posts. Am I correct in assumiong that all isn't decided ahead of time, that there is no fixed plan other than the principal mods and the rest is done as you go?

That's not a model, that is 1:1.

Orianthi Panagaris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK6tcgsKgps and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1i0g254eM

Thanks Mike. They are not very common for a car which was produced in large numbers. Here's mine. I'm attempting to sort of duplicate it with this model.

Finished stripping the metal body. Glued the doors shut. Drilled another hole for the handle on the rumble seat lid which will become a trunklid. After much filing and sanding the plastic roof sort of fits on the metal body The proportions are all wrong for a Master (the diecast being a standard) but once it is in place, filled out and painted, only those in the know will tell the difference. That is why I am still looking for one of those R & R jobs because they are based on the Master.

Heavy rains today, so I worked on the model. Started laying out the K-member. Not sure why I am doing this, no one will see it. Completed the disassembly of the diecast body. Removed all trim including the running board mats which are rubber. Started stripping the paint off in the sandblast cabinet. Got the hood done and part of the body before my old compressor threw a reed valve. Now it won't make more than 60 PSI.

Spent a bit of time at the bench tonight. Shortened the roof so the door opening lines match. It will be too short proportionally though. Ah well.... Also looked at how I could transform the X-member of the diecast model into the K-member of my car. I think I may have to fabricate it.

Dug out a few more. Looking at them, I see all the things I didn't do that are de rigueur here. The Mustang and the two Ferraris were painted. I can't remember what with. The Caddy was just clearcoated like some of the others. The saran wrap it was in too some of it off, hence the blotches.

C'est beau ça Emmanuel. Very nicely thought out and executed conversion. Félicitations!!

Thanks guys.

I think this may have been it. I wonder hor hard it would be to find another one?

I built that before. If I remember well, it has an engine.