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Hola Moses...as my German brother in law used to say. Astounding!!!!

Hey Russ, thanks for the exaggeration. I'm actually getting back in after many years off. I must thank you for the link to the "U". I found how to make the character lines on the body.

Ground off the leaf spring mounts. Measured & reduced the front suspension crossmember. Set out to reproduce it or something like it in 1:25.

Belle job Martin. Beautiful background too!

Dug out a few more today. While the plastic wrap held the pieces that fell off with the right car they messed up the paint on several. If I'm boring people with this, PLEASE let me know.

While the photo of the rear window in Posting # 67 is making its way to Australia to get turned into a rear window I finished stripping the frame. Removed the engine, exhaust, battery and front suspension. The front suspension was held there by minuscule rolled pins. It will be replaced by the "Knee Action" hydraulic suspension. I took a photo of the crossmember it mounts to in order to duplicate it to scale.

Thanks Paul. Much appreciated.

Dug a few more out of the box in posting #9. A '32 Cadillac and a racer I had made out of the Packard Speedster kit.

I'm definitely interested Jurgen.

I've been looking for a thread/tutorial/video on how to do this.I think I'll need to do some when restoring models with damages windows. I'm interested in the HOW but also the equipment, materials etc.

OK, thanks. Must've read too fast. Those wheels make the car I think.

Are those wheels from the kit? Or are they those machined rims with custom laced wires?

Are you going to insert the windshield through the door window?

Terry, did you machine the rods & bushings in the winch or are they simulated with wire & tubing? Nice job, by the way. Love it. Always wanted to build an oilfield rig. I'd have your thread in front of me all the way.

Thanks Richard. I'm talking with someone who can cast a piece in the shape of the rear window complete with the inside reveal. Looks like that will be the way to go.

Here's the photo of the 1:1 car's rear window reduced to scale.

About the one above. Again this forum won't show what I write after a quote. What I thought I had posted was this, "Are the makings of a Hot Rod Lincoln model available?" As far as the song go, I'm torn between Hot Rod Lincoln and Maybelline.

It wasn't today, it was Tuesday. But I was passed by a goegeous silver Aston Martin, likely a DB9. Niiiiiice!

Scrapped yesterday's idea for the back window. Since only the top is different I cut a piece of styrene to cover the area that needs to be filled in. I then marked the outline of the desired shape and when my nerves are up to it I'll shape it. Meanwhile, started fabricating the hydraulic front suspension units.

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?