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Yes nice build...love that color!

Thanks on that, I saw so many different picture of different steering wheels on these cars, I couldn't find the stock one, I'll have to fix that. Finished work on the engine this weekend. Decided to give the motor some miles and years on it. A little dirtier than I originally wanted, but gives it character for this old beast.

Thanks guys, this build is going a little slower than usual. I'm a big fan of the NCAA basketball tournament, so I've been watching that a lot these apst two weeks. But, nothing wrogn with taking time.

Thanks guys, lot more chrome on this one, but that was the era. This is the finished interior. If I would change anything, I may have went witha more darker/maroon red.

Still waiting on the red flocking to come in to finish the interior, so I'll jump back to the body. Wrapped the left side in chrome, it really brings the body to life.

This is a dry assembly of the interior, still need to add the flocking, some paint touch up, and extras before finalizing it, but shows the color pattern and how the body color plays a part of the interior.

This is what it's looking like, and if you see, the upper rim matches the exterior body color as if it wrapped around from the outside. The white red contrast was pretty bright white, maybe a light light gray would not have been that noticeable. So, I tried a very light black was over the white...not sure if that was a good idea, but at least it'll give the interior a slight aged look.

Thank Guys. Charlie, thanks for finding that color info. I did notice that Cream/White was not an option, which was a surprise, because maybe they thought the contrast would be too close and no one would want it. I like that contrast because it emulates the Classic Fender guitar that is Vintage white (cream) with a white pickguard. As for the interior, I'm disappointed in the lack of pictures I can find on the internet of 1951 interior (EDIT: Actually if I seach BELAIR as one word I get more results now). A lot of the pictures I found show the upper line of the interior sides matching the body color, then the other two color contrast from there. And I had no idea that white in the interior was light gray. I'm going take the liberty there and match that with the roof top white. This is the only one I find of the red/white contrast I'm going after. But, I'll follow that document as much as I can.

Paint is coming along nice, but I'm going to need some good sunshine to capture the gloss and color well, these inside lights just don't do it.

Well, here is a shot of the body with the first coat of color, and the match tires. The paint should really pop when I add the clear to it. I paint a Fender guitar of mine this same color, so maybe in my final pictures I'll take a pic of the two together.

Thanks jdean, no I don't plan to lower it, but that is a cool mod to make, I'll be watching your when you do it.

Thanks guys, funny, I got the color combination after I got home because I was thinking of the movie Rain Man, but that car was a 49 Buick Roadmaster, not sure if there is a kit for that. But I like the color combo of the outside and the interior from that movie. Even thought Rain Man said the seats were original brown leather now they are pitiful red. LOL Also, I'm going with white walls, and matching body paint on the rims rims with chrome hub caps. Should have a shot of the wheels soon. First time painting the white wall on the tires.

Decided to jump back 20 years for my next build. '51 Bel Air. I plan to build stock, with Cream color body, red interior.

Wow, great work. I still have another 71 Satellite to build and want to do a weathered build soon, this looks great.

Thanks guys! Rick, I actually waited for the discontinued Monogram 1971 Plymouth Satellite package to show up on EBAY (One pops up every now and then), it has this hood, so it looks like at some point I'll be building a Satellite like this but it will have the hood from the GTX kit.

The end came together pretty fast on this one. Couple of mishaps during final assembly. You can see in the final pic, the rear bumper under molding wouldn't fix correctly, I made peace with it since everything else turned out well. The hood just came in from the other kit so this now matches the car I was going after, see last pic. And this is the car I modeled it after but black interior. And no...that's not my wife...that's Miss Alabama

Great engine detail...you really put a lot into this.

Thanks Carl, Thanks Rich, I had a Satellite also back in the late 80's, my first car, 1974 4-door, but it had the 318 also. Here's a pic from back in the day....not sure why I was so mad in the picture, just a teen not wanting his picture taken I guess. I ended up getting some nice rims on it and lifters in the back.

Pretty close to finishing the engine. The 440-6 Waiting on the wired distributor and hood to come in.

Extraordinarily fine work.

That's a great build so far! Beautiful work!. I didn't know if the engine was the 426 or the 440-6 up until now, I was going to copy yours for my GTX build, but I have the 440-6. What camera do you use for your pictures. Your pictures come out with great detail. I'm just using my iPhone 5 camera, and it never does me justice.

Thanks guys. Carl, when I built the Revell viking ship out of plastic, the way I made it look like wood grain is I painted a tan base, then used actual stain oven that. you can see the results here, not sure why I didn't do that here: http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2150/904309/24482779/408275264.jpg Thanks for the tip on turn signalsguys, I didn't buy clear red and orange the first time you mentioned it, but I did on this one, and the BMF backing with clear red and orange is amazing looking, this picture doesn't do it justice. Looks like I'm finished the BMF, I passed on trimming the wheel wells.

I finally got the vinyl roof on and part of the trim to show the look I'm going for, I need some better sunlight to capture how good the color looks and how the texture of the roof came out: This is copy of this car I found from searching, and turns out its the GTX of the Wellborn collection. Except I'm going black interior.

Thanks Carl Finished the interior tub, may touch it up a little more. I really dont like how the painted wood molding came out, I thought I could sand the brown down some and bring out the black grain, but may try more. BUt for now this is my black on black interior

Any type of modelling that can produce a result that looks real is so impressive, weathering is such a cool technique because of it's realism, but yeah on a 1:1, I'd have to go mint. I got back into model trains several years back and already gave it up, but what was most impressive about profesisional model train builders is the realism put into they put into the scenery, not the actual train and tracks. I think in the real world, some build 1:1 cars so mint that they almost look fake.