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Beautiful! Glad to see an update on this project. The Galaxie rear is so "custom"-looking that I had to Google the real car to remind myself that yes, they did in fact look like that. Funny, I had never noticed the overall shape of the enclosure before, having fixated on the round taillights as a means of identification. It's a clever addition to the Ranchero and fits the existing design perfectly. Loving the interior work. Clean, good contrast, and that white-on-HOK blue contrast is sharp!

These trucks you've been posting are all really neat, a breath of fresh air. Thanks for sharing them!

Very cool! A conversation piece for sure. Maybe a mail truck with oversized wheels should be next?

Loving the chrome reverse/whitewall package with the side pipes!

Loving this project. The vacu-formed wheel arch panels are fantastic. What sealer did you use on the decals? Looks like it really worked!

This looks creative so far! Looking forward to seeing more

Looks like they tried to out-Deora the Deora!

The suspension's looking dialed! I imagine you'll be building some ends on the shocks? Bernard--the Divcos are meant to fit Monogram '41 Lincoln or MPC '32 Chrysler. They won't print out as nice as Modelhaus parts though! I have a set in the mail, looking forward to seeing how they look.

I am glad that your planning and forethought, not to mention some luck, have allowed you to weather the storm and live through the aftermath in perhaps better shape than many. Hopefully that allowed you to help others who were not so fortunate...I don't think many people in north america fully appreciate the devastation that Puerto Rico has experienced; the ongoing recovery effort has been overshadowed by other news. I've never experienced a hurricane firsthand, but I've seen the results of lesser hurricanes in Baja California, and even that was sobering enough. I have neighbors here in Canada who have friends in Puerto Rico, farmers. I think of them often and wonder how they're getting on. I like to think they escaped the worst of it. Wishing all of you in PR the best possible in the months to come.

I love the brackets in the wooden bed, the scratchbuilt tools...and especially that toolbox! Great use of judicious detailing; there isn't a lot going on with this one, but each feature is carefully thought out.

A very unusual subject, and very detailed considering the small scale. I enjoy seeing unique cars like this. Well done!

Whoa, yeah! That's my kinda model car! I love the fade paint, tunneled taillights and antennae, mags and pinstripe whitewalls. The nerf bars, scoops, and side pipes are killer too. I'd love to see more of these kinds of builds on the forum //Just noticed you put a cove behind the front wheel arch too. Awesome! Just like Car Model magazine depicted in one of their how-to articles in the 60s.

I really like the proportions of the old Monogram steel wheels in their slicks...makes AMT wheels and slicks seem clunky in comparison.

Good! Must be a Firefox quirk, then.

The custom nose looks very cool, reminds me of the various Moal-built 1:1 hot rods.

Hmm...these images are getting squashed when I re-size the browser window. Tried to edit them to lock aspect ratio, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas, folks?

I like to draw cars sometimes, felt it was time to start a sketchpad here Here are a couple to start off: Some time ago, I modeled some "tweel" airless tires in 3D and uploaded them to Shapeways. Then a couple days ago I saw a classifieds listing for a very decrepit suicide-door Lincoln. Roughly around the same time, I was watching some videos of Donk/Box/Bubble style cars. Then it hit me: how about combining all those things? And thus the post-apoc urban-blight Tweel Donk ratrod was born, haha. And here's a spooky '34 from Halloween a couple years ago:

Crazy! Oddly enough I was just mocking up something similar last night, using a damaged '67 GTX body and a Beatnik Bandit bubbletop. Don't think I'll build it after all, but that's ok because now I can just watch this thread. Looking forward to seeing where this goes! I'm a big fan of your 'cuda and streamliner projects.

This has been discussed here before, but as far as I know, most modelers concerned about the strength and safety of their models...glue the wheels on solidly. Imagine what would happen if a competition model rolled off the table! I glue mine solid, usually with a 5 minute epoxy. That gives me time to adjust the wheels/tires and make sure they're properly vertical and that all 4 are touching the ground, before the glue sets. One of these days, if go to the trouble of making rolling wheels, I think I'll try and make the model remote-control too Just for fun.

That would explain why my digital camera has a "tungsten" setting. Neato.

Sweet! I love late 50s to mid 60s custom rods, and this kit is a perfect example of the look...but your modifications have given it the refinement it always needed. As with Ace, I've generally only seen these as butchered gluebombs or complete kits (both selling for way too much!) Gotta love those finned plug covers, and the finned coils molded into the firewall. I like the coiled master cylinder plumbing! Thanks for the photos, it's great to see this fairly elusive model in well-built detail.

I get mine from the dollar store, about a buck fifty for 50-100 bags. Probably way cheaper than buying them online and paying shipping!

Read that, felt depressed. I don't see how the turtleneck-wearing silicon valley transportation wet dream of government-mandated autonomous networked cars could possibly SERVE the bulk of humanity, as opposed to making everyone poorer and more isolated. I wrote a long breakdown of how such a system would never serve me or my community, but deleted it all. Basically, the world is welcome to that particular future, but I hope it only arrives after I'm dead and in the ground.

Very nice work, Art. The '27 Tudor is darned good looking no matter what way you slice it (or don't slice it!) I agree that a stock-height roof would be ideal, were a '27 coupe to be kitted. It would provide stock builders with something to combine with the existing stock Touring frame, and hot rodders the freedom to do their own chop. The '27 T coupe is probably one of the easiest bodies to chop anyway.

This is a timely thread--just last week I noticed that a couple of my One Coat Lacquer cans had oozed a bubble of material from the nozzle. I had never seen such a thing up to this point. These cans are probably 3-8 years old by now and had never given me any trouble.