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Both those guys are pretty chill, considering they just experienced a rollover! Always a shame to see a historic car wrecked, but I imagine eventually it will be rebuilt.

That color-tag device is so cool! What a great use for outdated art/design supplies.

I like the mounting solution for the quarter elliptical springs, wish I'd done that on the bobber pickup I'm building right now. So thanks for bringing this one back up!

Awesome! Excellent conversion, it looks very convincing to me. Some of the Canadian versions are wild...'59 Monarch Sceptre comes to mind.

Looking good, I like the trunk! Had a mocked up '37 cab a while back that I was going to do something similar with, but went in a different direction. Re: the cylinder heads..I think if you check those instructions again, you'll see the valve covers mount onto the blank rectangular face of the heads, rather than the face etched with combustion chamber detail. In other words, the heads are swapped directly left-for-right; if they were coins they'd be oriented correctly but with "tails" facing to the outside instead of "heads" facing to the outside.

Love it!! When I saw the frame, I thought "uh oh, another Long Rod"...but the proportions are nicely balanced despite the long wheelbase. I love the triangulated radius rods (those almost look like corvette driveshaft braces?) and the fat exhaust stack, and the way the body seems to be actively raising itself off the ground...it's like a rolling suspension bridge made of pure horsepower. Nice subtle weathering on the wheels, too. Awesome

Awesome. That's a piece of history right there! I'm so glad it has survived. You did a fantastic job designing and building it all those years ago. The fact that it has opening doors is particularly impressive, considering the materials it's constructed from!

Steve, love the rat, the scallops really make it! Travis, that rat is awesome in every way, kind of funny how many details are very similar to my own '29 rat build. I must have seen it in 2009 or 2010 and absorbed some of the ideas.

Yow! Awesome paint color and finish, great detailing, and super clean. What's not to love! I agree that this 'vette was extremely sharp. Makes me want to go and find this kit to build up so I can have one too!

I found myself wondering recently...have I spent 50 hours on the last model I completed? 100? It seems to take me multiple hours just to clean up the parts, so 50 is probably a low estimate. But I don't count, because it's "zen time" and I don't really need to know. I only wish that the hours I actually get paid for working could pass by so quickly and smoothly! There's no way I could build a model in 24 hours. Maybe if I had a dehydrator, three airbrushes and all my paints pre-mixed and prepared, used CA to glue everything, and didn't do a single body modification...but I probably wouldn't be satisfied with the result. And afterwards, the thing would just on my shelf, being useless. For me, the journey of building is the entire point.

Thanks all! I can't take credit for the toothpaste cap idea, I got the idea from a build on another forum in 2009 or so. Wish I could remember who it was... Now that the Revell '29 roadster has such nice brake drums, the toothpaste caps seem crude in comparison...but they sure are cheap!!

Beautiful. Slab-sided cars like this Eldo really need perfect paint and straight chrome in order to be convincing, and you nailed it. I'm not even much of a fan of 70s cars, but when they're done this well they're incredible. Awesome work

Awesome!! Has a very authentic look and great combination of parts. I love the track nose and monogrammed nerf bar in front. The chrome roll bar is such a 50s-looking detail that most people leave out these days, in models and 1:1. With the offy mill this thing would haul a$$!

Awesome. Cool to see this top chop tutorial again, it produces an excellent result. I had the thought that rectangular headlights would be cool, too...would it be much work to make some? Maybe out of an 80s Chevy glue bomb, or the rectangular "granny glasses" from the Tom Daniel Pie Wagon? My recent 25T build had rectangular headlights fabricated from aluminum square tube, clear styrene, and a couple other bits and bobs. Maybe not quite suited to this build though. Have you considered scribing the body to represent pop-out/hidden headlights? They were the shizzle back in the 80s and 90s.

Looks good to me...stylized, kinda chunky and billet-like. So, perfect.

Looks good to me! Overall it seems quite clean and well sorted. Congrats on finishing it! Was the Lindberg version of this kit molded in hard styrene, similar to other kits? The reason I ask is I have one of the old Testors versions, and it was molded in a very soft plastic. The frame in particular was a total joke, wouldn't hold its shape at all. I've never seen plastic like that in any other kit, except for a couple of the 1/18th scale snap-together "American Graffiti" kits. If I could find a version of this kit molded out of the right kind of plastic, I'd be more inclined to actually build it.

I really like that charcoal grey primer color. What kind of paint is that?

Thanks If you build something similar I'd love to see it. I generally like tradtional hot rods too--this build was meant to use up some awful large-diameter chrome wheels, the vicky suspension and DOHC engine, and some other parts that I would probably never use (like the Phantom Vicky bench seat). I love '27 Ford coupes but am not as much of a fan of the '25, so I didn't mind using the body on a hi-tech street rod build. However, I built this one using the same proportions and stance that I'd want on a traditional rod...the tire diameters, stance, position of the radiator as close to the wheel centerline as possible, straight pipes, engine visually filling the engine bay...imagine this car with firestone whitewalls and baby moons, a Cad V8, round headlights, and titian red paint. Boom, traditional rod! Hmm, having said I'm not a huge '25 Ford fan, I might have to get another of these kits so I can build this car's traditional counterpart!

Looks mean and nasty. I like it! I like the white straight pipes, the club plate in the empty grille shell, the wheel and tire combo, the heavy chop, the red-oxide primered headlight buckets, the flathead...it all combines to create a sinister package.

I use photobucket, it's worked out fine so far.

Masking materials, good idea! I re-use the empty plastic bags to bag chrome from kits that didn't come with properly bagged chrome--either because they're partially built and the builder threw the bags away, or because they never had 'em in the first place. I also bag tires separately so they don't cause tire burn over the years.

I keep some to store WIPs in, and most of the others I cut the side panel out (usually features a front 3/4 shot of the car, but is smaller than the box top) and save that, and then the rest gets recycled. I save instructions, have a box full of those.

Very cool. Great details, nice work on the plumbing and suspension setup. I have started a reference folder on my computer of 1:1 "contemporary rods" that mix rat rod styling with hi-tech, pro-touring, and traditional themes. Your build would probably fit right into that category.

Love it! That windshield chop is ultra mean, and just what this kit needs. I enjoy the colors you chose for this build. If it were real, I bet it would sound amazing.

And this one is finished and on the shelf at http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/114201-32-tudor-chopped-channeled-stovebolt-finished/ Cheers