Mark Crowel

After about eight months of not working on this model, I've finally resumed. Not much progress, and it took a while to get my bearings with it again, but, at least I did something with it tonight. Trim is now on the right pontoon. Tailight and rear bumper parts, and door handle are in place. A lot of tedious little parts to fuss with. The door handle appears to be in an unusual spot, but spatially it's correct. On the real car, the door handle is at the top edge of the door sill, and, since the model does not have the lateral curve of the door (due to my basic strip-and-panel type of construction), the door handle is where the door sill meets the center body structure. I have to repaper the front fender, because the front wheel arch is too high. The top bar of the chrome side trim has to go all the way across the top of the wheel arch. __________________ Mark W. Crowel

Okay Jeff, thanks, but one of our admins figured out how to get to the admin control panels,and he fixed the problem for us. This guy saved our forum.

I'm not happy about the ads either, Clay, but it's a free forum, and the host, Lefora, makes its money and keeps the forums free by selling ad space. Recently (for the past week), we haven't been able to get into the forum. "502 Bad Gateway" is the page that appears when any of us try to get in. I've taken to having members email their posts to me, and I email them out newsletter style, to those members whose email addresses I have. Primitive and time consuming, but until our domain host fixes the problem, it's the only way I can keep the forum going. I've checked out two other domains, but they are more complex to use, and our members, imcluding me, are not very computer wise. Please send a PM to me for more details. And thanks for joining.

The completed pontoon, with its color added (no chrome yet), dry test fitted to the center body section.

Chrome trim (silver coated cardboard) around the windows.

A side pontoon under construction. Edge to edge gluing of the cardboard.

And hello to you fellow Michiganders.

Okay, Chuck, looking forward to the pics on this one.

Here is my scratchbuilt '50 Nash. I definitely like Nashes. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=12063

Oh,noooooooo, man! Leave it stock! It's a NASH. Or, would you sell it?

The trunk section.

Installed clear plastic (from transparency covers) for the windshield and rear window. I cut it in one piece, then glued in the cardboard headliner to hold the "bridge" of the plastic in place. Applied colored paper over the center body strip. For the hood scoop sculptures, I glued two cardboard strips to the hood prior to putting the colored paper down, and with a short ruler and a popsicle stick, worked the paper around the strips for a sculptured look.

Hello Paul, As you come this way from AZ on your way to Dayton, OH, pass through South Bend, IN, and see the new Studebaker National Museum (they have a web site: http://studebakermuseum.org/ Both of these companies contributed much to this country's auto industry.

Did Revell buy the dies to the old Testors kit, or is this Revell's own? I remember when the Testors '48 Ford convertible came out in the sixties. The notice on the box: "For advanced model builders" scared me out of buying it, but I should have bought it anyway.

I'm basing this interior on photos of the Caribbean convertible. I'm hoping that the seat brackets and seat features are the same for the hardtop. I discovered that I needed two more brackets for the front seat "hardware". I also realize that the padding on the back of the front seat is much too thick, but I just don't have the heart to tear it off and do it over.

Dash, steering wheel, and rear seat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm now convinced that I spend more time building the interior of a model car, than I spend building the body. In paper modeling, we have to make the parts first, before we can glue them in place. The steering wheel is a 1/16th inch wide strip of cardboard, covered in colored paper and coiled into a loop. Likewise the horn ring. Circular pieces (steering wheel center and dash guages) were made by a quarter inch punch and an eighth inch punch. The stalk for the pushbutton automatic transmission control box is made from layered 1/16th inch wide strips, covered in colored paper. These strips were shaped to form the sides of the little transmission control box. The face of the box is a sheet of silver coated cardboard; the backside is regular cardboard covered with colored paper. The unit is oversized, and on my model you wouldn't be able to open that glovebox door with that control box in the way. but there's no way I'm doing THAT job over! Attached Thumbnails

I'm glad that you're doing this as a stock build. A good stock form model is an historical reference for youngsters who haven't yet seen the real thing.