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Ralph Lauren has owned this particular car for about 40 years now. CMC created a very nice 1/24 scale model of the car, depicting what it looks like today. Over the course of it's history dating back to 1930, the car has appeared differently during different era's. As an example, the wheels have been painted red at one time, covered with polished aluminum full wheel discs at another, and featured chrome wires for a long time before the current look of black painted wheels. Personally, with rare exceptions, I pretty much hate black painted wheels. So, naturally, I gravitate towards chrome wires much more readily. My goal for this model was to bring the looks more in line with how the car was featured in Road and Track, September 1992. To do that, I replaced the wheels and tires, lowered the front end, and painted the brake drums to represent polished copper. From the CMC factory the model featured red painted drums, almost pink. No bueno! The wheels I came up with are from an unlikely source. They're actually SpecCast Model A Ford wheels, or at least that's what they intended. I modified them to shorten the center hub cap as much as possible, then add the Mercedes knockoffs in the center. The tires are from a Danbury Mint Hispano Suiza. I made a front license plate to match the one on the car when in Road and Track. That's about it. Enjoy!

Helmut, that's quite an incredible model! Super nice. Thanks for sharing.

Phillipe, you really did an outstanding job with the Renault! Beautiful work. Great color choices, very good paint, super clean build. This year Renault reminds me a lot of the '32 Chrysler CH series Imperial. The coach line at the cowl is similar to a Model A Ford, but the fenders, hood sides and grille are very much like the Chrysler. Good looking car.

Ray, Bruce, Lee- Thank you guys. This is was made by Leo Models, distributed by Whitebox in England and Europe. I picked mine up from a vendor in Italy. It comes fully assembled. I took it all apart, sanded and polished the paint on the body, and repainted everything else. I lowered it 1.5mm and replaced the wheels and tires. I adapted better ones from a Danbury Mint Ferrari Testa Rossa. The brake drums are flat washers from Home Depot. The floor is carpeted with Kens Fuzzy Fur. Trimed it with a Molotow chrome pen. Engine detail painted, distributor modified to add Detail Master plug wires. Photographed outdoors in evening light, here in California.

Bill, Gary, thank you guys!! I always appreciate seeing what you're up to with your latest builds, your thoughtful posts, and kind words. Have a great weekend! -TIM-

Thanks, Zen! I'm tempted to do just a few more mods. I think I'll make up some 1934 license plates for it, add cowl lights, add horns, and a rear view mirror. Changes I've made so far: I've gone over the grille and panel lines with black Tamiya 'Panel-Line-Accent-Color' Painted the bumper brackets gloss black. Painted the interior flat black in areas that were red; the A-pillars, door frames, headliner. Painted the rubber portions of the running boards flat black. Took apart the wheels and tires so I could paint the glossy sides walls flat black. Went over the wheels with black panel liner to give the spokes some depth, then re-touched them with yellow, then clear gloss. Put her back together and shot some pictures. The 'before' pictures at the bottom were on ebay.

Next batch of photos are out of the box. It looked pretty good. I just gave it a little more detail. Something fun to do on a Sunday afternoon.

Dave, your best bet to replicate a stock '29 A closed cab pick will require two kits: 1) Revell '29 A pickup 2) AMT '29 A roadster

Very, very nice, Andrew! Great job. ?

Excellent! Thanks, Robert. ?

Robert, beautiful work! Could you describe for us your technique for the black wash on the engine and chassis components? It's really well done, adds a lot to the depth and realism of things.

That works really well! Great idea....

Kit, 'Rhinoplasty' is a great title! I was just thinking, you're quite the Plastic Surgeon ~ Precision work! Bravo....

Kurt, fantastic work! Keep it up, brother. ? Looking forward to the next update.

Beautiful work, Kit!! Love it.... ?

Cool project, A-G!

Thank you, Noel! Yes, I have several of the Burago coupes. I'll be using them to replicate #57591, the Richard Pope coupe as it appeared before Ralph Lauren changed it, and #57473, the Jack Holtzschuch Coupe.

Looks great, Bill!

Thank you, Bill! Will do....

Hello Guys, Just a quick post. This car was lurking in the background with a '33 Cadillac convertible coupe I'm building. For this '32, the wheelbase was shortened from a scale 149" to 143". The base model is Monogram's '32 V16 dual-cowl phaeton. Adapted to that is the cowl, windshield and front doors from the Italeri '33 Cadillac town car. The rear deck is Johan '31 Cadillac convertible coupe, grafted in. This weekend I've been stuck on conference calls night and day, so I decided to see if I could make some progress on the Cadillac at the same time. Working on the top, it's mostly Johan Mercedes 500K, made taller, longer, and the sides angled in to line up with the windshield. Don't barf! It's still in the ugly stage, but it's coming along.

That looks pretty good, Gary! Thanks to you and Snake for sharing. My first thought was, what if you combined one of these with parts from an Aurora DB4. I've got a Doyusha DB5 already, but I think I'll go ahead and pick up one of the green Motormax versions too.

Great job, Andrew!!