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I find that deeper details may be conducive to using an airbrush... yeah I know. I have 3 or 4 of them that are used only for shooting nail polish...

Another one of our departed Chloe. She loves wash baskets, dirty or clean. She would go nuts for towels when we came in from the pool. She liked hair care products, soaps and lotions.

I like the printed radiator a ton. I generally make my own from Evergreen stock, I use siding stock for the core. An electric fan, I pirate those from stock car kits, VCG Resins has some nice ones too.

Simply exceptional all things considered ?

Rear ham is installed. Tires and wheels are from Ron Coon. Tire transfers are from Shabo.

I dug it out again. I have to find some lost parts that may be in another build box. Distributor is wired. Took the chrome off the bumpers and added bars to them. Made up aluminum light covers and rear spoiler. Radiator is done. Made side tanks from styrene. Inlet and outlets are 3/32" aluminum tube.

Yes, Bob Dudek. I would always seek him out at shows. I also picked up lots he had for the Revell '49 Mercury.

There was a parts store that used a '69 or '70 as a parts chaser. It was a factory 4-speed AFAIK. The driver said it had a 429 in it. When I raced the '72 Torino stock car, we would seek out the older 429 engines, they had the better heads and a higher compression ratio over later ones.

I would polish out the worst and then clear coat it.

Those are AMT '56 Ford seats. At least the custom ones. The printed wheels look good. I'm a junkie for bare steel wheels, I grab and save any that come along. I also like the hair pins, very traditional. I also pin almost everything using .031" and .047" stock, mostly stainless (McMaster Carr pins) or brass rod. Low-stress items, I use plastic stock.

Thanks. I will check out Resins. But... heck, I'll build it as a '70. I saw a couple of those cars with 4 speeds.

This has kicking around since possibly 2008. I had chopped the body, Norm Veber was interested in casting it, but it took me forever. I changed the Hemi for a Chevy 409. I have a slew of parts squirreld away. I'm probably sticking with the kit suspension pieces. I have no idea where the bomber seats came from. Tires are from Modelhaus. 20240103_131804.mp4

I was planning on using the '70 Ford cop car kit to make the '71 Ford from the movie White Lightning. Does anyone make aftermarket '71 conversion pieces? Thanks. Likely it would cover the front grille and possibly the rear bumper.

VCG Resins make up a couple of nice QC rears. One is made for the '32 Ford. Presumably the current Revell kit.

This is the juan4you chassis. I cleaned it up and primed it so far.

I pulled this out of... a dark place. Totally made up. I started it around 2008 and put it away. I ran across it while looking for something else 2 years ago. I should be back on the '65 Fairlane later today, that is coming along nicely.

Hanging out with Ivan on NYE. He does watch TV.

Good progress so far, I'll be watching. I saw it on IG yesterday. I picked up a 3D printed chassis with lightening holes in it from juan4you on eBay. It was easy to clean up. I picked up some QC rears from VCG Resins that should go well with it. I have a chopped 5-window '32 coupe going, too deep to step back to swap in what I have mentioned.

The AMT '49 Ford has one to consider, but lacks a stock intake and exhaust manifolds. The newer Revell '49 Mercury also has a Caddy engine with stock appearing exhaust manifolds. It builds up nicely. You can always swap a 4-barrel intake onto it.

I have more than a few '40 Ford kits. I like the AMT ones over the Revell kits. I call them a blank canvas. I have a blue box art one started, no others in the queue. I have an unused Y-block fro a '56 Ford kit that would be nice to use. I should start gathering parts for another one.

Ron Coon makes what I will call the best resin slick tires for the modifieds. Look at his T11 and T19 tires. Also his wheels and hubs are very good. I go with the 3/8" deep ones. They work well with the MPC modified backings. All of the above need to be cleaned/soaked before prime & paint. I use warm water and dish soap for a few hours. I then using the same soapy water, scrub with a toothbrush. The last ones I followed up with the toothbrush again and Soft Scrub. I'm sure Comet is just as good. I use what I have. One set I just painted with Tamiya TS63 or TS82, no primer. I had taped them to cardboard with 2-sided tape and when I stuck the finished side down, the paint came off when I took them off. Primer is highly recommended.

Thanks all. This was a consignment job in exchange for an old '32 Ford coupe kit. It was supposed to be "box stock", but I couldn't live with the kit wheels. I usually take about 5/16" out of the chassis, there is too much space between the engine and firewall. It will impact the motor mount and I also moved the entire crossmember assembly back a little. A big mistake I made was to extend the headers about 1/8". This I do on the Pinto and Vega, really messes with the rub-rail installation on the coupes. I had to do some surgery on those. I used real springs on the front and rear coilovers. A lot of work, but worth it for the realism. The front down-bars, the plastic kit ones were junk, I used .062" aluminum tubing. I made the entire roll cage from scratch. I made 2 actually and will see if I have pictures of it or can take some. I made up a plastic plate to use as a jig, so I can make the cage and know it will fit. One big thing to be aware of, the driver side bars have to be moved as much as possible to the left so there is room for the seat. I also make up a dash, the kit does not have one. So I tried out some new ideas on this one. I have another coupe going, it is on hold right now. I'm still gathering/making parts for it. The kit has great potential with a little... er... lot of work. Real bad things on the kits are how much clean-up the rear springs need, also the headers. Which are really not accurate at all. The existing roll cage is terrible. I make up blocks to locate the body to the chassis or else it is all over the place.

My 1st 40 was around 1963. Molded in black. The AMT 49 Ford has a nice tri power Caddy mill in it.

With the #13 Chevelle, a template was made up from a rental car. The #13 car passed the contour check easily. A couple of other Chevelles that were entered, they failed the check. Smokey Yunick did a lot of little subtle things to the car, exploiting the gray areas of the rule book. The seat was moved to the maximum left as possible. The bumpers were tucked in, holes were filled to direct air under the car. The bottom of the car was smoothed out. The glass was moved to the outside of the car too.

My closest store is a 20 mile hike... they had tons of AWB Nova kits, truck trailers, the old Ford roadsters, I picked up the Ford cop car kit. I'm not sure if it will be worth a 40 mile round trip.