Jantrix

This looks cool. Keep it going.

Excellent idea!

Cleaned up with mini-flies and sand paper wrapped around my machinists ruler. Now as you might expect the grill is weak in the areas of the ribs because of the glue joint in the center, so some half round stock adds from strength and some detail. In primer. It still needs more clean up before its ready for paint, but that part I'm pretty sure you understand. From top to bottom this measures 26 millimeters, so it would be quite short for a Model A or Model B, but it would be right on for a Model T. I hope you enjoyed this, as I said there's not much to it past the original idea of sandwiching the fenders. I'm not sure what model I'll use this on, but I'm sure I'll come up with something.

Some fine line tape to lay out the grill pattern. Nothing fancy. Drill out the end of the grill opening. This will keep each slot more or less the same depth into the shell. Once again with razor saw. Take your time and use minimum pressure, letting the blade do the cutting.

I saw this on the HAMB hot rod forums done in 1:1 and was kinda keen to try it in scale. I also thought it might be a good tutorial if it came out well so I took several pics to share. Hope you like it. Step one. Find two pick-up step side fenders. In this case '55 Chevrolet. Glue together with your favorite "this ain't never coming apart" medium. Clean up the seams. Less work to do after you have it all cut apart. As you can see there are two possibilities now. An angled piece created from the rear of the fenders and a flat section from the front. For the purposes of this tutorial, I decided to do the flat section. The rear piece I may do for a future project. I reinforced the inside of the shell with some half round stock. Draw out your cut line and break out the zona saw.

Hmm...........Buick Grand National?

You tube has a huge amount of tutorials on this subject.

I know, isn't that weird?

I would soooo drive that.

This what happens when a car guy with schizophrenia goes off his meds.

Fantastic work. I'm wondering though if the sheer diameter of those wheels will allow you the ground hugging stance most serious pro-tourers have.

Yes, it sure is. Feel free to get some old work going again. This CBP has no end date. So as long as there is interest we will keep it cranking.

That is just stunning. I have decided to give this rootbeer color a try for a '50 Ford project coming up.

Yes, there would be a cost savings, but I doubt the consumer will ever see a price drop. Comic book companies are already offering digital copies of their product. The cost is exactly the same as the paper copies. No printing costs, storage, transportation, a fraction of the cost in wages and a digital copy of a $3.95 newsstand comic, costs $3.95. I realize this is likely because they don't want to kill the paper comic market, but it's also greed. No, not really. And I'm fairly certain we are not evolving in the right direction. I'm thinking of the film Idiocracy right now.

Craft store acrylics are the best for this sort of stuff. Pastel chalks are great for adding that dirty dusty look. Scrape it off with a razor and add it over a touch of clear with a clean brush.

Gentlemen, welcome to the 70's.

I had to put the PUMA away again. It was become all consuming. More soon.

Where did the intake come from?

Grind them away from the inside with a dremel tool.

I have completed several that were never posted on this thread as well. The '49 is still haunting me though. I have scrapped the body and have picked up a AMT '50 Ford convertible kit, to complete the project. Someday.

Yeah, I started this CBP, but due to my own modeling ADD, I have let it sort of lapse.

This is my oldest. A completely custom Batmobile. Part Predicta, part Black Force, part Viper.

Check out a gun cleaning swatch. Very thin, cloth, comes in a variety of sizes.

Whoa. 99% of the time, a scratch built vehicle looks............well scratch built. This looks like a kit. Professionally rendered and molded parts in perfect scale. And I mean this as a sincere compliment.

I've always loved Pantera's Karl, great work. Looks fast sitting still.