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Sister Mary Elephant fills in for sister Rosetta Stone while she takes a small “vacation”.

Yes, looks like a nice smooth transition!👍😎

AMT made the windshield to door transition far too squared off in my opinion. It should have a more sweeping curve. I started by making a cut underneath the upper door trim and along the base of the windshield trim., then removed approximately 1/16” of the door trim. I pushed the two sections together to close the gap and glued them together with CA. I watched a video where Doug Whyte sectioned a car by melting the pieces back together with a soldering iron….so I figured I would try it. I wound up with a dip in the area and had to cut it apart and raise the trim with wedges to get a smoother transition. I think I like this plastic welding…no waiting for glue or filler to dry.😎 I got rid of the A pillar and rounded the roof corner a bit. A bit of filing and sanding and it’s looking a little better. I made a pattern from card stock and some different diameter masking tape circles to design a new A pillar. The card stock conforms nicely to the curves with no wrinkles, so I should be able to make a new windshield from clear sheet. But…before I fab the new A pillar, I want to lower the roof ever so slightly. I still have to duplicate my efforts on the drivers side yet too.

More expensive than a coat hanger, but Tig welding filler rods are a good source of stiff wire also. They come in 36” lengths and either 1/16 or 3/32” diameter would be suitable.

What if you sprayed it with a bit of Tamiya thin cement or MEK to fog it? Do what you normally try to avoid doing?

Fabulous!!!!

No….he said he could work with anything, and someone looking for any style TH-400 might come across this thread in the future. All good info.😎

Nice clean looking T!👍

Great work John! That is really looking authentic.😎

Once you’ve smelled the aroma of freshly cut styrene it’s almost impossible to stop the kit hacking.

Nice start on this one. I haven’t chopped a Merc yet but it is definitely on my to do list. I think less is more on most chops. I don’t care much for the really “hammered” look. I’m interested to see how yours turns out.😎

Yeah, what happened?🤓

Longitudinally deficient.🤷‍♂️🙂

My bad! You are correct Keith. One kit I haven’t opened and it’s been a couple of years since I opened the other one.

Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback! I will attempt to maintain some sort of momentum on this project, but I am seeing squirrels everywhere lately.🥴

I used a combination square to estimate the most forward point of the rear fender bulge. I used that elevation as the center line of the section through that area so that the upper and lower pieces would mate up and only need a bit of sanding to restore the radius.

#1. It’s only plastic so there is little to lose. #2. I started scribing a more radical section on the passenger side, but quit before I went too far. I have a little misalignment on the forward door seam. I should have continued the horizontal cut on the front fender back into the door area, then both seams would have been aligned. I may not chop it at all, but I do want to modify the cowl and A-pillar somehow???

THANK YOU for posting that tidbit! I have never seen that before, but I managed to find it on YouTube. I’ve only watched about half of it so far, but it looks like a great episode and they are doing just about exactly what I envisioned.

Nice work!

Always ask for extra cheese.

Well a wise man said a picture is worth a thousand words and posted this on my ‘36 Ford thread and I’ve wanted to try it ever since. Thanks Jim!

Any progress on this one Mike? Your thread helped inspire me to try it on a ‘51.

I have three of these. Two hardtops and a convertible….so the logical thing to do is get out the razor saw and my panel line scriber. I just got the urge to cut something up.🤪 This is my first section job so I figured I’d pick something easy like this ‘51 BelAir.🙄 I wound up sectioning it a scale 3-3/4”. This is going to be a slow, slump filler project unless OCD kicks in. As usual I don’t have a firm plan of what I want to do with it…just an inspiration pic. All comments or critiques welcome.

I prefer this Gel stuff. It is never “soupy”.

Nice! That looks like one of my better paint jobs.