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After all that mucking around I finally got the floor pan to meet up nicely with the firewall. Then the front sub-frame c/w engine and radiator support just slid nicely into place as if it was supposed to be installed last! Big sigh of relief!!

Thanks! I made a big mistake in assembling this particular model. I glued the front and rear lower body panels on so that I could fill the seams and do a nice paintjob. However... once that is done, it is impossible to fish the floor-pan/front sub-frame into place. I determined at this point, that the best solution would be to remove the front sub-frame from the floor-pan and install it after the floor-pan was in place. It came apart with minimal glue points. Whew! Now, I go to install the floor pan, which is no longer easy, since the rear body panel (that holds the tail lights) is in place. It was a process of: fish the floor-pan in so that the rear wheel wells are inside the body, pull it forward and stick a finger in through the side window and pry the floor pan downward so the two locating tabs would mate up while pushing the floor-pan rearward again. I thought the first attempt was a little tedious... and then the front of the floor-pan would NOT meet up with the fire wall like it was supposed to! Well to make long story short...there is a huge fitment problem between the dash/inner door panels and the grossly thick wind shield. after 20-30 repetitions of trimming and fishing the floor-pan/tub in and out, I got it to fit. Some pre-fitting would have saved me a lot of work.?

Very nice work. I'm watching and learning!

The weather sure helps don't it! To darn cold to go outside. Absolutely fabulous job on that interior! What do you use to glue the embossing powder with and do you paint it after to get the color?

WOW! ... Uh...WOW!

I cleared it with Testors Gloss Lacquer and completed the Foiling. I attempted to foil the headlight buckets, but I found it tough to trim it nicely. I wound up coating them with Molotow instead. I hope I can get glue to hold the headlight lens into the buckets now.

That looks a ton better. The top really did come out nice.

Nice! What did you use for the braided rad hose?

I went looking for that stuff at Home Depot, but they didn't have it. They did have this stuff on sale though. I filed a slight flat spot on two pieces of sprue and lapped them inline for about a half inch. They are stuck together real good! I really like the applicator on this bottle too. You squeeze the blue tabs on each side to dispense the gell-like glue. It is very easy to control minute amounts coming out.

A couple more pics.

This is my Revell 1939 Chevy Street Rod. Overall a fairly nice kit. There are some fitment issues regarding the interior tub that I addressed in my build thread. Thanks for looking. Greg.

Well I am calling this one done. I have not installed the driving lights supplied for the front bumper, or the chrome grills on the lower front fenders. They are way too thick and the chrome on them is very poor. I may possibly attach the license plates yet. More pics under glass.

Very nicely done! Thumbs up!!

On this Revell '39 Chevy Street Rod, the bumper mounts have very pronounced bevel. This would make the outer ends of the bumpers tilt down drastically. The front ones I trimmed with a hobby knife to roughly perpendicular to the ground. For the rear, I came up with this idea. I mounted sandpaper to a piece of angle with double faced tape. I then just sanded the mounts until they were square to the ground by sliding the angle back and forth on the workbench. It worked like a charm

My hood wobbled on the body also, I managed to get it to sit nice. Now I notice the body wobbles when I set it down on the work table so... until I get it mounted to the chassis?

I've got two coats on this one now. I wet sanded after the first coat and this is after wet sanding the second coat with 3m Trizact 3000 grit. I get quite a bit of orange peel which I attribute to my minimal airbrush experience. I've sanded through slightly on a couple edges and probably should do another complete coat but I may just try a touch up before clear coating it. Comments welcome, thanks for lookin. Greg

Beautiful work! I too thought you nailed it with the weathered green look.

Now THAT is Beautiful!!

Wow, that is awesome looking! Your talents and patience amaze me!

That's OK. I like huge pictures! This is turning out real nice. I have a Revell 911 Cabriolet. It is not nearly as detailed as your kit is. You have inspired me to get a start on it. I have no experience with foreign cars, so I will sort of follow what you are doing. Great Job so far!

A bit of green painters tape works. You could also use a 1/8" square piece of double faced tape on the end of a chunk of sprue.

You are right Bob! I didn't check well enough obviously. There is interference where the interior meets the front angled section of the floorboards. I wound up trimming about 1/16 off the bottom of the entire interior "tub" including the rear seat. The recess inboard of the rear fenders is not deep enough for the body to sit down into properly (passengers side is worse than drivers). Edit: Another spot where there is interference is the rear jump seat. It is cast into the interior tub which has the locating tabs on it also. If the passenger front seat is glued in place on the locating ridges, the rear seat will hit the back of it! I had to move the passengers seat ahead about 1/8" to clear the rear seat.

Wow, that is nice! Love the color. I haven't decided what color to go with yet, I was thinking red or black, but my mind changes a few times daily. Thanks for the pics!

Can you copy and paste a link here?

I don't like the chrome tail lights they supplied in this kit so I fabbed some new ones from some tail light sprue.